Main room is all clear to stage a bunch of boxes from GIK. The vestibule is also empty, so I’ll have plenty of room to continue cleaning up all the trim if the shipment arrives early.
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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
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Silky, I've probably said this before, but I don't comment very often but I've followed this thread from the beginning. Great work! Great to see you getting so close to completion! Excellent stuff.
As I predicted, the acoustic treatments will be arriving two days ahead of schedule. Good thing I shifted priorities to clean out the studio and make room for all of the boxes rather than pressing on with finishing the trim.
Also, UPS evidently applied a tracking number to each box in the shipment rather than to the entire order. I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it, but it is a way to make my inbox look hilarious every time there's an update to the shipment:
Also, UPS evidently applied a tracking number to each box in the shipment rather than to the entire order. I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it, but it is a way to make my inbox look hilarious every time there's an update to the shipment:
I’m confused 
All of the GIK boxes are in Portland. According to UPS, most of them will be here tomorrow. That said, now three of them say they’ll be here on Friday. Odd shipping arrangements at UPS Portland.
All of the GIK boxes are in Portland. According to UPS, most of them will be here tomorrow. That said, now three of them say they’ll be here on Friday. Odd shipping arrangements at UPS Portland.
I’m confused
All of the GIK boxes are in Portland. According to UPS, most of them will be here tomorrow. That said, now three of them say they’ll be here on Friday. Odd shipping arrangements at UPS Portland.
As somebody currently doing data analysis for a logistics company, every shipping hub in the country is a madhouse right now. It's the busiest week of the year. I'd just be happy that any of my boxes are showing up on time.
I just looked into it a little more. There are 14 boxes in the shipment. Ten of those were sent from Atlanta to Seattle and are out for delivery today. Three were sent to Portland and are scheduled for delivery on Friday. One was sent to Redmond (a community about a thirty minute drive east and a little north of Seattle) and is delayed with no expected delivery date. The Seattle and Portland split is odd, but the portion that went to Redmond is super weird to me. Also, why if that one is just across Lake Washington in Redmond it got delayed... I'll never understand shipment logic.
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Coulda been dropped on the wrong conveyor belt, could been put on the wrong truck, maybe the first truck was full up, so they stuck it on the next one which went to a different hub. Packages basically exist in limbo in between scanning points, and anything could happen to them in the meantime. A typical warehouse is set up to get stuff out the door, any door, as quickly as possible. If something occasionally gets misplaced and sent to the wrong spot, then it's processed through again and reshipped to the correct hub. Also, shipments often have to be diverted due to the availability of trucks and planes going to a certain destination. If all the trailers heading to Portland were full up and some of your boxes didn't make it onto those particular ones, they still have to get those boxes out that day, so they divert them to a truck that's heading to roughly the same geographic location at the same time.
With how crazy it gets inside a warehouse during peak times, it's frankly astounding that stuff gets delivered on time as often as it does.
Coulda been dropped on the wrong conveyor belt, could been put on the wrong truck, maybe the first truck was full up, so they stuck it on the next one which went to a different hub. Packages basically exist in limbo in between scanning points, and anything could happen to them in the meantime. A typical warehouse is set up to get stuff out the door, any door, as quickly as possible. If something occasionally gets misplaced and sent to the wrong spot, then it's processed through again and reshipped to the correct hub. Also, shipments often have to be diverted due to the availability of trucks and planes going to a certain destination. If all the trailers heading to Portland were full up and some of your boxes didn't make it onto those particular ones, they still have to get those boxes out that day, so they divert them to a truck that's heading to roughly the same geographic location at the same time.
With how crazy it gets inside a warehouse during peak times, it's frankly astounding that stuff gets delivered on time as often as it does.
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10 out of 14 boxes are here, and there are two very happy cats using them as a playground.
we expect them all to be hung tonight, time to leave early from work, something about "an appointment with a vendor"....
Considering the fact that I work for the government, if I were leaving for a private appointment with a vendor I'd be in some serious hot water. We pay for everything with tax dollars, so nothing can be done with a vendor, contractor, consultant, etc. without going through the Municipal Research and Services Center roster of SOQs (Statement of Qualifications). It's a big deal. Can't have people's tax dollars spent on companies receiving preferential treatment.
Now... All my rambling aside, I think I'm coming down with something... couch... sniff sniff... Yep, better head home for the day
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Shipping is now more convoluted. Two of the three boxes coming from Portland will now be here tomorrow, but one is still waiting until Friday. The package in Redmond is still delayed.
Boxes moved into the studio. That stuff is HEAVY! The bass traps especially, which is certainly what you want to deal with low frequencies. Very excited to get the rest of the shipment and get everything installed. I’ve got a couple of items that need to get done first, but it’s a short list and I’m not even trying to hide my excitement.
Just updated my musician's insurance to cover all of my new acoustic treatments. $5,000 in treatments needs to be covered. I cover all of my stuff, and have a huge policy for the structure itself as well. [in a booming dad voice] Insure your stuff people!
In defiance of all the website delivery dates and different package locations (ie Portland and Redmond respectively), all of the remaining boxes showed up today.
Sure is. I don't recall the brand. It's my wife's. She loves all things vintage.
Weekend planning:
Once that's done all I have left is to put in the little trim piece that covers the edge of the flooring at the exterior door threshold, build the corner trim pieces for the corner bass traps to sit on, hang the ceiling treatments, place the corner traps, hang the wall treatments, install duct screens on the exterior side of the HRV ducting, sort out the instrument hangers, sort out the sound door lever, and sort out the vestibule shelving ("sort out" is code for "I'm still not entirely sure how or what I'm going to do"
). There's hardscaping out front and the potential need to build an exterior baffle box for the HRV, but those items can wait until after I've moved in.
- Repair this one little piece of quarter round where I over-drove a nail with my nail set and the piece popped off of the glue leaving a gap between the quarter round and the base trim.
- Nail set all of the nail heads on the trim (it's already done on the quarter round).
- DAP all of the nail holes and any "large" gaps at trim seams.
- Caulk all of the upper trim.
- Caulk the upper side of all the lower trim.
- Remove the paper covering the flooring.
- Caulk the lower side of all the lower trim.
Once that's done all I have left is to put in the little trim piece that covers the edge of the flooring at the exterior door threshold, build the corner trim pieces for the corner bass traps to sit on, hang the ceiling treatments, place the corner traps, hang the wall treatments, install duct screens on the exterior side of the HRV ducting, sort out the instrument hangers, sort out the sound door lever, and sort out the vestibule shelving ("sort out" is code for "I'm still not entirely sure how or what I'm going to do"
). There's hardscaping out front and the potential need to build an exterior baffle box for the HRV, but those items can wait until after I've moved in.
