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#3 rebar on a 24" o.c. grid for the floor slabs. Plus a vapor barrier under that. At the door openings some #3 bar was set at a 45 deg angle across where the inside corners of the slab will be. Concrete tends to crack at a 45 deg angle from the point of an inside corner. Setting the...

I'll try and get some pictures next time I'm at the site but I'm not sure when I'll head back out there. We might be going out tomorrow.

If you use a high quality euro-ply you could finish the edge as-is. You've probably seen pictures of this but it's a very consistent plywood free of voids so that when you have an exposed edge it looks neat and tidy. No holes. This isn't the best picture but . . . Sand down, varnish, and...

I like your idea of the porch, too. But I wonder if you need the full 40 ft length? Maybe the back 1/2 to back 1/3 could be enclosed for some other use (yard equipment storage, compressor, or shop-accessible storage?. Also, not too keen on the look of the gable end with the flat soffit over...

Um. . . yes, I agree. I "think" it should be ok. The conduit is getting back filled except to the t-connection. I'll leave that exposed in an open hole until I pull the wire. At this point the trench where the t-connection is located is on the side of the project and out of the way, so no...

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I think it would look very cool, especially if you do a full height back splash from the counter to the bottom of the upper cabinets. Aluminum, I take it? You can probably simply glue it onto the wall. Not much weight nor will it get banged into a lot. Probably something like liquid nails or...

Also, Often times the walls in our houses aren't perfectly flat and straight (warped / bowed boards, etc.). Careful builders will try their best when framing to get any cabinet walls especially straight but there's only so much that can be done. This is to say that often there will be a slight...

I work as an Architect, for the most part this means sitting at a desk making pretty drawings and modeling things with the occasional site visit . . . not as a professional craftsman of any type. Most of the projects I've done around my house (including the shed project I'm updating here on GJ)...

Not yes. I haven't wanted to monkey with the wiring yet. Hence the reasons for putting the conduit it. It let me focus on getting things back filled and ready for the slab pour. Maybe. Might be a bit overkill but I'm just surprised how little rebar I see in the foundations on GJ here. I...

:D Ha. Sure. The easiest thing you can do with the paneling is to paint over it as APEowner suggested. If you want a different look, you could try peeling it off the wall and turing it so that the groves are horizontal. Then paint it. Sometimes the a different orientation can add some...

Almost ready to pour the concrete (which is schedules for this Saturday). The back filling is finished and the fill level is high enough to support the slab. I needed to do some chipping away at left over concrete lumps that were sticking up too high. Used the pick ax. Not fun but it didn't...

Almost ready to pour the concrete (which is schedules for this Saturday). The back filling is finished and the fill level is high enough to support the slab. I needed to do some chipping away at left over concrete lumps that were sticking up too high. Used the pick ax. Not fun but it didn't...

We've done a number of concrete counter tops in the houses we've designed for our clients. It works there, too. Here is one of the kitchens we desgined for a new-construction house we did for a client of ours about 8 years ago. Cherry lower cabinets with painted red upper cabinets and a...

I've worked with them for a client of our. I designed 5 different doors for the project I'm currently working on and sent over the drawings. They've been great to work with and the doors are very well built and completely custom. Last time I visited the site (last weekend) the front door was...

Hm. Depends. Probably. I'd do it again if I could but my wife didn't want to do this for the kitchen counter tops. To do the bathroom vanity top took maybe a month. Granted, that's not working on it all the time. The timeline looked roughly like this: 1. Build formwork and form rebar /...

This was the second interior finish concrete project I had done. The first was a concrete counter top for the vanity in our bathroom that I did a remodel on two years ago. I never got around to taking finished photos of that project but this is a picture of the concrete vanity counter top...

Welding the steel c-chanel edge trim: . . Concrete Window Sill: I wanted something nice and chunky for the window sill but I didn't want it out of wood. And the tile stuff was all too thin. So I cast my own concrete window sill and built my own formwork. This was an "oh ****...

"We" did a refresh of our kitchen this last winter. I have a big write-up of the whole thing here. Highlights include: Welded steel c-chanel counter top edge Full height glass tile back splash throughout Concrete window sill Linoleum counter top Repainted cabinets + new hardware Repainted...

Very nicely done!