Moving Units... I sure miss the insulation

Good luck with that! Tis horrible having been made to move as from the "victims" side, there is rarely any advantage.

I ache.. places I didn't even know I had muscles now scream at me in anger.
I think we moved about 65/70% of the stuff today, all poked into a temporary holding unit while the rest of the job gets sorted.
Tomorrow should see my old unit vacant and ready for the new occupants. Just hope they can move as quickly.
Had a big help from the new occupants who helped with a flatbed and a forklift, would have taken me weeks to shift that lot using the transit alone.

I'll not take any pictures of the new place until all the monuments have been moved.

The new space is currently divided in two with a stud wall. I think I may have to make an access into the 'clean room' and make some barn or bifold doors to close that off so it can double up as paint room when needed.

Progress.

Sun 17th - finally got keys. Met with previous tenant and we talked about cleaning the place up etc looked at a few glaringly obvious stumbling blocks but had a load of parts to rescue from Birmingham and a deadline to meet so shot off down to the Midlands. Left them some nice new combination padlocks to fit when they locked up.

Monday 18th - Had to go open the shop so left them to it. Arranged appointment with the letting agent / landlord on Tuesday morning to go through the place and nit pick all the little things that just need sorting before I'd consider it useful.

Tuesday 19th - Did the grand tour of the building and yard and picked lots of holes, pointed out all the things I was prepared to fix for them and those I expected them to fix. I'll do notes on each photo so it doesn't get mixed up.

This is the 'office'. Timber framed, plasterboard faced with entrance hall (on the left), Toilet (door in centre of 1st pic) and kitchen area on the right.
I think i'd get one car in with room to work round it if it was on skates. They climbed up on the rafters to sweep the dust off. As you can see from the hole in the roof this didnt go quite according to plan  



This is the kitchen wall and second internal wall. This divides the 'office' from the 'workshop' next door.
Those lights on the wall have to go...



Standing in the opposite corner, thats the 'workshop' wall.. Thats for the chop too, well enough to get a small car through anyway.
That means a steel frame / lintel will need to be added to the wall as there's nowt else to support the roof  



Moving on... the 'workshop'... 

This is the outside of the office wall on the left and the back wall on the right. Thats a pedestrian door in no way big enough to get any sort of vehicle other than a motorbike in



Standing in the very corner in the photo above looking the other way is this next one.



At last a door big enough to get a car through, finally the unit may actually be useful... Sadly not as the concertina door is concreted in at the bottom, the lower runner is full of mud and the rollers are all very corroded, about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
On the floor in front of the door is a four inch high ramp also made of concrete. Don't think the car will go over that so that too will have to go. Pass me the sledge hammer.  

Next chapter... the Yard.

Wednesday 20th - I was a bit late getting round to the unit tonight, drove through the gates to find this parked so close to my door I can't open it properly. 
So much for cracking on with the decorating tonight. 



Not helping my mood one bit...

Sounds like you had a few OFFS days there - Hopefully look a whole lot better when the Suns out .

Cracking on this weekend hopefully.

Got a plan, lets see how much of this gets done
Put up NO PARKING signs.
Remove large concrete block inside door.
Remove concrete holding door shut from outside.
Get shutter door open. I have hammer, WD40, SDS chisels, bigger hammer, angle grinder and fire... should be easy


Move cars currently parked outdoors to new yard.

Put up NO PARKING signs. Too dark and too easy to mess up.
Remove large concrete block inside door. - Done, a little applied science and the big hammer. I nearly stopped when I found the cable underneath but it's not live.
Sorry the photo is fuzzy, evidently there was dust in the air  



I swept and chiseled as much as I could out of the runners. Seems someone filled them with sand so it all came out quite easily. 
Door had also been sealed with mastic. This clear mastic had taken on the appearance of concrete with all the dust, most just pulled off with a little poke.
There are some bits where the concrete has seeped under the edge but I reckon they'll shift with a bit of help from Mr DeWalt.



Plan is to remove all the dodgy concrete down to the brick, take it all the way back to the metal runner.
I've got an ash can attachment for the sand blasting cabinet which I can use with the hoover to suck all the remaining dust out of the runners, bit of a poke with a wire brush and that should be good once the outside is done.

The remaining jobs will keep until daylight.

Just got to hump those lumps of concrete round to the skip now.

Forgot to mention, someone has repaired the ceiling in the 'office'. New boards up and skimmed be dry in a couple of days, time to open all the doors and get the airline out as everything is covered in plaster dust.... Again...

Finally got a couple of the signs up tonight, One on the gates and one next to the front door. BST is a blessing

I've moved all my stuff out of the 'office' as the plasterers are due back tomorrow to finish the ceiling and I don't want it all covered in plaster dust again. The wall I painted is covered in big blobs of plaster as is the floor, shelving etc... stuff gets everywhere.
Granted an airline will fix most of it but the last thing I need is for a part to fail due to plaster ingress. While they have been doing the ceiling they have turned half the electricity off so I have no lights or sockets in the office. The old and knackered fluorescent fittings are dangling by the wires and have been like that for a week now. Not going to be the one that powers those back up. All the wall lights are going to be replaced with LED floods pointed upward and inward to bounce as much light around as possible. With the room fully 'white out' and the floor painted light grey, the current tubes replaced with LEDs should be good to go.

Before I left yesterday I poured a small amount of engine oil into the runners on the door. Just one section to minimise any issues, reckon if it spreads all the way along the runners I may be in with a chance of moving the door. It can't escape as the ends are capped. On checking the oil tonight it had spread exactly two sections to the left and not at all to the right, obviously the grease / dust mixture left behind is making a good seal, not sure yet if that's good or bad yet. I'll have to be careful as I finally open the door to prevent spillage.

any other places ?....is it worth the hassle n stress...looks a dump ;-(