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  1. Thanks dship... it is not easy picking colours as you just don't always now how things are going to look when you finally get them put up and covering a large area. Then to see how it goes with your house also. I should get a pic that includes my house and post it in the near future. Burgundy was my original choice for the top colour, but when I was ordering the metal the guy discouraged me from the that colour as he had had complaints from other people as the burgandy in the sun appears purple and brown and not as it looks when you have it on your computer screen. He did give me a swatch of the colour that he had to take home so I could see for myself. The colour of choice is just called "Dark Red" and I am happy with the choice.
  2. With the fall weather moving in and it being dark before 7pm it is hard to get much work done when I don't get home from work till 5. It took me a couple of evenings to get all the metal done around the garage doors. Now I need to get back on that porch so I can get the metal and trim on it so can get to the west wall this weekend and get that done.
  3. Goods news..........the weather will be nice I should get lots of work done. Bads news...... I was informed yesterday it will not be concrete.....as i was the only person wanting concrete this weekend, and 2 of the 4 concrete truck drivers were not available, it is a no go. But it looks like it will get done the end of next week, depending on the weather...Wed, Thurs, or Friday. The fun part of dealing with the place my son works, I am at their mercy of them fitting me in, I just have to remember the price is right and be happy when it does get done.
  4. While we wait another week for concrete, I went back to working on adding metal to the outside. I made a template for the angle of cutting the metal for the gabel, this made it easier to be consistent with my cuts and helped insure my angle was good. I thought it came out pretty good, over one window there is a bit of a mismatch as it looks like the panel got a little out of square going around the window but it came back to alignment by the middle and the rest lined up pretty good. Can't wait to get the concrete so I can add doors and get the side panelling all complete. Looks like we are on track for Saturday concrete.
  5. Sunday i spent building my porch. Not having it done has kind of held me up in getting the metal work done on the west side of my building. My oldest helped me put the beams up, we just did it by lifting the beams up and putting them on our shoulders and climbing the latters, the long was sure was heavy. I have not gotten any further with it as I ran out of lumber and have not gone to buy the rest of what I need yet. I will get back at it on the weekend.
  6. Unfortunately when the the rules and laws were put in place and we talk golf cart this is what we are expecting, 2 seater, 12in wheels, top speed 5mph. And this is what we are starting to get, 4 seater leisure campground vehicle. I wonder if a proper definition of what a golf cart is could be a start to dealing with this issue? Then the question of how do you police it will always come up.
  7. Thanks for the reply Steve.....as someone who is not part of the region and even from another country I don't know all the legalities of what is involved and or required by HERCO or the State of Pennsylvania hence my hesitancy in wanting to post originally. In Ontario Canada Golf carts are considered a leisure devise and not a mobility device for the handicapped. Different countries different rules.
  8. I rarely make comments about something like this, but, as the comments above have stated, don't bring up an issue unless you have a solution, so here are my thoughts. As with many others I have been coming to Hershey since I was 10 yrs old with my father and always as a vender starting back when we were in the white field at the end of the old airport runway. Prior to the covid yrs my dad came 59 yrs in a row and and its been 41yrs for me. An older gentleman that is now in his early 80s that vends beside me has 2 bad knees and a bad hip so for the last 6 yrs, below is the mobility scooter that he brings to help him get around the flee market. This is the type of scooter that for me is acceptable for the flee market, they are small, single passenger use, and work quite well as I can attest from the vendor seeing him get around on it. I don't like the golf carts, because they are just like todays pickup trucks and have gotten really big from what they were 20yrs ago and if they have 4 seats they have 4 passengers whether they need it to get around or not.. My suggestion would be for the golf cart issue is that golf carts specifically are not allowed but mobility scooters are. I think this would take care of many of the concerns that both the vendors and visitors have and both HERCO and the Hershey Region. This is a way for those that require a way to get around to have one and it is also easy to identify someone breaking to rules with a golf cart as no golf carts would be allowed and may make it easier to inforce, which I know is the biggest issue. I say give a 1 yr grace period for the change over to no golf carts just mobility scooters, everyone who brings a golf cart next yr gets a notice to not bring it back the following yr. I don't know all the legalities involved so this idea may work or it may not, my worry is someone is going to get hurt bad due to the size of the golf carts that are starting to show up. I seen golf carts going around this past yr that were even bigger than this one shown below.
  9. I got a text this morning to let me know my concrete has been pushed back 1 week. Apparently the pump truck has been double booked for Saturday and I guess I drew the short straw. I guess I better call the garage door guy and the spray foam guy to push those dates back also.☹️
  10. After a great trip to Hershey for the first time since we had a 2yr hiatus from being able to cross the border, it was back to working on my garage. I am going to back track a bit here to my window install. When I went to the basement to bring my 4 windows up to install, (2 on the east wall and 2 on the west wall), I immediately noticed I had 5 windows in my basement and then realized we forgot one during the framing process. After a few swear words I just let it be as it did not affect anything at that time. I decide my first project when I got home from Hershey was to frame out and install the window. This window is to go on the front of the building between my man door and the garage door. It took about 2 1/2 hrs to complete and have done what we(I) should of not missed.
  11. This will be my last post for a week to 10 days. My wife and I will be heading to Hershey on Sunday for the week and we have our Canadian Thanksgiving when we get home. I just want to say thanks to everyone who checks in on my build thread and gives and thumbs up or has a comment or a question, that what keeps me posting this stuff on here. I would never of imagined that I would be approaching 3000 views, that seems kind of crazy, so a big sincere thank you to everyone who checks in and is following along. Jeff
  12. The date I have confirmed for concrete is Saturday Oct 15th, that is why I switched from working on my metal siding to getting the inside all prepped for concrete. I wanted all the prep work done before I headed for Hershey as I did not want to come back and be rushing to get things done last minute. Last night I finished with putting down all the wire mesh and got it all wired together. The only thing I have left is to put blocking in front of the doors. I am excited for the concrete to be done, then we can get the garage doors and man doors in and it will really start to look like a finished building.
