Recent content by thejaq

why have I been getting these photobucket "over your storage" for the past few months? it clicked this morning. oh right, I was posting about my garage until I fell behind, hung my head in shame, and ran away... I finished it (the outside at least). I have since pulled off some trim and still...

:willy_nil We had mixed weather as far back as February, but my work has been sporadic. It has been a relatively dry winter/spring so I went ahead and started putting up tar paper over the firewall, foam and paper over the other walls, then furring strips. This is about 6 days of work over the...

IMO, this is too broad a conclusion from that work. Maybe fair to say it is a practical conclusion absent cost-ineffective engineering work. It is best in the desert because the swing happens everyday, but can be engineered everywhere that has load above and below the balance point, which is...

The material R values are all well characterized, but it is complicated by many factors several of which are conflated (knowingly and unknowingly) in this discussion. All of these other factors affect perceived comfort, HVAC energy, etc. Fun isn't it?! Materials have R-values that depend on...

I wish, I'm still in the dark days of winter (and overworking...) I plan to get back to out there and wrap it all up in March and April. I need to plan out the windows in the meantime, I will put up details on this or more likely, beg for help. It has been a good test of a winter so far...

So they say, I am not a fan of it. More common on commercial buildings. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Code requires that I use fire rated material for a wall near a property line. So you guesed it, it is some type of fire reistant sheetrock. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Only a few days to work the last few weeks due to day job, but I managed to wrap up the details keeping me from the framing inspection. I wrapped up some details on the firewall, sheathing fastening schedule, stitch screws, glazing cutouts, and put the garage door up. I also passed the framing...

I did not do stitch screws, but it seams easy enough to add. At the same 36" spacing or closer? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

The roof went up pretty easy, all things considered. We built a ramp of (2) 2x6 and pulled the metal panels onto the roof. The manufacturer recommends using butyl tape on the ridges where the panels overlap due to the low slope. This was somewhat tedious and prevents the roof panels from mating...

yikes, I knew my schedule would blow up at the end of September! More rain, some traveling, job is heating up, barely any work into this thing. I put in sporadic efforts overt the last two weeks and I managed to sheath everything .. mostly ... except the firewall. It went well for the most part...

Thanks. I did rough cut the OSB and zip off the ~1" edges once they were on the roof. I would have preferred to finish the wall sheathing first, but so it goes. Excellent. Thanks. I would have otherwise just marched right along edge to edge. I have the eve drip edge up and it is overlapped...

Timing is off. I'm trying to write down these notes during downtime and then post them, I'm a few days behind the story. From Tuesday this past week, trying to get the roof covered before the storms: I had all the full sized pieces up and tacked in place when my wife got home Tuesday. Had about...

The roof osb showed up Sunday morning as promised. Getting sheets on the roof turned out to be a challenge. Thankfully I have an awesome wife. We concocted a scheme for me to lift it up the ladder steps with her steadying it at the top and then heaving each sheet up in the air to tip and fall on...