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Because the walls weren’t kept absolutely square and plumb (they very by up to 1/4” on a 10 ft vertical wall) it is making it tricky to install the siding panels and maintain consistent panel gaps. For most of the walls, only 2-3 courses at a time can be installed before things need to be...

Could be the guy's first car that he's keeping for sentimental reasons, too. I have a friend that has a Neon ACR that the used for competition racing. It's an insane little car and he plans to keep it for ever. I think he bought it in the late 90's or early 2000's, when ever Chrysler was...

Hey P.O. Any chance you could post some photos of the flashing details on the polygal? It'd probably be helpful for anyone interested in using the material. Top flashing, side flashing, integration with the building envelop, those sorts of things? Close ups? I've also seen buildings that...

Those are truly incredible garages / show rooms. But the whole bought vs. built commentary here is amusing. I think people are missing something. People who have that kind of money to spend on the garages and the multi-million dollars worth of depreciating assets (cars) can afford to have a...

Starting the siding of the main shed building. Got 90% of the furring strips installed this weekend as well as several panels cut and painted. Further dwindling daylight and rainy weather are really putting a crimp on progress. Starting to do a lot more work well after dark as well as by head...

Thanks guys. I'm not worried about typical wear and tear. And certainly not any wind driven debris. And I'd have to hit it pretty hard with a wheel barrow to dent this stuff. It's somewhat tough to describe the fiber cement panels. In one respect they're quite hard and are certainly...

The Program The program I used is called Photoshop. :bounce: I just created a new layer, colored the whole thing white to cover the original image, then adjusted the opacity of the later to let a little of the original image show through. The rest was just using the line tool and eye-balling...

X2 on the trusses not needing to be the typical "pre-engineered" stamped trusses. You can come up with your own truss but it needs to be properly designed / engineered to take the loads. Might be worth a few hours (minimum charge) to get an engineer to safely design you a truss if you want to...

Finished all the siding work on the small shed building the other night. I'm very pleased with the overall effort as it looks as designed and I'm comfortable with the detailing. The door and electrical still needs to be done but those can come later, after I finish the siding on the big shed...

Hey, good to see another Pac NWerner on the board here! Cool. Yup, I was surprised at how lenient Kenmore was with the shed out building. In Seattle, for example, I think it's a 120 sf limit, though I'm not sure about the set back requirements. My neighbor came over last night and we were...

Um. . . noooo. But then, I work as an architect so I do my own design / planning. Not that I've paid much attention to my own garage for the last several years after I did my initial peg board wall / mini-work bench setup.

Take into account any important clearances you'll need / want for special circumstances or tools. For instance, if you place a work bench at the end of a garage bay do you have enough room to park the car and still use the work bench or will the nose of the car be right up against the work...

I work in an architectural office. I think it'd be noticeable if the 30" cinema screen monitors were suddenly not there one morning. Besides, they wouldn't work too well as shelves.

X2, or X3, or what ever the number is for the shed idea. I can understand how it might be a tough sell to your wife. But if the "garage" is to be used as a work space then the other stuff should be put in a dedicated storage shed. This is the approach I took. My shed are for storing tools...

Some one mentioned an open ceiling and it got me thinking. . . with an open ceiling if you hang the bike upside down you can probably tuck most of it up between the rafter. Then the handle bars would be tight to the bottom of the collar ties / bottom truss cord. Effectively, the only thing...

I'll just add a thank you, Jack, for reposting the rendered image. It illustrates a good point with the CGI stuff: Because I had inadvertently taken a photo from a similar view point as the rendering, you can see very well the similarities to the shapes and form of the shed structure as...

That's part of the issue with the 3D modeling . . . where do you stop? You could conceivably model every little component of a building. But to what end? 95% of "every little thing" wouldn't show up in the construction drawings . . . which is the eventual goal that is the usable out put for...

Yeah. Glad I painted the panels, too. It didn't take long at all to shoot them at the joint lines with the spray paint. Oof. Going slow. I managed to put up a few more panels last night. And I do mean last night. I was working until 10:30pm getting some of them up. Had a Petzl head lamp...

The gaps will be there. It's part of this type of siding system. So the panels will look like they are floating off the framing. Of course, that aspect is mostly noticeable only when you're up close. Further away, 15-20 ft+, and it just looks like a grid of black lines. The next project...

Ah, finally. Some of the siding was installed this weekend. As mentioned repeatedly below in the captions, it was a slow process. What I figured to be relatively easy and straight forward proved to have much nuance to it. Originally I figured I'd cut the fiber-cement siding panels to size...