Recent content by Chopperpilotjeff

Scratch the mezzanine The mezzanine idea was pre-empted by the warehouse racking and forklift solution. It saves a lot of material, construction and PITA and because: Forklift! The rest of the racking will be moved from the attached garage, which should result in a most excellent Home...

We finally decided to install 10 small fixed glass windows. After visiting a friend’s RV garage which had no windows, we found it way too dark. The light is great now!

So far, vents and ceiling fans have been keeping things cool.

I've got the Honeywell's that you see above. They work great wherever I am on the planet on all of my iOs devices.

Having lived for a few years in spray foam structures in Afghanistan, I have lots of good things to say about it. Our tents were sprayed there and would be torture chambers without that protection. It slowed down the shrapnel, too! Everybody above is right about air temperature equalization...

The Big Door I went round and round selecting the big front door. The opening is 14' high and 18' wide to accommodate a full-size RV and also drive a vehicle in next to it. I haven't crossed the Old Guy Line into full-on RV Captain mode, but to build a garage of this size without the capacity...

Let there be light! Couldn't be happier that we made the window decision. With 10 windows up at 12', there is plenty of daylight. Outer High-Perf Low-E glass pane and inner obsured pane give a diffuse, somewhat cooler natural sunlight illumination. As far as windows go, their small fixed pane...

Shortykorte, It's not really a 5' "setback." It's 5' clearance. There is no setback at all on that side of the lot. I do have utility easements on the three other lot edges. The driveway on that side is "zero lot line" all the way to the garage, but for the actual structure, the county (Lake)...

Here is the thread to my build: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6666566#post6666566 I'm building a detached 60' x 30' x 16' "RV garage" for boats and rolling stock so that I can dedicate my 48' x 28' x 10' garage to woodworking and related shenanigans.

Paint Paint always transforms the build. Here is the finished paint day and night. All that's left for the outside is driveway and sidewalk. The green lawn will make it look all civilized and homeowner friendly.

Property line I was able to push to a 5' setback, so I'm wasting minimal backyard. This area will get a spruce up, narrow sidewalk against the building and gutters to channel rainfall to the thirsty landscape. I poured sidewalks around the entire perimeter of my house and will do the same for...

Back corner OK, so I'm pretty jazzed with how this turned out. If you go back to the beginning of this thread, you'll see my original Google Sketchup imaginings of this back corner. This clean, utilitarian idea survived the architect, the county, zoning, permits, contractor and even the block...

Back door I added an 8x8 roll-up canister door to the back of the garage so that I can bring the Polaris and Kubota compact tractor in and out easily. It had to be a canister due to the ceiling height and window - very clean installation. I thought about making this door 10' wide so that I...

Stucco! In my neighborhood, a detached garage (or even a garden shed!) has to match the house in design, architecture, paint and shingle color. The first step is stucco, which is no small undertaking. It's one of the more expensive details of construction, but as you can see, the building is...

After the block is finished, the steel is wired together vertically through the columns and horizontally through the headers. The pours are prepped by covering the inspection holes. Screen keeps the header concrete from pouring into the open blocks. I made some changes from my original...