More pictures from Monday continued... This is actually the last few pictues of them putting up the last wall. And then Like I said, today they will be putting up some roof rafters.



David G.

Here they are putting up the roof rafters and also sheeting and weatherproofing. It is a 5x12 pitch roof and eventually it will get a metal roof like on my house. They also should be putting a dormer in it somewhere because My city is making me connect it to my house and it will be connected by a roof on a dormer and just go straight over to the side of my house.

One of the pictures we installed some drain pipes at the end of the driveway for water to run into. The concrete man also spread some gravel out and backfilled the gap between the driveway in preparation of the concrete.

David G.

These are pictures taken today of how much they got done. The building is pretty much ready for the siding, the windows and doors are ready to be put in, The concrete is poured. The inside looks great and I cant wait to move in all my machinery. Next week they will probably be putting up the covered carport and finish the siding they already started. The drain pipes at the end of the drive way work good and funnel the water off down below on the bank.


David G.

What type of siding are you using? It looked like Hardi plank. I had to reside my house in Atlanta because the builder did not blind nail the siding. Water and nail holes don't mix. I used Hardi Plank and blind nail the whole thing. Came out great. Your shop looks great. I've enjoyed watching it go up.

chopper

Yes, that is exactly what we are using, that cement hardi board. My house was actually built 25 years ago and is sided with masonite board but I believe they quickly phased that out.


They have actually finished siding the entire workshop today and it looks fantastic. I will post a few pictures again maybe tommarrow. They should be starting to frame up a carport over the cement slab on the front tommarow. That is if Hurricane Bill or whatever hurricane their on doesnt rain us out.

David Georgeson

It has been harder for me to upload pictures after every day of progress lately because the photo uploader I have been using got taken down for repairs. I have been using photo bucket which in the end achieves the same goal but is more time consuming to do. I have been also trying to move all my stuff back over to my appartment and get ready to go back to college. I was hoping they would have started construction earlier on this building so I could see it completed but that didnt happen. Luckily I only go to school about an hour away from home so I could come home everyweekend If I wanted to. They are pretty close to getting it done though, since the last post they have finnished all the siding, built up all the soffits and trim work, an they built the carport up and roofed it. Today they finished all the trim on the carport and sheeted the gable end. Really all that is left for them to do is finnish up a little more siding on the carport they just built, and then figure out how to attach it to our house.

David

I also need to mention how great of a neigbor we have. They are a couple who go away quite frequently on vacation and trips and they have a couple animals (a dog and 2 cats). Me and My dad go over and feed their animals whenever they go away for a couple days at a time. Usually when they come back they will give us a little gift or something like a fruit basket which has been nice. The Lady works at a lighting shop and one day they told us to come over and check out some "shop" lights that she sells to go in our shop. They consisted of 2 flourecent tubes but it had a reflector on top that when you look up into it, It looks like multiple lights. She told us they retail for $200 but she would sell them to us for her cost of $68 dollars. So, My dad said he would take 4 because they were really neat looking. So when they went away just recently we fed their animals agian. They then stopped by one day when they got back and delivered our lights. Long story short, They would not accept any money at all for them. We tried to pay them but they said "oh this is a little something for feeding the animals." So Just had to mention again what nice neighbors we have.

David

Shop looks great. If you are around town on Saturday I will be out at the field in the morning to around lunch time. It's always good to meet fellow club members.

Ok, I havent posted in a while but I guess nothing much more has gotten done. an update on the connection to the house is that we are now doing away with it. we again talked to the inspector and came to an agreement that we can just do a small brick wall across the back of the driveway and connect it that way. We are still awaiting the Metal Roofer and the Electrician to come out. Both should be out some time next week. After the building is wired then the builder can put up the ceiling and then the garage door. My dad started priming the facia board for painting it later.


David G.

A shocking surpise came today. The metal roofers were supposed to come on saturday which I thought was supposed to be their day off and they just wanted to do it to make a little extra money on the weekend. But they did not come yesterday. Instead they came today, on Sunday. They got here about an hour before we went to church and almost blocked us in. Anyway we are back now and watching them finish up the metal roof. I will post another picture soon.


David G.

Seems like we are back at square one with the city again. After the long battle of them telling us we had to hook the garage to the house with a roof and then they told us we could hook it with a brick wall, Well now they told us we would have to hook back to the house with a roof again. The metal roof is already on so there is no way we are tearing back into that to put another connecting roof. Now we have to go back down to city hall to debate them about it again.

This garage is taking way longer than expected to finish. Once it is finished I plan on showing some pictures of moving in and all of my machinery for the wood shop on top. Also I will show all my airplane storage in the bottom.

