This week saw us finish lining the ceiling in our little workshop space. A bit of an awkward job involving 2 sets of hands, a ladder and a saw horse but we got there in the end!

This coming week will focus on some back framing in the walls and on to lining them as well.

​See our Project Hours blog post for an up to date overview of our build hours.

The workspace conversion and set up continued this week with installing more insulation and the arrival of the first shipment of wall lining. We are looking forward to starting the process of getting this installed as it will make a huge difference to how the space feels.

There are still a few little back framing jobs to do and a couple of electrical wires to run. These little finishing up tasks tend to take more time than expected so have planned my upcoming weeks work accordingly.

See our Project Hours blog post for an up to date overview of our build hours.

The workspace conversion moves along nicely. I have allocated 160 hours for the initial work which should get a usable space that is insulated, has good lighting and some basic ventilation. This will also include a smallish 1.5m long temporary extension to the garage. We are still working on the insulation and are about a 1/3rd of the way through the allocated hours.

I have committed to a 2 step system of keeping track of costs on our CG580 project. The first step is to keep and file every receipt. These get put into an A4 sized clear file folder (sometimes called a display book), you know the ones where each page is a clear plastic pocket that allows you to slip 2 pieces of A4 or legal sized paper back to back in each pocket. I found one with 60 pockets that will let me keep 120 receipts. Quite a lot of receipts are printed on A4 paper and any that are not get stapled to an A4 sheet of paper. I write on every receipt or on the paper it is stapled to what the item or items purchased were used for.

We continued this week with the task of insulating our workspace. It has been slow going as we have also been modifying some of the framing timber in preparation for lining the walls. On top of that we have also been working around various piles of materials and tools. This does slow things down a bit but on the positive side is helping us think about storage and workspace organisation.

I mentioned in the last blog post, CG580 Weekly Update #5, that I managed to rescue some deck hatches from the dumpster with the hope that, if needed, we could use a couple of them on our boat if they were in decent enough shape. I have actually been collecting various bits of boat gear for quite some time now... many years in fact. This week I re-discovered some brand new 200mm stainless steel mooring cleats I had picked up about 15 years ago. These should work well for the CG580 project.

I have been giving a little bit of thought to the question of social media and the role it might play in our Class Globe 5.80 project. There seems to be quite a variety of social media platforms and combinations of those platforms that builders could use to share their project journeys. Apart from the obvious benefits of class and builder awareness, there could be other positive outcomes from sharing the building journey. However, doing social media well takes time. Our CG580 project is a part time effort that we are fitting in around a busy family, social and work life. While maintaining a builders blog is a mandatory requirement for the CG580 class, even this has the potential to divert our building efforts and cause a bit of time use tension. Some of my effort this last week has been used to research the role of video in social media, in particular the topics of v-logging and Youtube. We might test the waters with a couple of videos and see how things go... a bit more research is needed though!

​See our Project Hours blog post for and up to date overview of our build hours.