theworkshop.ca Renovation

theworkshop.ca Renovation - Phase 3

Pattern Making Shop

What a fucking mess!!!

It's been months since I've actually built anything (other than these cursed renovations) or even let myself just putter on some fun distraction...

This long narrow room has been theworkshop.ca for many years now, but the scope of the projects has simply outgrown this area.

The foundry and heavy mechanical area is done for this year and I'm well pleased.

This area will undergo the most radical transformation into a dedicated CNC patterning shop. The CNC stations will have dedicated electrical circuits as well as TCP/IP connectivity and Video feeds for machine vision.

The drive-shed was renovated earlier through the summer to hold all the clutter from here in a dry space while these renovations took place.

This wall will come down to open the shop up to an additional 14 by 13 ft room once completed.

I won't make the mistake I made with the original construction of this room. Once the mud was dry on the walls I started to move stuff in and set equipment up with the best of intentions of painting later...

Well in hind sight I imagine I saved a few bucks on paint as the hammer is about to fall now...

And the wall came down quite cleanly.

All the insulation was saved, at $35 CDN for a bail, there's 70 bucks that I otherwise would have had to pay to dispose of...

This view is from the newly claimed space looking back into the original shop.

This view is looking into the remaining garage portion, back toward the shop.

I originally thought that I'd claim the entire area, but while clearing out the garage realized that I still have to store 10 cords of wood and reserve a spot for household garbage.

Neither were going to actually reside within the pattern shop.

This is the first wall to go up and partition off the firewood storage area.

The 2X4's came from the original wall, while the dirty white hardboard came from the kennel renovations.

The seams are somewhat exaggerated by a line of gray paint that appears where ever a sheet was painted near the original floor from the room they were in.

The walls are well insulated with vapour barrier, an absolute must unless I want to burn even more wood through the dead of winter.

This is one of the custom doors being built to fit the 5ft by 7ft opening into the shop from the garage.

As much as I'd have preferred to have professionally built air-tight pre-hung door, this will be just fine.

This is a non-structural wall simply scabbed together to hold insulation and electrical work.

I will make no other apologies for it's bush league appearance...

Three outlets are wired in that will feed back to a small 4 circuit Federal Pioneer Load Center, one of the new items so far.

Including the electrical works that went into the drive shed I think I've laid out about $200 so far.

Two network lines and one Video cable were also run.

As I've spent my entire working life around 19" Rack-mount gear I jumped on this open framed rack, found earlier in the spring at a garage sale.

Now that I have a rack I'll eventually populate it with the firewall and other network gear located elsewhere in the house.

The hub mounted in the rack is an SMC 16 port switch, and will not only feed the pattern shop but will eventually tie in another area that has yet to be started... an electronics lab.

In closing this page, I have to admit that I was unsure where to place this section or what to name it, as I've always considered this area to be "theworkshop.ca" as just about everything on this website has originated from this room.

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