Thursday, November 15, 2012

11/15/12 Painted and Flooded

I haven't been particularly good at updating this, but we have been doing work at the new shop.

As I said last time, the containers turned out to be alot uglier than we had expected. So a few weeks back we spent some time painting them to make them a little more presentable for our neighbor who has a beautiful new building.

Before we painted, however, we needed to get all the dirt, grime and loose paint and rust off of the containers. To do this we rented a gas powered pressure washer. The washer proved to be powerful enough to remove the decals on the container as well, so we spent the better part of a cold October Saturday getting cold and wet cleaning off the containers.




We returned Sunday to spray the now squeaky clean containers with an airless paint sprayer full of flat black Rustoleum. This took way less time and paint than we were expecting, so we were out of there by mid afternoon.

Unfortunately two days later the biggest hurricane in recorded history hit the East coast. Luckly I spent the week high and dry, but our containers were not only flooded with 2 feet of seawater, but were moved but the water surge. This is what BNY looked like early on Monday. The real surge didn't happen until around 7-8pm...


Last weekend Jordan and I went out to the shop, borrowed a forklift and put the containers back in their place and strung up some lights. We also tested all of our damp power tools and liberally applied WD-40 to our now rusty tools...


This weekend I hope to bring my car back to the city and get my tools and some parts out to the shop.

-W.W. SBSS/BNYSS

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