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That's why I'm busy. Been working my are for 25 years now and I usually have 5 or 6 remodels going at the same time. And rarely not more then a 20 minute drive to a job. Now I have almost doubled that number so that is my concern. 5 or 6 jobs is a walk in the park.

I do my own design but I also do the build as the general contractor. Works good here! I have more then I can handle for the rest of the year and into next year. Lot of resources though so I can always handle more. Just worried about the quality if I take on two much so I will have to draw the line somewhere. Don't want to ruin my reputation getting greedy.

Never mind guys. Everything is perfect. I noticed that on one of my other pictures of the house that the way I have is right now is correct. A few details to straighten out but easy ones. Thank very much for your help.

Not sure what you mean by pop out? The garage doesn't have a pop out room but the room over the garage has one. Also if you noticed the porch area next to the garage has an exterior wall temporarily until the roof is done and then I change it to railing walls

I'm close but I need the roof height in the front to match the roof height in the back. I built a second floor at 4 1/2 room height so that I am working off the second floor walls on the entire plan. Seems to work good but I'm not quiet there yet. Lumsden Origional.plan

You live up that way?

I heading up to Big Bear tonight. I had enough of this heat for a few days

Bummer!

I have a Hilti that I purchased several years ago and paid the high price of 500.00 and it doesn't have blue tooth but has been a very good tool and have had no problems. But I think I may try the Bosch from Home Depot and take it back if I don't like it. Thanks for the tip!

Ok, I was using the room planner on my note 4 Samsung and it works pretty good. One thing I did not understand at first is how to shape the rooms. That seemed a little confusing. But what you actually do is draw one room at a time and then add another room and the rooms snap together and then you dimension that room and so on until all the rooms are done. In other words Its like building blocks. You can select different room shapes other than just square. It has a pretty good library so you can add windows, doors, furniture, cabinets.... I think it would be nice to have the blue tooth measuring laser and it would most likely be easier with a tablet rather then a phone. I like the idea of the plan file going to the cloud and into my computer so I don't have to redraw it. But I'm not sure that it is set up for doing property lines. Might have to do that the old fashioned way. I'm considering spending a couple of bucks for the blue tooth laser.

Its a poor mans lake front property. lol

I tried to get paid extra for the boat in the pool but they didn't buy it.

Larry, Mick & Eric, You guys are awesome! Thank you that helps me tremendously. I can see how it was done now and finish it up myself. Thank You :)

I haven't used it for anything yet. I just played around with it for a while yesterday and not to impressed so far but its too early to tell. I need to learn how to use it first. As soon as I get a little free time I will review the information that Kirk sent to me.

I have attached this plan and I need to put a mansard roof on it just like the attached pictures in drop box. Does anyone have a couple of minutes to maybe give me some instruction or do a video? I'm under a time crunch and Its not working right for me right know. I posted the plan so hopefully it works. www.dropbox.com/sh/rli5vp0zwpd4unx/AAAW6z12P3gmSrAfKYOi8bTAa?dl=0 Lumsden Origional.plan

Thank you I will check it out

Im using it on my phone. Samsung Note 4 which is a larger than normal display but it also works on my smaller Samsung also.

I downloaded room planner on my note 4 android. Tried to use it and figured out a few things but if anyone knows of a video for instructions please let me know.

Is this the mini display plug? And if so why do they call it a mini display?

Where is the original person that posted? Does any of this matter? Does anybody care? Does anybody know what time it is? Time to take a break with the little guy!

Thank you, that's good advice. I will look into that. Right now I really only wanted to duplicate one monitor for the customers can see. At my office I have a 40" on the wall and my laptop with the second monitor. I would like to just duplicate the second monitor with the 40" on the wall so the customers can see it.

Just to be clear because I don't want to miss inform anyone. I'm not a computer expert. I just gave the information of what I have and how well it is working for me. I just shared the facts. And one thing I know for sure is after installing the solid state hard drive on my lap top the performance is an estimated 10 times faster with opening any of my programs. I don't know that it really helped that much with the operations of Chief Architect once the program is opened. But opening and closing programs, multi-tasking and windows startup is almost instantaneous with the solid state hard drive.

I will make my best effort to go to the UGM this year. Not 100% sure but I am going to try. The cabin thing sounds good and I will start to work on that in November or December to try to work out a good date to meet at the cabin.

I'm using laptop with a second monitor. Works great for me because I go back in forth from home to the office and my vacation home. I have an extra monitor set up at each place so all I have to do is have my laptop with me. Extra monitors are cheap but make sure you get a good laptop. My laptop is listed here in my post signature. Works well for me but its about 2 years old now so you may want to get yours with more updated equipment. Important to have a good video card. A solid state hard drive is nice especially for a laptop. At least 16 megabits of ram. Make sure you have a good cooling system. You what to make sure it will handle at least one additional monitor. Next time I upgrade I want to be able to have two added monitors. With me I find that the bigger the monitors aren't always better. Your eyes have to travel back and forth and up and down a lot on the bigger monitors so I like the smaller ones better. My laptop is a 17" and my added monitor is 20". I have one at the office that is 24" and I actually like using the 20" better. "Acer" makes a nice inexpensive monitor. I paid 89.00 for my 20" on sale. I like my Dell computer because I like the support that comes with it and its been a great computer. I think if you don't know much about fixing computers you really need to have good support that get you up and running fast. I can't afford for my computer to be down for more than a day so I have a few open options to get the help I need immediately. That's my 2 cents. I hope something was useful

I'm serious I just never even been to a UGM yet and I don't know what to expect for a showing of people or should I just open for certain amount of people? I guess when the time gets closer I will announce It a see who wants to come and see what happens. Does CA headquarters need to know about it and do they offer any materials of anything? Or do we just fly by the seat of our pants and share our work with each other and have a good time? Or do we just get on the boat and go fishin.