Restoration of an old skate rink

for now......paint the ugly faded out blue vinyl siding white. eventually tin it......something like this.

 

made a little progress in the last couple months. Stainless counter. Not perfect but it was a trade on some work we did in the shop for a welding/fab shop....by the time they actually made the counter for me the owners had parted ways leaving the guy we did the work for gone and the the remaining partner doing work for free.

 

and here is the rest of the building. finished up the last of the outlets and lights last night.

 

You have made a lot of progress. thanks for the update.

 

insulate ceiling, refinish floor, install furnace and ducting, build shelves and benches in the parts room.

thats all that is left to do before we can start setting up shelving and moving inventory in.

 

once the hardwood floor is refinished and some displays get set up it should drown out all the white.

still kinda debating what to do for trim. thinking about just using unfinished rough cut 1x4's.

 

Wow, lots of nice progress. Trim can get real expensive, so 1x4s seems like a good way to go.

 

Yep. I think it will look good too. A thought. If it's going to be dusty or dirty those rough cuts will hold the dust and dirt to them and won't clean easy. If your going to be analysis about keeping the place clean into the future. Just a thought.

 

you can coat the rough wood with a flat water based poly, Give it a quick once over with a belt sander, then repeat the same poly. Then it still keeps its looks, but less clingy to dust and will vacuum up easily. I would prepare all the wood. then cut and install. water based poly dries as quick as latex paint does. Cut the last coat with water, it goes on easier and less runs.

 

WOW!! Neat looking ''shop'', you did a super job on it, and saved a old building in the process, some thing to really be proud of.

 

we are going to go fancy on the cleaning side of things....ordering one of these. I figure the time it saves on sweeping every couple days will more than pay for itself in a short time and it will provide entertainment for customers if it happens to be running while they are in there.

 

Nice work on the building.

 

Looks amazing fordf150 !! Can’t wait to see it all stocked up and running.

 

worked on the building some this weekend. sorry for the fuzzy pictures, didnt notice all the dust on my phone until just now. Will get some better pictures next time i am out there.

 

14-24" of blown in fiberglass, planning on adding more to make it all 24" when we get to the garage side of the building but for now this will have to do. i dont recommend ever using atticat insulation and blower.....70 bags of insulation at a rate of 7-8 bags per hour....it was like watching paint dry


Not sure how a torpedo heater compares to a regular furnace but a 75000 btu torpedo is able to raise the temp in the building by about 2-3* per hour which i considered pretty good considering it was low single digits with plenty of wind this weekend. Still debating what to do for a furnace.

heat load calc says 100k btu for heat and 13k for cooling.

I am kinda leaning toward an 80k furnace with 3 ton of air with the assumption that once the building is filled with stuff to help hold the heat instead of just being a big empty room that it will be enough, the other reason is that and 80k with 3 ton can be had for $2600 vs 100k with a 4 ton is $3200.

 

Talking heat pumps?

 

standard LP furnace. i splurged on a heat pump at my current shop and have found it to be useless, not wasting money on that again

 

I was gonna say, not in single digits would I put a heat pump in. I live in the south and it's worthless below about 30f. But my insulation is not good.

 

building is sitting on an unheated crawl space with a dirt floor, I just ran the numbers thru the heat calc again and the only thing i changed was that the floor was insulated with R30...dropped my heat from 101000 BTU to 29960 BTU so that begs the question....what about closing up the vents to the crawl space and dumping a couple 6" ducts into it to semi heat it....that changes the heat load to 55000 BTU.....any problem with dumping heat into a crawl space with a dirt floor?