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A few more things got accomplished since last time. They installed a transformer at the road and buried the electric line coming into the new building. The electrician then wired some outlets in the new building and ran the underground wire to the old building to get power in there. I can now...

Bib Overalls: I was really pleased with the guy doing the spray foaming. When he was all done spraying he took an ice scraper and scraped the edges of the 2 x 4's where I would be installing the interior steel and plywood. I had planned on having to do that myself, but it was nice not to have to...

C_F: Thanks for the response. The holes in the wall up near the ceiling are for a make up air vent and and for the vent pipe for the modine heater. When the building was classified as a commercial building I had to add the vent and the heater for air turnover. I had hoped that I wouldn't need it...

The garage door guys arrived and put up two of the overhead doors. I was not happy with how one of the openers and springs were mounted. After a conversation with the owner of the company I was told that they ordered the wrong tracks and that he was ordering all 4 sets of tracks now with low...

We got some more done on the building the past couple of weeks. I framed in the horizontal girts on the walls in the heated shop area and above the 2 x 6 partition wall between the shop/office area. I had to get this done before the insulation got sprayed. The electrician was also out and got...

When I returned to the farm I was happy to see that the building is getting closer to being weather tight. I need to frame in the walls before the spray insulation can be applied and the ceiling can be installed. The overhead doors can then be installed after the metal ceiling is up in the...

Unfortunately it has been raining just about every other day at the farm. The crew was able to get the walls up, roof trusses on the main area of the building, and the 2 x6 walls done for the office area. Just as I was leaving the farm on Thursday they got the Tyvek installed and were just...

The concrete has now cured enough that the densifier and hardener could be applied. They sprayed it on and then burnished it. The concrete had to be kept wet for 30 minutes after the application. The 18 x 36 area was not treated. I plan on acid staining that area after the interior walls are up...

I was up at the tree farm for the past couple weeks and we got some more done for the building. The HVAC guys arrived and put the PEX tubing down. My job was tying the tubes to the rebar along the edges of the slab. They stapled the PEX to the insulation in all the other areas, and put in the...

Matt_i: Normally the slabs in the area are poured with a reinforced grade beam around the perimeter of the slab to support the load. Unfortunately we had to do more than just the grade beam for this building. The notched out areas are for the enlarged footings that the state required. These...

Unfortunately the progress has been slow this past week. The HVAC guys couldn't install the pex for the in floor heat due to the concrete guys not having the insulation and rebar finished. The concrete guys had to form the insulation around the enlarged footing areas which took them quite a...

We got some more accomplished this past week, but the weather sure made things difficult. The concrete guys returned to clean out the area by the footings, and did the final grading. The winds started to pick up just as the vapor barrier was going down so my my son and I helped the guys out with...

hdhogman: The plan calls for thickened grade beams around the slab ranging from 16" wide x 20" deep with 4 rows of #4 rebar around the 18' x 36' area to 14" wide x 16" deep with 3 rows of #4 rebar around the 45' x 96' area. The plan also states that when footings don't go below the frost line...

Some more pics of the rough plumbing

Well some more got accomplished on the building. The electrician got his lines buried in the ground for ease of running the wires. They also ran a line underground to the rear of the building for the future back up generator. We get quite a few power outages in the area so the back up gen will...