Midimonkey Sheetrocking Photos

[frederic]

I only got three pictures, but nothing too exciting here except sheetrocking the cove was probably the nastiest thing thats had to be done so far. No angles there are "true", 27.5 degrees here, 17 degrees there, the short piece of "horizontal" ceiling is at a 4 degree slant, so it all had to be cut to fit, the pieces of sheetrock hand rasped for a good fit. A few too many gaps, but it was absolutely impossible. If you look closely, you'll see the left side of the small kinda horizontal piece is curved downward. Nasty!

 

[frederic]

picture two, showing the ceiling and the face of the vocal booth. Sheet rocking is not my expertise, and I'd consider this a "good job" for guys like me, but if I paid someone to do it I'd have to take them out to the woodshed.

I'm going to be learning quality spackling real soon - I need it in several places.

 

[frederic]

last photo for today.... different angle of the nasty, curved, uneven cove (upper right).

At least the light fixtures fit no problem. yay. My cousin volunteered to help today, I think 3 hours of his time was spent on the cove alone, while I insulated and plywooded the bottom half of the vocal booth, after removing the junk I've been tossing in the booth to get it out of the way, to remove the floor.

I decided the vocal booth floor, flip part and not, will be covered with pergo. Its light enough that it won't make the flip part that much heaver, and its thin enough with careful mitering, it won't interfere with the flip floor portion. The carpeting I had there kept bunching when the floor was lifted, pulling off the staples, and its just a huge hassle I really don't need anymore. Good riddence to carpet. That and while I was installing it, I managed to spill coffee on the carpet in the first place. Not before I staple it down, after. *sigh*

 

[DDev]

Some fun. I, too, hated sheetrocking. I wound up hanging it and hiring someone to come in and do the mud work. I was very glad to fork out the $$ for that.

On your second picture, I think I watched you hanging the sheet just to the right of the vent hole this afternoon on the webcam. I finally had a chance to logon and check it out. One question I had, though. I got the impression from some of the other posts that the image was "live video" but what I got was just still shots. I could refresh the browser and simulate movement, but wasn't sure if there was something I could do on my end to watch it with motion.

Anyway, my wife got a kick out of me watching someone hanging drywall on the internet.

Have fun!!

Darryl.....

 

[frederic]

I think I watched you hanging the sheet just to the right of the vent hole this afternoon on the webcam. I finally had a chance to logon and check it out. One question I had, though. I got the impression from some of the other posts that the image was "live video" but what I got was just still shots. I could refresh the browser and simulate movement, but wasn't sure if there was something I could do on my end to watch it with motion.

When you hit the webcam with your browser, you get a still page, and have three buttons on the left side.

"Active X", "Java" and "Admin". Admin won't work for ya, but "Active X" works well with microsoft internet explorer, and Java generally works better with Opera and Netscape, and by clicking one of those buttons, you get true live video.

The camera is set to auto-adjust the frames per second, so if you're the only one on the camera based on the lousy outbound bandwidth I have here, you'll get a frame or two per second. If 10 people are on the camera, you'll get as little as one frame per minute.

I think you were sitting on the main page, which is a still photo unless you refresh.

 

[DDev]

I tried both the Active X and Java pages but got error messages on both of them and no video displayed at all. It would probably help if I knew what I was doing!!

I'll try it again at work with another computer and see if I can figure out what I'm doing.

Darryl......

 

[frederic]

I tried both the Active X and Java pages but got error messages on both of them and no video displayed at all. It would probably help if I knew what I was doing!!

I'll try it again at work with another computer and see if I can figure out what I'm doing.

Darryl......

If both do not work, in the security settings of your browser, you have java and active-x disabled.

WHich is a good thing considering how infected the internet is,but bad to view my camera!

 

[Todzilla]

Sheetrocking Tip

Fred,

I have a tip for do it yourself sheetrockers, as I am:

Low lighting.

Made my studio look muuuuuuch better.

 

[frederic]

Re: Sheetrocking Tip

Fred,

I have a tip for do it yourself sheetrockers, as I am:

Low lighting.

Made my studio look muuuuuuch better.

I LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/b[