TooBusy wrote:
Those look like creative solutions. I especially like the dual elevator. Doubt that I'll build anything, instead I'll put my son into service and let him have a leg day at the house instead of the Gym.
The contractor is supposed to show up later this week and do the final grading. We got more rain last night and today, so my concern is he'll make it worse instead of better if he brings in the skid loader. We'll see how it plays out.
The lumber is scheduled to arrive Thursday, garage door sometime next week, and don't yet have a date for the trusses. If the weather cooperates I'll start building a box on Saturday.
I spent a few hours Saturday digging a French drain on the uphill side. The ditch is 2 feet wide and will get lined with landscape fabric, a perforated drain tube, and #67 rock. I'm planning to leave the rock exposed and have a narrow strip of buffalo grass along the fence line. We'll see how it plays out in the long run.
You just reminded me. About 1970 something I was building a garage at my 1st home. I was at the point that you are. The slab was poured and I had the lumber stacked on the slab waiting for me to do the stud and rafter work. I hadn't purchased the service door or code-required window yet. I came home from work one day and there, lying against the lumber was a window and a door. Whose they were, I didn't know. Obviously they were supposed to be for someone else in the area. I left them there for a few weeks and nobody came to collect them. I decided to use them in my garage build.
I can remember many a time when I was in my 20's, I just took an 80# shingle bundle, threw it on my right shoulder, climbed up the ladder and very tentatively stepped onto the roof. Once 4 or 5 bundles were done, the rest seemed to be like 2nd nature. Today, I wouldn't try doing that in a heartbeat. That job is for the young. Tommy, give you son a beer or two AFTER the job is done! Nobody had a beer before any work was done on any of my home renovations.
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