Spring Cleaning - Part Two

The move process has turned out to be quite advantageous. When this is done, there will be more than enough space for everything in my shop.

The heavy cabinet that held my toolboxes moved from the South wall to the North wall and now has my working mini-fridge sitting on top of it, placing the fridge at eye-level. I did have to move the shop light controller since the fridge would have been covering it otherwise. I didn't even have to move the Ikea desk because the cabinet and fridge were the same width. That's a win.

With the cabinet gone, I moved my main desk to take its place and rolled the Dashcat rack into place next to the desk. I had enough space left on that wall to move the crappy laptop inventory shelf next to Dashcat, freeing up the East wall for addition of the AC unit and big storage rack from the bedroom.

The AC unit was easy to re-install. I must have done something right last summer when I put it in because there was no trouble at all on that front. I had forgotten the rating of the unit so I checked the specs and found it was a 9000BTU/hr model. I had been expecting a 6500BTU machine so this was a nice bonus and will easily take care of the 6000BTU/hr Dashcat throws out.

The rack from the bedroom is better than the racks I use in my storage bay since the shelves of this one were extruded with no holes in the surface. This means no more small stuff falling through the holes or anti-scuff pads being torn off of merchandise. It also means I have twenty more square feet of storage space.

A small amount of time before work this morning was spent re-positioning my laptop's docking station. It had been sitting on top of the cabinet I already moved. Now, I just need to find a spot for my laser printer.


Still do do before the really hot weather comes along:

Insulate the West end of the shed, including the door (The summer sun heats the wood and the AC can't even fight that entirely)
Remove the wood surrounding the shed foundation (spider haven)

To do at some point soon:

Run the 230V 30A power leg (this is going to take some serious doing)
Install an awning for the shop. Rain sucks. Snow sucks worse.

Spring Cleaning

Winter around here just sucks. Fortunately, I had the good sense to prepare for the inevitable Spring season by gathering gear for yard and house care. While the snowblower still sits under my carport, inoperable, I have plenty of time to work on it so there's no hurry. The other stuff, however, is best done as soon as possible before the hellacious summers are upon us again.

Enter the pressure washer. I bought a decent Karcher pressure washer for $15 last year and was bummed out when I found that the internal water channels of the wand were cracked, preventing pressure from building up. I set the machine aside and picked up a universal wand back in November. I put it all to work today, cleaning windows, yard tools and the driveway and blasting horribly damaged paint from the East shed. The system was powerful enough to tear off the grey layer of the wood and leave the natural colored stuff behind. This was some rather welcome destruction.

The window AC units are going in a bit early to make room for some stuff from the house. It's a welcome change.

I've still got to put the AC unit back in the Fragwell workshop and that will require moving some gear around as the Dashcat supercomputer is occupying the spot where I had the AC unit last year. I do believe it's time to move my desk.