Recent content by ConstructionBoss

That's pretty cool. Nice piece of history. I estimate in the highway construction industry and even in this day in age would love to have one like that for flat work. We have slide rules we use for underground drain pipe. It tells us the weight per foot for different size pipe and box culvert...

I left in '96 after I graduated from Jefferson. I went to college in Milwaukee, then transfered to Arizona State in '98. I lived out in Arizona until I decided to get out of there before the eminent hosing collapse. I sold my house and moved here to Texas in April of 2006. My parents moved away...

That's a monster notch! Pics of your truck???

I dig that cart man. That's a simple but effective way to store your clamps. I've been thinking of storing my clamps in a similar way with my three shelf cart that I now keep under my welding table.

Looks great! Congrats on tackling a huge task!

Nice work. Did you put the siding up already weathered or is that from the 5 years it's been on the shop? I know what it is like to be on hiatus. I had my house built in 2006, and started getting the garage together after I moved in. Then for about 4 years it was a low priority. It's only been...

Looks Great!!! Gives me some things to think about when we start designing our pool. Congrats on the progress so far.

That is my plan as i finish up that area. I want to do that, and add an exhaust fan up above to extract fumes like Jack did. I will add more to pegboard behind the miterbox cutting station to hold extra saw blades and probably some more garage art. I will have access panels to get to the circuit...

My wife and son headed to Lubbock this week to spend time with her extended relatives so I had a couple late nights of cutting, grinding, banging, and welding. I have a surplus of steel left over from when I owned a sign shop about four years ago. After some planning, I came up with a...

Nice garage. Do you have any updated pictures? I used to live out in Chandler and ran asphalt paving work all over the valley before i moved to Texas in '06. I am guessing you are up my Lake Pleasant, north of the 101? I know a couple neighborhoods with that type of setup in that area. I always...

Where did you go Doug? I spent the last week while I had down time between bid reviews reading through your entire build and now I'm chomping at the bit for more updates!!! I had seen your thread pop up a couple of times but never got to into it until last week. Great stuff!!! I grew up in the...

The cost to trench across the driveway would be to much. Plus I would have to snake it through electrical and fiber optics. The chances that it would work are only about 5%. I would rather not do the bathroom if it came down to that option. It won't work because of the post tensioned floor...

I have been mulling over an addition to the back of the house/garage. One of the things I would like to add is a waste line so I can add a bathroom with a shower, sink, and toilet. The bathroom would be located at the back corner of the house, and connecting underground the the existing house...

Well there you go. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to tell you what you already know!!! Good luck with the build, I'll be watching with enthusiasm!

I'm in the highway construction business, and we live and die by contracts, inclusions and exclusion, plans and specs, and finally, inspections. When we bid work or receive bids from subs, we usually will have a list of inclusions and exclusions that get incorporated into the contract. These...