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When looking through one of the woodpecker holes in the side, ours originally had a redwood tank in it. Huge Redwood beams as the supporting structure to hold the weight. We also have a hand dug well that is 80 foot deep at the base of the tower. Scary to think about being 80 foot down loading...

Barndo build has been on hold for a bit due to a reassignment to Alaska. In addition, been working all available time on our current house in preparation for selling it while the market is hot and interest rates low. People going nuts for property in our area as we are half way between LA and...

Thanks for the feedback on the video. Wish I had more talent as a drone pilot as some of these guys can make videos that are so smooth and focused with no effort at all. Kind of like my golf game. If I only do it once a year I can’t expect to be good at it!

Having some unusually crazy weather in Central California with monsoons. Good opportunity to send the drone up for some video footage of the build. Nutt, yes our Lab goes for the heart (squeaky bulb) in all of his toys. Most of his toys have duct tape around them at some point as to get a few...

Chance Our Fox Red Lab is now back to a family of three hedgehogs! Thanks ZRX!

Perfect, thanks as Paso Inn knows us very well as the upstairs bar makes an excellent Cadillac Margarita that tends to draw us there often!

Farty, we installed and watched carefully for deflection in the shafts but felt the opener unit was stout enough in the center to support the shafts. On the Outer ends of this and the larger two doors we did add pillow lock bearings to the shafts at each end as they seemed to be deflecting more...

Here are some of the details of the Living room to porch glass door opener installation. The original design had all of the springs, shaft and opener directly in the middle of the second story view windows and was not going to fly. Decided to reengineer a system that took all of this...

Fartymarty, will take some pics this week of the Door opener details with some explanation of how we are able to make everything work while still looking like a professional, or better, install. Just received a pair of 3” pulleys as to control the cables from the lower door section up to the...

Cool build. Doing the same with our new build and will take our Esso pump from my old barn to install out front between the garage doors.

About 95% complete on the vertical garage door installation. Had to totally reengineer the shaft,spring and opener location as it was originally to be installed at the top of the rails in the middle of the second story view. Took a break to hang for a few days at the vacation home on the...

Started laying the 36” stacked stone wrap around this morning. Wanted to keep it mostly grey yet wanted some browns in it also in the case we get any kind of rust dripping from the siding it might not be so noticeable.

Yes good catch. They somehow only sent me one shaft so waiting on arrival as to complete the second large door. Not looking forward to the winding of the 4 springs of 18 revolutions as it is always touch and go not to mention It just feels dangerous!

FartyMarty, on the pivoting Dutch door the best method I have found to seal around the pin is like you said with a doughnut type or “S” seal. As the pivot makes things much more dynamic, I will have molding on the outside of the door where it will seal from the handle side “up to the pin”. From...

Garage doors going in. Lots of bracing needed as these things are massive in size and weight. In addition, the door in the living room to patio needs to be modified on site as the springs and opener would have been in the middle of the upper windows and blocking the view as it will open...

ZRX, Funny as our Fox Red Lab has a family of Hedgehogs. Shorty, The door will be left to weather. Made of 3” thick old wood so weathered already from years of service in the flour mill it came from. California weather in our area won’t damage to much in my lifetime. Metal frame will also keep...

New Dutch door being installed. Build it out of old reclaimed wood that came out of a burnt down flour mill in Oregon. Wrapped in 1.5” steel angle as to “control” expansion of wood. It pivots 8” from the side and has flanged bearings inset with 1” pivot pins. Ordered a double pane Evergreen...

ZRX, definitely a lot to do in Paso with all of the wineries, breweries and restaurants. Throw in Pismo Beach, Lake Nacimiento, the Mid State Fair and all the concert venues and the place is booming! If you were at Estrella out East of town you could of looked up on the West side mountains of...

Metallitubby, there is also a company called Bridger Steel that provide a similar product called Truten. https://www.bridgersteel.com/metal-colors/weathered-steel Western and Bridger also offer painted samples that look incredibly like rusted steel but come in a thinner gauge so easier to cut...

The Corten siding comes raw From Western Metal and will rust over time. You can oil down once you get it where you want it and delay the rusting or just let it do its thing as we are doing. https://www.cortenroofing.com/corten-western-rib-7-2-siding-panel-a606-4-weathering-steel.html