Home Improvement Today?

Trying to hang a porch swing this weekend but I have a unique situation and can't find the studs

• Beadboard ceiling so the stud finder won't work
• No attic access
• Beadboard not easily removed

Any recommendations besides hammering a nail every three inches? I have considered a bracket drilled into the header, also

 

Use a magnet and find the nails or screws that are holding the beadboard up.

 

That's what I'm talking about! New I could gain some out of the box thinking posting here

 

also I'd think the stringers would run perpendicular to the the way its nailed up, at least thats how I'd nail it up.. But I could be wrong...

 

Installing shelves in the office closet, new Skil self leveling laser is very useful for this task (among others).


Edit: got this much done tonight, headed home and will finish it tomorrow.

 

Floors finally finished and cured so we could walk on them. Yesteday finished the window installation, hung the ceiling fan and framed in the openings to this loft area. It is hard to clean and just collects dust, so we're going to put doors on it and use it for storage. I ran out of time so I tacked up the openings with the old paneling I removed from the walls. Today we finished trim, painted and are ready for furniture delivery on Monday.

I remember reading, often, comments by @OZ-T about GRK screws and decided at the start of the project that I'd try them. The HD didn't have them, but had Spax. Ill not be going back to regular screws again!

I also put up a wide window sill so the kitties can lay there and look out the window.

 

Moved the last of my lumber out of the temporary shelter at my shop site

6x6 Western Red Cedar , 8's to 12's



Taking temp structure down tomorrow and then I'm ready for the excavator

 

All but one shelf is in, working on wiring up the outlets and switch, headed to Lowe’s to find a light to put in here as well.

 

Getting a new shed had to level and dump 5 yards of stone.





My little helper.

 

That your house or neighbor in the background? No setback requirements?

 

Temp building down and gone at my shop site , one pile of rotten shit to go out when machine and dump truck are on site then we can start

 

That’s my neighbor we have to be 10 feet from property lines for a shed. The pad is larger so I can put a trailer next to it.

 

If I had a 10ft setback the shed would be in my living room

 

y'all's lots are too small...

 

I live on technically 0.71 acres according to real estate pages, but my neighbors are so far away and the woods/overgrowth make it about an acre. I want at least an acre on my next house.

 

oh if I really had it my way I'd have like 100 acres and be a cattle farmer, but the lady doesn't want that lol.

a realistic dream is 3-5 acres, small enough for a good zero turn to mow all the yard I could want, and not so big that I have to own a tractor lol

 

I just want a shop! so much more than anything lol

 

Sounds like it's time to build your own fence on the property line.

 

Not for too much longer. Moving east in October. Bumping up to a 1/4 acre which will feel like 100 after living on a postage stamp the last couple years haha

 

Where in the East?