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Planning to install a 50 amp rv receptacle on the side of the house to charge an electric car. The main panel is a combo unit on the side of the house that has the meter, main breaker, and breaker slots. Want to install the receptacle 28' away, down the side of the house. Receptacle -...

Attached garage for parking dailys and finished cars. Detached structure for doing work and project car(s). I have a 30x40x12 I had built 5 years ago. I have been slowly building it out since then. I have a 14x20 room for welding work, an 8x10 room for bathroom, and the remainder is one...

I know they spec undersized because that's what the county told me when I brought a set of their garage plans to get a permit. When I built the garage I ended up hiring an engineer to draw up a set of plans for me. Didn't want to spend that much money again for a simple lean to patio cover...

I am in a high wind zone, have to carry wind insurance to prove it. Thanks for the numbers guys. I'll go bigger on the footers for added insurance, shouldn't add too much extra to the concrete bill.

Thank you for your input. I am planning to attach a 2x12 ledger along the bottom of the eave, lagged into the 2x6 studs (on 16" centers) of the building. The frost line is 12" around here, we don't get snow much. Soil is sandy with a clay pan ~2-3' down. Thinking the footers should be 12"...

That's not a bad idea. We have a lumber yard in town that offers that service, though they tend to spec them out undersized. I'll see what they have to say.

I plan to build a back patio on the back of my shop this spring. 14x31 attached to the back wall of the shop (under the eave) supported by posts 14' away from the building, concrete slab with footers under each post poured at same time as slab. I am looking for a set of plans with all of the...

I had the garage built 5 years ago. 6" thick concrete slab. 13' ceilings.

I am just about ready to buy an auto lift for the garage. I have a jeep, Civic, and a Yukon XL. Looking for a two post that will work for any of my vehicles. I am considering buying used, not sure what to look out for.

You caught me. I didn't read the whole thread, read the first 5 or 6 and scrolled down to offer my advice. :)

I built a 8x16 shed years back that I had moved to the house I am in now. Shed was about 5 years old when I had it moved. I ran lags down through the floor joist into the 4x4s to secure them. I did every other floor joist IIRC. One lesson learned is to space your skids an appropriate...

Sounds like it has already lasted a couple lifetimes!

I had a 14x20 attached garage on my last house. The garage door was insulated by the PO. Two sides of the garage were adjoined to the house, and insulated. I removed the sheetrock on the remaining side, insulated, and sheeted in plywood. I never did bother to insulate the ceiling. There was...

This is an image I pulled from the internet that resembles the construction of my building. The stem wall on my building is hollow cinder block all the way down to the concrete footer. The footer is 18" deep. It will be very easy to dig down on the outside, penetrate the block with pex, and...

Nice. I can fish a continuous piece of pex from the tie in under the house to the garage. I plan to have all of the piping in the garage surface mounted on the wall. I do not want fittings in the wall. I would rather have the piping exposed in the bathroom to make modifications easier in the...

Thanks. I was thinking something like that, but not a plumber. My only concern now is the incoming potable water. I plan to punch it into the cinder block stem wall (12" below grade), up into the wall cavity. My only concern is how to protect the pex in the cinder block from freezing. It...

I know. I will route one in the wall cavity, up through the roof. I'll have a roofer handle the penetration through the roof. I have an exhaust vent (for my weld table) that I will also have him cut into the roof at the same time.

For the water supply, I plan to dig down 12" and punch a hole through the cinder block of the stem wall (block is hollow, not concrete filled). Then cut a 3" hole through the bottom plate to fish a piece of pex into the wall cavity. My concern is the few days a year we get below freezing...

Not a bad Idea. So the plumbing line could then run just above the floor and then exit out the side of the building as planned. I assume the pump would be needed when installed in a basement. I am thinking if I put the sink and toilet beside each other, the sink drain would tee into the pipe...

I have a 30x40 building I plan to put a bathroom in one corner of. I have a cinder block stem wall ~16" above grade, with concrete slab in garage, and 2x6 studded walls. I do not want to chip up concrete. I am thinking about doing a raised floor (2x6 pressure treated directly on slab) and...