DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Tale of the Pressure Washer: A Love Story This is a tale of action, adventure, romance, and betrayal. We find our heroes on a quest to repair a broken power washer engine to prepare for project repairs ahead of this weekend. The task seemed reasonably simple: a quick check of the spark plugs, oil, and [...]
Final Review-As Nicole posted, we had our final review on Monday. Everyone worried about the weather that day morning, however, the weather had miraculously turned fine in the afternoon. The logo, which designed by Professor Pastre’s wife, Amy, makes the whole shed cute and shiny with recognition. Review went through fairly smoothly and easily. People [...]
Studio V has almost finished our GAP shed. Since Friday, the shed has gained a lot of color! As you can see in the photos, we have finished building the roof, railings, counters, sinks, step, and cool room door. We also installed the Air conditioning Unit and the Coolbot. The bright aesthetic of the green [...]
Everyone! Wipe your feet! The floors are undergoing the hose and squeegy treatment, so you know this means we are nearing the end. Though there are more items on the list to be constructed and installed, it is finally getting to the point where we are taking care of details and "cleaning shop" around the [...]
Today was an extremely productive day. We all met at 8:30 in the morning, loaded up the trailer with the roof purlins, and split up. Pastre and Elppa went to Lowes to pick up the metal corrugated roofing, and the rest went to the site. All we needed to do was [...]
Studio V has completed most of our big pieces for the GAP Shed – walls, decks, rafters, beams, and foundations. The past 2 weeks have been extremely busy, with non-stop work to measure, cut, assemble, sand, and paint. Assembling the large pieces on site will be like putting together a giant puzzle. I am a [...]
Carl Simmons, the Charleston County Building Inspections Director, was gracious enough to meet Studio V at the shop today to look over our contruction so we can obtain our building permit on Sweetgrass' site. After completing the overview of our project and flipping through our CD's, we showed Carl around the shop to show our different [...]
Steel Plate-Finally I finish my drilling hole misson! My name maybe changed to ARMstrong right now after doing 2-day metal work. So does dear Professor Pastre think. It seems that those templates really work. Moving-Dealing both side of the wall and decking, we always need FLIP OVER. Sometimes it is extremely heavy so we need [...]
Despite a few small setbacks, Studio V is making progress on the GAP shed. All of our time is being spent in the shop. Today we continued to work on the cooler room as well as the decks. We finished exterior plywood sheathing for the cool room, insulated the walls and roof, and added some of [...]
We had a very extensive weekend over at the shop. Our 12 hour Saturday consisted mostly of re-doing framework... shrinking lumber due to moisture loss is never a good thing! Despite our setbacks, we learned from our original process of framework, and made it better the second time around. Quite a few of us working [...]