Back Yard Shed

[ck_taft325is]

The architech was just anal and at the time, figured the clients had disposable income. We talked to the pencil pushe... inspecter, and he said he would have passed us no problemo as it's irrelevant. Purely a cosmetic thing. He was using the house for his portfolio or something and wanted it to "look pretty", even at framing.

Good catch on the 4 1/4 overhang! Together, I think we could conquer the world...

[fannman]

No doubt, my dad has his own drywall business and has been doing drywall for over 25 years. My uncle is a class a contractor and does not sub anything out because he does it all himself. Over the summer I worked for him helping him build his 14,000 sq ft house and he taught me everything I know. Ive been in the drywall business all my life so if anyone has any questions about drywall, pm me.

[ck_taft325is]

I love drywall. I hate sanding it, but I love drywall.

Man, it's good to meet another e30 guy that's in construction! Refreshing to say the least. My Pops has been a construction monkey for 35 years or so and it comes to him naturally. If there was a dude made to build shit, it's him. I'd love to be more in the high end residential/commercial field, but having just started the business and the down economy, we're doing small stuff at the moment.

[Farbin Kaiber]

It's funny to see everyone flexing their manly construction muscles over a chicken coop.

Really, 4 4x4x8's, 4 bags of concrete, 4 4x8x1/2 sheets of plywood, and 50ft. of 4ft. 1" chickenwire, and a stapler. Maybe throw in a few Stanley brand hinges and a couple 2x4's to make a door. This is one of those things that is not rocket science. And, WTF drywalls a chicken coop?

[ck_taft325is]

You want them to feel at home. That way the eggs are laid with love, dude.

[Farbin Kaiber]

All my eggs are laid with breakfast in mind.

[george graves]

[e34john]

Some people came in and got one of those victorian playhouses for kids for their chickens, spent like 2 grand on that thing. It had a porch, windows, doors crap like that.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I'll shut up. Looks awesome...

I have this, I think it's excessive too, but it came with the property as a dog house, so I repurposed it.

http://tuffshed.com/products_details.cfm?ModelID=SBGR

I'll post pics of the 5/8's acre fenced run too.

[e34john]

^
I have that in a 10x10

[Farbin Kaiber]

I think mine is 8x10.

[ck_taft325is]

That's awesome, George! Sometimes I wish I lived closer to check it out and help anyway I could. Has to be the fanciest chicken coop I've seen to date ;) The Pops had chickens growing up. He wanted me to make sure and tell you to bury some chicken wire below the ground as they'll try and get out and dogs, foxes and/or coyotes will be trying to get in. Ironically, they have the same mind set as Farbin... breakfast.

[george graves]

Has anyone ever built their own windows? I bought some old windows. They are single pane, from a sliding window. If I can get the aluminum track off the edges of the glass with out shattering the whole thing, I think I might be able to build a window.

Some wood, and some glazing putty - that might be a fun little project actually.

Will any old glass cutter do? Anyone here cut glass before? It seems magical.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yes, those small tools are ok, but the scoring table works best, get the glass cut to size, won't be much more than buying the glass yourself to cut, the mounting brads, and you can use glaze, or some nice 1/4 roundstock and a few finish nails.

[george graves]

Cool. And with a glass cutter I can carve my gang's name into the huge panels of glass at the mall when I'm hanging out there all day. Sweet.