On a positive note, we did just get the electrical wired in and there is an outlet almost every 2.5 feet apart which will be nice.


david

Well, we have just about had it with our messed up city planning board. Yet again the inspector who said we could "Connect" the garage to the house with a brick wall has now said we can not. We again had to go and try to ask for a special exception to this rule by allowing us to build a brick wall to connect it rather than a roof. They made us look like we were ignorant and accused us of manipulating the city of trussville for not wanting to comply with the ordinance. They do not care how much it will cost us to build this roofed walk way to the garage and they also admited that they dont care what it looks like either. All they care about is that we connect it so that the next time we get our house appraised they can raise the value.


They only have one more inspection to sign off on and it really does not matter now even if they do. The shop is completey done, the power is connected and we have begun moving some of our machines inside. It was hard work moving those machines in there because we have several machines such as a Saw Stop, 12" industrial plainer, and a rikon band saw that weigh about 600 pounds each. Then we have several other saws, drill presses and sanders that wheigh about 400 pounds a peice. And that 7 inch step up to the shop floor did not help us either.

Finnally, I can say that we built a make shift breeze way that serves no purpose at all but connects our garage to the house. And the inspector came out and finallly signed it off.

That took quite a bit longer than any of us expected to get done. I mean we only started this in august and it just now got signed off. We have almost all of our machines moved in the top. and we have the basement completely filled with all the airplanes sitting on the floor right now.

Pictures soon to come.

David

Here are some pictures of all the machinery moved into the top floor. Things are still a mess because we are in the processes of insulating it and moving things around.

Here are some pictures of pretty much every RC planes we own. We do however have about 6 control line planes that we have yet to move over. pretty soon we will be building all kinds of shelves to hold charging equipment and hangers for fuselages and wings and etc etc... but it will all come in time.

Congratulations David, glad to see you finally got there in the end. Have a quick request please. Can we get a picture of that massive biplane (?) with no skin on it? You can partially see it in the second pic of the tool area next to the edge router and drill press. Looks very impressive from what I can make out.

sure, everyone always asks me about it. I actually am posting in a thread on RC Groups as I build on it a little at a time. It is a worlds famous "Stits Sky Baby" at one time the worlds smallest biplane. The one I am building is surpisingly enough 50% scale of the full size plane. Here it is.

David

[X(] WOW....that looks gorgeous. Thanks for the pics and good luck.

you want to hear something hilarius. two city inspectors drove right in my driveway, got out and started looking at our "connection." Keep in mind our building is already signed off and they have no right to come out to our house anymore. Anyway they found my dad and told him that the connection was not what they were expecting. They were saying, "We better go take some pictures of a proper "connection" so you get the idea. What they wanted was for us to put a sidewalk and doors at either end of the connection roof. We built this thing ourselves and it looks like a pergala. It is on the very backside of the driveway, on total unusable terrain, right behind the brick wall they wouldnt sign off. My dad and the inspectors started going at it and then they came up with some lame excuse that the person who signed off our building didnt have all the forms (which they new was a lie). Long story short, We got the paper and documentation that the other inspector signed our building completely off. So they cant do anything about now. My dad went down and bought a "NO TRESPASSING" sign and stuck it in our front yard.

david

Here are some more recent pictures of the shop. I want to hear your first reaction and opinion when you look at these photos. Would you say this garage is "connected" and/ or a part of the house?

david

Here are some more shots around the outside. Overall we are very pleased with the results and it functions very well for us so far. Now we just need to start building up some work benches and storage cabnits and everything in between.

I hate to say but this little dispute between us vs. the city of Trussville is still in an on going battle. Today they sent us a letter "Certified Mail" where we had to sign for it to get it. Basicly it states that the City board has filed complaints about our "Trellis" saying we did not comply with the code.

This letter is coming from the inspector who first of all told us we could build a brick wall then said no, then told us the exact specifications of how to build a breezeway which we then built. He came out and signed off and dated our final inspection which we now have locked away in our vault. And now He sends us this letter that says we are still not in compliance.

My parents were trying to avoid are last alternative at all cost but unfortunately it has come down to this. My dad is now seeking out a layer to see what exactly is are legal rights in this situation. Also he is trying to find out what exactly the city can do to us now that we have the documents stating that the workshop is fully signed off and approved.

to be continued...

I'm no lawyer but it would seem that you are holding the cards. Don't ever let them get their little grubby hands on the sign off. Good luck and keep us posted. The place looks geat by the way!!

chopper

Man, that place is truly stellar.

Lucky lucky lucky!