Author: Shaun

Today we sliced up 10 sheets of 18mm OSB boards into a whole collection of shelves! We planned to have 600mm deep shelves for our boxes on the right side next to the sheet material racks, along the middle wall a load of 400mm deep shelves (5 layers from floor to ceiling) with a narrow 200mm deep shelf at the top just under the Light Channel. And finally on the left side of the room we will have the workbench in the corner with 800mm shelves underneath and a series of 200mm followed by two 400mm selves above.

Workshop Shelves

Workshop Shelves

Workshop Shelves

We have finished putting up all the shelves onto brackets , screwed them into place and surformed and sanded the edges to take off the worse of the sharpness and splinters!

We can now start moving our tools and boxes of “stuff”!

we did some more illumination tests

and discovered that the reading is now 325lux, a drop of about 5lux after we have painted the ceiling with the Absolute White. We concluded that the finish was a matt surface and not the silk as before so we guess that Dulux was comparing the advantages of Absolute White against other Matt finish paints!

But having said all that, we also concluded that the ceiling is less harsh to look at now and gives a more satisfying glow!

We think this is well worth the drop in the brightness level of 2%!!

We put in the 100mm wide strips into the back of the Utility Rail to cover up the glass wool. We will use shoulder dresser hooks or in other words L shaped hooks!, to provide anchoring points to keep separate the different types of cables running inside the Utility Rail. The regulations require that the mains electricity cables must be kept separated from low voltage cables like network, audio and such things like that. We would use the L shaped hooks to lay the cable across and if necessary we could put a thin board of some kind to provide a little shelf!

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The final coat for the ceiling was put on this morning! The special flavour paint came yesterday and we collected it from Jewson, called Dulux Absolute White! It is stated to have even more whiteness than brilliant white! According to the dulux’s web site, it can achieve 90% reflectivity against 80% for brilliant white! We will see tonight, the results we get when we redo the light tests.

The final touch up on the metal uprights is done! At last! It is looking as if the rust problem is solved! Hurray!

The lighting wiring has been started today for the ten fluorescent T5 tubes, controlled by five electronic dimmable ballast. There will be a momentary switch control to operate the dimming feature, done by supplying a mains voltage to the control port. A quick press of the switch will turn it on and off and holding it down will start ramping up or down the brightness level. The brightness level is remembered upon switching back on next time as long there hasn’t been a power cut! Another advantage of this method of controlling the lights, is that we can have several momentary switches besides the door entrances and any one will do the job! this might include a PIR sensor in the room which will trigger the light on!

Cannot wait to see how well the lights will shine from the Light Channel!

Today we paid attention to the problem we are having with some of the metal shelving uprights. We rubbed them all down to get down to bare metal in some cases but mostly to roughens the surface ready for another coat of paint but this time White Hammerite! This is now done and hopefully we have solved the rust leaking problems. When we do the third coat of emulsion on the ceiling, we will touch up the metal uprights to bring them back into line with the rest of the room!