Blowfish Bar – Flagler Beach, FL - Home Tiki Bars

T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Sun, Jun 24, 2012 2:24 PM Wendy and Robert, I’ll post a bit of the remodeling progress here, as it is connected to servicing the bar patrons and will have Hawaiiana and/or Tiki elements when I finish, though bigbrotiki will again be justified in observing that this is more suited to a home renovation site... The only space available to me within the roof line for this project was the upstairs sunroom containing my home office and a sitting area with total dimensions of about 7’6” wide and 25’0” long... North end of sunroom before remodeling South end of sunroom before remodeling The sliding glass door on the left looking to the south end is passage to the guest bedroom, whereas the sliding glass door on the right looking to the north end is passage to the master bedroom. My plan was to add a bathroom using the south end of the sunroom, taking up a bit more than half of the total sunroom length... After giving away some furniture that would no longer have a place and temporarily moving just about everything out of the guest bedroom, there was yet another space more formidable to vacate for this project, the garage, as plumbing and wiring access from below would be required. That also meant that old built-in cabinets would need to be torn out for utility access. The garage ceiling had a popcorn finish that was failing in some places, so I decided that there would never be a better opportunity to scrape the ceilings and get rid of it. That’s a hazard in home remodeling, ever expanding scope. All Florida Storage in Daytona Beach rents watertight, airtight shipping containers, the kind used on container ships. They are cheaper to rent than PODS, and so heavy that there is little likelihood that a tropical storm could blow them around. So that’s where the contents of the garage temporarily went... My plans required that the sliding glass door to the guest bedroom be eliminated, leaving only one door for entry and exit of that bedroom. The Florida Building Code requires at least two means of egress from any bedroom, one of which can be a window with an opening that is big enough for a person to climb through (the Code specifies minimum square footage of the opening). Fortunately, I had two hurricane rated windows at the south end of the sunroom that met the Code opening size requirement, and that also needed to be removed from the sunroom to acquire needed empty wall space. So, the solution was to relocate those windows to the guest bedroom exterior wall... Sunroom windows relocated to guest bedroom exterior wall and wall framed in on sunroom end... Framing and plumbing for steam shower; vertical pipe is drain line vent... Framing to close off former sliding glass door opening (viewed from bedroom)... Start of framing for pocket door entry and towel closet... In the garage, routing of new water lines from the hot water heater, as well as drain lines from the existing bathroom drain headers... A new electrical sub-panel was required for the steam shower, due to lack of spare breakers in the existing load center (new panel left of load center)... The flexible electrical cable connected to breakers and coiled up next to the load center is the “suicide cord” for the portable generator, a necessity for living through Florida’s hurricanes. The panels below the load center are for the sprinkler and telephones. You can see some of the wall scars from the torn out built-in cabinets. Popcorn scraping of the garage ceiling has completed and framing for new soffit to hide the air conditioning ducting and new plumbing is underway... While everything was torn up, I called in Palm Coast Heating and Air to replace the old and deteriorating A/C supply plenum. They also relocated the A/C supply vents upstairs to work with the new bathroom. In the foreground you can see the crates for the new Aquapeutics steam shower, with some assembly required :) This was the second delivery of a steam shower, as the first one arrived with shipping crates crushed and tempered glass shards everywhere. I did get a bonus out of it... a bunch of steam shower spare parts as the supplier had no use for a shower in more pieces than they sent it. Upstairs in the guest bedroom, insulation and drywall has been installed, taping and mudding has been completed, and a real dusty mess is underway as the finish coatings are applied... Drywall finishing is also underway in the new bathroom... Andy Porada came to take measurements for the new vanity and cabinets... Andy is the same guy who did the cabinet work for the Blowfish Bar itself, to my design... I’m hopeful that the worst of this transient mess will be over by July 4... in the meantime, I’ll be mellowing out with a few of my favorite rum cocktails. The project has been moving along pretty well, and, most importantly, the Building Inspector is happy with it thus far... -Tom

Wendy and Robert, I’ll post a bit of the remodeling progress here, as it is connected to servicing the bar patrons and will have Hawaiiana and/or Tiki elements when I finish, though bigbrotiki will again be justified in observing that this is more suited to a home renovation site...

