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Most cities and towns, nationwide, adopt their State's Building Code, in it's entirety, then amend the State Code to fit their needs. Since this is more often than not,done in a piecemeal fashion ,read the State Code, it can be your friend, it was in my case. My State Code allowed me to...

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Kloter Farms, 30x36, 1 1/2 story, 2x6 const. combination scissor an storage truss, 8 ft walls. ceiling hight 9 ft & 17 ft ,Tyvec wrapped, factory built, Duratemp siding, architectural shingles, insulated Haas doors [ one high lift ] delivered an assembled on my foundation in one day. $41K

Lots of countries use the metric system . but only one country put men on the Moon Fifty years ago, this July

I too had a tough time choosing colors for my garage , until i said "the heck with it" and decided to just "wing it" and pick colors I like ,without regard to weather they went together I knew what I didn't want, and that was a white ceiling, two tone grey walls with a red stripe and...

I have a new VacuMaid GV50 Pro I've only had it about a month ,so can't speak to durability except to say it is well made. It's not often that a product lives up to it's advertising hype, but the GVPro exceeded my expectations. Its first use was to clean up the interior of my newly built...

Here is a method that not only allowed me to annihilate the Mole population on my lawn, and my neighbors lawn, it also provided me with the immense satisfaction, of personally, and with great violence, killing the pesky little creatures , above ground in the light of day The month of March...

My garage , nearing completion , has 14, 6 lamp t-8 fixtures emitting 205,000 lumens, lighting 900 sq. ft. Seemed a bit harsh, as it was lit up like an operating room and if I opened the doors at night it was like a couple of UFO's were landing in the neighborhood I'm installing a...

I'm in the process of doing mine now, I decided early on ,no beige, no grey, no stripes and definitely no checkered floor . Asking for suggestions only told me what others liked and although they were sincere and well meaning it was really kind of a **** shoot , seemed every color combination I...

2/12 pitch is 9.46 deg. , rise on a 14' span would be about 15 inches

Cardboard baffles sell for 65 to 85 cents each... / 16"/24"centers

I use screws with LP Smartside, marine grade silicon bronze , pre-drilled and counter sunk Easy to caulk, last forever and no hammer marks

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T&G select grade white pine. Stock item ,at most real lumber yards, one side center & edge bead , other side V groove. 1"x6" with a face width 5 1/8", random lengths 8' to 16', cost was 69 cents a linear ft. Apr.2018

My building is 30x36, I wanted 8ft. side walls ,a small bathroom,a loft room and enough height in the shop area for a full size lift. I used 7/12 scissor trusses in the front half of the building and attic trusses in the rear . The roof pitch is 9/12, building height is 20' 8", loft room is...

I've got 8 foot walls. This is how I did it, standard 8ft. wall atop 8 inch frost wall, with 7/12 lower chord scissor truss, and 9/12 roof pitch. I have a center hight of 16' 9", hight over the center of the lift will be 15' 4"

Bronze suggests it might be a grounding spike, for a lightning rod. Elk mfg. made such things in the early 1900's

Pipe rollers were not an option for me, had to maneuver around a row of junipers then between 2 trees and up an incline. Bolted a pair of towing spindles on, then mounted a set of rally wheels with 15 inch radials,bolted the tongue from my boat trailer to the floor and towed it with my F...

I have 8'8" walls and scissor trusses spanning 30' Top chord is 9/12, lower chord is a heeled truss 3 deg. over 7/12 . 7 feet in from the door is 12'3", center hight is 16'7" exterior hight to ridge is 20'9" The heeled truss, when recommended to me, was called an Energy Truss

Most municipalities adopt the State building code in it's entirety , then amend the State code, in the form of their own zoning and building ordinances. Ostensibly this is to meet the "needs of the community" in reality, it is usually to meet the needs of a special interest group In my...