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#1
Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...
Last post by von Corax - Today at 03:47:36 AMPart of my job is to pull totes of product from the warehouse and feed them to Packaging. I also have a "digger" working with me; his job is to gather together the single totes that get scattered around the warehouse into a single row so I don't have to go looking for them. At the beginning of my shift I print off the Packaging work-orders, which include a list of locations in the order they're wanted.
Sunday morning I located the row of totes (around 20) I would be pulling from, and then I located the next row (of 40 totes) I would be pulling from later, which was some distance away. Mid-afternoon I finished off the first row, and went to pull from the second row and it was completely empty.
Turned out my "digger" had moved the row closer for me, but neglected to tell me this, so I spent a good ten minutes frantically searching for product in locations not listed on my work-orders.
Sunday morning I located the row of totes (around 20) I would be pulling from, and then I located the next row (of 40 totes) I would be pulling from later, which was some distance away. Mid-afternoon I finished off the first row, and went to pull from the second row and it was completely empty.
Turned out my "digger" had moved the row closer for me, but neglected to tell me this, so I spent a good ten minutes frantically searching for product in locations not listed on my work-orders.
#2
Art in Two Dimensions / Re: The 2d Art Thread
Last post by Sir Henry - Yesterday at 09:04:42 PMI have a quibble with that deign and it's all to do with the view from the upper windows - passengers can only look up and across, but not down, where most of the fascination lies.
Not quite all -I'm very curious about the airflow over the tailplane too, with that fairing(?) in front.
But overall it does have a delightful late-30's look to it.
Not quite all -I'm very curious about the airflow over the tailplane too, with that fairing(?) in front.
But overall it does have a delightful late-30's look to it.
#3
Off Topic / Departed Cultural Icons 2025
Last post by morozow - Yesterday at 07:41:04 PMLarisa Golubkina died on March 22.
An actress of theater and cinema.
Shurochka Azarova (aka cornet Azarov) from the movie "The Hussar Ballad" https://brassgoggles.net/forum/index.php/topic,47544.msg990203.html#msg990203
An actress of theater and cinema.
Shurochka Azarova (aka cornet Azarov) from the movie "The Hussar Ballad" https://brassgoggles.net/forum/index.php/topic,47544.msg990203.html#msg990203
#4
Aural-Ocular / Re: Soviet films
Last post by morozow - Yesterday at 07:33:52 PMThey will steal other people's work again.
Stealing from here - https://selyanka1.livejournal.com/657297.html
Analysis of the Soviet film tale "The Princess on the Pea". I liked her when I was a kid.
What was the difference between Soviet film tales of the 1960s and 1980s and foreign ones, whether Czech-GDR or Hollywood?
The fact that this was also done for adults, and for educated and intelligent adults.
Jokes, allusions, meanings! Thus, a multi-layered narrative was created – the first layer was for the child, the second for his relatives. As a result, we grow up, and those are fairy tales...They open up to us like flowers, petal by petal.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075104/
Stealing from here - https://selyanka1.livejournal.com/657297.html
Analysis of the Soviet film tale "The Princess on the Pea". I liked her when I was a kid.
What was the difference between Soviet film tales of the 1960s and 1980s and foreign ones, whether Czech-GDR or Hollywood?
The fact that this was also done for adults, and for educated and intelligent adults.
Jokes, allusions, meanings! Thus, a multi-layered narrative was created – the first layer was for the child, the second for his relatives. As a result, we grow up, and those are fairy tales...They open up to us like flowers, petal by petal.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075104/
#5
Off Topic / Re: GAAAAAHHHHHH Mk.VI: The Re...
Last post by LukeHogbin - Yesterday at 09:39:23 AMAfter fiddling around with the old and newer laptop all night, Microsoft now decided to stop me from logging into my Minecraft account. -.-;
#6
Art in Two Dimensions / Re: The 2d Art Thread
Last post by J. Wilhelm - March 24, 2025, 03:41:06 AMAdvanced Vanship Concept for Last Exile (A little AI and a bunch of GIMP)
#7
Metaphysical / Re: Resurfacing from the Depth...
Last post by Felscor - March 24, 2025, 02:38:50 AMSalutations and a welcoming return.
It is always warming to see someone return, and is equally so in this event. While it is sorrow-som to hear of your loss some year past, you have my condolences, I hope you find comfort here.
It is always warming to see someone return, and is equally so in this event. While it is sorrow-som to hear of your loss some year past, you have my condolences, I hope you find comfort here.
