The Warm Room Windows Are Complete
With some final touch up paint, the window upgrade is complete. The warm room looks like a completely new place.
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North End Sidewalks Installed
This 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, this sidewalk is well engineered. It is […]
Read MoreA Chiller Arrives, And The Future Seems Near
So 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 in soon. And oh crap, […]
Read MoreOur Warm Room Gets An Upgrade
Thanks 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 are 5 feet long […]
Read MorePEX Tubing Installation Captured In Time Lapse
As 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 extremely interesting video. The […]
Read MorePEX Install Day Was A Success
Saturday 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 task. I think a fair hope was to be able […]
Read MoreSaturday is a HUGE Day
So 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 mentioned in a Previous Post, we […]
Read MoreOur First New Piece of Ice Making Equipment Arrives
Nothing 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 feel it in the air, provided you ignore the 90-degree temperature […]
Read MoreWe Need More Space
As 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 with an idea. There is a 25-foot […]
Read MoreTime to Build One More Wall
One 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 not seem like a problem. However, every time that people […]
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