Progress is slow...but it's still progress. The shed is insulated, and all but two wall panels are up. I've run out of finish nails and need to get them before I can finish that. In addition, before I can finish paneling I need to connect the entry wire that brings electrical power from the meter to the breaker box. The wire is in the trench, and I've put it in a conduit and brought it up into the shed to the breaker panel. Now, when I get more finish nails, I also need to get the conduit fitting that attaches the breaker box to the conduit. I also bought materials to build a skirting frame, and hope to get that done this week. After that frame is up, I can put in the foam insulation panels, and then put the roofing metal around the frame. Seems like a never-ending project as I write it out...but it definitely feels like progress. I also bought materials for a stand to hold the water tank for gravity flow and for a frame to hold up the counters, as work surfaces will certainly be important. So, the checklist as I understand it.
1. Hook entry wire into breaker panel.
2. Insulate, sheet, and panel section of wall with breaker panel.
3. Install electrical fixtures throughout shed.
4. Build frame for skirting.
5. Insulate inside of skirting frame and sheet outside with roofing panels.
6. Bring shed to temperature for a couple of days.
7. Install interior trim.
8. Install subfloor and linoleum (my wife says the linoleum is the ugliest of all possibles options...that's what I get for choosing the lightest colored one to facilitate less use of lighting energy...).
9. Install water tank.
10. Install counters and sinks.
11. Connect to the meter...and away we go!
(And obviously I also need to move in the darkroom equipment...) If only it could happen all in one day...or maybe two? No? Oh well, sooner and sooner. I hope that it can be done in the next month. I was hoping to be done before the cold weather arrived, but it hasn't worked that way (1F outside right now, less than 20 for the past 14 days or so...). So far it hasn't mattered, though it is nice that we now have the heat installed and can get the room heated up to work in. But we can't do the flooring despite having heat in, because the outside of the floor is 1F, and it can be as warm as we want inside...which doesn't make the floor itself particularly warm. So we need to build and insulate the skirting before we do anything with flooring.
Anybody who has followed my sporadic reports on this project might remember that I had an art show scheduled for Nov. 12...which would be...yesterday...which I was hoping to have new stuff prepared for. Needless to say, that didn't exactly happen, but I took work that had been done prior to my 8-month (and counting) darkroom drought, and it went okay. But next year...I'll have lots of new stuff...and an idea of which darkroom construction decisions were seriously in error...