#8
Architecture / Re: The 'big project' that I h...
Last post by James Harrison - March 23, 2025, 05:28:03 PMWow. Very, very impressive indeed. 16' ceilings in the attic really gives a sense of the scale of the project.
#9
Architecture / Re: The 'big project' that I h...
Last post by Madasasteamfish - March 23, 2025, 12:40:55 PMA very compressive and impressive update Sir Henry. My compliments on the work accomplished so far and commiserations on the cowpats that have been strewn along the path of your life (my own struggles with mental health have shown me how difficult it can be to actually complete projects).
I'll try and refrain from expressing my extreme envy at your property...
I'll try and refrain from expressing my extreme envy at your property...
#10
Architecture / Re: The 'big project' that I h...
Last post by Sir Henry - March 23, 2025, 11:56:42 AMMy apologies for the delay; welcome to my nightmare
I am not happy that it has taken me 18 months to get this far, but at last I have finished restoring the attic to something rather larger than its former glory.
When it was first built it was two separate attics, each with a staircase and a couple of rooms - one in the middle of the space with the staircase down and one with the dormer at the front. The dormers were interesting in that they were glazed on the sides as well as the front, so the views would have been wonderful.
Unfortunately, since then skylights were added above the stairwell and then tiled over again. Then the two houses were joined, allowing for a door between the two spaces and the removal of one staircase.
At a later date, probably the 1980's, the walls were taken down and the sides of the dormers were replaced with plywood sheets, the floors taken up and insulation put between the floor joists. The remaining staircase was boxed in and the whole place was ignored for the next 40 years.
This, of course, is the best thing to do with a roof space; the deterioration allows access to birds, rain and all sorts and there were so many holes in the roof when we arrived that you could happily stargaze from inside as long as you were very, very careful where you put your feet. On the plus side, the layers of fibreglass and recycled paper insulation had kept the joists surprisingly dry, along with the desiccated dead birds.
Then we arrived. I think I have already posted about removing the dormers so we could have solar panels, discovering that the second (abandoned) stairwell had no joists over it, just a few legths of 2'x3' nailed at their ends to the existing joists but not the sheet of drywall underneath to stop people from falling through. After sorting out the wiring )see posts above) I levelled the floor as well as I could and boarded the whole space, somewhere near 80 sq.m./100 sq.yds.
It was shortly before the delivery of all the boards that my best friend and helpmate slipped a disc and had to give up helping for good. So it was at this point that I started to change shape. Also, throughout the rest of this remember that I am also a carer (for two adults with multiple problems), cook, housewife and mediator which is why it was such a slow job.
I don't think I mentioned the largest part, by far, of the job - installing a double layer of insulation between and then below the roof joists. I used solid insulation because there needed to be an air gap between the under tile sheet and the insulation but the insulation needed to be airtight so spray or Rockwool wouldn't have worked. None of the joists were parallel so every section needed to be measured and cut to millimetre accuracy and there were 4 sections of insulation to each inter-joist gap, floor to peak. The peak is about 16 ft. up - did I mention that I have a fear of heights?
Spring, summer and autumn, all day in a breathing mask and the space getting hotter and hotter - never again! Impressively it wasn't until the two days when I stuffed all the fibreglass insulation that had been on the floor into the 3-foot high (at the apex) roof voids that had been created, wearing a hazmat suit, breathing mask and close-fitting goggles in the height of summer, that my breathing problems started.
So while the insulation is mostly 250mm/10 ins., at the top it is an impressive 1250mm/50ins.!
If I were better at plastering I wouldn't need to sand so much!
After that it was just a case of removing the chimneys, building the stud walls (parallel studs for easy insulation!) and installing a fuse box and sockets throughout. This entailed learning a bunch of skills that would have been so useful had I learned them 40 years ago, but we didn't have the internet back then, so information was more limited. Having used multiple youtube videos to learn all of this was a bit worrying, but when the electrical inspector came to check all my wiring he was very impressed, commenting that it would be great if more of the new builds he inspected were up to this quality.
became
So now we have two huge spaces, each about two thirds the area of a floor of the house (the other third is under-eaves storage) to be used as maker spaces, one for me and the other for my wife. Mine is totally undecorated because that will have to wait until I have finished Phase 2. This includes emptying some of the rooms downstairs of boxes of stuff, putting them in the attic storage spaces, then decorating those rooms. Roughly in this order: kitchen, front hall, living room/library and bathroom. Oh yes, and the garden, but that's an epic post of its own.
