I live in south Texas...what is this coat you are talking about? Detached garage because it will not be for cars, it will be for getting rad, building stuff, and repairs. Going to put a deck off the back half that will be a place to hang and a roll in for BMX and pit bike jumps.
The base plumbing is def. of concern but I was watching some dudes put the Pex stuff together and that is like legos. Other concern being electrical, I need to make sure by law I don't have to hire a licensed professional for fire codes or something, no idea how to wire a consumer unit but so many things are plug and play these days and there is a fuck ton of videos like this:
Appreciate all the info,
Fucker
from some basic research even if I bought all the materials twice over it would still be cheaper then paying people. Hell a 14x8 bathroom remodel was 10K and this was 8 years ago. Generator and a mobile A/C unit for a while will be how it goes when it is 100+ outside.
The more I work with my hands the more I feel like I missed my calling, I am pretty damn good at whatever I have tried so far. I really want to learn all this stuff and I am prepared to call in professionals if I am in over my head before I fuck something up. I am currently looking for an old dude that has built a fuck ton of houses and ready to pass on his knowledge, literally pay him in grunt work to show me how to do shit but that might not work out.
As far as tools and my skills I do already have a bunch of builders tools, I will likely need something specialized here and there but I have good drills, saws, nail guns, compressor etc. I can't build an armoire but I could definitely build cabinets from scratch if I had to. I see myself sweating, hunched over my phone youtubing specific stuff I don't even know to look for yet but I currently spend all my free time building shit out of dirt/concrete/wood and no matter how hot/insane/hard the idea is I fucking love making things.