During the week starting on the 14th of March 2021 the XONIKZ Twitch channel will be streaming on weekdays between 7 and 10 PM EST. The focus will still be on loft renovation but will begin to bleed into the smaller decor projects near the end of the week. The Twitch XONIKZ channel might be […]

I have begun tuck-pointing (or re-pointing) the crawlspace foundation brick. It took about two hours to re-point about ten square feet of wall. I think I can speed up that process by shifting over to using a different tool next time, but it was progress none-the-less. The first portion of the process, cleaning out the […]

For the last several days, after work hours, I’ve been prepping the crawl space under the 100+ year old house brick and stone foundation for tuck pointing. Much of the work requires a heavy duty blower to push the dust out of the crawl space. I am wearing a heavy duty full face respirator while […]

The eastern half of the loft is now wrapped in it’s vapor barrier, a 6mil plastic over the fiberglass insulation. I finished up taping the seams and cleaned up the work space and some of the storage before having to call it a night. The next portion of the project will take place in the […]

Throughout the weekend, I’ve spent a couple of hours cleaning up the dust and insulation scraps from the loft space and then began stapling in the final sheet of the plastic vapor barrier to seal up the north wall and ceiling. Here are a couple of images from the progress being made on the loft […]

That’s right, I just finished a ten-hour stream building the art loft again. I now have all of the insulation installed and the vapor barrier in place. I’ll poke at it off-stream just a little on Sunday, but I don’t have a day off for a while and wanted to make the loft heatable. Now, […]

My day job is doing inventory this week and, in a bid to get more cash on the paycheck this round, I’ve agreed to come in early a couple days. I agreed without much thought to my personal well being, or work-life balance. I agreed before I realized “come in early” meant farmer’s hours. I […]

On Monday, while ripping a piece of 2×3 board down to 2×2, I cut my left index finger on the table saw. After bandaging, and cleaning up, and calling dad, and passing out from shock, and all the things; it’s healing. I’ve put the bigger barn and house projects on hold for a week while […]

Tonight’s stream on Twitch.tv/xonikz showed a little bit more progress on the art loft, or maker loft. The vision is starting to take shape. Ceiling insulation and vapor barrier were put in place on the western ceiling by the end of the stream with some work done on the half wall that separates the computer […]

Last night I streamed the entire process of setting up and photographing portraits for a LinkedIn profile pic. The photo session went well enough with a few technical hiccups, mostly due to the extreme cold of the loft right now. Thanks to the handful of chatters that stopped in from all over the globe and […]