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Another Craigslist find was nails to install the foam board. $35 for a 50lbs box! Previous - materials cost $2540 Concrete $5165 materials added 2x6x20 $334; 2x8x10 $116; steel for beam truss $139; screws $99 ; Nails $35 New Totals: materials cost $3263 Concrete $5165 Running total: $8428

Now I 'get' to start installing the insulation and the metal on the roof! Remember this is the used metal that I got for $350 This metal came from a church building and is 26 feet long. My roof with the overhang is 23'3" long so each piece had to be cut. I used a regular skill saw with a...

Once again its been awhile since my last update but things have been moving forward. The first two pictures show the last of the engineered trusses standing and purlins attached. The next pics show the final beam truss I built so I had room to mount an evac fan in the wall above the bridge...

Previous - materials cost $1963 Concrete $5165 materials added 2x6x20 $334; 2x6x12 $184; 2x4x20 $59 total= $577 New Totals: materials cost $2540 Concrete $5165 Running total: $7705

The 2x10 band purlins are 20 feet long and the joints are staggered. I installed a 10 foot board first to start the stagger and then I was able to handle the 20 foot ones by myself as well by hanging them with a short piece of 1x2 in the middle. This allowed me to move the board around to where...

I pulled the marklift out and got it all running again. I used it to do the truss setting. I was taking pictures along the way but somehow I lost some of them. The process was to lift the peak end of the truss onto the lift, attach a board onto the top of the wall section. After lifting the...

Its been awhile since I posted as winter slowed things down a bit. But some unusually nice February weather has allowed me to make a little progress. @ cros13, rusty1, tvtaurus and nterry: Thanks for the nice comments and the subscritions! It is taking me much more than a month (and will...

Next I welded the beams together with a 1 inch gap between them. The ends are capped to hold them at the proper distance and to keep concrete from filling it up. This will be set in the floor with the top surface flush with the concrete floor. The third pic is the squareness check - anybody...

One of the Craigslist finds at the end of 2015 was some I beams. I bought 4 W-beam 10x22 ('W'ide flange -10 inches high - 22 pounds per foot 3/8 flange) 20 feet long, and 3 W12x35 20feet long and 1 8in structural channel 15 feet long = all for $400!! The first pic is the first load. This will...

Looks like a great start for the third one!

That brings it up to date. Progress now will slow way down as I am doing this by myself most of the time. previous: materials $1945 Concrete $4113 materials added $18 Concrete $1052 Totals: materials cost $1963 Concrete $5165 Running total $7128

The adjustable form worked well and made use of the extra concrete on the truck. I ran a piece of rebar through the raceway to clear out a bit of concrete that managed to get in there. This raceway is for the hydraulic hose to the lift. The finished placement with the recess. Even with all...

more pics of this placement. There are a couple of pics of the recess form. I ran the ******** all around on top and under this form. Once the vibrating was done we placed rubble in it to keep it in place. In the next picture you can see the form for the start of a ramp on the side. The end...

This next placement occurred on 11-11-2016. In the first picture the green area is to be a recess for my scissor lift. If you look closely at the stemwall you can see little piles of dust where I drilled in order to install rebar. I've done this on all the previous placements but forgot to...

Subscribed- looks great!