Recent content by Shadrack

My buddy's call it a moving wall, lol. Updated pictures....

Set a post on the cap board on the block and nailed them to the 2x6 stud, then set the floor truss right on top of those and nailed them down into the top of the post and toenailed them into the 2x6 studs. Once the avantech flooring went down, it's ROCK solid.

Ooooops, forgot about this thread, haha...... Haven't taken any pictures for about 2-3 weeks but here are the latest pictures I have. Since this pictures, roof is complete, wiring is done, lights are done (for now), stairs are not 100% finished though. I still have some work to do to...

Here is what I done on the side of my garage. Although, you could do the same thing on the back, and just make you a small driveway around back. It's perfect for storing the car and extra set of wheels that I don't use that often. It measures 10.5'x21'. I used 4" of reinforced 4000psi concrete...

I'm thinking I'm going to space them 5' apart to get more boxes on the first floor. Yeah, I think I've got the transition figured out, at least in AutoCAD anyways, haha. Looks like to make it work perfect I'm going to have to cut, rebrace and slightly modify the last sissor truss to give just a...

Conveyor belt sounds like a neat idea! I work at a coal mine, so I could probably pick a section of that up pretty cheap..... FREEEEBIEE! haha

Cleaned up a bit and starting hanging my electrical boxes. I've got 12 total downstairs. Spaced about 10' apart. I think I'm going to add a few more. The electrical boxes are 48" off the floor, so a 42" work bench will work perfect on the left hand side under the lower ceiling area. Hope to have...

Nah, I figured a 2x12 with rubber gaskets would do the trick! :D

Exactly, if we got that kind of rain, our entire city (small town really) would be washed entirely off the map! Everything is built down into the narrow valleys because the mountains are just too steep for the majority. I've got it drawn up and I think what I have planned will work alright I...

Surface mining is all around me. I'm a mining engineer, and I'm not real worried about that compared to the volume a 100 year storm can drop. I don’t care where you are at, when you get 3+” of rain in an hour, it WILL flood. As long as they designed all their structures correctly flooding...

Ahh, it's just a little creek. Since the 50's the highest it has ever been in that little small garage pictured was 12" deep. That was in 1977 I believe. I'm actually planning on it flooding sometime down the road. It can get 32" deep inside the garage and shouldn't really hurt anything major...

That's an 8' step ladder upstairs, and a 12' step ladder leaning against the floor trusses. I didn't think it would be this big. Looked much smaller on my AutoCAD drawing. LoL!

While I had him on the phone I asked him about how I wanted to have them spaced and attached. He said the recommended spacing is for insulation purposes mostly and would have no problem with 16" spacing. He also said at full load, deflection will be somewhere around 1/2" With making a "post" to...

I talked with the truss company engineer pretty in-depth and he told me that what I am using it for a 12" truss will be perfectly fine, even with a pool table. It conforms to residential loading and can hold a 55psf live load (10psf dead load top and 5psd dead load bottom) at a 19.5" center...

Out in the sticks! :D I've found a local place and decided on 12" deep floor trusses. Will be here tomorrow!