Recent content by ansehnlich1

look here.... http://www.basiccoatings.com/Pages/default.aspx we have the streetshoe basic satin on our oak floors and it's extremely durable.

I will attest to the backhoe operator that dug the trench for my footer recently. That ditch was so level on the bottom, I thought they went in there with shovels and rakes. It was truly a work of art. I bet it wasn't out one inch all around. He went right down to where he needed to be and not a...

Yeah, it's my luck, I'm used to it. We got rain. Lots of rain. We had a 24 inch wide trench dug, and 8 inches of concrete poured for footer. 4 course block on top of that. Then it rained, and rained, it's gonna rain :( The footer holds that water in there real good, and of course the...

Yeah this is what I was thinking. Build the new retaining wall away from the exisiting retaining wall, then fill and patch. It appears if you remove that current lumber you'll compromise the driveway foundation.

Great looking building! The best pics are your daughter in the hole with her tongue out, haha, and better yet, everybody tying rebar, wow, were the focused on that or what? SWEET!

Well I'll tell ya, the new garage is going to be for plain old residential storage of stuff I use around here, my little Mazda will park in there, the lawn and garden equipment, tractor, chainsaws, mowers, snowblowers, and such. I'm no mechanic, so there will be no lift. However, I've a...

We are in the process of building a 24 x 42 garage. She's underway as seen below. She'll be 2 story with attic trusses, and she'll pretty well match the attached garage of the house. The front, starting from the left, is 119 in. to the double garage door opening, which is 195 inches, then to...

....started new thread http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1724718#post1724718

Here in PA when I roll in the garage with a truck that's just run through a half foot or more of snow she melts a good bit of water off into the garage. I always broom it out the next day, the right slope helps it drain out the front door. I don't wash vehicles in the garage but I know many...

MScott, thanks for your insight. We live in South Pennsylvania, near the Maryland Border, outside Gettysburg. We get some snow, sometimes some deep snow, though it hasn't been a problem on the attached garage we currently have. Here in PA we use gutters, not sure you do so in Ontario. We also...

My wife and I, we're a pair for sure. We agonize over all sort and manner of stuff. We've settled on 24x41 for size. This will include a 12x24 shop for her. That leaves about 24x29 for garage space. I'll try and post some pics when things get started, but that won't be for a couple months yet...

Our current attached garage is a 12/12 pitch. We are planning either a 10/12 or a 12/12 to match the current attached garage as close as possible. Do you think that would give a better opportunity for a decent room upstairs using an attic truss? We've been told it's not a problem at the steep...

We plan on starting this build in September if all goes well. We built our home several years ago, my wife was the contractor. We plan on hiring to do this garage build though, we both work and simply don't have the time to do this one ourselves. I see many garages with garage doors on the...

It's a 1000 sq. ft. footprint. Anything over that and all sorts of costly govt. regs and red tape kick in. We do plan on attic trusses, that will give us a big room upstairs, possibly as much as 12 ft. wide from what I am reading on here. 12 x 40 upstairs would be awesome.

Hey thanks for you replies, and Falcon, you got me thinkin' about 24x40......hmmmmm