Recent content by rmckee

Downstairs Rockwool Installation Truth be told I’m 18 months late writing this update, but cataloging what progress has been made hasn’t been top priority. I receive messages here and on Reddit about the build pretty regularly, especially from people in the Raleigh area who want garages of...

Insulation Part 1 of ... So with the changes to our garage budget over the last year, but wanting to make progress in smaller but more frequent phases, I decided that I'd change up how I insulated the walls downstairs in the garage. I'm sort of locked into a spray foam on the roof deck due to...

That's a fantastic size! My only model at this point is a 1:150 B75-2, my favorite aircraft. It sits in my office on my vintage hi-fi gear. Maybe someday when the upstairs of this garage project is finished I can have a nice display/collection like you do. That would be one heck of a...

Finalized Lighting Plot @cccoltsicehockey asked a great question about how the lighting worked out, and I realized I never addressed how it was finalized. I laugh a little bit when I say finalized, given that my neighbor is always asking "how much more Romex are you running?" There always seems...

Thanks! Highly worth doing, in my opinion. Great to have options and totally changes the vibe at night in there. Appreciate it @cccoltsicehockey. Job stuff was a cluster and a half but I've moved on. Wife is supportive as heck and as someone who loves flying, it's not the worst thing to be...

Garage Bay Lighting Upgrades So, if you remember the earlier photos, there’s no shortage of shop/task lighting in the garage. In addition to the 12x 8-foot LED fixtures I installed back in April of 2022, I wanted to add some softer dimmable lighting for nights drinking beers with neighbors...

House Roof Replacement & Landscape Work Three years after buying the property, we finally had the roof of the main house replaced over the summer. After getting a handful of quotes (and being harassed by a storm-chaser roof repair guy) we picked an awesome local company, Wilson & Sons Roofing...

Sienna's First Car Wash Super cool moment for me as a dad. Sienna has an electric Porsche and zips around the driveway in it (usually chasing the dog), and is enamored with the revving engine sound effects it has. My wife captured what’s probably one of my favorite photos to-date with Little...

Progress Updates (or lack thereof) Okay y'all... it's been over a year since I've posted anything on here. That's a result of having the most amazing little lady to chase around the house, a crazy work schedule followed by losing my job unexpectedly in May and spending my summer looking for a...

Thanks, @gearhead1960! Making it in just under a year to reply here... Preemptive welcome to the Raleigh area, if you and your wife do migrate down here. I didn't really discuss it earlier, but the reason for not extending the concrete from the driveway to the side entry door is that we don't...

Appreciate it @fouckhest! With the length being right at the edge of CAT-6's upper bandwidth and not wanting to go down the 6A/7/8 rabbit hole, fiber seemed like an easy way to get multi-channel capability out there for later down the road. We don't even have it on the street yet, but if/when it...

Appreciate it @isonic! The above pic has 3 pieces of Ubiquiti gear: Security Gateway (next to the Mac Mini server), the 16 port POE switch, and then a Cloud Key Gen 2 below the switch on the left. The first and last pieces could be combined to one unit if I replaced with a Dream Machine, but at...

Huge progress with the detached build and one more step towards being insulation ready... ran 4-line tactical-grade fiber and 2x CAT-6 ethernet lines from the detached's future server rack location to the existing server rack in the house. Next time I'll definitely rent a ditch witch versus...

Running Data Lines Apparently I'm pretty consistent with the 30 day stretches between posting. Today's update: Fiber & Ethernet runs! I've known for a while that there would be a server rack in the upstairs space of the garage to host the building's amplifiers, home theater equipment, NAS...

@rocco Thanks so much for stopping by, and complimenting the Porsche! Love your 981 and especially the 991!!