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Clearing out the skylights

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Posted on January 27, 2017 by

 

 

In order for the formwork to be as strong as possible while the shotcrete was going up, I had chosen not to make a hole in the rebar cage for the skylights.  Instead, we just built the skylight forms above the steel structure.  Now that it is too cold to work outside, it is the perfect time to cut the steel out of the openings and remove the skylight forms.

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Installing the Rear Garage Door

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Posted on December 31, 2016 by

We had not left quite enough room for a standard garage install and had to get creative with our rear garage door. Here is the video…

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Bells and Whistles

The door was from Lowes and came with the S3 winder so I wasn’t too worried about the torsion spring.  I got a side mount garage door opener, specifically a Liftmaster 8500, and was really happy with it.

One interesting side thing: The Liftmaster 8500 had a bunch of extra special features, such as a wireless light, programmable control, etc. but the most interesting thing (to me anyway) was the way the sensors worked.  Every other garage door I have owned had a sensor so that if you walked past as it was going down, it would stop and open up.  This is the sensor that you always “hop over” if you want to sneak out of the garage as the door is going down. How do you improve on such a basic sensor function? When I first installed it, it didn’t seem to be working, but then I realized that the improvement is simply to wait and see if the obstacle is there for more than a moment.  If you just walk past, it doesn’t trip it, no special hop-while-ducking required.  You need to interrupt the beam for at least half a second to stop the door from coming down.  Pretty minor, but it makes a nice difference 😉

Cutting a side door in the Quonset Hut

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Posted on November 24, 2016 by

 

Back when we did the shotcrete on the Quonset hut, we bucked out a side door between the garage and the mudroom.  Leaving the Quonset intact was important because we did not want to weaken the Quonset structure before adding the wet concrete load.  However, the buck keeping the concrete off this section meant we could cut it out and make a doorway without needing a big concrete saw.  Well, now with the mudroom roof on, it is time to punch the door thru the side of the Quonset.

This segment also covers putting the lights up on the front of the garage.

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