Here is the second video of our Studio Construction series, it showcases just how the development came about along with the highs and lows throughout the process of constructing our dream!
This video opens with us erecting the joists to create the flooring space on the mezzanine. It wasn’t exactly the hardest part of the build, but it certainly did take more time than I had anticipated. To get the distance between each joist exactly 450mm, which is the standard in Australia, involved the use of clamps, spacers and muscle to hold the sometimes slightly warped 4 x 2″ joists in place. We then used galvanised roofing screws to hold the joists in place on the steel framework.
We then move to shots of my beautiful wife Sharisse helping me lay the flooring down in the Studio getting ready for the internal wall framework to go in. What the video doesn’t show you is that 2 days before – we had bought exactly the same floor and tried to lay it in exactly the same way, but for some reason it was twisting as we lay it over the concrete flooring. For some unknown reason to us AND no matter how many times we removed the twisting boards and put them down in a different combination they would always twist… in exactly the same way…
So after many hours of scratching our heads we decided to cut the losses for that day (and the next 2 – as it takes 48 hours for the flooring to acclimatise to its new environment) and drive back to where we got them from to exchange them for new ones. Now you have to picture this, Sharisse and I in messy clothes carrying 10 boxes – each one – filled with 9 planks of flooring timber ALL opened, ALL spilling everywhere as we tried to carry them, then asking for an exchange! I hate to think what the poor lady who served us was thinking…
Once we got over the issues with the flooring, you can see that it really started to take shape nicely.
Just so you know, the same thing happened with the new floor, but only to 3 panels of flooring, so we decided to agree that it was the concrete floors fault! and DEFINITELY not ours!
Next you can see that we have the internal frames going up, for me, this is where the project really started to pick up pace and start to look like something more than just a bunch of walls and some steel inside this unit. I am a visual person, so as much as I have had this image of what it is the Eskae Jewellery Studio will look like once done, to now be able to get a visual measure of how we were tracking was about as good as christmas! I could see the space defining itself and the proportions of that space defining the overall look and feel of the studio. For me – it was beginning to take on a life of its own.
Make sure you take a note of how I explain how each space is to be used, you will remember it when you see the next and then the final instalment of the Eskae Jeweller Studio Development videos, I hope you will find it interesting to see how they change from a simple wooden frame to a usable and workable space for creating and crafting your jewellery!
The framework that you see in place at the end of the video, took us about 1 solid week to erect and install in place. As I mentioned earlier it is the part of the project that for me, really started to pick up the pace somewhat. Things were getting made and installed in a matter of about a day as opposed to waiting days for something to be half way finished. It was also the first time that we could really see the space/s starting to evolve.
Stay tuned for the next instalment of our development where you can really start to see the spaces getting finalised and it will give you a glimpse into how the Studio will look when finished.
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Sam Kritsotakis
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