26x27 garage build.

[pheoxs]

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I currently have it planned to be in the back corner and will put a welder receptacle on it. 6/3 is good for 65amp I think. Was shocked to read the new lightning uses a 80A fast charger. Low or higher on the wall? How do the chargers mount? Are they hard wired or plug in? Is any standard looking like it will become mainstream?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...=1626135764556

[arcticcat522]

Need some stucco around the perimeter, a garage door, fire rate one wall, some electrical and a gas line. Not much more. After tomorrow, I imagine progress will slow dramatically. That's when the builder is done and I take control. Hahahaha

[eblend]

Who did your concrete? I got a full 3 car garage + 3000 square foot home (slab on grade) to poor next year, need to know who to avoid. The catch basin looks good, I plan on doing one as well, from what I gather most companies can do that, thought most online info seems to point to Concrete Innovations.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Who did your concrete? I got a full 3 car garage + 3000 square foot home (slab on grade) to poor next year, need to know who to avoid. The catch basin looks good, I plan on doing one as well, from what I gather most companies can do that, thought most online info seems to point to Concrete Innovations.

I'd estimate 75% of concrete contractors don't chair rebar on residential work, so it's not like he found the needle in the haystack.

[arcticcat522]

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I'd estimate 75% of concrete contractors don't chair rebar on residential work, so it's not like he found the needle in the haystack.

Agree ^^ basically everything you want in your build, you need to put in writing. The drain looked very easy to install. I wish I installed it because I would have used more attention to detail. This builder seems to be pretty good. Still some things that could have been better, but I'm very detailed oriented.

[eblend]

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I'd estimate 75% of concrete contractors don't chair rebar on residential work, so it's not like he found the needle in the haystack.

Yah I can see that, lucky for me, I am building my own home and I will be setting up my own rebar, and if a concrete company doesn't want to deal with it, well then I don't want to deal with them. My home will also have hydronic in-slab heating, so the water tubes have to be up to the top of the concrete and not laying at the bottom doing nothing, and those are tied to the rebar.

[bjstare]

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Who did your concrete? I got a full 3 car garage + 3000 square foot home (slab on grade) to poor next year, need to know who to avoid. The catch basin looks good, I plan on doing one as well, from what I gather most companies can do that, thought most online info seems to point to Concrete Innovations.

Concrete Innovations is good.

[ExtraSlow]

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Yah I can see that, lucky for me, I am building my own home and I will be setting up my own rebar, and if a concrete company doesn't want to deal with it, well then I don't want to deal with them. My home will also have hydronic in-slab heating, so the water tubes have to be up to the top of the concrete and not laying at the bottom doing nothing, and those are tied to the rebar.

Just make sure all that is spec'd out in writing as part of the quote process, then verbally confirmed before they show up. I anticipate you having several arguments about this.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Just make sure all that is spec'd out in writing as part of the quote process, then verbally confirmed before they show up. I anticipate you having several arguments about this.

What they're going to do, is quote eBlend based on using a line pump and that's way more $$$ due to equipment rental and wasted concrete.
If you get a competing quote from "3 Junkies & A Barrel KonCreete" they will be tremendously lower.

[cyra1ax]

Rookie question, what's with the boards up in the rafters above the man-door & windows? Storage area?

[firebane]

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Rookie question, what's with the boards up in the rafters above the man-door & windows? Storage area?

loft area for storage

I have something similar in my shop and its super handy.

[arcticcat522]

Yep ^^

[eblend]

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What they're going to do, is quote eBlend based on using a line pump and that's way more $$$ due to equipment rental and wasted concrete.
If you get a competing quote from "3 Junkies & A Barrel KonCreete" they will be tremendously lower.

I kind of expect this to be the case already, so expecting it, not going to be cheap. I plan on building a pole barn home like this where they basically put up the entire building to lockup stage on screw piles...and you do all the interior yourself, which includes doing all plumbing after the fact and then flooding it all with concrete, so the entry point into the whole building would be a side garage door...so either lots of barrels and ramps to get it to far corners, or a pump truck.

Sorry for the derail!

[arcticcat522]

Electricians are swinging in tomorrow. Hope they can get everything electrical done. Panel swap in the house and disconnect/reconnect scheduled for Thursday. Still need to finish the duct work on the HRV, install the Reznor. Getting really close. Also waiting on 1 more insulation quote. Looks to be around $8000 to insulate.

Started to re build some fence. Just between the neibours so far.

[arcticcat522]

Made a sweet little anti kick-in piece for the man door too.

[bjstare]

That goddamn SamSung watermark gets me every time.

[firebane]

You will enjoy having that type of garage door. I need to convert one of mine to that at some point.

[arcticcat522]

I was a little upset it wasn't right up to the rafters. The track is about 9" down. Could have been a few inches higher.

Eavestrough is installed to...not pictured.






I'll see what I can do about the watermark.....

[pheoxs]

Why the tiny windows? Seems rather pointless to me? If its for light I'd rather just do a tube skylight. Seems like a extra expense for how small those windows are.

Any word on the final $$$ for them to build it?

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Issues I've had are that the antenna range on the opener is terrible(basically have about 20-30ft worth of range) and the remote light has a mind of it's own(works for a little bit, then completely ignores the wall control and sometimes even turns on by itself).

Looks like I have the lift master 8500w. We'll see of it has the same issues you describe. Not sure I'm worried about the range, since we will be close when we need toopen/close the door. It has battery back up and a lock, they seem important for me. Hope it doesn't give me issues.