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Looking good Eric. Sorry to see you having the same problems with door tracks I had on my house garage. I think you also have the same problem I had when I tried to make them change to the higher lift tracks, my contractor had not put the necessary framing higher up In the wall to have the...

I haven’t updated this in quite awhile because we had a big delay caused by a tragedy. Our electrician is a father & son team and in May we heard that the son (only 22 years old) sadly took his own life. So understandably nothing moved forward on the shop (the house was already partially...

Very similar story to what I got, I had asked our gc multiple times for tracks within about a foot of the house garage ceiling. Garage ceiling came out 18-24” taller than originally designed (we actually increased the size of the garage doors 1’ too in the vertical dimension), and we ended up...

“ The track is also about 2ft from the ceiling, which clearly violates my contract requirements.” What were your contractual requirements? Normally I would say make them come back and fix it but those guys butchered your sheet rock so bad it makes me wonder how much worse they could make it.

Thanks for the update! Interested in a few upcoming things you mentioned- heating types, upstairs storage flooring finishing, garage flooring covering options, etc. Please let us know what you are thinking, I have some similar decisions to make soon.

How’s your electrical transformer pit doing? Did it dry out enough to complete the work?

It looks so good! I’m with you on boring the ventilation holes evenly distributed, around here they use bird blocking which is like what you are describing but with screen over the holes.

I like the layout of the shop on your property, it looks like it will really break up the “everyone looks in everyone else’s backyard” nature of that development. How close are you allowed to build to the property lines? Your electrical is pretty similar to mine. In my most likely to be...

Nice build, we are also doing a house and shop (24x48) at the same time. Please show pictures as you work on rough-in and finishes for the shop especially!

Yeah we have had record breaking rain this year so I think the water tables are very high. Hopefully this upcoming dry weather will help you.

It’s looking so good! I can already tell it’s going to integrate well on your property and it doesn’t have any matching exterior yet. Remind me what the interior ceiling height is?

Thanks Eric, part of the fun for me of this site is seeing the differences as well as similarities of different builds. Our two climates couldn’t be more different but that is a beautiful view, and having the pool there is a great contrast to the dry landscape beyond. I always imagine hills...

I think attaching the strong ties to rebar is just to ensure their “roots” go deep into the concrete instead of floating along the edge where they could end up secured by a relatively thin area of the concrete if they shift too much during the pour. Otherwise without a restraint, the pour...

Brent thanks for this picture and explanation of what happened with yours. Do you have your framing picture you could share as well? I’d like to compare my framing to yours and see if they might say mine is inadequate too. Thanks, Scott

Garage doors got installed on the house and while I am pleased with the quality and look of the insulated CHI doors, they were not installed with the high lift tracks I requested. It’s really only aesthetics because our ceiling is so tall, but I don’t like the look of so much empty space above...

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Looking good, how thick is your slab going to be?

With the slab done, we were able to frame the stairs up to the storage area in the shop. Still need to finish the under stairs closet, and railings upstairs. Builder suggested a removable railing at the top so you could carry something long up there without having to make the upper turn- good...