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Exactly, that’s what I want I’ve been looking forward to also. Three hobby/workshop spaces to build out and setup should keep my busy for a while.

Thanks! I met some people at a school event and before I even introduced myself they said, “oh, you’re the guy building that garage!” So I guess it ( and me?) have become a local spectacle :)

It’s been a long time since the last update, we’re getting into the part of the project where it’s all the little things to finish up but not a lot that’s interesting to look at or picture worthy. One thing I worked in was an outdoor gravel parking area for the plow truck, project cars...

It was quite an operation to lay it all down as fast as they did, pretty impressive and makes you realize where all the $$ go on a job like this. The area at the end of the apron is going to be a two car wide gravel parking area for overflow drainage (and overflow car projects) and also the...

Big day, finally have a driveway! Trucks lined up down the street: Install: And the peanut gallery enjoyed too:

Thanks! Yes, I’m planning to build a Goat Island Skiff which is a pretty simple boat as wooden boats go but with pretty high performance if you want to sail it that way. I want some thing fast to build that can be finished and enjoyed before either 1) they lose interest or 2) they grow up and...

Thanks! Today the stone wall guys came to build a retaining wall. We were going to do a retaining wall with blocks but decided at the last minute stone would look nicer and found someone that could fit us in on their schedule. Whole job start to finish was one day and we’re really happy we went...

Been a while since I posted an update. The bathroom tile turned out pretty good. Here it is grouted, then with wall color and trim, and then with vanity. Other area of progress is prepping for stucco on the lower level where the old garage doors were Last progress has been...

Turned out fine in the end, though made for a late night. To add some garage to this post, here’s the tile cutting setup in the garage.

Hit a snag tiling the bathroom. The slab is not level (which I knew) but I thought I could compensate with the thin set and it would be ok. Turns out not so much. Ended up being two steps forward and one step back. Layout and cutting went fine, got everything cut and laid out with a couple...

This week was tile flooring in the mudroom that connects the garage to the house. These are 12x24 porcelain but have a look and texture on your feet like slate or maybe more like granite. We didn’t want the maintenance hassle of actual stone since this will be so high traffic. As they went...

Thanks! I know what I want it to look like in my head so hoping it comes out well when all is said and done.

Progress last week was almost all on the exterior grading. Started with ripping up the old driveway and grading for the new driveway to the garage including cutting a driveway loop in the front of the house. All the loam got set aside for later and the fill went to extending the yard further...

Hopefully soon [emoji4] My plow truck has been getting the bare minimum maintenance since any work on it I have had to do outside which is not a lot of fun. Hoping to get that back up to being inspected and breaking out the welder to start patching up the rust on the cab corners and bed wheel...

A little more progress, got the new door in from the basement to the utility room. There is a step up in the slab heights so had to find a way to make that look good from the finished side. This is the before, flat hollow core door with galvanized sheet nailed to it. Here is after. The...

Unfortunately no, not really any progress on landscaping. We’re going to wait for all the grading to be finished in the back yard and new driveway and then see what we end up doing. The new driveway is coming up in 3-4 weeks and that will make it look pretty different. There has been a little...

Been a while since posting an update, the big progress has been on the two staircases. First one is the old basement stairs redone and wall opened up the into the now finished basement. The second is the new staircase in the mudroom up to the main floor of the house. Unfortunately the...

Not a lot of progress pictures to show, the work is all in little odds and ends until we can knock off some of the last big tasks. Siding on the front of the garage is done I got a start on some of the interior painting (which I’m doing myself to keep the budget down) in the mudroom. I...

Just brought home a 1957 DeWalt MBF radial arm saw in pretty clean shape for $100 snagged off craigslist. Was in the previous owner’s basement shop for 30-40 years, he passed away and his sons were clearing out his tools. Hopefully I’ll have it for another 30-40 years after I clean it up then my...

Yes, they are liftmaster jack shaft openers. Because of the beams being in the way the openers are mounted below and are chain driven to the jack shaft.