Recent content by almostnative

Hello all! Just a heads up: I built a new 2 story garage 4 years ago. Sixteen foot ceiling with a storage loft on top. i wanted a materialist to store stuff in the loft. After looking through here and all over the internet, I made a 4’x6’ platform lift using a harbor freight 2000# hoist. Added a...

Thank you. This is the type of thing I am looking for. Their least expensive 4" grate gets me down to $6.50 a foot, which is better than I have found. Their complete system is around twice that. But tha is the types of drain I am looking for.

Hello all. Getting ready to pour a new driveway and ideally I need about 80' of lineal drain to go across the front to connect to existing and future driveway. The low end complete systems run around $10.00 per foot. I would even run just the grate and form the concrete to hold it, but the 3-4"...

Hi everybody! Haven't posted in a while, mainly because this process had taken forever! Palm Beach County took 6 weeks for my initial plans to be approved, then 7 weeks more when I made a change, adding a bathroom. Also the architect and engineer were slow. I gave met with the architect the...

I have had 3 builders tell me about the steel prices. It is a fact that the US government put a large tariff (I believe 266%) on Chinese steel and I checked several articles on the internet to confirm. Anyway, we are in the process of drawing plans for my 48 x 58 CBS building. It will have 16'...

Hi Rick. I'm in Boynton Beach. Apparently the price of steel has gone up by like 400% since the US put a tariff on Chinese steel. From what I'm hearing, builders and manufacturers are stocking up and running up the price to make sure they have enough. Very bad news for the end users. I have...

Yes. Wanting to build a 47 x 58 metal or cbs building in south Florida. Looking to get some input: was going to go metal but prices are high. I think I can build cbs for similar $.

Hi. This is Tom from Boynton Beach. I've been lurking a while and decided to join the club. I think I already screwed up by posting a question about the garage I want to build on the questions and answers board. Oops! Screwed up again! Please let me know how to fix it. Thanks, Tom

Hi everyone. This is my first post, although I have been lurking a while. Going to build my garage mahal her in sunny South Florida. Hoping for some feedback. Was going to go metal, but metal prices are high again. The least expensive supposedly trustworthy metal supplier and erector is Buck...