Cowracer
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# Posted: 25 Jul 2023 16:38 - Edited by: Cowracer
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Hello all! It's been a while since I've posted here, but I figured it's time to come back.
A refresher: I built a cabin at my lake lot, and loved it. But I had a change to buy rare, on-the-water lots at a price I couldn't say no to. That meant I had to sell the cabin and lots for the money to buy the new lots. I regret that decision with all my heart, but what's done is done. Onwards and upwards.
We've had our camper on the new lots for a couple years now, with the intent on building another cabin. We had the basic idea on what we wanted to do, but with a health crisis I had, a job change, and one thing or another, we never started construction. The time is finally right so here we go.
Our lakefront lot is not a prime piece of real-estate. Its oddly shaped and sloped. Prior owner terraced it off some with a hideous retaining wall, and built a giant 'carport' to put his camper under. Nothing about it is ideal, but we can work with it. The carport is very well built and I am going to build a cabin and garage (for keeping our side-by-side in) out of it.
Why the roof is two-level, I'll never know. Its 48x18. The posts are on 8' centers, so there are 6 "bays" in it. The first two bays are going to be a 16x18 garage, the other 4 are going to be the cabin. For tax and other reasons, it's going to be very utilitarian on the outside. It'll just look like a covered pole barn.
The construction that finally started is, I just bought and delivered the purlins that will let me skin the garage in. I need to get it done first, so I have a place to keep tools and whatnot. It's just going to be a gravel floor with no insulation or windows. Just a roll up door on the end (left side in photo). A temporary wall under the roof will enclosed that end until I get the cabin framed in. So while I haven't swung a hammer yet, I still did something, right? I'm just delighted that I am in physical shape to start working on it now. The money for it has been sitting in my brokerage account in a low risk mutual fund since I sold off some company stock last year.
As with the last cabin, I will document it step by step and drag you guys along with me.
Tim
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