Hopefully this didn't come across as too negative. I sometimes come across as being negative, when I'm hoping to offer an alternative to a plan that in my opinion could be improved upon. I apologize if I've offended you, but from what I've seen you accomplish so far, I think you could do allot better. This design is so flawed that it needs to be scraped.
Eddie
No offense taken whatsoever, Eddie. If I couldn't take constructive criticism, I wouldn't have "put it out there". The non-constructive criticism I get (stuff like the heat I take from Sunil, Theo, JHAP, and Burgermeister) is laughed off as low cost entertainment.
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All of your points are valid. So are all of mine. In fact, everybody that has responded to this thread has valid arguments for their position. But, just like snowflakes, we all have different goals and a multitude of reasons for the path we take to achieve them. You and Rockytopper both have experience with "peering into the mind" of a prospective client for which you are about to do home construction (or related). You also know that it is impossible to accurately assess the best route for a specific project without completely immersing yourself into the site's specifics and the customer's needs and desires. It is a process laden with details and foresight that could never be accomplished in a forum thread. I accept that...I gotta. What I do is take all the input, throw it into the trick bag, and give it a shake. The stuff that rises to the top (whether it be Heybud's thought on septic or RockyT's thought on OSB vs Ply, or Eddie's ideas regarding implement storage) is skimmed off and inserted into Bski's equation. This is what makes this thread successful for me.
