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No Inlaws, it will be a bunkroom eventually and we may use it for living quarters while we re-model the house.

I bought my trusses from Menards and they send everything up to engineering to approve before they sell it to you. The trusses come with a spec seet that approves it for snow load for this area, I guess I will assume they know what they are talking about. I understand what you are saying about...

Today was a ballbuster. I sheathed most of the south side of the upstairs, I had to carry 1/2" OSB up by my retaining wall and heave them up, then I had to take them up the finished roof section and start the row. After a little struggle I figured out a process and was able to get about 3/4 of...

Trusses are on the 2nd story, start sheathing the roof this week. My wif e and I were having a cocktail on the pier because it was so nice tonight I looked up and saw what I had built and it is kind of cool looking from down by the lake. It gives a little insight into what things might look like...

Thanks CW, The guy that is going roof my garage also mentioned that and he will install the step flashing when doing the shingles. Can't wait to this roofed. Tomorrow the trusses go on the other side and then sheathing starts next Monday or so.

Thanks!

Yes, it's kind of turned in to more of a house, total sf is 1200sf down and 600 sf up.

Skiroule, your Mutt looks awesome, nice work!

OA, The other issue is that we are nowhere close to being ready for this EV push. It will be years before the infrastructure is in place to handle it. So let's be smart and phase it in, not just say let's turn off Oil and suffer like we are right now. It's ridiculous for us to be paying per...

Hard to believe that we started framing the lower garage only 45 days ago. I have had some help from neighbors and friends but this week we managed to get the upper level (600sf, 20'x30') framed and ready to put trusses on very soon. If you are wondering why the OSB is not on parts of the upper...

Way to go all you peeps with your cool loud pipes brapping all over the Northwoods! I don't mind brapping out where only a few can hear but have some respect for people that let you use their property to enjoy your machine and let all of the rest of enjoy ours as well. It's just common sense...

This EV thing was forced upon us by the current administration and the climate nuts. I'm not against EV's, but for Gods sake quit forcing this shit on us! It's getting real old!

Thanks, I knew what I wanted and it took me awhile to figure out the area and the guys that I could hire to actually do what I wanted them to do. I am the GC for the project and there are a lot of parts involved with it. We are basically 32 days into the build and things are starting to come...

Bingo!

I struggles with where to put the service door but I am going to cut it in after I get reasonably dried in. It will go on the right corner of the garage on the wall facing the house, I will have to build a small deck to access it because of the height difference. Where you see the rock wall...

Yeah, won't get out too much, only good thing is that prime time for walleyes is after dark so can't really work on the garage in the dark. I'll get out a couple times but garage is the priority right now.

Thats big hail! Was all that damage from the hail storm?

I bought my door at Menards and it is Ideal Brand, pretty big name in garage doors. Was a pretty easy install, they don't include things like angle iron to hang your rails from the ceiling, no locking mechanism is included with the door either, some of the pre-drilled holed were not drilled out...

I worked alone this week so it was a little slower going. Finished putting in support beams and joists for the other half of the upstairs which includes tedious things like lifting the beams myself, cutting and putting in blocking, planning out the stairwell, and finishing the decking for the...

That I don't know, I think those bars are still open, The Silver Dollar? I was last in that bar with my buddies about 36 years ago while snowmobiling, two years before I got married. From the looks of it Hurley is a little depressed these days, we don't have much reason to go there other than...