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October 7, 2019So there The punch list of To Do items continues to grow shorter, which is a great thing. And the number of those items that is considered major construction items rather than finishing touches has dwindled down to probably just 1 item. Now …- October 2, 2019For people following this site, I apologize that I have not updated very much for the past few weeks. Construction has kept me very busy, just didn’t have free time to do the updates. So I have now updated everything from 8/31 until today. I …
- October 1, 2019We are slowly checking off all the open items on our To Do list. Here are some of the latest things we have gotten done. We have gotten some furniture for our entry foyer. We installed carpet into the beer garden area. Our new scoreboard are …
- September 30, 2019There are lots of things that you can do with a dedicated ice curling club that can be very hard to do with an arena based one. But one of the most important is the ability to increase our programming to include curling opportunities for …
- September 25, 2019After a bunch of delays, our dehumidifier finally arrived It arrives! Now we need to lift 800 pounds 12 feet into the air and onto the platform We were able to get a fork lift to place the system in its final resting place, up on its tower. Thanks …
- September 20, 2019For those of you who have looked through all of the photos, you might have noticed that above our warm room we had taken the leftover e-ceiling material, and tried to create a curtain to contain some of the heat, as well as make it look better. Our …
- September 17, 2019Going further into construction, closer to our deadline, there are tons of odds and ends that are all being completed. So below you will find some pictures showing progress of many of these things. As you probably have seen in past photos, our …
- September 10, 2019When we first started the project, there was no budget for us to install a dehumidifier system. Since Cincinnati is a relatively humid climate, we were worried that this would be a problem long term. So with some good fundraising, along …
- September 10, 2019We are less than 1 month away from when we hope to start making ice. The construction progress is going very well, and we look to be ahead of schedule, or at worst right on schedule. We are now getting to install some finishing touches …
- September 2, 2019With our construction process, we will have header pipes along the south wall of the building. Since these could be somewhat fragile, and the fact that they will be extremely cold, we have decided to surround the pipes with some insulated boxes. …
- August 31, 2019With some final touch up paint, the window upgrade is complete. The warm room looks like a completely new place.…
- August 29, 2019This was something that we could not finish until the PEX was finally installed. Our last section of sidewalk, on the end where games will be started is now installed For people who would like to try to build a club in the manner in which we did, …
- August 28, 2019So huge strides have been made by the Building Committee. There might be a long list of items on the punch list to complete the club, but when you look out at the shiny new chiller in our parking lot, it certainly makes it seem like the ice will be …
- August 27, 2019Thanks to the very generous donation of one of our members (whose name I shall put here is they ask me to), our warm room will now possess a feature that was not planned for in our first year, windows to view the ice. We will now have 5 windows that …
- August 19, 2019As part of the process of building our curling club, one of the most time consuming jobs was to run almost 10 miles of half inch PEX pipe, which will be used to ultimately freeze the ice. Jim set up a time lapse camera to capture this, in what is an …
- August 11, 2019Saturday was an amazing showing for our club. We had a huge task in front of us, to lay out almost 10 miles of PEX tubing. Most of the building committee members didn’t think there was any way that we would manage to complete the …
- August 8, 2019So Saturday is going to be one of the most important days in our building process. It is time to finally run all of the tubing for the ice refrigeration. For most clubs, they would be using Ice Mats, which makes this a fairly quick process. But as I …
- July 30, 2019Nothing screams out a curling club like having your own Ice Scraper. Yesterday we picked up our ice scraper up in Michigan and drove it down to the club. Today, it sits nicely in our club. Curling season is almost upon us, you can …
- July 29, 2019As we have made progress building the sidewalks to frame out our curling ice, we wanted to address a bigger issue. Our warm room is going to be small, and we will have a limited amount of space to be able to watch curling. So, we came up …
- July 28, 2019One nice feature about the club is that there will be a bathroom directly off the ice, so any mid-game emergency can be handled quickly. But this will also be a bathroom regularly used by people in the warm room, which at first thought does …
- July 22, 2019I won’t bore you right now with exactly what a header pipe is, or why we need racks, but they are a critical component to the refrigeration of the ice. We are lucky to have an iron worker in our club, and he hand made all these racks. Things are …
- July 21, 2019With the sidewalks built, the next step is to finish the pond. In order to do this, we need to place two inches of foam sheets onto the floor, to act as an insulation layer to prevent the concrete floor from freezing and breaking. With that …
- June 10, 2019To make a curling sheet. you will have thousands of feet of tubing buried under the ice. There is chilled refrigerant in all of this piping that is being cooled by an industrial chiller, typically located outside. Between this small tubing, that is …
June 9, 2019We had one of our members who was very much against the colors that the poles holding up the ceiling were painted, mostly black, with the bottom 12 feet being painted industrial bright yellow to prevent fork lifts from running into the poles. Most …- June 8, 2019With the ceiling finally done, the next step in construction is to build the frame to support the walls and liner for the ice. We raised a bit more money than we had hoped, so rather than a simple vertical board, we are able to build some sidewalks …
- May 30, 2019So the magnets worked to install the e-ceiling, and ultimately we will be happy with our end result. But I wanted to share a few things about the installation, in case you read this and decide you want to do this on your own. First, you need a …
- May 7, 2019First, you might want to know what e-ceiling is. If you ever go into a curling rink or hockey rink and see the silver foil on the ceiling, that is e-ceiling. Think of it like a giant mylar space blanket that you sometimes see in a survival kit, or …
- May 1, 2019So one of the things that we are doing to save money is to not buy ice mats. For those of you not familiar with how ice is made, you have a large chiller (industrial giant sized air conditioner) that cools a refrigerant down to a temperature around …
- March 5, 2019When building a curling club, an important, but often overlooked detail is adding floor drains. They are needed so that when you melt the ice in the spring, the water has somewhere to go without you having to pump the water out. When we leased the …
- February 1, 2019It has been a long exhausting search trying to find a location for the home of our curling club. Most buildings fall into 1 of three categories 1.) Too Expensive To Rent 2.) Way Too Small or Way Too Big 3.) The Poles That Support The Roof Are In the …