There is something about fall that I just love and this year it seems Texas is going to have a real fall. A real Texas fall but fall all the same. Where the days are warm and the nights are cool. Ok, where the days can still be hot but the wind has cooled making the 90℉ degrees feel much, much cooler. With all the recent rains, the grass is green, the sand has settled, and everything is vibrant in…
RUST! Been living in the coastal environment for over 10 years, six of those here at Boxes in Fields and I am still amazed at how quickly rust appears. Not wanting to chance rust on these freshly installed interior panel walls, the Dwelling was prepped for blasting and painting. Raw steel today, rust tomorrow. Seriously. Bright early Monday morning while discussing the plans for the week, the Planner decided there was one additional step to complete before we could blast…
Where does the time go? It has been a week since the pantry walls were built and ready for install. A week. Yes, I know logically the time was spent on the driveway, roof supports, and other odds and ends that did not get mentioned, but still. From reading this blog, it would seem Boxes in Fields does a lot of nothing. Lest you forget we both work jobs and while those jobs are not the typical 8-5 they do…
Rain, rain, rain. We need it to rain, yet when it rains, we complain. As humans, we just like to complain. Some of the reasons we complain when it rains cannot be easily solved, like the rain on our heads inside the Rainstream. Others can be easily rectified if we would just a lot the small amount of time from all the other projects. Trying to work around the rain can be difficult, especially depending on the amount of rain….
And to think, the inner paneled walls for the pantry and utility rooms were moving along so well. Even with the disassembly of the pantry wall to reinforce the doorway, both walls were done with enough time left in the day to install. Maybe not fully installed but at least one could have been bolted into place. With the forklift ready to carry over the pantry wall, the Planner stopped mid drive to mumble something about holding the roof. Grumble,…
Fueled by the success of the erected bathroom wall, the pantry wall with doorway was started the very same day the bathroom wall was installed. A second salvaged panel was brought over using the forklift sling, edges were trimmed to correct length, framework built, panel installed, and ta-da one pantry wall. Well, sort of. Framework for the pantry was a modified bathroom wall. Square tubing on the bottom, angle across the top. Unlike the bathroom wall, there a small portion…
Last week was a first of many firsts for Boxes in Fields with the Almost a Room. In fact the first thing I did today was take another picture of the almost room. Isn’t it fabulous! Well today was another first. A hatched wall. Fabrication is similar to a window or door hatch, the wall is just larger with combined angle and tubing framework instead of just tubing. The top will be angle, the bottom square tubing, and the sides…