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Thanks for the great background on your project, look forward to seeing the updates!

Looking good, please keep sharing!

These were poured about a week ago. First two pictures are the house garage, second two are the shop. Both are about 5-1/2 to 6 inches thick, almost 40 cubic yards total of concrete!

Thanks ODIS, I’ve read every page of your thread but didn’t realize your previous place was on South Hill. I had to look up Tahoma Vista and it’s less than 2 miles from where I live now! Appreciate the encouragement, hope to meet you someday and get a look at whatever nice car you are driving...

Uh-oh, I must not have made it clear that the tree was going to be right in the middle of our garage and unfortunately was the first thing to be removed when we started excavation. We have some Rowan saplings around the property that are likely related to that tree and we plan to utilize some...

Coming along slowly but going pretty well. Electrical in the house is signed off and power getting connected next week. Tomorrow we have house framing/shear, plumbing rough-in, mechanical rough-in, gas line pressure inspections, so we are getting ready to insulate and cover. Here’s the house...

Thanks brettd85. The 4 post lifts I’ve been looking at- the Advantage DX9000 XLT for example, are all 120V-20A so while I originally thought of a 220V drop there I likely wouldn’t need it. Maybe I should put both in for maximum future flexibility though…

Thanks jbrentd on the outside lights suggestions, those along with outside outlets, motion lights, security cameras, etc are on a different view I have with the elevations. I’ll look at posting those too for clarity. I thought about an upstairs switch before and just couldn’t envision a...

This is my shop interior lighting and electrical plan, welcome any suggestions. Shaded gray area on the left is the footprint for a four post lift. Using shaft drive door openers. I recently added the outlets in the ceiling over the two right side parking spaces for battery trickle chargers...

I like the 7”, followed by 6”. The house I live in now has a huge 10” reveal and I wish it was less.

Very interesting about the order of failures on your furnace, ours had the same failures in the same order this fall/winter. First the furnace quit and I was also pretty sure it was the blower motor but had an HVAC tech test it and a quick check confirmed it. On mine they wanted $1200-1500 to...

Layers upon layers…. It’s like doing an archeological dig without having to leave the house!

Looking good and we have definitely been getting the rain with all these “atmospheric river” events. Please let us know what the Zip rep says, it just doesn’t seem right that their system would react more to water than plain OSB. Interesting attic trusses, what is the ceiling height from the...

Like InsaneEd said, it’s easy to miss that the inner lugs are the same ”studs” that the outer lugs screw onto. To remove the inner lugs/studs you use the square ends to turn them.

Like the shop and can’t imagine how long it took you to move all the parts in. Will be following.

Thanks nadogail- I think you are referring to Mt St Helens that blew up in 1980? That’s roughly 100 miles south of Mt Rainier but all the Cascade mountains are part of the “Ring of Fire” and are considered volcanically active. Probably won’t happen my lifetime, but notice my home/shop is not...

Thanks NickH. The garage hasn‘t gotten a lot of attention since getting roofed and wrapped, all the energy (and $$$) has been going into the house- that has gotten roofing, wrap, most windows, some exterior doors, plumbing rough-in, and HVAC (in work). I plan to plumb the garage for a gas...

Great build and appreciate the pictures! Bringing back memories of about 25 years ago when we built my dad’s 40x40 shop. At 44’ tip to tip, longest trusses I had ever handled. Fortunately we had one guy who really knew what he was doing and he had us build a temporary internal wall end to end...

Much of the efforts of late have been getting the house roof completed so we can dry out that structure, so far this has been our 4th rainiest October on record and it’s not over yet. The little garage is ready for some attention now, and it should start tomorrow.

Great progress! Seeing it at this stage sure highlights how many wall penetrations you need. Obviously you have lights overhead and outlets spaced around the room, a couple light switches, and probably a couple garage door opener outlets. Any other penetrations there that you can point out as...