One step closer (building a garage)

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and finally a shot of my new wheels

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a shot from inside the garage, Two pieces of conduit and a water pipe.

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another from the opposite side

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a pic of the trench being dug, this is a shot from the corner of my house.

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Saturday morning was reserved for a two and a half hour ride to chriskbmxs' house, a member here, I was supposed to pick up my hood and some bumper trim. Instead I spent the morning with my brother and stepfather working on the garage. I have been wanting to put electric and water in now that I have my c.o. and today was the day we started. My father brought over his mini-excavator, and his operator friend came over too. We trenched from the telephone pole to the garage and from the garage to the house. We laid conduit for electric 2 1/2", fios cable and (telephone if I ever wanted)1 1/2",and we also laid a 3/4" line of pex pipe for water. Everything is backfilled and tamped with a jumping jack.
For those who are curious, I was kind of forced into running both buildings (house and garage) on one electric service. The electric company would not let me have two meters at the same address unless my second meter was billed as commercial. Not only is the rate higher but there is a $30 monthly fee just for having a commercial account. $360 a year just to have the account, not including the cost of power, no thanks. However I didn't want to run the garage off of the house, dimming lights in the house and all that anytime we strike an arc or use some real power. So since I have access to a free mini-ex and all it was going to cost me was the conduit and the 4/0 power cable and the pex pipe, I decided to go underground. I'll be feeding the garage first (my meter will be hung there), and from there it will feed the house. The house will feed the garage water, fios, phone and security cameras. I took some pics but I have not downloaded my phone yet. My wife has to do that for me. Hopefully tonight I will be able to post a couple.

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Very cool.

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mona lisa

some r3v art

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This is a shot of some steel tables I bought and cleaned up. Painted them shop grey(Rustoleum). They are big and heavy, I also put caster wheels on all of them. The one on the left with the yellow paint has a one inch steel plate top. The one in the back has an electric over hydraulic crane mounted to it, it actually belongs on the back of a service truck. The one on the right has an aluminum top(nice for aluminum welding, I hate oxide contamination).

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Dads' car made it home, so did the s50 project my brother and I are doing together.

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A toolbox I had at the shop sitting in a trailer, bringing it home.

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I spy an s38!

indeed you do, torn on what to do with it. It was going in my dads e24 but we've decided on a MM 3700 rally build. It's due here in four to five weeks.

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I got it. Finally. And now some cars can come home.

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I spy an s38!

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Got a call from the inspector about one hour ago, he is scheduled to be here within the next hour. So, I raced home and I'm waiting for him. I should know something soon.

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Still no cert, but I've moved in anyway. The builder has been going back and forth with the county guy for the last few weeks over the stone facade. They didn't get an inspection before they put it up and they had to prove that they put up two vapor barriers before it was installed. I'm so frustrated with this project at this point I've given up being angry. I can't let my blood pressure get out of control or my eyes will pop out of my head. The latest from the builder is "the county has everything they need and they are reviewing it now, we should know something in a day or two." I don't know if I'll ever pay them the remaining 8k.