Framing, Prepping the Walls and Floors.

 Afternoon! Happy Saturday everyone! I'm up, I've been busy since 7am, starting with some sbux, now drinking a tiny oat milk vanilla latte from Setlan Coffee near san marco Jacksonville. I'm listening to Boards of Canada, some ambient electronic classics while I get in to construction! Until now it was mostly up to my contractors to lay the foundation, concrete and framing. 

From here I can begin the finishes

Right now I'm advising on the layout, and prepping the walls for painting. The prior owners left some serious cleanup for me as far as flooring and wall adhesives. I bought an electric multitool and I'm doing my best to clean things up with that, and then  by hand as needed.

We found that the giant under-counter fridge that I hadn't yet unboxed, had a 4 inch lip on the back/top that was going to raise my whole bar counter to accommodate. This was a miscommunication between me and the architect, because I designed my own plans there were a handful of atypical quirks in sizing. So since I own the fridge, I had a friend come over and we sawed off the lip, then I sanded it down with the multitool, after failing to do so by hand haha. Tonight I'm going to seal that, and then see if I'll also need to buy smaller wheels to drop the fridge a little lower.

From here I'll continue to clean up the walls, patch some holes and calk other areas. I'll also need to even out the floors where concrete adhesive was left, using the multitool. I had done most of the floor removal and evening out by hand with a crowbar and hammer earlier this year, which took hours of slow slow slow work. It also seriously messed up my shoulder. So now that my shoulder is better, I'm playing it safe.

Once the drywall goes up on the framing later this week, I'll also knock out our flooring and bring equipment inside, finally clearing my garage up a little bit! 

Gosh I'm excited! We very well may be open this month if counters come in quickly.

There's not that much left to do, mainly because it's on me now and i'm going to put every hour I have in to this for the next three weeks! 

Thanks for reading everyone, your support is amazing, have a great week! - Elias