Look at that! Yet another two years has slipped by since the last session of work down here!

At this rate I'm going to be 99 before this room is 'finished', but what can you do ... life and work just keeps getting in the way! It's interesting that the last previous block of construction work came in the short 'space' of time I had available between finishing up one print, and leaving for a visit with my family in Canada. And here we are again, in exactly the same situtation. I finished the final printing of Forest in Spring just a couple of days ago, and will be leaving for the annual family reunion in a couple of days, so ... time for some construction!

We'll pick up exactly where we left off two years ago ... getting the walls covered, and then, if there is time, start work on the ceiling!

Here's a quick 'reminder' shot taken a few years back, showing where I got to with the walls ... insulation stapled in place, but no further ...

These wooden walls stand a short distance away from the concrete behind them, and that space will be an 'airflow' ventilation space, but it's important that the walls don't leak air, so all these spaces:

... will have to be plugged. I used a strip of thin wood and a mallet, and pounded loose strips of fiberglass insulation into the cracks until they were stuffed tight.

The upper part of the rear wall will be a plastered surface (like the printing alcove) on a plywood base. A few hundred screws later, here's the wall finally starting to look like a wall:

... and from the other direction ...

For the top sections of the two end walls, I don't want plaster, but would rather have a natural wood surface. (For this section, I remembered to take a photo of the poly film going on top first ...)

... and then the row of wood strips nailed in place on top.

I still have no idea how the lower section of these walls will be finished. One idea is to have bookcases covering them, but this room is still far too damp for that. The current thinking is to wait until the core of the construction is done, then once the air control (fans, etc.) is in place, see just how it goes with the humidity/temperature. If it seems to be controllable, then it'll be bookshelves. If not ... well, we'll think about that when the time comes ...

Tomorrow, time to get busy on the ceiling!