Friday, October 02, 2009

Construction material arrives!

Last night I purchased the wood for the frame, and brought it to our future location with a rented truck. Now construction can begin in full!

I have a very lofty goal of getting a tournament in our arena by the end of November. Working by myself, this will not happen, but with enough help...

There are going to be some more expenses than I thought going into this, but there always are in this type of project.
The uni-strut used to hold the grid up is gone, used for other things, so we have to buy new.
The grid lines themselves were made for the Jester's arena, with more from another arena we purchased years ago. I'm pretty sure I should have enough, but I may need to tie pieces together to make it work.
The current lighting fixtures are T-12 8 ft. They don't make black lights in that size. So we will leave the current fixtures in place and add T-12 4 ft fixtures. We have some old ones laying around, but may have to buy more.
We decided we are going to run conduit to inlayed boxes on the walls. This way we can add circuits if we ever need to, though it won't be as easy and cheap as running the lines without the conduit, and have you ever tried to put inlayed boxes in plywood? Surface mount is easier, but that means metal boxes sticking out of the wall.
One of the heating units is in the way, and so we are going to build the wall a bit inside of the 2800 sq ft mark. I don't mind the size, but the wall won't be directly under a truss, so we will need to support it on the next truss. If someone wants to mess with moving the heater, be my guest.
The equipment is scattered around everywhere. We are going to need to collect everything and get it all together before we can even start messing with it.

1 comment:

Will Reynolds Young said...

Wow George - Some cool stuff going on there. I enjoy the updates - and wish you the best of luck.

However my Laser Tag Days are over - time to focus on school and work.

Will "TheeBayk1d"