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Floor finished, sealed, 2nd floor walls up. 1750 self tapping screws. Bought a few new milwaukee drivers for the task which made it much easier. Self tapping screws, speed matters. Dug out the drainage and put in drain pipe. Filled with stone and lined with tar paper. Installed one line...

Got all the braces out, pulled square again within 1/8". Cleaned up, brought plywood in, set up the drywall lift again, moved the scaffolding, brought drywall up to the second floor, bought a pair of milwaukee m12 impact drivers, 35lb of self tapping winged screws, and a case of wood to metal...

120lb per beam, 10" tall, $5400 total. 25/50 dead/live load. And it's all installed. Boy was that a job. Killed ourselves for 2 days lifting them up in 95F heat before I thought the drywall lift would be easier. Sure enough, boom. First 2 days 10, 2nd 2 days 28 installed. And we started doing 5...

Floors are here. I'm using Clark Dietrich tradeready steel joists. They're awesome, I love them so much. Really heavy duty.

First floor done. Joists arrive on the 13th. Will work on the drains and tidying up in the mean while. 3000 nails were used to stick the plywood to the studs. We're dead square, 51'1" diagonal between corners at the top, same as it was with the block.

Wood arrived. Got started on the walls. It was a hot one today.

Pour took 2 days, last tuesday and wednesday. First truck was 10 yards and did 20'. I'm glad we didn't split it in half at 22' because we had a wheel barrow left. 2nd day was 24', first truck was 20 yards, then cleanup truck was 1.5 yards. By my calculations the average depth is 7".

Weather didn't hold. Laid pex in rain all day today. Absolutely back breaking work. But I"m glad it's done. Still have to go back and clean up some loose ends. 1600' of pex going to the 8 lane manifold.

Weather permitting, pour next saturday. Still getting wire down and tied, then pex.

I'm supporting at every joint in rebar. But I'm finding with weight they're digging/cutting into the insulation. I need 231 of them to support everything. I bought 3 boxes of chairs from home depot for $250, but they're a bit to tall, so I'm drilling and cutting 3" pvc.

Stone spread, compacted, end blocks in, 15mil vapor barrier in, foam in, termite guard on, bottom plate on, rebar in. Tomorrow i'll be making the chairs for the rebar. Slowly but surely. Jumping jack video: http://i.imgur.com/njOjt2Yh.mp4

This is going to be a multi-floor garage and I want to be able to heat the upstairs as well (on a separate circuit) in the future if the need arises. There is perimeter insulation as well as under slab insulation.

Poured 6" concrete slab with insulation. The walls help me determine the actual area of the slab, 44' is 42'8", 24' is 22'8" on the inside. Everything on the internet I was able to find said recommended spacing is 8", or down to 4" when the circumstances are not good.

This is all fairly new to me but I've done a lot of reading and want to make sure I have what I need. If any of my understandings are wrong, please let me know. Structure is 24'x44' with 8" walls, the idea was to run 4 runs per circuit putting me at 32 runs with 8" spacing, which would be 8...

It's a bigger project than I anticipated. Considerably bigger. I figured the hardest part was going to be digging out the footers, but the block work is just endless. Mixing so many bags, moving so many block, getting a dozen shots to make sure height is perfect, perfectly square, getting...