Recent content by greg

Ten thousand square feet sounds like a lot of room , but I still found myself filling every corner. This corner was an odd size and the beam did not allow for traditional fixture to be installed. I made a wooden frame and cut the peg to fit. The rack also needed to be cut down to fit the space...

Standard Plumbing just bought a chain located in Nebraska and is adding a full True Value line into the different locations. I am not sure exactly where they are located , but they are coming to Nebraska. The store continues on , more pictures after this weekend.

Christmas vacation helped a lot with the progress and my wife owns a merchandising company so her people are stocking the bulk of the product. I handle the construction , fabrication and building maintenance. My wife handles the day to day and her merchandising company. We are also blessed with...

It's mostly a dream , other than the occasional speedbump along the way its been awesome. Small hardware has done exceptionally well through Covid with Ace , True Value and Orgill having record years. I have been in the industry for almost 30 years so when the local store came up for sale it...

It only took 12 years , but the temporary 6"x6" posts are out and the black locust logs are in. And the fireplace is complete as well now. Painted the back room at the store / new retail area . We pulled the doors for the back from a restaurant that was being torn down. Our...

The first new exterior wall is up which means the old walls can come down. Here you can see where we removed the steel up top and the new wall out through the hole. And here you can see the concrete wall is down! One more to go , then polish the floor , epoxy it , hang lights , build...

Girts and Beams are up and into the existing building. We are waiting on the metal panels to come in so we can close it in and begin the interior tear down.

Thank you , we have a few more tricks for the countertop shaping up this week. Til then the pictures of the new shop truck and steel beams for the addition will have to hold y'all over. 1970 Dodge 200 with a 400 big block , automatic , factory air and a Holley EFI setup. Runs decent is...

Thank you on both accounts! Few beers usually does it for me , but I cant do the ear plugs and sleep. End caps are installed and ready to be filled. The footer is cut out for the expansion.

Thanks! We love being back off the road , it makes for quiet living. The negative is when I hit the road its hard to sleep in the hotels! The driveway is 550 feet from the road to the house or 120 yards give or take including the side parking area and back garage footer/ slab. Crazy right...

It only took 12 years to get the stone work started! But we added in an outdoor fireplace in addition to the garage and columns. And just to add some more chaos we bought our local hardware store and are in the middle of remodeling it! While we are at it we are chipping up all of...

Craziest part of it is that is the first time I have ever seen their dog out of the fence.

Car port is in! It is 21' wide by 18' deep. The install crew was great and really did a nice job. Top of the Line buildings aka TOL was mediocre at best. They scheduled the install a month later than what was agreed on and all conversation started with a call from us to them . The building is...

Thanks , I was pretty surprised to find it much less be able to afford it. I'm finding the LS to be brutally fast in something this lightweight though it loves a check engine light just as much as a Jeep! I have some bugs to work out but the previous owner took pretty good care of it . I...