Demolition Day #2
After a detailed discussion with our resident construction expert and a discussion with members at the Annual Meeting, it was decided that we might be able to afford to re-build the existing rooms in the warm room if we eliminated the dropped ceiling (as we wouldn't have to do the ceiling or replace the heater and A/C that was in the warm room).
After getting a revised quote from the subcontractor doing the framing and drywall, the move forward on this initiative was approved as it will actually save us just under $5,000.
So, in order to get this work underway, we needed to demolish the structure that was already there.
We quite foolishly thought that since it looked pretty rough that it was not well constructed. Oh man! Were we ever wrong. The structures were, in fact, over built.
But first we needed to empty the rooms out. It took some of us back to our Arena days with Phil Mussallem and Craig Fischer carrying 48 rocks two by two and putting them into the future men's changing room.
And yes, we are keeping the wonderful wallpaper in this room (no...no we aren't).
Then a number of additional people showed up to move the other items we had parked here to other locations (refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, cooler, trophy case, kegerator and more). Joe Copeland, Preston Short, Marty Lemert, Bob Sweazey and others did most of the heavy lifting for this.
Next, we started removing the ceiling tiles in the structure.We thought we had just a typical dropped ceiling in here. But of course, nothing goes that easy for us. We had tiles, lathe, 2x10s and decking. Everying nailed at no more than 4 inch intervals. An atomic bomb wouldn't have taken down this structure.
Eventually, Andy Buuck dragged his butt out of bed and joined us. Then he and Joe Copeland got up on top of the structure to rip up the decking. The first thing we found was that the piping that brings water to the back of the warehouse was not actually along the wall the whole way there....it took a shortcut across the structure. So we needed to cut that and get it out of the way.
Unfortunately, the decking was attached very well and prying it up did not go according to plan. Tom Kaufman showed up later to demonstrate the proper technique which was to force the nails out by hitting it from below. That worked much better. Once we did that, we could actually get the decking up.
Had to take some pictures from up there as it is a view we won't have in the future:
Next was pulling down the lathe and the 2x10s:
Then we rented a Reciprocating Saw and cut the structure down piece by piece. Leaving us with just the walls along the exterior warehouse walls to do:
Jeff Bockelman and Andy Neu handled much of this with guidance from Tom Kaufman. We had the surprise of finding a blocked up window...and a bit of a crack.
Then, a lot of waste haulage to get rid of the debris. By 3 pm, with a dwindling number of volunteers and the ones that remained exhausted, we were left with this.
Luckily, on Tuesday night, Bob Leckron was around and in a few short hours, he got us to this:
Let the framing begin!
After getting a revised quote from the subcontractor doing the framing and drywall, the move forward on this initiative was approved as it will actually save us just under $5,000.
So, in order to get this work underway, we needed to demolish the structure that was already there.
We quite foolishly thought that since it looked pretty rough that it was not well constructed. Oh man! Were we ever wrong. The structures were, in fact, over built.
But first we needed to empty the rooms out. It took some of us back to our Arena days with Phil Mussallem and Craig Fischer carrying 48 rocks two by two and putting them into the future men's changing room.
And yes, we are keeping the wonderful wallpaper in this room (no...no we aren't).
Then a number of additional people showed up to move the other items we had parked here to other locations (refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, cooler, trophy case, kegerator and more). Joe Copeland, Preston Short, Marty Lemert, Bob Sweazey and others did most of the heavy lifting for this.
Next, we started removing the ceiling tiles in the structure.We thought we had just a typical dropped ceiling in here. But of course, nothing goes that easy for us. We had tiles, lathe, 2x10s and decking. Everying nailed at no more than 4 inch intervals. An atomic bomb wouldn't have taken down this structure.
Eventually, Andy Buuck dragged his butt out of bed and joined us. Then he and Joe Copeland got up on top of the structure to rip up the decking. The first thing we found was that the piping that brings water to the back of the warehouse was not actually along the wall the whole way there....it took a shortcut across the structure. So we needed to cut that and get it out of the way.
Unfortunately, the decking was attached very well and prying it up did not go according to plan. Tom Kaufman showed up later to demonstrate the proper technique which was to force the nails out by hitting it from below. That worked much better. Once we did that, we could actually get the decking up.
Had to take some pictures from up there as it is a view we won't have in the future:
Next was pulling down the lathe and the 2x10s:
Then we rented a Reciprocating Saw and cut the structure down piece by piece. Leaving us with just the walls along the exterior warehouse walls to do:
Jeff Bockelman and Andy Neu handled much of this with guidance from Tom Kaufman. We had the surprise of finding a blocked up window...and a bit of a crack.
Then, a lot of waste haulage to get rid of the debris. By 3 pm, with a dwindling number of volunteers and the ones that remained exhausted, we were left with this.
Luckily, on Tuesday night, Bob Leckron was around and in a few short hours, he got us to this:
Let the framing begin!
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