Recent content by cdd1

Re: The Concrete might be Underground but I'm not. I'm one of the people who were quietly hoping you were okay and I'm very glad to see that's true. Also very excited to see the updates. Cheers!

Drive, I'm sorry that I missed this thread until now, but wow. Beautiful family and beautiful expression of love you have for your daughter. As others have said, really amazing stuff. You just brightened my day. Thanks.

Nice progress and ideas. Is that a Bills T-Shirt I see? Let's go Buff-a-lo!

Interesting home. If you're in TX, what drew you to the eastern shore of MD?

I don't know the answer, but I have called Liftmaster technical support before and they have been very helpful. I'm guessing a quick call to them will give you what you need. 1-800-528-5880

subscribed! Care to be a little more specific about location? I'm selfishly hoping you're in southern NJ so I can borrow some vendors if they do a good job for you. I'm curious to see how you like the wood doors. We were thinking about staining ours, but I wasn't keen about needing to...

Thanks for all the nice words, and I'm glad that some of you see foresight and planning. I'm focused on what I didn't get right, but I supposed there's always something that will have been missed. I'm particularly miffed that I got caught by the electrical install. I should have planned...

Well, I've been doing a poor job updating this thread, but the good news is that I have a lot of progress. Hostyle, I never showed you the rendering of the garden wall, but hopefully this picture will do. She's just about finished, except the mason ran out of stone. Final delivery of stone...

If it's not too late, look at Super White Quartzite. Similar to Carrara in look, but no issues of staining. More $$$ though

Thanks for all the kind words, guys. Hostyle, I'll draw it up and show you when I have a moment to do it. Basically the wall will go from the front corner of the current 2 bay garage to the left across the front of the house (the wall will be broken up by the driveway) across the front of the...

Thanks Drew, not a bad idea. I was going to have the compressor in the standard garage, but I can at least run the outlet and make the decision later... The shed will certainly have enough space. I have most everything I need in a 4x8 shed now and I'm only really adding a generator so I can...

The framing started this week. It goes up quick when you're looking at just a single garage bay. Coming from a house that has 8 foot ceilings in the garage, this third bay looks MASSIVE. I love it. 12 foot ceilings where the bay is, then 9 foot on the side. It will have plenty of...

So the foundation was finished last week and the township approved. Here are a few pics of the progress. In the back of the garage, I'll have an integrated shed. Will be sided just like the rest of the house. Thanks to kswerks for the idea! And one final picture of the whole place.

Well, we got the good news last week that the township had approved the third garage. The requirement (since the third garage faces the street) is that we had to erect a stone wall to partially block the garage door. Pretty crazy, but apparently that is what we need to do, so oh well... They...

A few more framing pictures. Shingles/window install should be complete in the next week or two... Still no word on the most important part...approval for the third garage bay.