Car Moved; 2nd Half Floor Pan Begun

The car is moved! The garage is empty! It is set to be demolished tomorrow. Work on the upstairs of the house has already begun; lots of drywall is down, the carpet and subfloor have been removed, and soon some of the interior walls will be coming down as well. It's exciting to get to this point in our house re-model because we have been planning this process for over a year and a half at this point.

The car is safely ensconsced in the rented bay at the shop. The bay is about the same width as the space I was using in the garage at home, but it is longer. I brought over all my crappy bookshelves from the garage, and everything is even semi-organized!

I still don't have any more children, but my wife is starting to joke about getting induced. At 37 weeks, having twins is causing her to measure as if she was 43 weeks pregnant with a single baby. She is off bed rest and we are just playing a waiting game now...most twin pregancies don't go to full term.

Now that all the moving is finished, and before these kids arrive, I have a small window of opportunity to get some work done on the car. This morning I went to the shop and used the plasma torch to cut out the right side of the floor pan. It went so quickly, it was great!!! I can't agree with Jim Kellogg more; this was a good investment. I will still have to do some manual splitting and grinding in areas where want to save spot-weld flanges, but where I need to just make a clean cut, life is good. I think all told, I accomplished in less than an hour what took about 5 or 6 hours on the other side. What a difference.

I have no new pictures of anything, I keep forgetting to put my digital camera in the car. Tomorrow I hope to get shots of the garage getting demolished, and some shots of my shop space and car.

(Note 05/22/2004: Pictures added)

Posted by pbrown at May 3, 2004 04:04 PM