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    Build garage with Poplar or Southern Yellow Pine?

    2 years. 1 year per inch of thickness.
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    Negotiating construction costs?

    Is your wage negotiable?
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Das Laden Hacken - 30x24 carriage house build

    It was a big week for me. After a 3 month wait, my garage doors are in. The builder also moved out 90% of what he had in the garage and gave me the go ahead to move in. I'm meeting with an electrician next week.
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    Bid Disappointments

    I'm at $73 sq ft for a stick build shell with attic trusses. This was right before covid
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    Need Advise: Synthetic Stucco vs Hard Coat/Traditional

    Real stucco over dryvit or any othe EIFS. Theres plenty of 120 year old stucco jobs still around.
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    Attic ladders are too big for opening, looking for advice

    Go up in your attic and see if you have 2 other trusses with the correct 24" centers and put the ladder there. Your current ladder may be between a couple trusses that are spaced a little tighter. Also possible your trusses pulled in a half inch or so when installing that ladder
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    Iowa Carriage House Garage

    Lol. Plenty of the builds on that page are definitely "upper middle class" or better. They just try and avoid the mega huge commercial building type builds.
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    Iowa Carriage House Garage

    It was either the Garage/ Man cave group or Average middle class garage goals.
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    Iowa Carriage House Garage

    I've been following your build on the Facebook group. Looks great!
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    new platform ladder and Wifey doesn't know

    I did the same thing last summer but it was a low mileage 2004 Mach 1 and not a ladder. She found out after 2 weeks.
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    Black iron pipe working pressure?

    You would want 3000# forged fittings. And yes, if the system could refrigerate, you want fittings and pipe that can handle it.
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    Black iron pipe working pressure?

    Hopefully sch 160 seamless. Unfortunately, sch 10 looks the same on the outside. Oops. Old thread
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    Anyone have a deck for attic truss access?

    Thanks. Mine will be closer to the first pic, just a big enough landing to get in and out. I can see myself wanting to add on to it later.
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    Anyone have a deck for attic truss access?

    Here's where I'm at as of today.
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    Anyone have a deck for attic truss access?

    I'm doing exactly that on my new garage. I didn't want to take up any floor space. Hopefully I have pics in a couple weeks.
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Das Laden Hacken - 30x24 carriage house build

    Haven't put any updates up in a few days. Roofs done and the subfloor is in upstairs.
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Das Laden Hacken - 30x24 carriage house build

    Beautiful Mach. Definitely my favorite color. I had a mystichrome terminator a few years back and always kinda preferred the looks of the Mach.
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT Das Laden Hacken - 30x24 carriage house build

    Thanks. My son claimed that one the day I brought it home. He was 18 that summer and had it out every weekend.
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