Hey everyone, this is Jason. I'm learning this stuff too for the first time. So here is my two pennies worth. We had a trailer and a four wheeler stolen out of the driveway the first little while we were here so we wanted to build a garage. Plus it was the only thing we wanted on the house we didn't get. It took us a while to start out of intimidation but once we learned all we could about how to do it we jumped right in. We drew out in sidewalk chalk what we wanted it to look like, where the door and windows would be and the length and width of the walls. We were quoted $9600.00 by Cletus the slack jawed yocal and figured we could do better. Try $3000.00 total, and we know there was care put into it. Shelly and Braydon were a huge help, we should have taken more pic with all of us in them but didnt tink of it in "buile mode". The month after we started one of the guys down the road started on his,,, copycat. Oh well. So Hurray for us. It took 3 months due to working at a new job, being a Scout Master, Young Mens Leader, and just plain tired. But we are now done and are enjoying it. Total work time was about seven day's worth. It was a great family project and we learned a lot. p.s. Out of hundreds of hand driven nails I only lossed one entire pointer finger nail, and had one big blood blister on the thumb for a while, Worth the savings of $6600.00? We think so. LOL
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Welcome to our family blog. We are using this mainly as a way to keep in touch with long lost family and friends. I decided that with everyone scattered to the winds that we could stay involved this way. xoxo
Hey everyone, this is Jason. I'm learning this stuff too for the first time. So here is my two pennies worth. We had a trailer and a four wheeler stolen out of the driveway the first little while we were here so we wanted to build a garage. Plus it was the only thing we wanted on the house we didn't get. It took us a while to start out of intimidation but once we learned all we could about how to do it we jumped right in. We drew out in sidewalk chalk what we wanted it to look like, where the door and windows would be and the length and width of the walls. We were quoted $9600.00 by Cletus the slack jawed yocal and figured we could do better. Try $3000.00 total, and we know there was care put into it. Shelly and Braydon were a huge help, we should have taken more pic with all of us in them but didnt tink of it in "buile mode". The month after we started one of the guys down the road started on his,,, copycat. Oh well. So Hurray for us. It took 3 months due to working at a new job, being a Scout Master, Young Mens Leader, and just plain tired. But we are now done and are enjoying it. Total work time was about seven day's worth. It was a great family project and we learned a lot. p.s. Out of hundreds of hand driven nails I only lossed one entire pointer finger nail, and had one big blood blister on the thumb for a while, Worth the savings of $6600.00? We think so. LOL
