Recent content by SCMO

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    Estimate for new garage, advice needed

    Quite possibly the most ridiculous out of reality quote I have seen on this site.
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    New construction. Need reassurances that this 16' door will work.

    A 16' will be too tight. Especially since the house corner prevents any creative use of angle pulling in/out. Your instincts are correct.
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    Roofing underlayment is a waste of time and money with asphault shingles...

    What? Ice and water shield is self sealing. Ordinary underlayment certainly is not.
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    Unscrewed the "DO NOT ADJUST" port from HF Jack (2 tons) - help!

    Sounds like what I have been doing since age three lol.
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    Looking to build in sw Missouri

    Mills concrete in Nixa is the best around. I was my own GC in 2020, used Mills for flatwork and poured walls, Joplin Truss (Sarcoxie) and Amish labor for whatever I could not or did not have time to do.
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    State of Garage Construction, 2024 Edition

    My solution was find a great concrete contractor for the footers, floor and poured walls. I have a very good truss plant in the area so I ordered the trusses. I built the framed walls/portal myself and hired an Amish crew to put up the trusses and sheath the roof. The place I ordered the...
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    Steel building costs keep going up? Buy now or wait?

    Wrong. The impossibility to earn any meaningful interest, anywhere, has driven the market this high. Interest rates have been held down as a matter of Fed/Gov. policy to devalue the dollar (devalue the insane Federal debt).
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    Will a metal building increase the value of land?

    Lake Wateree, well there is your answer.
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