Richmond Highland Games

Today, we're doing a demo at the Richmond Highland Games & Celtic Festival. No telephone pole tossing for us, just getting muddy in our fencing whites.

Friday, Sue and I finished putting down polyurethane on the floor (unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me) and Chuck built some big shelves, and a weapon rack. More photos in a couple days.

The First Week

Here are some photos from this week, with a little fencing going on. Monday, the floor wasn't ready to seal with polyurethane, because the stain wasn't all that dry.

We ran classes "between the lines".

Tuesday, Sue wore these shoes:

And the club looked like this:

The floor ready for sealing:

After the first coat:

After the last coat, looking toward the front of the club:

Our mirrors!

Scott's Photos

Here is a good collection of photos from the floor-construction process.

Monday, the first "live" day.

Got to the club today and discovered we hadn't put down the rulebook-required center lines. With a lot of help from Chuck and Sue they got taped out and stained. But the rest of the stain, which should have taken a few hours to dry, isn't dry. So the polyurethane coating will go down on Friday instead of today, assuming the stain is dry by then.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians reading this!

Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Today we did everything that was left to do. Except the stuff we didn't. $100 of tape and lots of painting. Just look at the pictures, will you, and let me sleep.

Saturday's Work

Today, Saturday, which feels like about 3 months into this project, we did a bunch of stuff. First, moved six thousand pounds of OSB about 6 feet so we could lay out the floor for real. (This means borrowing the pallet jack from our nice neighbor again.) Extended the plastic, laid out the last couple sleepers, finished stapling the 4200 rubber pads (actually we have about 100 left over), shortened the edge rails by 1.5 inches, and nailed in place all the sleepers. Then we started putting OSB in place. Lots and lots of OSB. We named Chuck the Wizard of OSB (pronounced "ahzb"). I told you it feels like this has been going on for months. And the office and bathrooms are painted very nice colors!

Friday's Work

Here are photos of todays work. At 10am this morning, which feels like a month ago, we followed the UPS delivery guy down our street, and waved him down to tell him about the "new" address, created by subdividing an old address. We need those 14 boxes of rubber pads he had for us! We completed the cross sleepers including rubber pads and wooden shims in heavy traffic areas, completed all sleepers, including rubber on 1/2 of them. Putting in 16800 staples takes a very long time, even for a half dozen people!

Overall layout

Here is the overall layout of the club.

The Plan

Here's a graphic of what we're doing underneath the floor.

Today's Work

Today I chained and locked shut the door to the next space, swept the floor again, laid down the 6 mil black plastic vapor barrier, and built the left side cross-sleeper. Working by yourself sometimes means you spend 30 minutes constructing the most beautiful thing ever, only to discover it was the wrong thing. It will be better for the next 3 days, with lots of help coming in.

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We have our new space!

We finally got the keys for our new space, on 3411.5 Carlton St. Here are photos of the space, including the trash and dust left behind. And our beautiful pile of wood for the floor!