Witzinger's Post 2 - August 6, 2021
With the three walls of the office (left building) assembled, my next step was to cut a 2nd floor to act as a view-block. This prevents being able to look into the 2nd floor windows and see out through the 1st floor windows. It wasn’t really necessary to do on this background building but I included it because it made the structure stronger and will help to preserve squareness until the rear wall is added. Photo 7 shows the floor piece cut from 1/32-inch-thick basswood and Photo 8 shows it after installation.
This completed the initial assembly of the office (left building) and I began to build the factory (right building).
Photo 9 shows the three scribed basswood exterior wall pieces and edge bracing pieces of the factory (right building).
Photo 10 shows these pieces set up during assembly, with weights and wood blocks used to maintain squareness.
Photo 11 shows the assembled walls including additional vertical and horizontal bracing to support the 2nd floor.
As shown in Photo 12, a 2nd floor was cut for the factory. This also included extra bracing to maintain flatness of the floor, which needed extra support due to the short wall on one side.
As shown in Photo 13, I was careful to maintain squareness and flatness during installation of the floor because they would eventually affect flatness of the rear wall of the combined office and factory buildings.
Photo 14 shows the assembled factory walls and floor.
With the exterior walls and floors completed, I set up the office and factory sections next to each other and against a flat vertical wall, as shown in Photo 15, to check their fit, alignment and squareness, which seemed to be satisfactory. However, I did not combine the two sections because I thought it would be easier to paint them and install the windows and glazing while they were separate.
To be continued.
MELGAR
