Yeah, that's one drafty looking engine house!
Tom:cry:
Mine will be drafty enough, I'm sure those six big double doors aren't going to close too tight
I cut up the city classics skylights to make windows (the short ends (I didn't try to split the mullions, will go on the back wall, and will need some fixing)
I'll need to get mote of these to do skylights, and maybe when I have more I can get fancier and have some of the windows open . Right now thy fit tight enough they might stay in place without glue, so it may be easy to set it up so I can go back and work on it later.
I set up the window placement to fit the cut down skylights, and used the calipers to space the windows evenly. trying different spacings until something came out even, and then locked the calipers in place , and used them for stud placement.
On this project I used white Gorilla glue. It foams up and expands, which gives it a very strong joint, but requires some cleanup. It sticks to the wax paper some, enough that I can take out the pins around anything that is dry. after each wall is done, I peel away the wax paper and sand both sides to remove the bumps of glue, and to even out the differences in the thickness of the home cut stripwood. then I use an exacto knife to cut the blobs of glue out of the corners of the joints. That is considerable work, but the joints are amazingly strong and flexible. This probably wouldn't work well If I was staining this project, but since I'm going to cheat and use spray paint, I'll do the extra work for the extra strength.
Three walls framed, one left to finish. Getting the window and door placement was the hardest part, and I have the east wall to work from, so it is possible I might have 4 walls framed soon
Bill Nelson