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About 90% dried in totally, roof work done thank God. Made some great progress on the exterior this weekend and the last couple days, my lovely wife helped me sheath the lake side and we wrapped it with Block-it house wrap. The upstairs just needs windows put in and west side facing the woods is...

I bought my place in 2015 for $300K, didn't want to pay that but realized that if we were ever going to get on the Manitowish Chain it was now or never so we signed, had the place inspected, and everything turned out awesome. We did walk through the house prior to buying, it needed new septic...

Tuck, you hit the nail on the head as far as the current market conditions right now. I personally would not buy a house sight unseen but many people do it or set terms like, inspection, if things found needing to fixed the seller and the buyer agree to the terms and amounts. Not sure if you are...

Epoxy floors have a ton of harmful chemicals in them, you don't want to be breathing in that stuff. Epoxy has it's place but the trend is for sustainable flooring that can be recycled after it's life has come to an end. Check out www.Duracryl.com and click on US version, our parent company is...

It really depends on the level of inventory on the market, for instance, in the MW area there is hardly anything available so prices are high and I think they always will be because property on the Manitowish Chain is always in demand. I think the Mercer area is a good place to start looking and...

Love Tommy Skillet Head and Steve Dahl, those were the days!

Right on Braaa!!!!!

Mercer is a growing part of the northwoods. More affordable than say Manitowish Waters as far as real estate. If you wanted to buy, you might be able to get on a smaller lake or off water for a reasonable price, when I say that don't be shocked at the prices! Mercer caters to the ATV, SXS crowd...

I've been in sales all my life, but never afraid to take on a project. One of the reasons I do alot of this myself is the quality of work that you pay big money for today is not up to my standards. I look at what people pay for work to be done and the end result is embarassing, most people...

When you do things yourself you control your own destiny but everything is also on you to make it happen. I probably worked every day of the last 56 days, most be all day until the sun went down so it's been a lot of hours. Would I do it again, not at my current age, if I was younger I would not...

Used to listen to Tommy Skillet Head when he was in Milwaukee years ago.

We are fortunate and love it up here. I never was allergic to bee stings until a couple of years ago, go figure.

I just finished putting on the drip edge up top today, scary on the high side, but got it done. Put the rest of the ice & water that I had in certain spots on the roof where I thought it should beef that up. I should be high and dry and the rain we get on Friday and Saturday should be the test...

Thanks RPH, it's getting there. A couple of years ago I started having reactions to bee stings and had to start using EPI Pens. Never in my life up to then was I bothered that much, just a little aloe on the sting and it usually went away pretty quick. Now I swell up pretty bad, but find that...

Thanks Pete, It's a race but I am close to winning it.

Last time I checked in we had set the the trusses for the 2nd story and I was starting to sheath the roof upstairs. I really liked Skiroules way to get OSB up on his roof but not for this guy. I hauled up each piece myself and my 66 year body felt every one of the 24 sheets that I put up there...

Any good advice on a garage door opener? No chain drive for me, just looking for some feedback, Thanks!

I started on the difficult side this morning and quite frankly I wasn't sure how I was going to get the 4x8 OSB sheathing up there until about 8am this morning. My plan was to build a ramp and push them up (nothing as elaborate as Skiroule!), set them and start the first row. As you can see that...

Thanks, I'm not particularly worried about it. I have run 2x4's from one end to the other every 5ft (20ft truss, 10ft is middle, another row on each side of that) that have been screwed with timberlok 4-1/2" lag bolts. I also use a lot ofconstruction screws on my OSB sheathing and OSB roofing...

I will be celebrating when I get through with this week!