Heres what I did today...

I've just been looking around for now. I'd like to find something Drive-By-Cable to keep the swap easier. I've also been looking at getting a LS1/T56 combo out of a Camaro or something, my plan is to run a T56 anyways. I know the 5.3/6.0's use a returnless fuel system that will be easier to adapt to my car too.
 
how dafuq?
 
installed some killer hood vents

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A friend of mine showed up to help me hang some drywall. Making good progress...

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Still a bit left to do but it's starting to look like a house in here.
 
Nice Ken! Are you going to move in there while you finish the downstairs?

EDIT: Also why the **** do YOU need a ladder? hahah
 
needs more screws. the 2" spacing isnt good enough.


lol that what i was thinking. we do one on each end and 3 in the field. so 5 per 4 feet. and 6 on the seams.



and the TJ tried to kick the tail out around the bend and ended up 3 wheeling it then 2 wheeling it for a split second.
 
A friend of mine showed up to help me hang some drywall. Making good progress...

Still a bit left to do but it's starting to look like a house in here.
Looks a lot different then when I first saw it, sure is coming along. I do not miss hanging drywall... at all.
 
Nice Ken! Are you going to move in there while you finish the downstairs?

EDIT: Also why the **** do YOU need a ladder? hahah

LOL I need a ladder because it's impossible to get any kind of good downforce on a drywall screw setter when it's two feet over your head, pointed at a wall. I can reach, I just can't do anything except tip the screws over and gouge up the drywall. Don't ask how I know this.

I'm moving in up there as soon as I tape, mud, sand, and paint the whole room, probably gonna throw down some paint on the floor too since I don't have the money for the radiant heating panels and flooring I want to use right now. Then I'm going to completely finish the second bedroom, vacuum the demolition dust off everything sitting in the living room, restack it in the second bedroom, then finish the master bedroom. Once that's all done I'll finish the upstairs hall, set up a simple positive pressure ventilation system to keep the dust out, poly-sheet the stairwell and demolish the entire first floor.

Ken I hope you have better luck/skill in taping the joints then I did.
I'm pretty ok with it - my problem is that I'm massively OCD about a few things, and it results in me taking way longer than I should. The other result is that my place looks like a meth den, except with absolutely perfect wiring, framing, plumbing, and sheetrock scattered randomly throughout the disaster area, you can pretty easily tell where I've actually fixed stuff and what's waiting to be destroyed.

needs more screws. the 2" spacing isnt good enough.
Those are actually on roughly 5" to 6" centers. I go a little overboard, I figure it costs me maybe five or ten bucks extra per room and can't hurt. I used a bit more than a 5 pound box of 1 5/8" sheetrock screws on that room.

Looks a lot different then when I first saw it, sure is coming along. I do not miss hanging drywall... at all.

I sure won't miss it either. I enjoy wiring, plumbing, and to some degree framing carpentry, I can't stand rocking.

So far it looks like it's costing me ~350-400 in lumber per room (completely gutted - that's new subflooring, new interior wall framing, new ceiling rafters, the whole nine yards, only the exterior walls and loadbearing walls are remaining), along with approx 160 in sheetrock (~20 sheets), a few hundred in electrical (I'm going full retard with pull boxes for comms/network on each wall, a pull box for the thermostat, massive numbers of outlets, etc), and I've estimated around 500-800 per room for the radiant heat and ~900 per room for flooring. Haven't done the last two yet, and probably won't till I get a new job, which I'm still working on. Oh, windows will probably cost ~4-500 per room, insulation is running around 150/room and doors around 3-400. Assuming max values for all that, 3600/room for a complete renovation. Holy hell, that number is a lot bigger than I expected and explains why my wallet is so damn light right now :wow: it doesn't look like a lot when you spend it a few hundred at a time and work so slow.
 
LOL I need a ladder because it's impossible to get any kind of good downforce on a drywall screw setter when it's two feet over your head, pointed at a wall. I can reach, I just can't do anything except tip the screws over and gouge up the drywall. Don't ask how I know this.

Its also hell on your shoulder mussels. it helps to stab the gun at the wall, with the screw on it kinda get some momentum going. im sure by the ime your done youll be an expert at it. well have to call you "Karlos Stein"

Those are actually on roughly 5" to 6" centers. I go a little overboard, I figure it costs me maybe five or ten bucks extra per room and can't hurt. I used a bit more than a 5 pound box of 1 5/8" sheetrock screws on that room.

yea thats probably only 2-3 extra screws per stud per board. and I might be wrong since I mainly deal with metal studs(wood may be different, but I doubt it) but 1 5/8 is a little long for a single layer of 5/8 rock. 1 1/4 would be cheaper and easier for you to use. I.E. less tipping screws.




So far it looks like it's costing me ~350-400 in lumber per room (completely gutted - that's new subflooring, new interior wall framing, new ceiling rafters, the whole nine yards, only the exterior walls and loadbearing walls are remaining), along with approx 160 in sheetrock (~20 sheets), a few hundred in electrical (I'm going full retard with pull boxes for comms/network on each wall, a pull box for the thermostat, massive numbers of outlets, etc), and I've estimated around 500-800 per room for the radiant heat and ~900 per room for flooring. Haven't done the last two yet, and probably won't till I get a new job, which I'm still working on. Oh, windows will probably cost ~4-500 per room, insulation is running around 150/room and doors around 3-400. Assuming max values for all that, 3600/room for a complete renovation. Holy hell, that number is a lot bigger than I expected and explains why my wallet is so damn light right now :wow: it doesn't look like a lot when you spend it a few hundred at a time and work so slow.

whats great about being a carpenter is I just get a lot of that stuff from work little by little fo free:rolleyes:
 
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