Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #576 Posted March 20, 2012 Bummer!! I looked over doors and their instructions look to be a challenge. So I called my friendly blood sucking Lowes and they only want 300 bucks each to install them!!! Trying to save where I can on this thing and that just sounds Crazy to me. With my Vets discount I only paid 294 for both doors!! i thought it was great price for insulated doors but I see where they make it up. If I can tear a 1st Gen apart I can do these things. Got 90 page instructions with them. 1/2 of that is in that other language. Maybe those are more understandable??
Flyinfool Posted March 20, 2012 #577 Posted March 20, 2012 Gee maybe you should set up a web cam so that we can watch it go up in real time. Oh wait, you have issues just posting pics, never mind.....
Guest Posted March 20, 2012 #578 Posted March 20, 2012 Gee maybe you should set up a web cam so that we can watch it go up in real time. Oh wait, you have issues just posting pics, never mind..... Just what we need, another reality show!!! Lets see, what would be a good name for this one? Keeping up with the Yammers? Or maybe 1st Genners Gone Wild? I can see it now......piles of blocks and insulated doors are added to the pile of 1st gens scattered about. But there is a deep dark secret. One day that pile of rubble will be cleared off and the past remains of missing contractors will be found.
Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #579 Posted March 20, 2012 Just what we need, another reality show!!! Lets see, what would be a good name for this one? Keeping up with the Yammers? Or maybe 1st Genners Gone Wild? I can see it now......piles of blocks and insulated doors are added to the pile of 1st gens scattered about. But there is a deep dark secret. One day that pile of rubble will be cleared off and the past remains of missing contractors will be found. Don't spread that around!! by the time rubble is cleared away they will be fertilizer.
Keemez Posted March 20, 2012 #581 Posted March 20, 2012 Is that your own personal railroad on the left in that last set of pics? Just build a ramp up into one of the boxcars and use that as your garage!
Flyinfool Posted March 20, 2012 #582 Posted March 20, 2012 I dunt know. It sure looks small. Maybe you should rethink the size again..........
Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #583 Posted March 20, 2012 50' long and it takes 3&1/2 ft for a 1st gen... sideways. It might be kind of tight!!!
barend Posted March 20, 2012 #584 Posted March 20, 2012 Is that your own personal railroad on the left in that last set of pics? Just build a ramp up into one of the boxcars and use that as your garage! I like that idea, prolly would've been faster and possibly cheaper.
Redneck Posted March 20, 2012 #586 Posted March 20, 2012 Looking good! If the doors are like all the ones I've been around they are easy to install. Throw the directions away and go look at a neighbors door then you will see how to do it.
Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #587 Posted March 20, 2012 Thats about what I thought. Carls pics make more sense than the whole book.
Sylvester Posted March 20, 2012 #588 Posted March 20, 2012 I have a fear that all will turn out...OK. And that scares me, what with all this advice.
Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #589 Posted March 20, 2012 I have plans... if the Warden don't catch me!!
Yammer Dan Posted March 20, 2012 Author #590 Posted March 20, 2012 Am I figuring this right?? Wall 8 ft tall 50 ft long is 400 sq feet?
Flyinfool Posted March 20, 2012 #592 Posted March 20, 2012 That is correct, But you want to paint inside and out so 800 sq ft. I am hoping you have more than one wall............ New block will soak up paint like a sponge, so it will need more still. Talk to the contractor and read your paint can about how long the mortar must cure and dry before painting.
Marcarl Posted March 21, 2012 #593 Posted March 21, 2012 Am I figuring this right?? Wall 8 ft tall 50 ft long is 400 sq feet? 8x50x 2sides x 2walls plus the end walls + about 2000 sq ft, and then the ceiling 12 x 50= another 600 so figure at least 3000 sq ft x how many coats?
iwhoss270 Posted March 21, 2012 #594 Posted March 21, 2012 Hey Yammer Dan, IDK what it costs.... but they ALWAYS spray block with a sealer before paint color on the jobsite........FWIW. Congrats on ur current progress, and an airless is definitely the way to go even if ya pay a house painter to swing by an spray it............gotta love ur patients and determination there bro
Yammer Dan Posted March 21, 2012 Author #595 Posted March 21, 2012 I'm working on it. Cure time on motar is one thing I won't have much of. I'm coming up at a little less than 4000 sq ft. just figuring in my head. Thats walls and floor 20x50. I'm going to try to spray before roof goes on. Roof is going to be metal so won't have to paint that. Ceiling inside will have to be done later. Not worried about anything that far down the road. If paint can claims to cove 300 ft I'm thinking figure it at 200? No worry on outside about overspray on anything. If I change colors on inside floor & walls will airless sprayer cut a line I can get away with?? Not needing knife edge perfection. Walls are done this morning pouring floor in the morning.I'm trying to think ahead a little.
Yammer Dan Posted March 23, 2012 Author #596 Posted March 23, 2012 Spread 15 ton of gravel and poured 14 yrs of concrete today. He didn't order enough concrete. Got floor finished but wanted to pour corner walls.
Redneck Posted March 23, 2012 #597 Posted March 23, 2012 Glad to hear things are going well. I think you should have gone with a pyramid design as that has proven to be the best way to contain ancient things.
Yammer Dan Posted March 23, 2012 Author #598 Posted March 23, 2012 Glad to hear things are going well. I think you should have gone with a pyramid design as that has proven to be the best way to contain ancient things. The Roof ain't on yet!!
playboy Posted March 24, 2012 #599 Posted March 24, 2012 If your careful you can paint a pretty good line using a paint shield. You can make one out of a piece of sheet metal 2 1/2 ' 0r 3' x 12'' to 18'' nail yourself a wooden handle on it and make two of them moving one over the other and clean them regularly if you get a lot of over spray on them so they don't drip paint everywhere. A quick rinse with a garden hose will do it. I'm assuming you want to paint the floor a different color or keep paint off the floor. If you don't want paint on the floor get it wet before you spray and that will help to keep it from sticking if you get a little water on the wall it won't hurt the latex paint.
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