Recent content by Daveinrockhillsc

Please please put smoke alarms in it today. Make sure they talk to the ones in your house. Call your house insurance and if you need to have it appraised so you are covers if it burns down. And then take photos of every thing inside and the photo to the cloud. Open everything and take photos of...

Roof is almost done

Love the build. Yea we send pies to our neighbors all the time. Pie helps!!

This week I hope to have the garage all dried in. Another big step will be wiring. With me moving the house to a fully connected house and speakers every where. I am started with a 42u Rack and now trying out a few layouts. The loft will have a 7.2 sound system in it, the rest of the house will...

Ran in to an odd snag. The windows for the dormers just got placed on back order as they had a large shipment go south to Texas. Well my contractor decided to buy four larger windows they had on hand and reframe the dormers for the larger windows. Oh well bigger is better.

The crew worked a little on Saturday. Got 1/4 of the roof support done. Found out I am glad I already ordered the wood with the contractor. Wood prices have already shot up becouse of the need in Texas. Home Depot is being a pain about it now too. The wood is on hold as we do not have room with...

Well rain has slowed work down. Good news I got my sample from armorpoxy. Gray color is looking good. :thumbup:

I got up to the loft a few days ago before it rained

Yes we are in the city limits, but no HOAs. Near some parks.

Just a tip from my build. I did all the planing I thought I needed but the city codes or I should say the city's or county's everchanging codes where a big pain. Do take your plans to your local residential planner and get some input from them too.

A drone photo of the work. Shhhhh

I was going to make it the same depth but as they dug out the trench for the foundation they just add some space for the tractor to dig. Bigger is always easier. LOL so now it is a foot and haft deeper in the front and back.

Yea with it being attached it cut out so many restrictions

So cool!

Now the frame is going up. They are working on the second story today. Yeaaaa