--- Bombus Speedshop ---: September 2018

Beaming up

Next up, a serious beam construction in the hole to keep the structure.

After the very time consuming door hole was done it was time to make the reinforcement to replace the bit of the wall now missing.
My friend Bosse was involved in the beam project from day one.
He helped me buy the beam, cut it to length and weld on “feet” brackets with holes in stainless to mount them to the floor.

The actual job to mount the beams was a quick and straightforward job.
Rise the vertical beams, drill the floor and mount them.
Measure the width at the bottom and cut the top beam same length.
Join all the three and weld them together.
Done

After that i had to fine adjust the squareness a tiny bit with spacers.

And after that i mixed some cement, took a Piping bag from my wifes baking stuff.
Filled it with cement and squeezed it in to all areas between the wall and the beam. It definitely now feels like the garage project got a new beginning this weekend.
Next up flooring in all three rooms and then move all stuff from Speedshop MkI to MkII.

Bosse doing his stick weld magic

And the other side

Cleaning up

Bashing down a bit of a wall aint something done without a trace afterwards.
Ridiculous amount of dust from the diamond blade and lots of gravel from the rotary hammer going bezerk.
The big chunks ain't no problem except for the weight.
But all the other smaller remains…
I filled up 6 Wheelbarrows with dust and gravel.
I had a big hole in the ground at my property that I filled with all remains with the Wheelbarrow.
The fact that I have a Wheelbarrow with a flat tyre didn't help either.
It became another hard labour for the office desk klerk to drag, yes drag, the Wheelbarrow up the hill where the hole was.

The only thing left now is the big stones that I will take to the local waste recycling centre.

Filled up six of these

One down, five to go.

The big chunks

Big chunks and gravel

The flat tyre

Waaaay up there I took the gravel

The opening

One crucial thing for me is the possibility to go directly from the house in to the shop.
This was also a good thing because on the other side was a bedroom and a closet that I intend to use as machine room and storage and will increase the Speedshop size quite a bit.

So the job begun.
A job that should out to be harder than I ever could imagined.
Before I begun I rented two jack posts and put one of each side of the wall, just to keep the structure intact.

The job started with two drilled pilot holes through the wall and from there I used plumb line on each side to get the square.
Trace a door square after the plumb lines and the top line that I measured from the ceiling.
After that I used a big angle grinder with a diamond blade to cut after these lines.
The disc penetration was about 7 cm (3”) and the wall was just over 20cm (8”).
So after I cut on either side I was left with a 7 cm (3”) part that I thought before I started was “just” to crack when I gave the wall some beating with a big sledgehammer.
OMG, was I wrong there or what.
It took sooo much more effort than I’ve thought both with sledgehammer and rotary hammer.
First I did a hole on top and thought that now the wall must come down if I beat on it with sledgehammer.
Nope
I made a “T” through and started pounding again and after much pounding I saw some cracks and I could lift off the stones one after the other after continuous beating.