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  1. oh man I'm jealous, congrats and enjoy that bad boy!!! I'm still kicking around to get one or not due to ceiling height in my tool shed......

    Question for you.....Can the top lid be removed??

    From what I remember it looked to have a long piano hinge held on my bolts. I'll take a closer look in a few hours when I go on lunch and get back to you.

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  2. Went to HD and they had gotten two sets in that day as well as a bottom that was already sold. Decided to bite the bullet at the price of $698 plus tax. Got it loaded up and took it home. Took out the bottom box last night and got the rest set up today. Still transitioning stuff from the old box to the new one. At work now so I will finish it up later. I'm sure I'll be moving stuff around multiple times before I'm happy with it. It is a big step up from my Craftsman box.

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  3. Do they honor that on everything? I was under the impression it was only valid on items that were sold at Menards.

    I believe it is everything not on sale or already discounted. Not sure it would work though if there is no Menard's in your area. Just ask at checkout for the rebate form. Some have said they will just deduct it right then. I only did it earlier this month and sent in the form. Haven't heard anything yet. 

  4. One thing you might want to do later is replace the mulch with landscaping rock and weed barrier. It costs more and is back breaking but long term is so much less maintenance. After dealing with mulch for a few years I got tired of having to redo and dress it up all the time. It did come out awesome though you deserve a winter break this year :)

    thanks. I know brick is less maintenance over time but I like the look of mulch better. Plus if I have to ever change anything the mulch is much easier to deal with than the rock. 

  5. Looks great Rich!!! You did the one thing I hate the most painting. I went through the same thing when I resided my garage people though I was crazy the colors I picked, but once they went up it came out awesome.

    I think I would paint my house two times over as long as I never had to do the brick work again!

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  6. Beautiful job Rich. That's something to be proud of!

    Thanks! My neighbors were skeptical of the paint color at first. We painted the doors on our shed to get an idea of what it would look like with the white. The all love it and I constantly get compliments on it. Funny is now there are two other houses within two blocks of me painted either a blue or sided in a blue tone. 

  7. With the deck and landscaping looking good I decided I wanted to paint the house. Hail damaged our roof so a replacement was in the future. The most regarded roofing company in the area was 3 months out and I decided it would allow me enough time to paint the house. I initially thought about painting it next year but with a new roof coming I figured I could cut my prep time down by not worrying about taping or caring if paint got on the roof. After a few different shades we decided on  Benjamin Moore colors "Old Navy" and "Bright Yellow" with the trim white for the " Pop" factor. I purchased Sherwin Williams paint with their 40% off sale in July and had it tinted the day before I started to paint. I spent all of August prepping the house. Power washed, scrubbed, scraped, primed, replacement of 100' of ceder siding, and replaced brick molding around the garage doors and side garage door. 

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    At the start of September i began to paint. Right off the bat I had problems with my sprayer and wasted a whole weekend. I finally got it figured out and was on my way. With the blue it took 3 coats of paint. During painting, I replaced our front door, put in a new storm door, replaced the lighting, took out our pole light, built a floating number plaque, and I built a wood rack. I finally finished up the painting last week and couldn't be happier with how it turned out! My neighbor was a painter for over 50 years and is very pleased with it. 

     

    With the paint done last week our roof was set to be replaced this week. They started on Tuesday and immediately ran into plywood problems. We had a leak in our sunroom which I knew would need repaired but they found moisture/mold on a total of 52 boards which all would be replaced. Knowing I basically have a brand new roof I am not upset a out it. The roof had a brown tone in it before and it matched much better now being a gray tone. Hope you enjoyed the pics! It was a great learning experience as I did everything myself besides the deck. 

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