Recent content by davey_darling

Tyvek, so far :) The plan is to do the back and sides in steel and the front with hardi-siding to match the exterior of the house. At the moment this is fairly low on my priority list.

I have another property that I stored a bunch of the lumber on, once the roof was on I also brought a bunch of it inside the building so I could work on it over the winter. I still have more lumber stacked up than I know what to do with.. Some real nice fir 2x10's 15 feet long. I roughed in a...

Thanks, that's my '48 International KB-1. Another work in progress.

I guess that's it for now. I've got years of organizing and finishing ahead of me, I think, but for now it's very functional and I'm out there every day. This is definitely something that's been missing from my life since I left my parents farm 30 years ago! Having a warm place to work all...

Well I'm having a Christmas party for the guys in here so I better get the bathroom done. Last pic shows the view from the best seat in the house.

Ok, the heat is now on - time to install the garage doors and start moving all of my junk in there! I had some random benches and shelving in my other garage, it'll have to do for now.

More anxiety - it felt like I waited for weeks after it was ready to get the slab poured. It's very hard to find contractors where I am. But the day finally came! I admit I almost got a little emotional walking in there for the first time. I quickly framed up my utility room and got a roof...

Ok, this first pic is of some formwork I did to create a new utility room. Over the course of the build I decided that I didn't want my heating system taking up space in the garage so I squared off one of the corners of the + sign shape and made what ended up being a 7x10 utility room. It's...

Zoning regs required me to attach the garage to the house on the property, so that's what I'm doing here. Will become a new entryway for the small apartment back there.

More shiplap installation and some overall views of the space so far.

An assortment of photos - wiring and installing the panel. I drilled new holes in the back of the panel to avoid having the wires pop out of the wall and then into the side of the panel. Makes for a nice clean look and leaves plenty of room for future EMT installation. Now I've started adding...

By now you've noticed the big hole in the middle of the ceiling. I had the trusses built with a coffer, the outside part of the ceiling is 10' and the inner raised part is 13' to accommodate a lift that I'd like to have in the future. I used 1/2" plywood pre-painted and then applied 1x4 in a...

Another big milestone - starting to put the reclaimed shiplap up on the ceiling. This was actually the floor from the building I tore down. Went up relatively easily using scaffolding and my trusty paslode nailer. Ran a few strings here and there to try to keep things straight with some success.

Time to start insulating and running wires. I had initially thought that I wanted to run everything on the surface in conduits but it started to make sense to run some wiring inside the walls and then bump out to conduit when needed.

IN just a couple days the roof was up and shingled. Huge sigh of relief.