  13. Thanks Dave......When I am really only going to be doing this one time you need to find ways to save money.To buy the premade manifolds and pressure equipment that I was looking at online, that stuff got really expensive really fast, between $300 to $400 dollars.
  14. After 24hrs I checked to see if the pressure had changed and it was still holding at 50psi. No issues with the lines I laid down.
  15. With the pex down the next operation is to do a pressure test of the lines. I looked up online to buy what I needed for the test and the price of stuff was more than I wanted to pay. So i decided to build my own. I doing so I saved over $200, I have done pex in the house with a basement bathroom reno so I already had some of what I needed. I had to think a little outside the box to find threaded in schrader valves, every place I tried it was only bicycle repair stuff so I ended up looking at compressor repair parts and found a package of 2 for $9 and a pressure gauge for $14. This was at Princess Auto which is our equivalent to Harbour Freight in the US. Also bought a black pipe T and 2 different style caps for the different NPT thread sizes. Added up it was $30. The NPT taps I grabbed from work. Here is my make shift work bench, a flea market table and thru my old vise on from where I have it stored. here are the finished drilled and tapped end mounts for the Schrader valve and the pressure gauge. The assembled parts. This is my homemade temporary manifold. I just used some of the left over pex and I had to buy some pex Ts as I did not have enough at home. this is everything attached I put 50 pounds of air in the line and brought out the soap to check for leaks at my connections and I had 3. Not with my tapped holes but with the factory threads...lol. So I took it apart and went with pipe dope and tape and that seemed to solve my problem, I also made sure the connections were tighter this time. I added my air back up to 50psi.
  16. Thanks Jim....I was just doing some reading about that style of manifold yesterday. I think that is the way I am going to go. I have also found the cheapest way to purchase one is thru Amazon. To buy thru a brick and mortar store would cost me over $100cad more.
  17. Next operation is to lay down the pex tubing for the radiant heat. The pex that you put down for Radiant heat is not the same pex that you would use for running water lines in your house, the radiant heating pex has an oxygen barrier that prevents the diffusion of oxygen thru the pex to prevent corrosion in your heating system, There are programs online that you can buy that will do a pex layout for you but I did not want to spend the money on that so instead I took some graph paper to scale out the size of the interior of my garage and did a few layouts that I thought would work. I am using 1/2in pex so the max length they suggest is 300ft runs, the amount of runs I need for my floor worked out to 7. When my order came in I got 2 1000ft rolls and 1 300ft roll. You are suppose to keep the length of the runs as close to possible to the same length as to not create hot spots so I had 6 runs of 310ft and 1 run of 300ft which was the full length of the one roll. The pex is laid out at a distance of 1ft between runs and the foam is all set up for that so it is quick and easy for knowing your distances. At the corner where the pex goes up the wall there are pvc 90deg. corners to slide over the pex to keep them from pinching at the corner and to protect them when the concrete goes in. I found it easier to cut the 1000ft rolls into 3 310 ft rolls for laying it down and made it easier for me to ensure I kept the lines to the same length. I had read that there are usually marks on the pex so you know what length you have run but I could not figure it out so it was easier to just pre cut them, it was less confusion for me. In total it took about 4hrs for my helper (wife) and me to finish the entire floor. which I thought was ok for the first time doing it. pictures in next post.
  18. @Gary_Ash asked a question about a lift for my garage, I have added a pic of the cutouts in the foam for where the 4post lift is going to go. That will give me 8" of concrete depth in those 4 locations.
  19. With the stone done the next thing was to put down the styrofoam. We went with the sheets that are made for ease of adding the pex for in-floor heating with like lego block round tops on the top of them. The foam is 2" think and the puck top is 1" thick so where they are the foam is 3" thick. The foam also has locking edges on them so they fit together when assembling. The first and last run go slow as you need to cut the fitting edge off each sheet that goes up against the wall but the rest of it goes really fast. One night my boys came out and helped and it look a little over and hr to finish laying over half of the floor , I could hardly keep up cutting the ends for them.
  20. No problem with asking questions..the floor is being done at this time due to the timing that works with the company that my son works for and when they can do it...they are in the area so this is the time that works...only have to pay for concrete and no labor.
  21. The floor will be 5" thick. Just a 3ft square area where the legs of the 4post lift will sit will the thickness be 8". And thanks for the compliment on the build..have done small house renovations but never something as extensive as a garage build.
  22. I have highlighted the area in Chocolate field north where the Studebaker club is approximately. The Schrock Bros. The Studebaker club and Rex M. all have about 8-10 spots side by side. That row backs onto HersheyPark Drive and is the row that will head down to where the car corral starts. Jeff
  23. I plan on adding a 4 post lift, requirements from 2 different manufactures suggest a 4 to 4 1/2in min thickness for a 4 post lift. I am doing in-floor heating so my plan is to remove the foam in a 3'x3' section where the 4 post legs are going to be and in those locations I will have approx. 8" of concrete.
  24. Friday night I spent about 3 hrs taking stone from the piles in the driveway and starting filling up the required 6in in the garage and did some raking and leveling. Saturday morning I thought I would run the tamper around just to see how much it packed the stone and in some places it seemed to drop the level about 1in. My oldest son and I spent the rest of the day moving stone and shoveling,raking, scraping, tamping and leveling as best we could. What a laborious job this was and every muscle in my body ached when we were done.
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