Sunday Support Group: Look What Came

I'm always impatient waiting for deliveries...but look what came. The official "COVID Annis Horribilis" future pool room / photobook library. It's unfinished inside, so there's a lot of work left to be done, but it sure is nice to have it in place. Now I can get the electrician in here and start making plans for the interior finishing. Inside, a pool table goes in the middle, and bookshelves below the level of the table-top can go on all four walls (all I need is clearance for the back of a cue at table height. Below that level I can put furniture or bookshelves). This will finally enable me to get my photo reference library out of the boxes where they've been slumbering, inaccessible, in the barn for the past five years. I don't know which of the two I'm looking forward to more. 

The purpose of the pool room is to get me through "isolating" this Winter. I'm sure I'll be fine, but I've really been dreading it. Like everyone else, I sure can't wait for this contagion to either go away or somehow have its teeth removed.

Eventually I'll put up one of my little documentary photoessays about this whole process—I've been taking pictures right along. The delivery yesterday was really interesting. Daniel Yoder jockeyed the box into position by himself, using a trailer that had its own retractable wheelset that he controlled with a remote control like a kid with a drone. He was able to delicately set the box on a dime, right where it was supposed to go.

I'm off to Geneva (New York, not Switzerland) to look at things like flooring, ceilings, insulation, and wall paneling.

This is "Sunday Support Group" for this week because I'll be taking tomorrow off instead of today.

Mike

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Peter Wright: "You appear to have bought the 'anti-gravity' version, so you will need to get the pool table in soon to anchor it down."

James: "Very nice! But won't it be difficult to level the table with that much tilt to the building?"

Comments

[Grant]

Judging by the lay of the poolroom, you'll only be playing two pockets.

[Olivier]

Please tell me the pool table has another way in than through this small door!

[Nope, that's it. The pool table will come through in pieces. --Mike]

[Dan Khong]

More play spaces are always better. I suspect Butters and Lulu have checked out and approved of your new living quarters? Happy winter ahead!

[Rob Allen]

Great to see this project moving forward. It’s important to pay attention to our mental well-being as well as our physical one and this is a step in the right direction for you.

[Jim Metzger]

Jim Metzger Architect here, is the pool room sitting on a foundation that goes below the frost line and are you providing anyway to block moisture from coming up through the floor?

Frost heave is a problem if the ground below the structure freezes after getting saturated and the resulting ice can lift the structure and make it un-level. If the floor is self-supporting all you may need is a concrete column below each corner set below the frost line, I imagine that is 4 feet below the surface in your area. With the weight of the pool table you may need some intermediate support so the floor doesn't settle in the middle.

Moisture can collect below the structure and migrate into the floor. At minimum I'd make sure whatever flooring you put down inside the building is resistant to mold and movement.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

[hugh crawford]

No matter how careful you are leveling the building, things will shift. You might consider incorporating these into the installation from the beginning.

https://www.amazon.com/Ellis-Manufacturing-Company-Mini-Screw/dp/B009RRBF5Q/

[Kye Wood]

If you're going to photoshop it in, you might want to look at some of youtube tutorials first, no offence.

Actually, with 'no offence', that reminds me of my eldest daughter, who on meeting my girlfriend said "I think she's a skank, no offence". Like, by saying 'no offence' at the end of a statement completely indemnifies any implied liability in the appallingness of any previous statement... if only.

[Bill Pearce]

Looks good. May I suggest a small addition to the interior. A small shelf to hold a bottle of single malt, and a desktop humidor for some fine cigars.

[Robert Roaldi]

Are you putting a sound system in there?

Careful who you invite, they may never leave.

[Mark B]

Enough space in there for a darkroom?

[robert e]

Not to mention more walls for pictures? Congratulations!