My New House & Workshop

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@Rick W With that last $.03 I think you're up to about $.23.
I am enjoying all the insight of this discussion. Keep it going.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Well I just had a 3rd company show up to look at the job and give me a quote. Looks to be in his 50's and a seasoned builder. He didn't seem to thinking raising the roof was a big deal, and even said they can save and reuse some of the materials. What?!

I told him about all the options I was considering. He seemed to think they could raise the roof cheaper than building a new metal building.

He didn't give me a quote though. He wrote down measurements and said he wanted to work on the numbers and try to have a quote for me by next Friday.

I hate waiting, but I'm really interested to see what he says.

 

[snoranger]

Well I just had a 3rd company show up to look at the job and give me a quote. Looks to be in his 50's and a seasoned builder. He didn't seem to thinking raising the roof was a big deal, and even said they can save and reuse some of the materials. What?!

I told him about all the options I was considering. He seemed to think they could raise the roof cheaper than building a new metal building.

He didn't give me a quote though. He wrote down measurements and said he wanted to work on the numbers and try to have a quote for me by next Friday.

I hate waiting, but I'm really interested to see what he says.

This one sounds hopeful.

 

[Ranger850]

Can you just build a pole barn between the house and the outbuilding? Pole Barn can be as tall as you need it to be.

 

[Rick W]

this guy sounds like a true craftsman. Start with your basic shape, and then add in the options you want without totally jerking him around.

BTW, did you ask the Man upstairs for this? I did....

 

[fastpakr]

BTW, did you ask the Man upstairs for this? I did....

Gary?

 

[Rick W]

Careful, I think only very close friends call Him that...

 

[sgtsandman]

Sounds like #3 might be a winner.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

 

[Roert42]

$100 Per sheet. $50 per board. Firm, No Lowballers, I know what I got.

Must pick up, will not deliver.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I've spent the last couple of days cleaning, priming, and painting my kitchen cabinets.

I'm pretty sure if a painter goes to hell he's forced to paint kitchen cabinets for the rest of eternity.

 

[Jim Oaks]

My sewer line is full of water again.

It seems that whatever is blocking it is under the shop. The plumber had suggested it may have a belly from the shop settling on top of it. That shop has. Even there for a long time, so it makes how long this problem has existed.

There wasn't a problem when I moved in, but the house had been empty. I called a plumber because the toilet in the half bath gurgled when I flushed the main toilet. The clean out didn't have water and they snaked from there to the house. Not to the sewer. Not much in there. I fixed the gurgle by adding a Studor valve under the sink in the half bath.

The problem of it holding water came later.

The plumber that was here didn't have a camera. I really want someone to find the true source of the problem, and not speculate.

If there's a belly under the shop then I'm assuming that the floor has to get cut and dug up so they can get to it. This has me wondering if they could just reroute it so it doesn't have to go under the shop? Does it have to maintain the original connection with the main sewer, or can that be relocated as well?

 

[ryan]

If there's a belly under the shop then I'm assuming that the floor has to get cut and dug up so they can get to it. This has me wondering if they could just reroute it so it doesn't have to go under the shop? Does it have to maintain the original connection with the main sewer, or can that be relocated as well?

More a question of how expensive would it be vs is it possible. Is it a straight shot to the sewer right now?

 

[Jim Oaks]

Yes. For some reason when the plumber came to put the cleanout where my line goes in to the main he first dug back in the corner of the lot diagonally from the house. I'm guessing he thought it would be a straight shot to there since there was a building in the way.

I figure for what it would cost to have to cut up my slab and hand dig the old line, I might as well put that in to the plumber using his small excavator and digging a trench for a new line.

I just don't know if the city would let a plumber connect to the main or if they have to do it.

 

[Dirtman]

And you people think I'm an idiot for pooping in the furnace...