The only space available to me within the roof line for this project was the upstairs sunroom containing my home office and a sitting area with total dimensions of about 7’6” wide and 25’0” long...

North end of sunroom before remodeling

South end of sunroom before remodeling

The sliding glass door on the left looking to the south end is passage to the guest bedroom, whereas the sliding glass door on the right looking to the north end is passage to the master bedroom. My plan was to add a bathroom using the south end of the sunroom, taking up a bit more than half of the total sunroom length...

After giving away some furniture that would no longer have a place and temporarily moving just about everything out of the guest bedroom, there was yet another space more formidable to vacate for this project, the garage, as plumbing and wiring access from below would be required. That also meant that old built-in cabinets would need to be torn out for utility access. The garage ceiling had a popcorn finish that was failing in some places, so I decided that there would never be a better opportunity to scrape the ceilings and get rid of it. That’s a hazard in home remodeling, ever expanding scope.

All Florida Storage in Daytona Beach rents watertight, airtight shipping containers, the kind used on container ships. They are cheaper to rent than PODS, and so heavy that there is little likelihood that a tropical storm could blow them around. So that’s where the contents of the garage temporarily went...

My plans required that the sliding glass door to the guest bedroom be eliminated, leaving only one door for entry and exit of that bedroom. The Florida Building Code requires at least two means of egress from any bedroom, one of which can be a window with an opening that is big enough for a person to climb through (the Code specifies minimum square footage of the opening). Fortunately, I had two hurricane rated windows at the south end of the sunroom that met the Code opening size requirement, and that also needed to be removed from the sunroom to acquire needed empty wall space. So, the solution was to relocate those windows to the guest bedroom exterior wall...

Sunroom windows relocated to guest bedroom exterior wall and wall framed in on sunroom end...

Framing and plumbing for steam shower; vertical pipe is drain line vent...

Framing to close off former sliding glass door opening (viewed from bedroom)...

Start of framing for pocket door entry and towel closet...

In the garage, routing of new water lines from the hot water heater, as well as drain lines from the existing bathroom drain headers...

A new electrical sub-panel was required for the steam shower, due to lack of spare breakers in the existing load center (new panel left of load center)...

The flexible electrical cable connected to breakers and coiled up next to the load center is the “suicide cord” for the portable generator, a necessity for living through Florida’s hurricanes. The panels below the load center are for the sprinkler and telephones. You can see some of the wall scars from the torn out built-in cabinets.

Popcorn scraping of the garage ceiling has completed and framing for new soffit to hide the air conditioning ducting and new plumbing is underway...

While everything was torn up, I called in Palm Coast Heating and Air to replace the old and deteriorating A/C supply plenum. They also relocated the A/C supply vents upstairs to work with the new bathroom. In the foreground you can see the crates for the new Aquapeutics steam shower, with some assembly required :) This was the second delivery of a steam shower, as the first one arrived with shipping crates crushed and tempered glass shards everywhere. I did get a bonus out of it... a bunch of steam shower spare parts as the supplier had no use for a shower in more pieces than they sent it.

Upstairs in the guest bedroom, insulation and drywall has been installed, taping and mudding has been completed, and a real dusty mess is underway as the finish coatings are applied...

Drywall finishing is also underway in the new bathroom...

Andy Porada came to take measurements for the new vanity and cabinets...

Andy is the same guy who did the cabinet work for the Blowfish Bar itself, to my design...

I’m hopeful that the worst of this transient mess will be over by July 4... in the meantime, I’ll be mellowing out with a few of my favorite rum cocktails. The project has been moving along pretty well, and, most importantly, the Building Inspector is happy with it thus far...

-Tom

Post #641554 by TikiTomD on Sun, Jun 24, 2012 2:24 PM