Why "The G-Word"?

Prior to this project actually breaking ground, the word Garage had become something of a 6-lettered swear word in our family. You see, we bought this house ~5 years ago only after I had verified that the setbacks and septic were ok to support building this garage. I've built foam core models in 1:20 scale; I've spent hundreds of hours playing with various designs with home CAD software.; I've studied neighborhood covenants, code books, and educated myself on proper building techniques. And through this all, and much to my wife's dismay, I've been talking about this experience to the point of driving those closest to me nuts. So, since around the beginning of this year, when I really started to get this ball rolling, this garage has been affectionately referred to as "The G-word".

Monday, July 5, 2010

9 Gallons. Wishful thinking. We ended up using over 17 gallons to seal this rough-sawn wood. Had I known that going in I probably would have punted and just planned to surface spray the whole thing, but at least the top coat should go on easier now. And of course, I opted for high quality Benjamin Moore primer (and we quite literally nearly bought the Triangle area out of the stuff), so we now added a significant line item to the budget list.

Big Kudos to Malia and her dad for helping me out with this all weekend. We put in 8ish hours Saturday (though that should have taken us 3 - we were trying to brush everything in and it was taking us forever), 6ish hours Sunday, and something closer to 13 hours today. Ready to go back to work so I can rest a little! :-)
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