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I think we have a winner! It is The Old Volks Home! That's something that other people will understand. :D Though I do like Karmann Kampf myself. The story of the VW engine is one of the reasons I like VWs. The engines are so easy. There is an $80 device that acts as a starter mount and...

Karmann Kampf is pretty cool! The inside will get insulation and OSB on the walls. I hope to reserve the area where the stereo is to be a future winery/meadery. Making mead and wine is a big hobby of mine. But I need to get climate control first! And financially, I need to landscape the back...

oh man, that's just not right! :D

update: The building inspector won't give me my CO until I put a fence around my pool and build stairs and install alarms for my 2 doors that don't open. I just got a call from the fencer and they will be at my house tomorrow to do the installation. Everything else is done. Once I get my CO, I...

My house has 2 doors in the back of my house. One of them is sealed shut and the other won't slide. Neither is used. ever. even in an emergency they can not. You'd have to break the glass and jump. I had to modify the stairs to have a 36" landing at the exit. No mention of a railing being needed...

All changes have been finished as of last night. Now I have to wait and see if he comes back with something else. If he does, I'm going to call him on it.

I talked to my electrician, who is also a carpenter (and a friend of mine), and he's seen it happen time and time again. He said, once they are allowed onto your property, anything is fair game. How totally lame. Now I have to go spend a bunch of extra time and money for **** I'm not ever going...

Not because of anything related to the garage. Because he walked around the house and found OTHER things about my house than don't meet code. Annoying beyond annoying. :wtf:

It might be true that in 2012, NEW T12 fixtures will no longer be manufactured, but the lamps will continue to be made for many years to come.

I have 8' T12 HO that I just put in: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73434 My fixtures were $45 each and I got the bulbs from 1000bulbs.com for less than $4 each. It sounds to me like you found a super deal. I'd go with it! T12 is being phased out, but they were VERY...

see my thread here for my info: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73434

Thanks. I can't wait to get back to work on my VWs! I had read quite a bit of discussion over color but never saw any pics that I knew were not color balanced. I got these at 1000bulbs.com, they were less than half the cost of my electrical supplier.

For general information, I took some photos inside my new garage that I outfitted with 6500k t12 HO 8' bulbs. It's difficult to get an accurate photo representing color temps because many cameras will be set to automatically adjust for the lighting (white balance). I set my camera in full manual...

We have landscaping to do next.

Not quite 3 weeks, because we are DONE!! He really did a quality job and put a lot of thought into it. A good example is that he stuffed insulation into the corners before putting the corner metal on. Nothing we talked about. He just did it. Over the next week I'll be finishing up the electric...

no pics from last night because I was too busy running wires with my electrician, but the roof is done, the back wall is done, and the side wall is close to done. Probably 3 weeks of work left.

And he is installing the metal roof today. :D But will probably only get half of one side done today at his typical pace.

Thanks! With the sheathing on, it's finally starting to look like an actual building. I also got the windows and door delivered. Electrician is coming tonight to lay out the wiring/lighting and come up with a materials list.

He has all the sheathing on and roof paper on the back side. The roof metal was delivered and he should be doing that today.

Beetle Werks is pretty cool. I was thinking about something geographic, too. Where I live is on the Helderbergs, which was formerly called the Hellerbergs, but was changed because the original name was based literally from Hell due to the winters that the original settler had to survive (and...