Recent content by russeljc

Yeah, I'm surprised as well, the insurance benefit is nice. I think when dealing with residential loans and stuff, steel framing or siding being "unconventional" may cause issues there. At least it did in our area. One of the reason we are cash flowing our current build.

So, after getting the laminate done, I got grout in the tile work. Breezeway connections between the two buildings Studio door on east side. 1/2 bath My wife was anxious to spread out of the house a little, so we've kind of taken over a little of the big room for a makeshift "living" room...

Thanks guys, I have been busy a while, and have a ways to go...

Got the paint on so on to the floors. Had some left over tile from remodeling our previous house so I threw some down in front of the exterior entrances and in the bath. Then started laying the laminate floor, if you noticed the big stack in some of the previous pictures. Some of the more...

Yep, we've kept the door between the two buildings.... we can shut off the other part at night and what have you.

The horizontal siding is the "house" part... 25' x 41' (fairly small) MIL's house on the south end, and the lighter vertical siding is the 25' x 75' Quilting/Photo studio and storage/"woodshop".

Have a friend who paints and he let me burrow a sprayer. Sprayed a coat of primer and two coats of semi gloss white, and went ahead and rolled a 3rd coat to make sure it was all even. It looked good with just the 2 coats sprayed... looking back, I'd just spray a 3rd coat and be done.

I had lined up a sub for the taping and bedding and they were ready to start pretty quick after the new year. Some progress pics I also put some siding up on the connection between the two buildings. Went with some cedar board and baton style. While the subs where doing their thing...

Nearly 16 months between posts may be excessive.... Well, we got this building done. Got it completed and started quickly filling it up by around the end of March 2018. Then I got back to slowly working on our shome, of which I've been picking up some steam of late. I'll just start posting...

Yes, it's an Airstream SC8. Fast charger, louder than I expected, but fast. The gun is pretty slick, sooo smooth!

Two big sheetrock hanging projects in a row, needed a new driver. Got the DWC 18-4500 in this week.

Festool I apparently have a long way to go though...

This get's us up to the last couple weeks. After the electricians where done I ran data cabling throughout the new building and spliced and rehomed the data cabling in the house to a Leviton "structured media" cabinet I installed in the "big" room. I think I'll like using this, little pricey...

The HVAC and Electric subs have FT jobs and do this stuff as side work like me, so it took the HVAC guy a couple weekends to get finished, electrician about 3 weeks working evenings and some on the weekends. Something different about this HVAC install is that we wanted the condensor located in...

After getting it sprayed, Lumber yard dropped off a pile of sticks and I got to building out the interior. I think I got about 80% of the framing done in about a week, but it took me another 4 weeks to finally finish it all up enough for the HVAC guy and electrician.