Recent content by TxAgs

I'm hoping that working with the town will work out for the better on this. After the survey info was completed and we had everything wrapped up, it turns out that everything is proper within the property lines. Our big problem is going to be a request to build 3ft into the setback.

Exactly. This is like Texas in the 1980s before the religious right took over. That said, we really aren't concerned with the neighbor on our property. What we are concerned with is how large we can build a garage toward the neighbor to the right. My wife used to work for a small city and when...

Give me a shout when you get back up there. If we still have the boat and the weather is nice, I'll be happy to take you guys sailing. Feel free to PM me.

Yes, we have Mt. Battie state park as our backyard. Part of the reason we bought this property.

HA! That black line that runs thru it is the highway right of way. We still have a few feet before its in the way.

Agreed. We have some research to do to see if the neighbor really owns that 25ft or there was a survey mistake years ago.

Waiting on the official report. We are friends of the surveyor and not a priority at the moment. Self imposed priority!

Hey all! Thanks for the great replies. I didn't mean for this to be a trick question, but it ended up that way. The survey image I posted is from the town GIS department. We had recent survey done and their survey matches the town records exactly. I'll vouch for the surveyors - close friends of...

Good evening all, I started a thread months ago regarding the planning of a new garage/apartment on our property up in Camden, Maine. Not much progress has been happening, but we did get our property surveyed. This is a crazy one. It appears that all of the structures for a few houses are...

From what you witnessed, did it appear to be a faster building method? I'd like to get it completed quickly and get renters back in. It's always the ole - cost vs time predicament.

I was thinking 3 cars wide, 2.5 deep. That hits that area you are talking about. I would like to put in a wall between the cars and the shop. I don't need that kind of mess.

Good questions. Let me see if I can explain a bit better - In simple terms, 3 cars wide, but possibly 2.5 cars deep to account for the shop in front of the cars. Sadly, we don't get as much snow as we used to. I think that in the two years we've been there, we've had maybe 30" total. We are...

I'm realizing that the build cost is a bit higher. I need to weigh the time savings vs cost. I will say that finding a contractor to build is a huge pain at the moment. I'm hoping that we could possibly order the panels in the fall for a spring arrival and summer construction season. That would...

First off, I haven't been on GJ in a while. Glad to see good discussions are still happening. I've skimmed some threads but haven't found this particular question in my search. In 2018, we moved aboard our sailboat and lived in the Caribbean but when COVID struck, we sailed back to the US and...

So glad to be back at Garage Journal! We have been living on a 44' catamaran in the Caribbean and battling corossion daily. My secret is to pack tools in an airtight Pelican case or a knockoff from Harbor Freight. I give the tools a regular soaking in T-9 Boeshield. I'm happy to report that...