Recent content by flyguy330

An updated pic. I have 2 of the big overhead doors on now. All the fascia and soffits are on now. Will see if I can get the overhead doors done and take an updated pic this week!

Man this project has been keeping me busy!!! I think I bit off more than I can chew but its getting close to being closed up. My cousin and his crew framed this in 2 days and left the rest of the work to me. Before he left he said, "I don't think you have any idea how much work this is going...

Just food for thought with the ceiling insulation. I'm in the process of building a 2 x 6 stick frame 1932 sq ft building with 15 ft ceilings. I'm quite sure that the more insulation the better. I'm planning on R-50 though the minimun you should go is R-40. Most of your heat loss with...

I live just north of Winnipeg and bought about half of my materials at Menards. The funny thing was that you really had to know your material prices!!! Lumber was the same price in Canada as at Menards, and shingles were actually more! The place I really saved money was on the pex tubing...

So we got the pour done....Only used 46 yards of concrete!!! Went smooth and I'm happy with the finished product. Starting putting the formular 250 insulation around the perimeter of the the foundation. Code in our municipality calls for 2ft around the perimeter. I had some extra left over...

My dad and I have been slaving our buts off for a week trying to beat the winter cold that coming. This ended up being a much bigger job than I anticipated. Now I'm starting to see why I had quotes for 30 G's. In the end I have a friend who's doing the pour and guiding me each step of the...

So I have been talking about it for a year or two, but its finally coming to fruition. I dug the hole and began bring in rock for the driveway and garage pad base. After a coupple of days I ended up with a 270 tonne rock base consisting or 2" limestone down. The engineers plans were for a 16"...