OTB's Fireplace Adventure Update 2/4-6/11
Joe spent several nights during the week refining his CAD drawings. Mike, who works at Setpoint, came over one evening and helped Joe iron out the details. Joe says, “It’s all in the details and they drive him NUTS.” Mike, a.k.a. Fat Tony, suggested installing temporary wood strips where the shelves will be. That way when Manuel hangs the stone the temporary wood strips will create slots for the shelves. Man (said with a southern accent), Fat Tony is some kind of genius!
Friday was an in-service day for all faculty and administration at the Southwest Liturgical Conference, so I spent the day at the Salt Palace Conference Center.
Derek, Michelle, Wendy, and I purchased tickets and spent our lunch break at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo which was also at the conference center.
We heard that Ted Nugent was at the expo, and thought this was him roaming around incognito.
Later that afternoon Joe picked me up in SLC, and we were on our way to Moab. We managed to navigate Soldier’s Summit at sundown without an incident involving deer.
When we arrived at OTB we were excited to see the progress that had made on the fireplace during the week.
Nelson's ran the duct work through the chimney.
Clark removed the section of wainscoting where the new partial wall will be built. The plan is to rebuild a section of wall that had been removed by the previous owner which will get OTB closer to its original state.
Manuel's boys replaced loose bricks on the chimney and capped it off.
Mike arrived Saturday around noon to rid Joe of all of his pesky shelf details.
Accompanying Mike was his faithful companion, Bailey, a golden retriever who is six weeks older than Chef. Bailey and Chef have grown up together. Joe hauled Mike’s table saw and miter saw in the back of his pickup truck, and in a matter of minutes the two of them had a makeshift workshop set up.
In no time at all, Fat Tony whipped out the wood strips; however, attaching them to the chimney’s soft adobe bricks presented a problem. As soon as he would attempt to screw the wood to an adobe brick, it would crumble.
Joe made a trip to Ace Hardware (I think that was his third trip to the hardware store that day) for a tube of Liquid Nails, and the boys were back in business. 
By the end of the day (and help from the helper dogs), Fat Tony knocked out his work and had everything ready for Manuel.
My job was to plaster the damaged walls, apply more caulk, and paint the walls once everything dried.
Because of the time involved for the plaster and caulk to cure, I was only able to get one coat of paint on the walls. 
One coat did not provide enough to cover, so I’ll have to paint another coat next weekend.
We met with Al, the cabinet maker, Sunday morning. Al thought it would take him only a few hours to knock everything out. He said they would be able to match the stain so it matches the windows and wainscoting. After meeting with Al, Joe tweaked the CAD drawings and emailed him a revised set of drawings.
Ike supervised Joe and kept his computer bag safe and sound.
After school on Wednesday, Joe, the boys, and I will head to Moab (my principal was very gracious and gave me the time off). Manuel will start hanging stone on Thursday, and I want to be able to “supervise” the job. It’s not like taking back a sweater to Dillard’s because you don’t like the color or fit when you get the sweater home. Once the stone is hung on the chimney, you don’t take it back and exchange it for another. It’s there forever.
With any luck by next Saturday afternoon we should have all of the stone hung on the chimney and inside the shelve units.
It will look like this, but without Joe's hand holding it up.
The weekend was over just like that (finger snap), and we were in the truck headed for Ogden.
Friday was an in-service day for all faculty and administration at the Southwest Liturgical Conference, so I spent the day at the Salt Palace Conference Center.
Derek, Michelle, Wendy, and I purchased tickets and spent our lunch break at the Western Hunting Conservation Expo which was also at the conference center.
We heard that Ted Nugent was at the expo, and thought this was him roaming around incognito.
Later that afternoon Joe picked me up in SLC, and we were on our way to Moab. We managed to navigate Soldier’s Summit at sundown without an incident involving deer.
When we arrived at OTB we were excited to see the progress that had made on the fireplace during the week.
Nelson's ran the duct work through the chimney.
Clark removed the section of wainscoting where the new partial wall will be built. The plan is to rebuild a section of wall that had been removed by the previous owner which will get OTB closer to its original state.
Manuel's boys replaced loose bricks on the chimney and capped it off.
Mike arrived Saturday around noon to rid Joe of all of his pesky shelf details.
Accompanying Mike was his faithful companion, Bailey, a golden retriever who is six weeks older than Chef. Bailey and Chef have grown up together. Joe hauled Mike’s table saw and miter saw in the back of his pickup truck, and in a matter of minutes the two of them had a makeshift workshop set up.
In no time at all, Fat Tony whipped out the wood strips; however, attaching them to the chimney’s soft adobe bricks presented a problem. As soon as he would attempt to screw the wood to an adobe brick, it would crumble.
Joe made a trip to Ace Hardware (I think that was his third trip to the hardware store that day) for a tube of Liquid Nails, and the boys were back in business. 
By the end of the day (and help from the helper dogs), Fat Tony knocked out his work and had everything ready for Manuel.
My job was to plaster the damaged walls, apply more caulk, and paint the walls once everything dried.
Because of the time involved for the plaster and caulk to cure, I was only able to get one coat of paint on the walls. 
One coat did not provide enough to cover, so I’ll have to paint another coat next weekend.
We met with Al, the cabinet maker, Sunday morning. Al thought it would take him only a few hours to knock everything out. He said they would be able to match the stain so it matches the windows and wainscoting. After meeting with Al, Joe tweaked the CAD drawings and emailed him a revised set of drawings.
Ike supervised Joe and kept his computer bag safe and sound.
After school on Wednesday, Joe, the boys, and I will head to Moab (my principal was very gracious and gave me the time off). Manuel will start hanging stone on Thursday, and I want to be able to “supervise” the job. It’s not like taking back a sweater to Dillard’s because you don’t like the color or fit when you get the sweater home. Once the stone is hung on the chimney, you don’t take it back and exchange it for another. It’s there forever.
With any luck by next Saturday afternoon we should have all of the stone hung on the chimney and inside the shelve units.
It will look like this, but without Joe's hand holding it up.
The weekend was over just like that (finger snap), and we were in the truck headed for Ogden.
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