Post #200488 by pappythesailor on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 6:19 PM

I've been inspired by Finkdaddy's great work to post work on my bar. Hopefully, this will shame me into working on it nights and weekends.

Space is 11x22 and I'm starting with bare concrete and NO electricity. (Well, no outlets. I'm plugged right into the fusebox.)

This first pic is actually quite far into the project. Everything I know I learned from This Old House so the going is slow. The walls I built with screws because I can't drive a nail straight. Bottom studs are pressure treated.

The subfloor is a basement owner's dream from Superseal.
http://www.superseal.ca/dimpledmembrane.html
It comes on a UPS truck and you just roll it out and cut it with a utility knife. Seal the joints with duct tape--no fooling. I recommend it to everybody. It's exactly as nice as I hoped it would be.

On this wall, I added some furring strips to the only studs in the basement (besides me!) Floor is 3/4" cedar OSB that I put down with my friend Chris who was smart enought to own a jigsaw. He rules.

Here's Karol the electrician. He rules too; a fast worker from the old country. I decided to forego the studs on this wall not to save labor but to save space. Drilling into the concrete for the furring strips was incredibly hard. I kept hitting rocks in the foundation and had to make new holes. The furring strips on this wall alone (also pressure treated fir) took a week of weeknights and much cursing. I plan on two tiki head sconces on these walls.

Here you can see the sconce mounting on the long wall and the rest of the subfloor on the big, black roll behind the unfinished stud wall.

More pics soon. If anybody wants to help me name my new lounge/bar/baby refuge, I can offer you a swell, restored, antique electric clock for your trouble. Also, if anybody has good ideas for the ceiling, I'm needing them in a hurry. Aloha!

[ Edited by: pappythesailor 2010-07-28 13:53 ]