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After obtaining our plumbing permit, we began with the venting installation. Here's the venting for the bathroom coming together to exit through the roof. The vent from outside. And some attic baffles for blown insulation in the future. I have no idea why these pictures are suddenly...

In October, we finished framing the walls. Previously, we raised the main partition wall. After that, we had to focus on building the bathroom. This is a picture of the bathroom as viewed from the work room. And... the bathroom as viewed coming in through the doorway. It is complete with a...

Couple of productive weekends to report: You may have noticed when I posted pictures of our concrete pad project that the door's wood was rotted and the door itself kind of sucked. Take a look at the before in this pic. So, all of that was switched out. The door is now fiberglass with...

The plan is simply to have a place to work on our hobbies and keep our toys. It will have a garage area, a work room, a small snack bar/kitchenette, and a full bath.

Like all other aspects of this garage, the previous owner's efforts were lackluster when it came to pouring a concrete pad at the door. We contemplated renting a jackhammer to break it up, but when I stuck a shovel under one edge, the entire pad lifted up easily. Under it... baseball size...

Been busy again. The garage had two windows that had to go for multiple reasons. Most importantly, they weren't properly framed in. The previous owner had simply cut holes in the wall and spray foamed the windows into place. We pulled down the siding (again) and popped out the windows...

I'm happy to report that we've been busy and making good progress. Unfortunately, there hasn't been much visual impact with the tasks at hand so I don't have anything amazing to show in pictures. We've caulked and spray foamed all exterior cracks and openings. We also pressure tested the...

It does have 2x6 walls. The conduit connects to an underground septic holding tank.

Thank you! The building is 34'x45' and it has 10' ceilings.

I don't think so. The building was built by a reputable company and is very well done. It's all of the work that the owner(s) did themselves that needed to come out. The exterior walls, floor, and roof are actually pretty remarkable.

Now that the building was down to its shell, we were able to focus on sealing it up. Don't get me wrong, the building is professionally built and the builder did a great job, but there was room for improvement. For example, the windows could have been flashed. So, the siding needed to come...

Dumpster day had arrived. A 30-yarder in all her glory had been delivered the previous day and we had help for a second weekend. So, the rest of the OSB, insulation, and ceiling were slated for demolition. 6 hours later, we declared the demolition done. To keep the bags of insulation from...

Well, garage fans, we last left off with some of the walls down in the "Empty but Full of Potential" (EFP) project. The next weekend, we solicited help. The goal was to get the last dividing walls down and all drywall and insulation down. It was little gems like this that reminded us that it...

The original owner planned to live in it while building a house on the property. Local folklore is that he DID live in it... without plumbing and with very sketchy electrical work. It seems that he may have walled off a small room and heated and cooled only that area. The pictures look like a...

The building is 1500 square feet and it's on 2 acres.