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I have a friends prior 40 x 60 steel building with a nice 3br/2ba home on it I rent out. Luckily he got a three phase transformer and second meter set for the shop (in city would not be approved today), but we share water and gas, they pay water n sewer, I buy fiber optic cable and share (have...

Those are all nice, functional, and provide ample room to store/roll stuff underneath, something you don’t get with another tool box you seem not to need, or a “cobbled together” 2 x 4 bench 🤣.

Thats how more than half the comments are about EVERYTHING on Garage Journal.. 25% start with a (judgmental) “why would you want to…???” 🙄😂

😂 I want to know if he installed windows and the neighbors looked in and stole all his s4!t??

This is what I’ll do eventually.. Champion 7.5hp is sweet.. but a little annoying, it can make you jump when it starts up and you’re really concentrating trying to get a tiny screw in a hole you can barely see! 😂.

I like you have never been willing to pay for large areas of spray foam (but have done smaller areas with the two tank kit myself). But realistically you have limited options due to depth of wood “purlin/joists”. Only other due it yourself might be nail 1” x 4”s to the bottoms perpendicular and...

I believe he simply means outside the house “toward” the street. Normally there would be a “curb stop” however and “the city” would be responsible on the “street side”of that. Yes I have watched a freeze machine work, it did!

That’s a sweet top, where did you find that. I want to build out a simple cargo van but don’t prefer the canvas type.

Lets see!!

I like those, I can think of some projects where I want a door “most of the time”!

Well I’ll be F’ed.. I claim to be an old master carpenter and didn’t know those existed.. because the probably didn’t 😂. Getting ready to do a deck this summer already cut back siding! THANKS (I knew this sometimes grouchy forum was good for something!), 😀👌

Ask the engineer if he can just double (sister) the existing 16” o.c. studs; the likely answer is yes, and can be done in a few hours.. all stuff that has happened before.

This is what I’m think (post 15 above) in my shop. I am surprised the cable it runs on doesn’t sag more.

To reinforce the lack of “staggered joints”, I would probably just put Simpson straps on the 1 1/2” side of each purlin, centered over each joint and call it good. This will resist the whole roof “pulling apart” on that rafter or all uplifting slightly telegraphing a “line”/“tiny ridge” along...

Yes I would use actual mortorless retaining wall blocks.. just stacking up typical wall block will just fall over sooner or sooner..

I saw one fat mouse bolt into my garage when the door was open, like she had been timing her assault on my compound!

If not, then you’re just running a junk yard!!

Maybe I can do that for a new wife!!

Not in Texas but Colorado, power from the city as they partnered with a regional power authority years ago. In residential neighborhood. Red iron 40 x 60 “garage” (per zoning/tax) with three phase. It is a slightly different rate; house is on a tiered rate based on time of day (late afternoon...

That’s pretty cool, I could see using this on some of my shop/shed projects..