Recent content by earthworks

Scope of work?

not sure if this comes too late or not but to coat a vertical surface is called parging. purchase a bag of scratch and brown, mix according to instructions and it will adhere to the vertical surface in a thin layer and just apply more to larger indentations. mortar is used to glue masonary...

Progress! Used my lift to install 2/3 of my trusses today..feels good to get something done!

Around my slab I used 2"vertical insulation and 4"horizontal (wing) 4' out. Is not done exactly according to fpsf model, but very close. It is the standard commercial engineered method for our region though. Most large commercial shops, garages and hangars are constructed with this insulation...

In north western Ontario a frost garage wall foundation has to go down 4.5' and costs about 50% more in concrete alone. For that reason most garages (includingmy own) are built on slab on grades w/ 12" club footing. Our municipal building department only requires engineering for none...

I actually wanted 12/12 to match my house, but that put me at 28ft high and 20 is the max without a bylaw amendment.

Mine (still in construction) is 32' wide attic truss. 8/12 pitch yielded a 12' wide by 7.5 'high room (angles down to 5'). The trusses design depends on local codes and snow loads. My bottom cord is 12" thick making my peak height 21'8". I'm envious of these guys telling you they get a14' room...

Dirtracker.. Yep..crazy painfully cold..then the temps finally come back up but it snows. I managed to get a single truss up. Good thing I'm my only customer! And your right, it's my company name. I do landscaping, septic and concrete. In the winter... I build my garage...real slow like...

Now it looks like this...

Finished is a strong word... it's all relative. one man's finished is another man's years left of procrastination. I'm the latter man :-) so I do just enough to keep get mostly happy!

I think even the fan is overkill. There is a specific formal to calculate airflow, and vents are sized accordingly. 300 sqft of attic space to 1sqft of ventilation. Ridge vent preferable, but a gable vent would work if at the peak.

Yep.. I was about to chime in with this one as well. Gable vent at each end, sheet the ceiling, blow in or batting. Easiest and cheapest and perfectly acceptable as long as you have sufficient airflow in there.

You live near Hally Berry? Sounds good to me! And isn't Shania twain from Timmins? Hehe. I actually bought a skidsteer east of Sudbury last year and drove back through the Sultan highway that took me within an hour of Timmins I was told. Closest I've ever been to that area.

You should heed jvitez's remarks about insuring no water problems before installing any vapor retarder. And I definitely think best practise is to use eps then 2x4 stud walls with r13 batting then poly vapor barrier. But I'm north of you just over the Canadian border and have framed out several...

Haha.. awesome, at least someone doesn't think I'm a total idiot:-) And yeah, I'm building 2x6 walls with r24 insulation. We don't stay this cold for too long, but in recent years, things aren't exactly trending towards a warmer climate for our winters. And it seems like our summer's are...