When I brought my Moose kit home from Canada my shop consisted of a concrete slab. I literally built a small wooden A frame structure over the kit pieces and stapled a blue tarp to it to protect it from the weather.
With a lot of work I had the walls up and the roof on about a month later, but the siding didn't start going on until about 5 months later. In some of the earlier construction photos you may notice you can see right outside behind me.
Over the course of the next summer I almost finished the siding (left a little bit off up under the roof line to keep the tax man off my back), and finally got sheet rock on the ceiling in September '03.
Still, I had another winter in Alaska with no heat in the shop. Not exactly the kind of environment you want to be building a metal airplane in.
I finally got the money set aside to purchase all the require insulation during the summer of '04... so I got busy and finished up the siding, plugged up all the little holes I could find, and started insulating.
Just in time in early Oct '04 I got the wood stove hooked up and going.
Now I can continue to work in comfort. The wood stove will eventually be supplemental as I plumbed the slab for radiant heat, but the boiler and fuel tank will have to wait until next year.
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