Pimping my garage
#63
09-13-2006, 08:32 AM
Originally Posted by ColinB
any updates?
Colin
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#71
12-04-2006, 10:03 AM
You two are sounding like my wifey.
I'm currently "stuck" in Barbados for a few weeks. There is some small progress on the garage, and some major progress on the house. I'm banging(nail gun) most of the nails myself so things were slow for the summer. I'll freeze my butt off now that it is winter, but things will get kicked into high gear when I get back.
I'm currently "stuck" in Barbados for a few weeks. There is some small progress on the garage, and some major progress on the house. I'm banging(nail gun) most of the nails myself so things were slow for the summer. I'll freeze my butt off now that it is winter, but things will get kicked into high gear when I get back.
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#74
12-21-2006, 07:15 PM
Now that summer (and fall) are over it’s time to get back in gear. At the end of July I nearly had a stroke putting a few truss’s up just to get the AC hooked back up for the existing house. It was really hot. Just in time too, as we had a major heat wave just as the AC was being hooked up. Note the lumber is starting to turn a bit gray now from the weather.
The house engineered lumber/truss package arrived shortly after the paving and it fit neatly in the garage and I still had room to park in front of it.
I rented the ring saw again and cut the opening that the concrete turkeys forgot to put in. I tipped the chunk over and broke it up with a sledge. My little backhoe easily hoisted the chunks out.
Part of the first floor deck of the house is capped and the addition starts going up. The forks on the tractor make material handling a lot easier.
The back of the garage is starting to get slowly emptied out. I have two floor trusses’ left over because I changed the end truss detail to “stick built”
As the back of the garage gets cleaned out the front two bays get filled with lumber. My 997TT and SL55 are safe in the wide right bay. Wifey was not too pleased that she lost her garage slot, but she got over it. Lumber = progress.
The garage floor plan has changed a bit. I relocated the lav upstairs to make more room for a lift with walking space all around it.
The house is the big priority now, but the garage MUST see some major progress inside before February. (Arrival of the GT3 RS). I also have a place at work to store it. May not be such a bad idea because I could look at it every day while it snows outside.
The house engineered lumber/truss package arrived shortly after the paving and it fit neatly in the garage and I still had room to park in front of it.
I rented the ring saw again and cut the opening that the concrete turkeys forgot to put in. I tipped the chunk over and broke it up with a sledge. My little backhoe easily hoisted the chunks out.
Part of the first floor deck of the house is capped and the addition starts going up. The forks on the tractor make material handling a lot easier.
The back of the garage is starting to get slowly emptied out. I have two floor trusses’ left over because I changed the end truss detail to “stick built”
As the back of the garage gets cleaned out the front two bays get filled with lumber. My 997TT and SL55 are safe in the wide right bay. Wifey was not too pleased that she lost her garage slot, but she got over it. Lumber = progress.
The garage floor plan has changed a bit. I relocated the lav upstairs to make more room for a lift with walking space all around it.
The house is the big priority now, but the garage MUST see some major progress inside before February. (Arrival of the GT3 RS). I also have a place at work to store it. May not be such a bad idea because I could look at it every day while it snows outside.
