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That looks awesome!

I spent a few hours down at the house Wednesday with the GC, Super and Framer. Two teams were working. I plan to head down after work today and I'm really hoping to see a completed framing job. Wish me luck.

Not a problem! Good luck with the build!

McCallum out of Chesapeake. http://mccallumtestinglabs.com/

I'm in VB as well and the soil seems to be different everywhere you go. It is probably worthwhile for you to get a soils engineer out after digging a test hole. I say this because we dug one down 2' and the hole had 2" of water in it within 30 minutes. Its farmland so the soil was holding a lot...

The GC has been apologizing profusely, the tells me he's worked with this guy for many years and this has never happened before, he's as shocked as I am and at this point has no words for whats going on. The framer has had some personal issues, we all do, and I understand that but they shouldn't...

I am not. I selected a GC that is both a client and a friend.

Its been a challenge for sure. If the other phases of the job don't go much better, I'm gonna lose it.

I'd love to post it over there but figured people might get tired of all the garage threads. Think I should?

Thanks guys! I was hoping to have some fun updates but I finish the weekend being pretty frustrated. While plumbing and electrical have started the framing fiasco continues. The entire house framing was expected to take 3 weeks, tomorrow marks the beginning of the twelfth week, that's right...

I've finally got the opportunity to build one of my custom homes. Along with it, a great garage of course. After years of thinking how great it would be we have finally bought some land. Its 5 acres surrounded by hundreds of acres of farmland and protected wildlife preserve, all while just 15...

Very nice! I'll be following this one!

I completely appreciate the wet ground. Right off the bat we incurred additional costs due to super saturated ground as a result of all the rain. Between stone and the concrete footer (18" thick each) I've got 3 feet of material under my foundation block. The upside, we discovered it and will...

Thanks!

Thanks! Working on my build thread.

Hey everybody, I'm a long time lurker from Virginia, I suppose you could say, but I'm finally getting to live out my dream of a great garage. Sure I've had a couple decent ones but I've always made due. I'm a custom home designer and car enthusiast and when I was finally able to design my own...