Welcome To WASHINGTON COLLEGE

As you all should know, I have found a part time gig doing something I love, working with wood. This job takes me to Chestertown, MD where I have to live in a hotel for up to 5 days. That part really sucks, but I am thankful that I had the oppurtunity to help Randy out. For those of you who that don't know Randy, he is my landlord who is married to my cousin.

I will be posting what we have been doing. I will explain a little and give you before and after pictures. It looks like it is going to be very nice when it is all complete.

Well this is Washington College, found in 1782 and I guess majors in Science and Liberal Arts since thats what the sign says, but don't ask because I have no clue what you would learn in either of those subjects.

We are working in the addition called Hudson Hall. This is going to be for food and recreation. It has numerous kitchens for like hot foods, cold foods, salad, bakery, and drinks. It has 2 main floors and a third floor on the dining pods, which is one of the things we are working on. You will see lots of pics of these.





So with out further a do, let's get started.

Above you see a picture of 2 green "S" shaped knee walls. We didn't get to these yet, but take notice to how the top of the wall looks. It has no cap.

One of the first things we did was put window seals and door jambs in and put caps on the walls. Below you will see one of the dining pods. Notice the rounded walls. This pod is called the "eliptical pod" because it is egg shaped with round walls and it may look cool, but turned out to be a big pain in the you know what. At the top of the wall you see the cap. I showed you the picture above because all of the walls looked like that and as you see below, we put finished maple caps on them. Also take notice to the windows. We had to put in window seals and in future pictures, if you look the doorways have the same maple jams on them. There was about 14 or 15 windows and 5 doorways. There was about 50 to 70 feet of cap on the eliptical pod and 110 to 120 feet of cap on the rectangelar pod which you will see in the future.

The thing about it is the egg shape. Because of the round corners and egg shape we had to carry up 1 1/2 inch boards that were 12 or 13 inches wide up to 16 ft. long up to the 3rd floor of the pod. Lay out these boards to draw lines so we could carry them back down and load them to go to the shop to be cut, sanded and finished so we could none the less, lug them back up to install them. Needless to say, I earned my money doing this job it was not easy.

We also installed window seals and aprons as you se below. The skinny piece below the window is the "apron." We installed about 2 dozen of these any where from 4 ft. to 16 ft. long.


I will post more pictures soon. Hope you enjoy the information.