Recent content by bcsaltchucker

So the rain shut me down a couple days but I got back to it today. Changed my strategy a bit: I made a rail system. I propped upt a 16' 2x6 in the middle of the garage and strung a 19 foot 2x4 from it to the drop gable truss - through the webs of the truss. ie the truss can hang off it and...

yes a lift, telehandler or crane is the quick safe way to do it. Also doesn't cost $0 lol. The lift you link to looks kind of narrow for such a wide awkward load, but they do rent larger ones. My initial plan was to rent a genie but apparently not kosher for lifting trusses. The telehandler...

So my walls are up and my trusses have arrived. yippee but then. gulp I was kind of expecting one big bundle but the crane dropped them in 2 bundles. In the heat of the moment I said put one bundle at each end, and I braced them in place for now. But now I kind of regret that. I can set...

great idea for flying sheathing on with the crane! I am having them fly the trusses onto the top plates too. I am planning for a standing seam roof so obviously will be on furring strips. So I don't quite see the need to go to 3/4 ply and I would not be having fun moving 3/4 around on my own...

I don't get why a ductless system with multi heads should ever be more than 4 figures complete, other than due to unfair gatekeeping going on. The Senville mini split I got 5 years ago paid for itself in about 2-3 years compared to buying heating oil for my furnace. $2.000 all in including new...

hey what do you guys think of the idea of not finishing with batts of insulation nor putting in any drywall, no roof venting but just spraying foaming the inside of the sheathing walls and roof, then conditioning the whole space rafters and all? I know it is not not as fire safe as drywall and...

nearly 6 inches thick on the right side so that could handle a Bendpak lift maybe. 4600psi and 3" of insulation foam underneath I got for very cheap. Around $3000 in rebar in this whole job now! type 2 3" foam. almost enough for the whole slab for $250usd from a builder nearby who had it...

update in april: the foundation is finally at long last done lol. 50k spent walls going up now and trusses come in 2 weeks. drop trusses for 2x6 outlookers I have decided to just put two layers of tar paper as is traditional for under stucco and not bother with a rain screen. But on the back...

location: pacific northwests zone 4 marine - ~100km north of Seattle. Wet winters above freezing, dry mild summers. for the stucco I will install a rains creen product so the stucco is not a problem. Plus 2 foot overhangs for the roof is in the plans. Read again I will use tyvek on the...

I am halfway through building my 3 car garage, 24x34 just finishing the foundation (city made me build it like a house lol) So I am planning the HVAC and insulation and wall assembly. I am in zone 4 marine in the PNW on the ocean. Not usually below freezing and not too hot in summer, but very...

doing a 24x34 garage here in BC. No doubt if I tendered it out I'd get 200k cdn quotes and 150k if I was lucky. More hoops to jump through with $5k just for geotech engeering. Just had the excavation completed last week, i budgeted 14k it came to 19k cdn (included lifting driveway, dropping...

What a wonderfully helpful thread! I have stemwalls at various heights for the garage I am building. 1/2 of the stemwall perimeter is 6 inches over slab, but then 14 ft is at 2 feet and 34 feet at 3 feet (building into a slope). I was first thinking I would end up building just a few studs...