The ongoing saga of updating the Tesco Productions studio added a major chapter this month with the completion of the new laminate floor. The project started of course with the removal of the old parquet floor tiles, and then the arduous job of getting off the glue residue. I chose what was maybe not the “best” method (as it created a huge amount of dust), but it left a very clean floor readied for its replacement. A neighbor helped get the project started (for which I’m very grateful) and then I was able to spend parts of the next few days and finish it up! This portion of the work was literally “foundational”, as the upper equipment rack had been emptied and removed to relieve weight on the supporting lower rack spaces (which also were emptied). Those racks have a number of wires that are intertwined through walls and doorways to other studio areas, making it impossible to totally remove that furniture from the engineering room. So a bit of ingenuity was used to suspend those off the floor so a section of flooring could be pre-assembled and then slid into place underneath them. I plan to post some pictures of the process and the final result, but suffice it to say I’m extremely relieved to have that part of the work behind me. And oh, I almost forgot to mention I also resized a wall acoustic panel to accommodate the depth of the new rackmount console. My wife helped me select a new patterned cloth covering for the panel – the first recovered panel with more updates planned for most of the others. Now onto getting those racks reassembled, wires to patchbays added/rearranged, new and existing equipment put in place and connected, and so on (did I mention a lot of dust – there’s still some cleaning to do), but the proverbial “light at the end of the tunnel” is beginning to shine.
