garage

Starting to Paint/Heat in the Garage

Happy New Year’s everyone! What better way to kick off 2011 then by painting the first two rooms in our new house! Check it out! With a shiny fresh coat of white primer. I’ll have to give the credit to my father who was up bright and early at 5:30 AM January 1st so
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Designers Block… What a Difference 2 Days Makes

So I had planned to write a very enthusiastic, holy poo-digity is the house ever looking abso-tutely spanktastic, but I started working on a website tonight and got in the darned worst designers block (that’s when you stare at the screen forever trying to come up with
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Garage and AV Rack

I decided something tonight… I absolutely despise my father’s new hobby of watching Sunday night football. Thankfully he went skiing today, within the next 30 min (time for food to hit the ole belly) he’ll be passed out on the couch and I can sneak in and turn off the
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Warm Concrete and Nearly Finished Garage

Hey there folks, Not to worry, I haven’t forgotten about you, this blog, or documenting my awesome project. Just had an overwhelming amount of distractions, real-life responsibilities, and overall not so fun stuff to keep me from writing.  What might you say? Let’s
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A.M. Pics of the Garage

7:40 AM right as the carpenters were showing up
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Wow! Look at All the Trusses! VelociRaptors Arrived!

Holy cow that’s a lot of wood is what I thought as I drove up State Street and looked at the gigantic pile of trusses sitting on my front yard.  Even more remarkable is the fact that there was another huge pile sitting in the backyard.  What a roof system, and they’re of so
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Interior Wall Framing, Garage Radiant Heat Tubing

The weather hasn’t really been our friend this week, but what else can you expect up here in Northern Maine!  We have a beautiful summer with scarcely a moment of bad weather and then we start building a house and the farmers start harvesting their potatoes and it’s
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Garage Rebar, Interior Wall Framing, Radiant Heat

Finding it awfully challenging to concentrate on schoolwork with the house being built throughout the day.  Seems like I want to be right in the middle of everything throughout the day and seldom get what I wanted accomplished during the day.  Not like it’s going to change
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