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newmann
9/25/2017 5:49am
9/25/2017 5:49am
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10/9/2017 2:43pm
Both of our safes took on water with the recent hurricane and my large one is scheduled to be picked up and taken to Houston to be rebuilt on the interior. The wife's on the other hand was not worth the two way trip and cost to refurbish as it would come in right at the cost of replacement. Decided to tackle it myself. Gutted it and scraped out all remaining fire rock, cleaned up a little rust to the waterline and coated the affected areas and bottom with POR15. Glued in some 1/4 inch drywall to allow an air gap (not sure if that helps) and then two full layers of 5/8 fire rated drywall.
Cut a 5/8 finish panel to fit the inside door area and overlaid a piece of 1/4 inch to build it up where I could face it with cedar and still slip the panel in place.
http://www.redcedarcut4u.com/
The Shop
He did one solid strip across the roller of the awning ,you can see here they are plenty bright enough,it's a flexible ribbon too which is nice ,you could do the inside border of the door and not even see the strips(guessing there is a small lip on the front wall) his turns on and off or color change with a small remote ,you can do some other shit like have them change colors automatically ,I'm guessing white would be the most ideal.
How did your vintage bikes weather the flood? Were those outta the water?
...wife is due end of march. Nurse practitioner boards about June. Now you're caught up....ok, now back to being busy!
Pit Row
Not a whole lot went well around my house during the flood except for the fact that it only got as deep as it did. Able to salvage most everything above 24-28 inches. Everything below...screwed. Many people got it a lot worse than us. Also, it was only our house. Business and all rentals survived pretty much untouched. It could have been a whole lot worse as we don't have flood coverage for a lot of what we own.
@steed I now know why people say "best job I ever had."
Newmann i'm Glad you managed well, or not too bad. All
Those vintage beauties you have I just have nightmares those might be lost. After I saw your pics I bought flood insurance.
JRT anytime you're in Cleveland Ohio or near don't get a hotel you can stay at my house!
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