Nova Labs Space Renovation on Craig Andera https://www.craigandera.org/projects/nova-labs-space-renovation/ Recent content in Nova Labs Space Renovation on Craig Andera Hugo en-us Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:25:07 -0400 Clearing Out the SunDog Space https://www.craigandera.org/log/nova-labs-sundog-cleanout/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigandera.org/log/nova-labs-sundog-cleanout/ A day of cleanup at Nova Labs' newly vacated SunDog space, mostly spent running the forklift to haul scrap to the metal recycling dumpster. More work on the SunDog space renovation. Yesterday was mostly cleanup — a bunch of us going through what SunDog left behind and sorting it out.

I spent most of the day driving the forklift, hauling some one big pieces of equipment over to the metal recycling dumpster.

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Only the one photo from the day, but I did get a bit of video (courtesy Heather, my forklift mentor) of the forklift in action moving a particularly large piece:

More weekends on this coming up as the space gets emptied out and the actual renovation work starts.

]]> More Work on the Nova Labs Renovation https://www.craigandera.org/log/nova-labs-sundog-cleanout-20261004/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigandera.org/log/nova-labs-sundog-cleanout-20261004/ More cleanup at Nova Labs' newly vacated SunDog space, mostly plumbing. I didn't show any pictures last time of the newly vacated space. It's already looking incredibly improved, although of course if you didn't see it when it was crowded with all of SunDog's equipment you have nothing compare it to. Still, here are two shots from the center of the space, one facing each direction.

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There are a couple other, smaller spaces that I'll have to take pictures of some other day.

My task for today was to install a utility sink. It's meant to go here

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but as you can tell by the lack of a completion picture, I didn't get it done. I got the sink assembled easily enough, but then it was time to hunt for the tools and fittings that would be needed to tie into the existing plumbing, some of which you can see has been cut. So it was off to Lowe's, where I spent a good hour looking for the combination of sweat fittings, SharkBite fittings, and PVC fittings that a) were actually in the store, and b) would let me complete the job.

By the time I got done with that, it was lunchtime, which Nova Labs generously provided for the volunteers (there was a good turnout today of over a dozen). Then it was off home.

So, much progress today, but nothing finished. I'm sure that will be the case for many weeks to come. Still, I enjoy participating.

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