Recent content by philbilly20

Yep! 2023 Touring XT

Gym Gains? I’ve been slowly working along on getting the gym finished up. I’ve had the electrical ran for a while so now drywall is the big project. Bought a lift from harbor freight to hang the ceiling which worked amazing, would’ve been a huge pain without it. Currently mudding and taping...

Fixing Mistakes- When the main pad was poured we started behind the eight ball. The pump truck showed up two hours late which started in motion what was about to become a bad pour. The one thing I had stressed about the most was the concrete, really hard to get a do over-especially with floor...

The plan is to keep it forever! The dealer we got it from offers a lifetime powertrain warranty with all of their new vehicle sales. We are planning on testing how “lifetime” it is.

Summer Slump- Summer hit and things of course got super busy on the farm but I still persevered on working on the shop. The one thing I forgot to do was keep it updated here, I’ll try to catch up in a few posts. During the summer we worked on getting the outside concrete work finished up. This...

Going to have my floor ground and polished in the next month. Wanted to fill the expansion saw cuts before it was ground and polished it so it would blend in and be perfectly smooth. Was wondering what everyone was using for this situation? TIA

In your area I would give Built-Rite Buildings or BRB (forgot what they go by online) a call. Their Neosho branch is building mine and I have been very happy. They will probably have a list of concrete guys that pour on their jobs as well.

I will do that, looks like they’re about 2 hours away which for work like that may not be too far.

We also had the very exciting “first car parked in the garage” moment. I’m sure it’s on par with children being born, saying your wedding vows, and other similar life events

Let There Be Light!- Sorry I haven’t been the most active on this thread. Between actually working on the garage and not just posting about it and gearing up for and starting planting corn it has been a busy last month and a half. The next step in trying to find the light at the end of the...

Interior finishings- The crew showed up and was ready to line the interior out. They were nice enough to let me use their man lifts in the evening to do some wiring and light installation. If I didn’t wire up the soffit lights before they lined the ceiling I don’t know how I would’ve gotten...

The whole interior is getting lined with tin so we are going to do blow in insulation in the attic.

Insulation Time- On Monday we finally had time in the insulators schedule and good enough weather to get our spray foam on. After researching insulation options I would rather have to argue with somebody over politics or religion than insulation. Everybody has an opinion on it and they are sure...

Interior Finishing- On some days it feels like we are so close and on others it feels like I have years of work to do. When the interior walls were framed up it felt like things were coming together. Very neat to get a feel of how the drawings on paper translated into real life. Also somehow...

We get windy days but nothing like other parts of Kansas. I’m closer to the Ozarks than I am to Wizard of Oz-esque Kansas.