Recent content by Eric W11

Logan - it's been great! One of the things I was a little surprised with is there's a "drive mode" knob, with what you might expect - "tour" "sport" "track" and I'm forgetting what the other one was, maybe "rain". But once in "track", press the center button, and there's 5 more track-specific...

Thanks Brent. Couple more pics of the beast. The one at the top of the slope with the view across the valley - I've taken all the cars over there for some photos. It's just a couple of streets north of here but it slopes up much higher than here for a wider view of the valley.

Friday, 12/29, PV solar generation system activated by the utility. Now, to offset my carbon offset, I've added another carbon-generator. Courtesy mostly of my Mom, who passed away earlier this year. (Isn't that how a lot of maybe less-than-fully-rational purchases get done - you fall into $...

Passed inspection the day after the photos above (Wednesday), they filled in the conduit trench Thursday, and submitted for connection on Friday. Today (first day after the Christmas weekend), I got acknowledgement from the utility that it's now on their list for connection. I also painted the...

Not sure how far along you are. If you could swap the two doors for a single, 18' wide door, you might be happier with the access options. The garage I built is on a 26' wide slab with a single 18' door on the front, and I love that there's a solid 3'+ down each side wall for workbenches, tool...

From the overhead view, looks like the inboard / rear side spots (the outer two of the four spots along the hillside wall) don't have straight out access to the door. Looks like your door is a roll up door. I'd consider doubling the roll-up door to two double-wide (16' minimum, or 18' if you can...

Day 2 - everything installed. Needs inspection to back fill the conduit trench, then the power company adds the solar generation meter for the system to become active. Just a small corner of the one panel is visible from the front side. A bit of conduit over the roof, then they drilled through...

1. The garage has its main roof facing almost due south. 2. There's no access / walk-on requirements for a garage (unlike a house, which has all kinds of edge/peak setbacks for possible firefighter access). 3. So load up the garage roof with as many solar panels as will fit! Long gone are the...

Next big garage project scheduled to start next week. About 4 months in the making, and we moved ahead about a month because someone else cancelled. Pictures soon - it's probably not what you're thinking...

Saw your comment on my thread. Funny thing is, my house is about smack dab in the center of the view photo you posted. Whichever bay you decide is the "RV" bay, whether that's on the house or the shop, make the door 14' high. That way, regardless of what type (if any) of RV you end up with, it...

Concrete showed up about 5am this morning. Guy said no weight on it for 4-5 days. Not an hour later, the UPS truck cut the corner. Doesn't look like any damage, though.

This about shows it all. Intended for 3-4 cars, with space down each side for work tables and storage.

Expanding the driveway a bit. Thought this would be an issue when built, but I didn't know exactly which vehicle would go where or how much turn radius was really needed. This corner being expanded out is covering an area that collected water and mud and the mud/sand was being dragged into the...

Been a while. Just got the mini-split outside tube cover installed and painted. That was a process. The refrigerant leaked out over the winter, so it didn't make cooling during the springtime. We got the installer to come out, and he recharged it, said the leak was likely at the braze joint that...

Here's how those big plastic bins go - bins ~27" deep on 24" shelves: