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Many of our friends and family indeed thought we were insane. During the demolition, we even began to think we were insane! Once the roof came off we figured there was no turning back... and once the Spancrete deck was on, then it was like building a new house. It was a lot of hard work but...

More Pics? Yeah...I'll have to go down and take a few pictures. The whole lower level is 7200 sq feet which includes the showroom, 2 car garage for our daily drivers, the bar room, Men's room, ladies room,shop, a "Dirty room" for doing the messy work like welding , grinding bodywork, 2 storage...

Whew! We were a bit anxious as we had not seen a preview of the show! Tony Frassrand did a nice job of presenting and the crew at High Noon productions did a fantastic job of editing. Yes, I would like you to have seen a bit more of the shop. They did get plenty of the house, cars and the...

I found some stuff at Ace Hardware called "Must for Rust" It's the best I've found.

Multiple coats vs 1 heavy? I've heard that when covering really bad floors like in an industrial setting or old damaged floors, the epoxy is applied with a notched squeegee. I would think one thick application would be less work and be stronger overall. Your thoughts?

Oldcarguy, That is a great find! Yes it will be a lot of work to bring it back but as you know, they don't make 'em any more so it's worth the effort. I personally enjoy the challenge of finding the diamond in the rough. Good luck and keep us updated as you make progress. Thanks for...

Beautiful! absolutely beautiful! Did you do the restorations? Do these get driven? I'm stunned!

Our home is featured on show #108 which is scheduled to air: - 12/25/05 at 8:30pm and 12:30am CST - 1/08/06 at 6:00pm CST - 1/16/08 at 9:30pm and 1:30am CST We've not seen it yet so not sure what to expect.

No...No damage to our place and fortunately we were slightly upwind from it. The whole area was engulfed in smoke so some places are gonna smell for a while.

The Church steeple is gone! The Church Steeple that you see in the background is gone! The Church which is in my back yard, started on fire last night and is a total loss! Some of the stained glass was from the late 1800's Here's the story: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/dec05/375396.asp

Mark, Your garage looks great! Keep up the good work...and don't worry about the clutter...it's gonna be a loooong cold winter! By spring, everything will be neat & tidy and you will be sick of talking to yourself out in the garage. 23 degrees and 2" of snow in Wisconsin! Happy...

Dan presently lives out in Arizona, He stopped by this summer to see what we had done to this place. He is an encylopedia of knowledge on old cars and has many fond memories of the old days. I am much appreciative of the old pictures and historical information he was able to provide.

We were informed that ReZONED is being "pre-empted" for Holiday programming during December. Our project ( episode#108) is scheduled to be aired on Sunday Dec 25.

Holy Smokes... what a transformation! Your tax collector is gonna love you! Nice job there Ryan! You are gonna love the heated floors! Are you using infloor / hydronic heat throughout the house? Let us know how the epoxy floor turns out. What brand epoxy? Tom PS. Here in frigid...

EXTREME CAUTION: Don't use solvents like Brakekleen, MEK, gas and carb cleaner. I know a guy that washed his hands with carb cleaner on a regular basis. He got liver cancer and is now dead! But he has nice clean hands! That last tip of scraping a bar of soap is a good one. There is a product...

Nice 3D drawing! We hired and fired 3 architects in the beginning of our project! Though I've not used UG, we did use a computer program called "3D Home Architect" to design our renovation project. These programs are really slick. I think we paid something like $39 and saved thousands by doing...

Welcome to garage junkies! mleitchle...welcome! you're gonna like this place! Yeah..."bubbler" and "soda" eh?

HGTV reZONED We watched the premier episode of HGTV reZONED with Tony Frassrand last night Sunday 8:30 CDT. They featured an old train station, Church, bank and a ferry that was converted into living spaces. It was a pretty neat program and I like how it was produced. It will be interesting...

GREAT Progress! Isn't the demolition gut wrenching?!? It's nice to see your progress and will be worth the effort and inconvenience. It sure looks nice! I'm not sure what I would do if I didn't have snow to contend with! :lol:

No Luck!--- Hard work! Not lucky! we've neither inherited a fortune or won the lottery. Everything has been a result of our hard work. Been married to my high school sweetheart for 35 years and even that takes hard work. We spent about 3 years looking for the right building. This one took...