Let there be flooring

Well another couple of weeks have past since we installed all the hanging lighting in the gallery. This past weekend, we went back and began to install the finished flooring on the main floor. We chose a hard wearing and attractive dark laminate flooring for the gallery last fall. A sale came up and we purchased it early due to the great pricing. So the flooring has been sitting in the gallery for months waiting for its time to be installed.

We worked hard and completed about 1200 square feet of the flooring!!! There is only a small area of laminate remaining in a hallway which we left undone for now due to the drywall taper, electrician and plumbers that are still coming and going up and down the hallway.

The picture is of the food service area in the gallery with Heather smiling at our success with the flooring installation. It looks beautiful. It was hard work for the two of us, but once we could look at it knowing it was finished, it became worth the work.

Of interest were the two floor mounted receptacles that had to be installed. I understand the need to keep them from getting wet while cleaning floors, but wow, were they complex things to get installed properly. I also discovered that the electrician had left that circuit live for some reason.... discovered it the hard way..... Oh well, it provided Heather with a laugh!!

So progress was made and we are continuing hard at things. More for you next week!!

Brent

Let There Be Light

Well progress on the Extraordinary Light Gallery and its cafe has been made again. This past weekend we hung all the track lighting in the art area. The tracks were hung using threaded rod in a pendant mount fashion.

This was an interesting job. We located the lights on the floor and then used a laser plumb bob to put a dot of light on the ceiling where we wanted to suspend the tracks. Then I would climb a ladder and determine if the spot was directly under a truss or not using a stud sensor. We would then shift the tracks on the floor until they were lined up under a truss (for sections running parallel to a truss). Once we had a section under a truss, we would mark off hanger holes on the sections running perpendicular to the truss at 2 foot intervals (The truss spacing). Then I would drill the hanger holes and use the laser plumb bob to shoot a dot of light right from where the

hole was drilled onto the ceiling. Then it was up the ladder to install a hanger bracket with the laser passing a dot through the hole for the threaded rod. It made it a piece of cake.

There were a couple of large boxes that had lights in them as well that were hung. The boxes have 4 lights in them to create puddles of light on parts of the gallery floor. These boxes we hung using 1/8" aircraft cable. Overkill for the light weight of the boxes, but it looked more substantial.

Next we will move onto laying the finished floor in the gallery. It is a very exciting time!!!