Well, folks, it has been a bit of a frustrating experience thus far.
First, I came down with a pretty serious illness that had me on major narcotics and nothing to eat for 7 days in late September. It kicked my butt, I lost a lot of weight and strength (just got back to the gym this morning, in fact) and I wasn't able to practice medicine much less deal with the hangar.
Second, living on an airpark with a bunch of rules can be challenging...as many of you have told me. Access to the hangar has to be via the space between the owner's house and the property line and this makes it difficult if there are trees of significant size/height (which there are). This adversely impacted installing foam insulation. I had arranged for this to be installed today, as a matter of fact, and yesterday when they called to ask for access to the hangar they had not been made aware of the difficulty of driving a 30,000 lbs box truck that is 13 feet high, 9 feet wide and 36 feet long on the grass beside our house...they had assumed there is a driveway available to access the hangar (the gentleman who I met with at the hangar before my illness 4 weeks ago made the assumption re: access. I am now awaiting a call from a foamer who allegedly uses a trailer which can be pulled behind his pickup truck.
Then there is the juggling of the schedules of the plumber, the electrician, the sheetrock person, the steel person, etc. This project has given me a much greater appreciation for those of you who are contractors or who have been general contractors for your own projects.
Finished at this point is the wiring before the foam is installed. Finished is installation of 3 new access doors and 2 windows. Finished is framing for the bathroom/shower. Finished is the removal of an inoperative heater, and a new heater has been ordered. Plumbing will be accomplished within a week. Sheetrocking the upper 3/4 of the 13 ft walls will be finished at the end of next week, as will be installation of the metal walls. LED lights have been wired and will be installed next week.
The floor is another issue, in that it is not inexpensive to have linoleum tile removed and ground down to the cement, then polished vs epoxied. I am considering leaving the tile alone for now.
...and then there is my medical practice, which is in high gear and I have been struggling to catch up...
I'll shut off the whining now.
I did fly the super cub Sunday for the first time in over a month and it felt great!
I'll put some photos up soon. Thanks for the contributions here, as many of your suggestions are being/will be incorporated.
Take care,
Randy