Lets start with the studio. Here's what it's looking like nowadays. Now that the permits are cleared on the second floor we're having some issues with the first (go figure) but things are edging along.

 These beams are for upstairs but they're actually too short. We ordered more today

 Here's the pile of unfinished hvac parts that the crew left behind when they decided to walk off. Some sort of contractor dispute. Hopefully we'll have somebody new in fixing their work some time this week.

 And here's the new soundproof rear door we just had installed. Some people use these for their whole studio. We don't have that kind of cash, but we put one in the back wall to keep the control room isolated from my neighbors back yards. I hope they appreciate it.

 And heres' a shot of the now cleaned-as-it's-gonna-get-for-a-while basement. Significantly less gross than before

Now for the second floor. The roof of the control room already has a little lake on it :) Eventually it will drain off on to the other roof. Sadly it rained all week again so there was no sign off the roofers.

 The apartment as it stands now is looking pretty good. Ceiling heights aren't going to be what I hoped. Just over 8 feet for most of the apartment, and 9 for the bedroom and living rooms. Still better than it could be!

 And here's the radiant flooring with some lines on it showing where the walls are going to end up. Soon we will have walls. It's gonna be crazy.

The roofs are finally coming along, and we're moving again, but there have been some permit hold ups for the first floor refiling (of course), hence all the photos of the second floor. Here's the roof of the control room, freshly cleaned up with two huge AC units on it

This is the new chimney which also runs through Daniel's bedroom, the poor bastard.

 
 

These metal posts will hang the second floor ceiling, to keep it level and lightly isolate it from the top floor

And here's the hole for the sliding glass door to the patio and our new windows in the bedroom. Nice.

Brooklyn post hurricane. The light was so crazy you can almost see it in a photograph.

 Basement flooding was minimal, and everything else seems to have held up fine. Here are the two spots under the control room that connected to the basement. Now both are filled with cement.

 And here's a shot of the north wall, looking pretty cleaned up.

 The ceiling springs are all hung and ready to go when the roof is sealed

 And here's the cement pour on the control room roof. Next thing we have to haul the hvac units up and put them on those posts.

 And here's a shot of how awesome the place is. Under the shitty siding is.... more shitty siding!

The days have been rainy and we have no roof, but things are coming along

Here's the mess in the studio

 And a better shot of the spring isolators, which are now all hung.

 Here's the pile of trash I found in our backyard...

 Which used to be the chimney

 

And here, finally, is our new roof. the first section went in today. Tomorrow we pour the concrete for the control room roof and floor!

And here are some shots from our now totally disgusting basement. I tried to take a look at the wood diffuser panels in that RPG box but I don't want to tear it open and risk making things worse yet. I'm gonna wait until the new roofs are on sturdily.

 And here's the new water heater. I don't really know why that's already in, but it is.

Sunday saw the most rainfall in a single day in new york city recorded history. 12". And I still don't have a roof. We seem to have survived the flooding though

First lets take a look at the Kinetics spring isolation clips the studio ceiling is going to be hung from. Here's a close up

 and here's a bigger shot. Another set of hat channel is hung from the vertical cold-rolled steel strips which we will then treat as the ceiling joists.

 In the back you can get another view of some of the HVAC ducts going up above the control room

 Here's where the HVAC comes in to the live room. As you can see the ducts are a little oversized so the project's on hold for a minute while my PE can re-evaluate them to try and get the size down a litte.

 Here is my very wet basement. You can kinda see the boxes with my diffuser pannels in them. They're untreated, and I have an odd feeling I lost them in this storm. I'm gonna have to take a look next week and see if I have to order new ones. Which would be a serious bummer, but there's no use complaining about the rain.

 And here's the second floor. The Warmboard plywood radiant flooring system is partially installed, but that at least seems to have survived the rains, if a little damply.

 And out on the roof you can see where the hvac punches through into the studio. It takes up a bit of my patio, but really, who cares?

 Here's the highly contested three dimensional holo-roof.

 And finally one more picture of the water damage in the apartment. That's all stuff I'm still NOT planning on replacing. Looks like it may not be an option. 

Things are moving now! There's some action in the space

 Here's a close up of one of the two giant hvac units for the studio. They had to bring it in through the front windows and get it out back before we put a door in.

 The HVAC guys have started running ducts through the roof.

 Here's the new dry well in the back yard. Only the last roof runs into the yard anyway and it's pretty dry back there so I'm not expecting any major flooding. Fingers crossed.

And here's a view of the second floor now that there is a floor! The second floor, just like the first is going to be 3/4" plywood, two layers of 5/8" cement board, 1" Warmboard radiant plywood flooring and engineered hardwood. Hopefully four inches of solid floor plus hanging the ceiling downstairs will be enough to let me sleep if somebody wants to play a Pete Townshend solo at four in the morning.