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Today I'm starting my journey to turn this
old shop into my dream shop and it starts With ripping everything out so we can have a clean
slate I found a ton of issues some small and some Pretty darn big and also I found some things that
we're not going to talk about This video is sponsored by WD40 Brand So this is just a standard metal pole barn and at the end of the day
I want everything to look like this so it's nice And clean and we can actually frame up some new
walls if you saw the property tour video you know That this office was actually a deer butchering
room so I feel like we need to really make sure That we keep this deer poster and we've definitely
been seeing some weird things around here if you See any deer ghosts in the video let me know down
in the comments how many you end up seeing but I'm gonna pull this down and we're definitely
going to find a spot for that in the new shop Oh We do have a lot of good material up here on the
wall so I'm going to be taking all that down and Trying to save as much as I can we're gonna have
a ton of OSB and probably quite a few two by fours As well I found some hidden goodies up here and
I was taking off this next piece and uh I almost Got cracked in the head by a grease gun so uh yeah
there's that all right we'll keep going thank you All right some more hidden goodies
it's like a boat uh signal light oh A water pump repair kit like a bag
of gold that's what I'm looking for This is just absolutely disgusting
there's like a thousand years of rat Poop but I'm definitely masking up because uh
I think you should be breathing in rat poop Guano whatever else I'm gonna find in here I
can't wait to see what's in the office walls We found what we were looking for probably
gonna have to uh blur this out for uh Liz Playing at home oh my gosh yes definitely this
is uh from February 2003 issue number 22 of I I can't even read the name of the magazine yes Naughty naughty before we jump into the
office I want to take down these shelves And I'm gonna move one section of them back
over into the Breezeway because we're gonna Be pulling some stuff out of the office
there and it'll be nice to have a little Spot to put them back there and we can have
them under the cover of the Breezeway all Right we didn't have any good enough names
for this guy so we're not keeping them What is going on here all
right I am done with this It's gonna break out the big guns we're
just gonna saw these things in half I need to cut the top one I can't use them now but they're out Oh gosh so found another set of deer antlers
behind the wall they're still ranging around here Somewhere but this whole thing if I could sum up
the entire construction of the shop in one picture
It would be this right here I mean honestly Doesn't every joint need
five screws and five nails Second set of shells it's kind of like your
second kid first one you take a lot of care And time and check everything right the second
one just hope they don't die or let you go back All right with all these walls getting exposed
I'm really starting to get excited and really Starting to feel the whole width and size of the
shop with less clutter around here and this is 30 feet wide so it's almost twice as wide as my
current shop which is about 18 feet so let's call It 66 percent bigger honestly guys it is crazy
when I think about just having a space like this And compared to where I started I had my first
shop over 20 years ago it was in Cincinnati in This little house it was a 1907 build and the
walls were literally stacked stone with like Mortar put in there so there's water in there
all the time and it was moist and the ceiling Was like seven and a half feet tall so going
from that and then my next shop was in another Basement and that one was definitely better eight
foot ceilings this time then my next shop I think Eight and a half foot ceilings which was great
also in a basement then when we moved down to Nashville I finally got into the garage shop that
I'm in today before coming here and just looking Around here and seeing this and seeing how far
I've come and the journey to get here has been Awesome so I am so excited to be here and have
you guys along with me but as you can see I've Every single piece of Lumber in here because
you know that's what I do I'm I'm a nerd so It's going to be really fun to just play around
with it and I would love to hear from you what Are your best shop layout tips and tricks or
what do you wish you had done that you didn't Do when you're building out your shop because
I'm right in the midst of that of planning and I want to just absorb as much as I can so let
me know what you guys think but now I can start Unloading stuff from the office and I'm going
to be interested to see what we find if that Little magazine was any indication we'll see if
we find their other secret stash let's get going All right after some coercing I did
get that down I also found the stash How many of you've been drinking beer now you'd
seen the cases if I was drinking beer hiding Uh beer cases I guess that's what we're doing
okay you've got to be kidding me the love for Nails I have never seen anything like it uh
the cabinet is actually screwed in but also Nailed it I've never seen a cabinet nailed
to the wall ah see if we can get this out Foreign Doesn't knock over the camera All right Now amazingly we do have uh cleaning
supplies and they're unused I think we Know why but I'm really excited about
is the audiovox 5cd changer all right
Let's see if this works first of
all oh standby there we go mother We definitely have some sound we do have
the storage for six extra CDs in the cases Gotta Love That Let's see if it'll play I can
hear it spinning it's not playing it's probably Scratched I'll have to figure that out later
because we need to know what CD is in there So good All here and uh got on all taken down and
cleaned up it's just this place is so dirty But now I'm gonna get this freezer in the
fridge out of the way and I went ahead and Cleaned half of the freezer I'll let you guess
which half I cleaned yeah that looks real nice Oh oh this place is so disgusting so next time
you see nasty fridge don't throw it out just Give it to melbow grease and hope nothing's
rotten on the inside which this one was fine Now we do have some water here which is awesome
so we actually have two little sinks here because You know when you're butchering deer you need
two sinks and a little place apparently and we Also have this surface mounted electrical so I'm
going to take care of all of this get this out And hope that that shutoff valve actually works uh
and then we can be ready to take everything else Down and start getting into the walls I'm gonna
go ahead and shut the water off to the shop and That's in the crawl space which was filled with
mold if you remember from the last video but we Did have that taken care of and now check it out
it is nice and clean in there all of that mold Is gone a little insulation work still needs
to be done but it is looking so much better And now we won't uh get black lung supposed
to start cutting this out that's the best Oh this P-trap is absolutely disgusting oh I
think that's uh I think that's deer guts oh That's gonna empty that This smells horrible too oh gosh should have
thought about the fact that this would have to Drain actually tilt this on its back there we
go all right five pans worth of water and uh I Think we're good now that little hot water here
