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That room is bigger than I think
Mar. 16th, 2024 10:23 pm When we bought the house in December of 2021 the room with the heater in it was full of pallets and car parts and juck and was so hard to get through it looked small.
During January and February of 2022 we managed to get it largely cleaned out, and in March built a work bench sp we could use the space to build stuff when we needed to, and by April it was fully usable, though we still wanted to remove the old oil tank and add more storage solutions.
Then in late April or early May of that year Keldor's brother sold his farm and it was necessary to bring here all of the things Keldor had been storing in the barn and house there, most of which we just piled in the garage and the workshop because we needed to get ready for Double Wars.
Life since then has been busy, with many projects, many of which involved Keldor using a rondel to remove the outer layer of old used lumber with a roundel ro get to the nicer looking wood underneath. I am impressed that he managed to do so much with only narrow paths available. While he regularly swept up the sawdust o the floor where he was working, the whole room, and everything in it gradually became coated with the finer sawdust that drifted further away, and I hated going in to that cramped, dusty room.
On Thursday one of his colleagues was getting rid of a solid plate metal chest of drawers for work tools and asked if we wated it. Yes!
So Thursday we moved the old white chest of drawers with a secretary fold down desk top in which his fishing tackle gear lives out of the workshop and into the hallway. Then we emptied the wide white shelves thst had stood next to it and took it to the garage, and replaced the narrow brown shelves there. Those narrow brown shelves were moved to the workshop and mounted on the wall, the the new metal set of drawers was mounted next to it.
Friday while he worked I started cleaning the workshop and sorting things into the new drawers and shelves. I managed to get about the first 1/4 of the room done, including vacuuming dust off tge walls, ceiling, and from the heater.
This morning I planned to start with cleaning and organising in the workshop, moving tools into the drawers (and labelling them), but he wanted to do vacuuming and mopping upstairs. It nedded it, so I hekped with that, and made a quick soup for lunch before we resumed work in the basement.
Between noon and 17:00 we managed to clean out way all the way back to the big oil tank and empty the stuff that has been stored there. We took all the lumber temporarily to the laundry room. We moved all of his fishing rods and nets etc. Out of the small closet in the back corner (they are temporarily in the guest room, but we plan to mout some supports just under the ceiling in the hallway to store them), and mount shelves and wall hooks in that closet to store all of his smithing tools, supplies, and material.
Then his brother called and he decided he was done for the day. I took a brake for dinner, then I went down and finished cleaning up the last of the stuff that has been on the floor in the middle of the room and swept up the dust (again, we have been sweeping each bit of floor as it gets exposed.
Now there is a huge expanse of open space in there, and I am loving it! We still have to deal with everything on and under the workbench, but the room is getting there!
Once we have all the dust out he will saw up the old oil tank and we will haul away the bits (it is completely empty, we took off the access hatch and looked today). Then he will build a little room in the corner with good ventilation to outsise that will be well sealed off from the rest of the room in which we can do the power tool sanding and other messy tasks, so the cleaning we just did will last a while. I am so looking forward to that!
During January and February of 2022 we managed to get it largely cleaned out, and in March built a work bench sp we could use the space to build stuff when we needed to, and by April it was fully usable, though we still wanted to remove the old oil tank and add more storage solutions.
Then in late April or early May of that year Keldor's brother sold his farm and it was necessary to bring here all of the things Keldor had been storing in the barn and house there, most of which we just piled in the garage and the workshop because we needed to get ready for Double Wars.
Life since then has been busy, with many projects, many of which involved Keldor using a rondel to remove the outer layer of old used lumber with a roundel ro get to the nicer looking wood underneath. I am impressed that he managed to do so much with only narrow paths available. While he regularly swept up the sawdust o the floor where he was working, the whole room, and everything in it gradually became coated with the finer sawdust that drifted further away, and I hated going in to that cramped, dusty room.
On Thursday one of his colleagues was getting rid of a solid plate metal chest of drawers for work tools and asked if we wated it. Yes!
So Thursday we moved the old white chest of drawers with a secretary fold down desk top in which his fishing tackle gear lives out of the workshop and into the hallway. Then we emptied the wide white shelves thst had stood next to it and took it to the garage, and replaced the narrow brown shelves there. Those narrow brown shelves were moved to the workshop and mounted on the wall, the the new metal set of drawers was mounted next to it.
Friday while he worked I started cleaning the workshop and sorting things into the new drawers and shelves. I managed to get about the first 1/4 of the room done, including vacuuming dust off tge walls, ceiling, and from the heater.
This morning I planned to start with cleaning and organising in the workshop, moving tools into the drawers (and labelling them), but he wanted to do vacuuming and mopping upstairs. It nedded it, so I hekped with that, and made a quick soup for lunch before we resumed work in the basement.
Between noon and 17:00 we managed to clean out way all the way back to the big oil tank and empty the stuff that has been stored there. We took all the lumber temporarily to the laundry room. We moved all of his fishing rods and nets etc. Out of the small closet in the back corner (they are temporarily in the guest room, but we plan to mout some supports just under the ceiling in the hallway to store them), and mount shelves and wall hooks in that closet to store all of his smithing tools, supplies, and material.
Then his brother called and he decided he was done for the day. I took a brake for dinner, then I went down and finished cleaning up the last of the stuff that has been on the floor in the middle of the room and swept up the dust (again, we have been sweeping each bit of floor as it gets exposed.
Now there is a huge expanse of open space in there, and I am loving it! We still have to deal with everything on and under the workbench, but the room is getting there!
Once we have all the dust out he will saw up the old oil tank and we will haul away the bits (it is completely empty, we took off the access hatch and looked today). Then he will build a little room in the corner with good ventilation to outsise that will be well sealed off from the rest of the room in which we can do the power tool sanding and other messy tasks, so the cleaning we just did will last a while. I am so looking forward to that!