Recent content by matthimself456

Wow! This place is amazing... There are a lot of great ideas here. Regarding the junk stashed there - you all should see the inside of the building :D But yes getting that cleaned up is job #1 this spring. A lot of it ended up there for no good reason. Colin Len, you and I think very...

A huge reason I bought my house 11 years ago was the detached shop. It’s one of those steel arch "Quonset Hut" -type buildings that gets delivered on a pallet. It’s not particularly pretty but my area is a 50/50 mix of residential and agricultural, so I tell myself it kind of fits in. The...

Lots of progress but I can't figure out how to post pictures from my google photos without downloading and re-uploading. I have lots of pictures to share... Basement excavation finished yesterday with the garage footing trench finishing up this morning. Footings get formed tomorrow and poured...

Permit was approved last week without issue. The building inspector made a note that the project will require a blower door test which I thought was odd since the living space portion of the addition is 100% open to the existing house with no feasible way to test only the new portion. But we'll...

That's a pretty slick idea. Put a whistle on the outlet of the needle valve and you have an integrated alarm too! And to all the naysayers taking the simple way is not how one gets to end up with an awesome bi-fold hangar door, an automated waste oil furnace, or a PLC-controlled hobby barn. I...

Somebody's getting horses...

Not to add complication but another approach to some kind of redundancy would be some automatic way of limiting the speed of closing. That could be some sort of hydraulic damper or a centrifugal lock like a seatbelt mechanism. Something that would engage only in the event that part of the...

In this application if the worm gear failed I'm not sure you'd ever have the chance to wonder. This is some very inspirational work, 86. I love watching this thread.:thumbup:

I just dropped off the building permit application. It took another couple iterations to get the final drawings that I submitted but the changes made should save a few grand in materials that were over-spec'd. The original design called for I-joists for the second floor but 2x12's are plenty...

Thanks, mm08822. I'm going to have to look more into how to do those load calcs. My water heater, dryer, and heat are all gas so if I can lockout AC, mini split, elec. stove, and air compressor with load shedding and get the remaining calculated load below the capacity of my generator then...

For the money you can do waaay better than Andersen. In my mind they are a textbook example of a company whose reputation and marketing far outshines the actual product. If you want wood windows I'd go with Marvin. For vinyl there are cheap ones with garbage quality, expensive ones with...

Wyliesdiesels, do you know specifically where this is in the code? The reason I ask is I just spoke with the electrical inspector and presented him this question. He thought it was permissible to use an "under-sized" generator on a service-level ATS. Obviously if the load exceeded the capacity...

Dangit. All the chicken wings and beer finally caught up...

First time trying to post pictures so we'll see how it goes... Drawings are more or less finished. Some snips of the garage-relevant ones are (hopefully) attached to this post. My permit application should be going in this week and I have begun the process with the relevant utilities for...

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