Recent content by Oakster

Thanks. I've been lurking on this board for a while collecting ideas. This site is awesome. Finally have something to share. I have too much top soil and you guys have too much clay. I had to truck off several loads of top soil and ship in loads of fill. Here are some pictures after it was...

I'm in Massachusetts. Not too far from the NH border

After the foundation was poured but still needed to be filled, we got a blizzard with over 2 feet of snow up in New England. It was awesome to hand shovel out over 2 feet of snow from almost 2000 square feet and have to throw it over 6 feet in the air to get it out of the foundation. It took...

Finally got some time to post updates on my build after a couple of weeks of craziness Here is a picture that gives you an idea of where the workshop will sit relative to my house. The water table is really high where I live so we had to put 100 tons of trap rock into the ground to get a...

Plumbers putty

Not sure why my picture is upside down. I'm not working upside down....

I broke ground today after months of planning and tasks to get a permit. It is going to be a 40x40 room with a totally open floor plan. 14 foot high walls and an attached 15x27 side room for storage and tools. I'll try to do updates as it moves along. The project was too big for me so I'm...