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The reason I asked about the exterior rails was the potential of water getting in the pipe and freezing.

Will you weld the sleeves all around for the outside rails? I do like the look. The fittings will get powder coated also I presume.

Rebar is not code compliant. 1 1/4” OD is the minimum diameter for round. If you want round then 1 1/4” sch 10 pipe is the most common. Maximum distance around any shape is 6 1/4”.

10 actually.

Yea. That was my uncle Bill’s. Where did you find it?

My shed builder would always have left over paint from every building. They would dump into a clean 30 gallon drum and use it to paint sheds for lot stock. What was amazing is that no matter what was poured into the drum, after it was mixed it always came out as some shade of tan.

When I was a young framer a lifetime ago we would put 50’ cords on our skillsaws.

You will need to do some layout. The corner trim may or may not cover a rib. There should be no issues with windows and doors. The J trim will work for all conditions. You will have the same issue on the roof. You will need to layout so that the rake metal does not land on a rib. Remember to use...

There are tabs attached to the jamb that are embedded into the mortar joints. Then the jamb is usually grouted solid. I’ve seen the masons cut the jambs into short pieces with a demo saw and removed carefully to not damage the wall.

Yes, mountain industrial has been all the rage here in Durango for several years. However recently I saw an installation in a house that we were doing the rails for that really caught my eye. The decorator brought in a painter that weathered the black bits by dry brushing with various rust tones...

The sales guy is out of the picture. The 15% “deposit“ is his commission. He serves no other function than to make sales with no weight behind him. As I mentioned earlier, if the company doesn’t get paid they will not get hurt. I don’t know what the balance is but about one third is real money...

It looks great. Where have you been hiding the truck?

Make the templates long enough to screw them to the form. Do not over size the holes. If it is a 3/4” bolt drill a 3/4” hole. When you put the bolts in the template make sure you have enough projection with a nut on the bottom and top of the template. Just before the pour spray the bolts with...

Metal building anchor bolts are anywhere between 16”-24”x3/4”. They are securing a column with a very high bending moment. Cold formed buildings use titan anchors but they spread the load over more frames.

Everyone seems to think it will be so easy to install bolts after the fact. You still have to layout the holes. We are not talking about a hammer drill and a 1/2” bit. You would be drilling a 7/8” hole up to twenty inches deep, with a good size rotor hammer, probably hitting rebar which will...