Post Review

After our review Monday, we got a lot of positive feedback and also found plenty of things we need to put more work into. We've narrowed our materials down for the exterior, interior, and roof. We seem to be leaning in the direction of T1-11 plywood siding for the exterior, and PBR for the roof. [...]

Design Phase

Today marks the first day of the design phase of Crop Stop 2!  However, just because we are now working on Crop Stop 2 doesn't mean Crop Stop 1 is forgotten about.  Professor Pastre reminded us that in any design or construction job, it is typical to work on more than one project at a [...]

Finishing Touches

   This week we have been working with cropstop 1 baseboards. We have measured and cut all the pieces needed for the kitchen, bathroom, utility room, etc. We learned how to install baseboards and cut them at a 45 angle in order to meet the corners evenly without any gaps. It was a little difficult [...]

Almost there!

This should be the final week for Crop Stop 1, and then its on to Crop Stop 2. After all the hard work we've put into this place over the past couple of weeks,putting up the FRP, putting in the flooring, building the cooler door, etc., we've almost made it to the finish line. All [...]

The Kitchen is Coming Together

Today, Monday February 2nd, we met at the shop in Charleston. We loaded up all of the kitchen supplies for the Crop Stop 1 and delivered it on Johns Island. The kitchen appliances includes- an oven, a stove top, a stainless steel sink, a drying rack, stainless steel shelves. In order to get the supplies [...]

Installing the Vinyl Floor

Before this big Super Bowl weekend, the Studio V team made a huge push out at Crop Stop 1 on John’s Island. The goal; to get they COREtec vinyl flooring installed. The group met early on Friday, loaded up at the shop and headed out to John’s Island. The Installation of the floor was very [...]

Framing a View

While half of the studio has been building the freezer door, as talked about in the last post, the other half of us (aka the girls) have started work on the casing for the windows of Crop Stop 1. First, taking dimensions of all the window and door openings, and then sorting through the wood [...]

Revisiting CropStop 1

Good morning! This is your resident in-house expert on commercial grade kitchen appliances for Studio V on CropStop 2.0! I have no idea how that happened. Well, that's a lie. No one else wanted to do it, so in order for the project to move forward, someone had to start researching. Yesterday, however, had me [...]