Author: Tom Hutten

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our barn used to be an office building in the 80s and 90s with some 20 employees.  That amount of people and the electronics of that era creates the need for an abundance of electrical service. Thus it...

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="30" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] Action Shot! And now we’re off to the races.  The ever amazing Thom Huntington, aka Mas Leo, is providing lead carpentry skills.   We cut out every other rafter tie and doubled up the existing ones.  Our...

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="30" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] And here we go. The ceiling drywall came down super easy but the strapping (the 1xs that run perpendicular to the rafter ties) were beasts. Each and every one. This is my “what have I done” look. Emmett was...

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="30" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] The dumpster was delivered and ready to go. Our prescribed order of operations for getting the shell of the room back together are as follows: Demo the ceiling and remove it from the rafter ties. Remove every other rafter tie...

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="30" css_animation=""][vc_column][vc_column_text] But first, let’s take a look at the inside of the space before any work.  You can see the flat ceiling that’s going to come out.  And see that table, that large table.  It will need to come...