Recent content by mvusse

I work for one of the big box auto parts stores. I have a commercial account at Lowe's an it's on my way to work.I divide materials up more or less 50/50 between Lowe's and Menards. As for Canada, we visited my parents halfway up the Lake Huron coast line, then we continued on to Warsaw Caves...

I've done a number of roofs in the past for Habitat for Humanity, enough to know I didn't want to be a professional roofer. Mind you, it's been more than 10 years since I've done shingles and I can definitely tell I'm ten years older. It took me about 3 days to recover from day 1...

I then started on the shingles. Day 1: Day 2: Day 4, ran out of shingles before I ran out of roof: But after a quick trip to Lowe's I finished: A few days ago I got the ridge vent and cap shingles on: Just the soffit left, but first we go on vacation In Georgia to visit my daughter...

So after fixing the Jeep, breaking the Jeep, stuffing an 8500 sq ft wood shop into a 1200 sq ft garage, and fixing the Jeep again 2 months had gone by before I finally got the shingles onto the roof. I got about half the pallet unloaded like this, until the mast got in the way for the remaining...

Bank run (all sizes mixed together) is usually cheaper because they can skip the sorting and compacts much better. I used 60 ton of it under my concrete floor and with the pit only being ~5 miles from my house I still paid more for the delivery than I did the material.

My weekend toy is on 37" tires and *heavy* wheels (each wheel/tire combo weighs 160 pounds) completely unbalanced and it goes down the highway 80 mph without any noticeable vibration. My daily driver on 29" tires and simple steel wheels drove me nuts at 55 mph when one of the weights fell off...

I paid $100 a yard for 3000 psi last year. But 4.4 yards you would pay an additional charge for it being a short load.

I would flood the garage. 1/2" of standing water and you never have to worry about overspray on the floor, o dust off the floor in the paint.

Finally got the siding done on the last wall. Still need to do the soffit and shingles, but first I need to get the Jeep back on the trails and I now have a deadline to get my equipment out of the old shop (and in the my new garage).

Finally got all three (1.25" diameter) bolts out: 500 or so pound top block off: Three metric $#!t tonne main block off: And finally have good access to remove the leaky radiator. That cherry picker has an 8000 pound capacity.

If it is cat 5 or cat 6 cable, you will be fine. The pairs of wires carrying the signals are twisted together. This makes them pretty much immune from outside interference and at the same time don't cause interference on anything else nearby. You can pay extra for shielded cable if you really...

Wall #3

24x50x12.5 in Ohio, still in progress, but all material is paid for. Stick built, vinyl siding, asphalt shingles to match the house. Hired out the concrete floor for $5200, did/doing everything else myself. 7 windows, man door, two 16x10 insulated garage doors, drywall ceiling/walls...

When I set my trusses I was lucky enough to own a forklift. 12'6" tall walls, 28' trusses 4/12 pitch and a quad telescoping mast on the forklift with a reach of 20'. With two helpers we set 26 trusses in a half day. Did have to do a bit of advanced planning for the last few, We then spent the...

The roofing felt is doing a great job keeping the garage dry, so I decided to do the siding first and the shingles last. This spring, though, just like last year, every time I had a day off it was either raining, or had just rained, and I did not feel like standing in mud installing my siding...