A Few Hangar Pictures

Phil (the other half of the hangar) finished his plane earlier this year and took me(Scott) up for a ride just before Christmas.  I managed to snap a few photos of the hangar overhead.

 

Here's an overhead of the airport (at least our side with the hangars)

I circled our hangar to make it easier to see

The project that actually ends

Well, we finally wrapped up the hangar.  This past weekend we installed the weather stripping around the door.  It looks great and feels terrific that we are finally done.

Scott installing weather stripping on the side of the hangar door. 

A picture of the weather stripping on the bottom of the doors (Darren installed all of these) 

The hangar is finally finished! 

An interior shot of the hangar with the lights on. 

Another picture inside the hangar 

Time for a Christmas Break

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

 This picture was over a month ago on November 9th.  At this point we still had a little finishing up to do, but this is more or less how the hanger looks today.  The electrician was scheduled to install the electrical box and make the required arrangements with Hydro to get our power hooked up, but at the moment, I am not too sure how far things have progressed.

All this snow is the main reason I decided to write an update for the web page today.  A plow has not come down my street yet, and I am pretty much stuck at home.  If I had my winter tires on I might stand a chance, but things have been a little busy, and I haven't managed to get around to putting them on yet.

Since I was sitting at home anyways I decided I might as well make an attempt at putting on those winter tires.  First step was to clean out my garage so I have a place to work... This ment moving the airplane pieces I am storing into my living room.  In my mind nothing says Bachelor Pad like airplane pieces sitting in your living room.

So my car made it into the garage, and I will let it warm up and dry off a bit before I switch up the tires.

As for the hanger it looks like we are in for a bit of a break.  We still need to finish wiring up the lights, and install some weather stripping around the main door before we can call the project complete, but Scott is off to New York this week-end, and I am heading back to Regina on the 16th, so it looks like this may be it until after Christmas.
I think Scott and I are both looking forward to leaving the hanger project behind, and getting back to building our airplane in the new year.
 So for the moment, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

Hangar Progress or 'This is the project that never ends'

Sorry for the lack of updates since August.  We've been concentrating on finishing up the hangar (which is taking much longer than expected and llike the title says is the project that never ends).

Since the last update we've wrapped up all the strapping, bracing and supports.  We started installing the steel siding and windows.

 At the end of the weekend where we started putting up the steel we had the majority of the side steel and the back wall and gable installed.

The gable steel took a lot longer than expected but the crew working on the walls made fast progress and at the end of the weekend we had much of the steel installed.

 Sadly I had to take a business trip and was away from the area for a couple of weekend which slowed down progress considerably (to make things worse the weather was great on both weekends).  However, we continued to work on the steel and with the help of one of Phil's friends we got the roof steel installed in one day (other than the last two sheets). We then came back and worked on the front walls and gable.

We came back one day after work (okay, we left at 2:00) and finished up the gable steel, installed the last two roof sheets and finished up the ridge cap (actually Darren finished up the ridge cap -- he moves like a monkey on the roof...a very brave monkey). We also worked this Saturday and installed the track and, as you can see in the photo, we have one door section installed. 

At this point we have to wrap up door installation, install some eave closure strips and install the lights.  We should be done the majority of the work by the end of next weekend.

Hanger Progress

Phil was off at a Wedding for most of the weekend, so Scott and I went out on the Saturday, and were joined by one of our good friends, Richard, on the Sunday.
We discovered when you get down to two guys working on a project progress is slow. Richard's help was greatly appreciated.
 We made a lot of progress, but there is probably at least one more day of labour required before we will be able to start putting up the steel.

Richard working on some strapping.

 Scott Reloading the nail gun, The gun sure does speed things along at this point.

Darren sitting back, relaxing, and taking it all in.

Yes it is pretty high up. 14 foot walls, and a little over 10 from the top of the wall to the top of the peak.

We made it about half way up both sides of the roof with the strapping, and finished up most of the rest of the bracing.

 A wide angle shot of progress up to this point.

 Scott and I decided to take a well deserved day off on Labour Day.

Hanger trusses are up.

The trusses actually actually went up on Tuesday August 26th, but I did not bring my camera out that day.
One of Phil's friends, Steve, took a few pictures of the actual event you can check them out here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ehv8tor/PhilSHanger?authkey=KmcQW_04DB8
Phil could not get off of work on the Wednesday, but Scott and I were a little worried about the stability of the trusses, so we thought we better make it back out on the Wednesday to add the little bracing.  Here are a few current pictures of the hanger.

Finishing up hanger walls

Here are a few picture from the day we finished up the hanger wall construction.  We are now waiting on the arrival of our trusses before we can proceed.

Hangar construction

We spent the long weekend working on framing our new hangar.  We're building a 50'x50'x14' hangar out at the Smiths Falls/Montague airport.   

113' of 160' have been raised, most of the strapping has been installed and many of the remaining sections have been framed.  We'll wrap up the framing next Saturday and the trusses will be delivered next week.