Building the ceiling frames

 I have been recovering from a bike vs car encounter, and haven't been able to do much work on my house this month. I am tired of moving the bales of insulation around, and now that the solar racks are installed I can go ahead and build the ceiling panels, put the insulation in and have it all out of the way. Making frames with half lap joints, through pegged with dowels at the corners, and inset panels. I have enough of the embossed metal roofing tiles to do the living room area, so I am working on cleaning them up. I am so grateful for the help I have had holding and cutting the boards, Thank you Mark, and touring cyclists August and Rodigo, who stopped in for a stay while on their cross country journey. Thank you to Jesse and Robert for helping me refurbish the metal tiles!

August and Rodrigo setting off up 441 North.

All the pieces cut, ready to assemble. Using bricks to hold glue joints together.

    I ended up not using these tiles after all, why add the weight just for decoration? But anyways.....

Simultaneously working on grinding the corrosion off the metal tiles, primed the backs with Rustoleum so that they will not corrode from behind..

Through pegging the messy half lap joints

 This is the largest frame, which will run along the port side of the living room. It will have to be finish assembled around the stove pipe,

Priming all the panels with Kilz

 In both the bedrooms there are frames that, when assembled, will not fit through the entrances, so I am putting them together in the rooms. The one in the smallest loft bedroom has to be built up-right inside the only space in which it could move. It is built with an extra vertical rail because the panels that rest in the frame have to be able to fit through the opening.

All the frames were sanded, and chair rail molding held in place while with a nail or two while the glue dried.

 Checking out the shade of blue on the ceiling.

 Put up trim to be able to finish paint the walls before the ceiling panels are installed.

 Paining/priming the loft bedroom walls.

 Caulking the seams where the molding meets the frame.


Painting all the panels for the bedrooms and the tiles for the living room blue.  Using my waitress $KILZ  carrying wet tiles.

All the frames have had two coats of paint put on them, and now the panels are glued into the rabits and held in place with a nail.

 Here we go! Getting the panels installed!

This is what the metal tiles look like in the frames. Not bad, but I decided not worth the extra weight, nor the heat the will be reflected off them in the summer. So they are up for sale on Craig's

http://athensga.craigslist.org/mat/5155952517.html

 Installing in the hall way.

 Installing in the living room