was absolutely disgusting I think he had told me He hadn't run it in many years so that water was
just stale and stagnant but I'm taking the power Out to it and again I don't think anything should
surprise me at this point but this is like a hint Of a electrical connection I have not unscrewed
this at all this is just how it was I feel like I could breathe on that the wrong way and that's
going to come out or Arc and set the place on fire There was still a lot in here All right I'm taking the last Outlet off of the
interior wall of the office over by the desk And I'm tracing it over here I was looking
for a junction box and instead I found this I believe that's what they call the redneck
junction box which is just a big wad of wires Electrical tape together oh my gosh so these wires
are charred and so is the insulation Vapor Barrier All right this is uh coming down not a second
too soon last thing to go before we start ripping
Down the Walls will be the old elevator door it
already took off the little stop up here this Thing is probably going to be super heavy I'm just
gonna roll it off and kind of hope for the best Oh that's heavy store's staying here forever
two layers of quarter inch thick sheath All right let's move this thing out
hold on hold on hold on like what Should we keep this or should we just get rid
of it I mean this thing is super cool like it's Really cool but where are we gonna put it and what
are we gonna do with it you're asking like logical Questions here I do not like this this uh no that
is a great point though this is probably something That uh I will hold on to for 10 or 20 years and
then finally get rid of it at some point uh we're Not going to have any doors in here to open really
all right guys I need help my wife is uh asking Very valid questions and we need some ideas for
this door let me know in the comments what you Think the best idea is and maybe we can save it
one idea is to sell it just get the garage door All right yet another Saga we're trying to get
the door open and having a bit of an issue kidding All right that other door is actually pretty good
and this one I don't know what's going on with it It's all whacked out so I'm gonna go ahead and
repair this real fast and just give it a little Tune-up because we got to get in and out of this
door since all the cabinets are stacked up over There like everything else this has not been
maintained and it looks really dry looks like It needs to be lubed up as well as some alignment
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better all right so now we can finally start Ripping down the office I'm actually going to
start with the exterior so I can pull that down Remove all the insulation and then it'll have
light inside because if I start on the inside Then I have to turn off the lights and it'll be
super dark in there so we'll do the sides then Probably move to the top and go from there there's
a little time lapse let me ripping everything down All right with all the sheathing off now
I can start taking it down the insulation
Here and I'm not messing around this time last
time I dealt with insulation I was itching for Like a week and it was horrible so I've got the
whole Timex suit on we're gearing up man them Say what you want I'm gonna not be itching tonight Me Oh my God I am soaking wet from my head to my toes
uh just oh it's like I was trying to lose weight Again in high school during a wrestling match
or something uh I bailed out because my eyes Were starting to burn and it was just so hot up
there so I got a couple rows up at the top but man The old insulation is no joke try it
again tomorrow so I started off today By ripping off the OSB on this wall and
I found something I can only describe as The mouse Motel I don't know check this
out this whole Bay of insulation is just Completely eaten up by mice it looks like one
of those ant farms when you look at it but from The side and you can see all the tunnels and
there's some more over here there's holes so If there was any hope of saving this insulation
definitely not and as I start pulling it out I think the odds are pretty high that we're
gonna find Stuart Little so we'll see where he's Been hiding so I'm gonna finish up this wall I'm
going to suit back up to get rid of the insulation Oh That sucked worse than yesterday Yeah that ceiling plywood is still on there
because I need to take the lights down but Uh for now I gotta get some water before I pass
out all right guys time to rip down the ceiling Just like a bland hail All right we got all the ceiling out and so now
I can start taking out those upper joists and do Not do what I did uh you know get two people I
don't know I don't know how the right way to do It but I almost killed myself like three times
from those things falling down it was it was not Cool but we are starting to get quite a load of
OSB and I'm starting to move it all around and I'll tell you what this little panel carrier from
Craig is awesome highly recommend one of these if You're going to be moving a whole bunch of
sheet Goods makes it a lot easier but next Up I'm going to take out the ceiling joist and
then start pulling down the Walls let's get to it Everything That was awesome pushing down this wall really
has opened up this space and man I can't wait To get these down and just have everything done
but I just sometimes wonder how did I get here How did I did this for my job and want to thank
you guys for helping support the whole journey And allowing me to do content creation for full
time and that's one of the questions I actually Get asked the most is how do I get into this and
how do you do it we actually have a course coming Up that's going to help you figure that out if
you're interested you can go to a little link Down
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forward slash fix this build that it's gonna be Me and for my friends who you know they're all
up here somewhere and uh we're gonna just tell You how we all became content creators and
basically cut out the learning curve for you If you're interested go check it out all right
let me get the rest of these walls down foreign Guys this is getting rough I just took this
wall down and it looks really bad right there So here's the normal spacing of these uh support
beams you can see this one does not follow here And then this one is actually raised up and then
this one is completely missing but the part that's So Troublesome is this look at this yes there
is a nothing there that is rotten wood I was Wondering why this was shaking so much so yeah
this whole wall is basically not supported over Here I was all ready to wrap up the video with
a little Victory lap knocking this thing down Now I've got a jump back in the suit
get all this insulation out of there Which I didn't know it was there and
then just see how bad it is but uh Spirits are a little bit down nothing that
I don't think can be fixed but man I was Not I was not expecting that so oh well
surprises that you find in an old Workshop Foreign Well that was a complete disaster and
I'm gonna clean that up later but I did Find something out of the old CD player Jimmy
Buffett greatest hit songs You Know by heart Jimmy rest in peace I hope you earned
that cheeseburger paradise if you are Seeing the full property tour I got the video
queued up for you right there a big thank you To the fdbt boaters club I'm Brad get
out there and build something awesome