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I **** at posting pictures/updates. That said I have been living in my new shop/house for 6 months. It is nicer than it started out to be. Gourmet kitchen, slate tile bathrooms/counter tops, acid stained concrete, lcd tv's, the right stuff. I am getting used to calling it home. I have a hard...

I know more than I every wanted to about my 60x100 metal building now that it is finished. I am looking at options for retrofitting eve extensions. I have a 20x100 shed roof on the back, so I am only looking at 2 or possible 3 sides. The side walls seem easy enough, just extend the z purlins...

I am finishing up the office/game room in my steel building. The building is a standard red iron steel framed building. I installed insulation attaching to the z purlins of the metal building. I have r19 in the walls of my building and r25 in the roof. The insulation has a wmp-50 vapor barrier...

I have found some information, but most of it has come from people trying to sell me there product. I am finishing up the Apartment/game room in my shop. I have an area about 400sqft that I want to install a wood floor. It will be direct lay on the concrete slab. This is in the area with the...

I am collecting the materials to wire my new shop. In the last 10 years I was only caught in my shop when the power went out once. It was enough for me to know that I want to install emergency exit signs and lights. I was just wondering what everyone else was using. With the size of the new shop...

I had to go to one of the new Super Walmarts the other day. I had not been in the store before. The floor was a very nice red/brown. It looked like acid stain, but not sure. There were a couple of guys buffing the floor just like if it was vct tile. It got me thinking of the same type of finish...

I just got a quote on my doors 2-10x10, 3-12x14 installed $6900. This is for 25ga Clopay doors, non insulated, manual chains on the 12x14, electric openers for the 10x10. Buying the doors from steelbuilding.com it comes to $3900 shipped. So 2 openers, and install will cost $3000. That seems a...

I just spent 45min on the phone with an insulation contractor. His company does the K13 spray insulation. The installed price (1"k13=3.75r) is close to double the price of the material only for poly backed fiberglass insulation. The K13 stuff is far superior to the fiberglass for many reasons...

I have been working on it for a while. Bought the 12.5 acres in nov of 2003, when I sold my race truck. The building was purchased at the end of 2004, delivered march 1st 2005. I bought the biggest building I could afford, not afford to erect. I had some issues getting a concrete price that was...

I have been checking the site for a while. I saw that Ryan was doing some cool web vodoo and figured I would start posting. At present I have worked out of a nice 30x50(1500sqft) shop at my house. one 10x10 roll up door, 2post lift, with way to many projects in the way. Almost 3yrs ago I bought...