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Thanks for the reply junkman, this is what I wanted to do originally, but our house will be about 235' from the road centered in the property with the power co pole on the front corner of the property. The Power co rep said that going underground the whole distance would cause too much of a...

Alright I hope I am able to describe what I have in mind to do with the new house/shop that is in the works so that you guys can understand and hopefully point me in the right direction. Background info: New shop is built and the wife and I are going to live in it while we build the house...

Thanks TSR, I will look into those things. Yes, that is what I was assuming as well, but I just wanted to ask to make sure. Thanks.

Dave, the ext walls are 4" and the windows are low E (albeit they are of the low end variety). The attic insulation is decent it could probably use a bit more, but we are only staying in this house for less than a year, and then we are moving into my new shop until our new house is built...

I was hoping that some of you savvy AC guys could help me out with an issue I am having with my AC. It is not in my shop, but the AC for my house. It is actually a conventional heat pump and has worked flawlessly since we bought the house last August. However, since we started hitting...

You might also want to try www.insulation4less.com . That is where I ordered mine from. I haven't installed it yet but I am very pleased with the look and feel of the stuff. I ended up getting the lower grade stuff, but I believe that it will be a good compromise between cutting costs with no...

In our previous house we had a garden shed at the rear of our property. Every year at the first hint of cold weather yellow jackets would flock to the inside of that shed and klan together on the north wall. They wouldn't build a nest and they only flocked on the north wall (hundreds of them)...

Alright, I broke down and ordered the R 7.3 foil/bubble/poly. I know that the R 10.3 would have been a bit better, but I compromised between having or not having insulation. Also, the white poly layer that will be seen from inside the shop will allow me to use less lighting than I would have...

Alright, thanks for the replies guys...I think you have convinced me to go ahead and insulate. I have found some insulation suppliers online that are considerably less than the building supplier's prices. However, now I don't know which type to get. I have narrowed it down to a...

I am starting to get into the final stages of construction of my 30' x 40' x12' workshop, and as everyone else has probably done I am running over budget and behind schedule. Therefore I am looking for places to cut costs. The area that keeps jumping out at me is the insulation. The shop...

I too would like to know more about the dummy panel. I am in the process of building my shop with 12' eaves, but I will be using 8' tall sectionals due to limited funds. However, I would really like to have the tracks to to the eaves. Since I will be ordering the higher tracks from the get-go...

I have a chinese special jack from HF that my wife's uncle bought me for Christmas. It is their 2 1/4 ton special that I have seen for $39 quite a few times. I know that many people will turn their noses up at these foreign jacks, but for the past 4 years the thing has been abused and...

I went with a Metal Mart building located in Waco. Their kits were slightly better priced than some of the other places around here that I looked at. The building won't be here until the 22nd, so I don't have it yet, but I have several family members that also used them and the quality seems...

I don't know if there is a Metal Mart in Ark or not, but I just bought a 30 X 40 with 12' eaves (complete bolt together) for $6195. This didn't include any doors just one framed 10 X 10 opening in an end wall. I added enough extra purlins, square tubing, and tin to build a 23 X 40 lean-to...