After I've done one about the stairs and banisters.
There is a good chance that I won't be able to wait that long for some of my ideas. For instance the entrance to the storage space at the front of my attic room is 1/7th the width of the whole wall and positioned so that if I put in panelling with 7 panels, one of them will cover the gap perfectly. I may need to do that at some point to cheer myself up. The depression is also why I've finally sat down to write this up - I've found that working in this state of mind leads to mistakes and injuries, so best avoided.
I am not happy that it has taken me 18 months to get this far, but at last I have finished restoring the attic to something rather larger than its former glory.
When it was first built it was two separate attics, each with a staircase and a couple of rooms - one in the middle of the space with the staircase down and one with the dormer at the front. The dormers were interesting in that they were glazed on the sides as well as the front, so the views would have been wonderful.
Unfortunately, since then skylights were added above the stairwell and then tiled over again. Then the two houses were joined, allowing for a door between the two spaces and the removal of one staircase.
At a later date, probably the 1980's, the walls were taken down and the sides of the dormers were replaced with plywood sheets, the floors taken up and insulation put between the floor joists. The remaining staircase was boxed in and the whole place was ignored for the next 40 years.
This, of course, is the best thing to do with a roof space; the deterioration allows access to birds, rain and all sorts and there were so many holes in the roof when we arrived that you could happily stargaze from inside as long as you were very, very careful where you put your feet. On the plus side, the layers of fibreglass and recycled paper insulation had kept the joists surprisingly dry, along with the desiccated dead birds.
Then we arrived. I think I have already posted about removing the dormers so we could have solar panels, discovering that the second (abandoned) stairwell had no joists over it, just a few legths of 2'x3' nailed at their ends to the existing joists but not the sheet of drywall underneath to stop people from falling through. After sorting out the wiring )see posts above) I levelled the floor as well as I could and boarded the whole space, somewhere near 80 sq.m./100 sq.yds.
It was shortly before the delivery of all the boards that my best friend and helpmate slipped a disc and had to give up helping for good. So it was at this point that I started to change shape. Also, throughout the rest of this remember that I am also a carer (for two adults with multiple problems), cook, housewife and mediator which is why it was such a slow job.
I don't think I mentioned the largest part, by far, of the job - installing a double layer of insulation between and then below the roof joists. I used solid insulation because there needed to be an air gap between the under tile sheet and the insulation but the insulation needed to be airtight so spray or Rockwool wouldn't have worked. None of the joists were parallel so every section needed to be measured and cut to millimetre accuracy and there were 4 sections of insulation to each inter-joist gap, floor to peak. The peak is about 16 ft. up - did I mention that I have a fear of heights?
Spring, summer and autumn, all day in a breathing mask and the space getting hotter and hotter - never again! Impressively it wasn't until the two days when I stuffed all the fibreglass insulation that had been on the floor into the 3-foot high (at the apex) roof voids that had been created, wearing a hazmat suit, breathing mask and close-fitting goggles in the height of summer, that my breathing problems started.
So while the insulation is mostly 250mm/10 ins., at the top it is an impressive 1250mm/50ins.!
If I were better at plastering I wouldn't need to sand so much!
After that it was just a case of removing the chimneys, building the stud walls (parallel studs for easy insulation!) and installing a fuse box and sockets throughout. This entailed learning a bunch of skills that would have been so useful had I learned them 40 years ago, but we didn't have the internet back then, so information was more limited. Having used multiple youtube videos to learn all of this was a bit worrying, but when the electrical inspector came to check all my wiring he was very impressed, commenting that it would be great if more of the new builds he inspected were up to this quality.
became
So now we have two huge spaces, each about two thirds the area of a floor of the house (the other third is under-eaves storage) to be used as maker spaces, one for me and the other for my wife. Mine is totally undecorated because that will have to wait until I have finished Phase 2. This includes emptying some of the rooms downstairs of boxes of stuff, putting them in the attic storage spaces, then decorating those rooms. Roughly in this order: kitchen, front hall, living room/library and bathroom. Oh yes, and the garden, but that's an epic post of its own.
After I've done one about the stairs and banisters.
There is a good chance that I won't be able to wait that long for some of my ideas. For instance the entrance to the storage space at the front of my attic room is 1/7th the width of the whole wall and positioned so that if I put in panelling with 7 panels, one of them will cover the gap perfectly. I may need to do that at some point to cheer myself up. The depression is also why I've finally sat down to write this up - I've found that working in this state of mind leads to mistakes and injuries, so best avoided.