I have begun tuck-pointing (or re-pointing) the crawlspace foundation brick. It took about two hours to re-point about ten square feet of wall. I think I can speed up that process by shifting over to using a different tool next time, but it was progress none-the-less. The first portion of the process, cleaning out the […]

For the last several days, after work hours, I’ve been prepping the crawl space under the 100+ year old house brick and stone foundation for tuck pointing. Much of the work requires a heavy duty blower to push the dust out of the crawl space. I am wearing a heavy duty full face respirator while […]

Throughout the weekend, I’ve spent a couple of hours cleaning up the dust and insulation scraps from the loft space and then began stapling in the final sheet of the plastic vapor barrier to seal up the north wall and ceiling. Here are a couple of images from the progress being made on the loft […]

That’s right, I just finished a ten-hour stream building the art loft again. I now have all of the insulation installed and the vapor barrier in place. I’ll poke at it off-stream just a little on Sunday, but I don’t have a day off for a while and wanted to make the loft heatable. Now, […]

Tonight’s stream on Twitch.tv/xonikz showed a little bit more progress on the art loft, or maker loft. The vision is starting to take shape. Ceiling insulation and vapor barrier were put in place on the western ceiling by the end of the stream with some work done on the half wall that separates the computer […]

Last night I streamed the entire process of setting up and photographing portraits for a LinkedIn profile pic. The photo session went well enough with a few technical hiccups, mostly due to the extreme cold of the loft right now. Thanks to the handful of chatters that stopped in from all over the globe and […]