Finally starting to look like a garage

[Sundowner]

Still gotta make and hang the carraige doors, get the fake'n bake stone on the walls and paint the thing, but its really starting to come toghether

 

[blkhonda1991]

Still gotta make and hang the carraige doors, get the fake'n bake stone on the walls and paint the thing, but its really starting to come toghether

awesome, love the windows, what brand are they?

 

[PAToyota]

Looks great!

But you really have to post more pictures than that - you know the rules!

 

[Brickout]

Great architectural presence. I love it.

 

[Sundowner]

here's some more pics.
I have bunches of us building the thing.
The only item I didn't do myself was the concrete slab.

oh, the windows are Pella's I got used off of ebay.

here's the two guys who worked thier butts off pouring my slab

here's a pic of the underside of the roof eave. it came out real nice with the rafter tails and half-round gutters.

 

[PAToyota]

Again, very nicely done!

I like the rafter tails and the arched trusses - adds to the ambiance!

 

[700jfm]

Wow that's bad azz.

 

[monstergarage87]

Awesome place! Just love the look and feel. One question.. where'd you get the gutters from? Some place local?

 

[Sundowner]

Awesome place! Just love the look and feel. One question.. where'd you get the gutters from? Some place local?

I got the half round gutters from Bradco Supply. They sell lots of building materials, but specialize in roofing. I think they're a national chain. There are placed on-line like guttersupply.com that sell it, too, but the shipping on 10' long gutter pieces is murder.

beucase the overhangs are so large in both directions, the garage would have looked clunky with solid tube downspouts. So instead, I'll be using rain chains that drop into wood box planters that have a french drain in the bottom feeding to my lake.




The trusses were interesting to build. There was a lot of CAD work, calculus, and at least two prototypes that exploded in my face. Building them was also an act of faith. I built them before I ever had my variance and building paperwork approved by the town.

here's one coming out of the basement

here's one hanging on it's posts. We're all dressed warmly because we did this in January. My wife and her cousin were present to run the block and tackle rigs for raising the trusses.

and here's one of me bolting in the end frame of the first truss

 

[82_454_shorty]

That's some intricate stuff Sundowner! Very nice. Who says you'll never use calculus in real life

You must have some architectural background to design stuff that looks this good.

 

[67pete300]

That is some incredibly beefy (and beautiful) structure there. I went and searched and read some of your earlier posts about the trusses and gussets. I'll be interested to hear what you think about some ideas I'm kicking around about raising the ceiling in a shed-roofed garage supported by common trusses. I'll get back to you when I have well-framed questions.

Your garage looks awesome. Beautiful details.

 

[700jfm]

and here's one of me bolting in the end frame of the first truss

I thought I was the only one who used ratchet straps to do everything Before they came along I would of duct taped that sucker.

 

[Sundowner]

That's some intricate stuff Sundowner! Very nice. Who says you'll never use calculus in real life

You must have some architectural background to design stuff that looks this good.

I are an bridge engimineer, so my pride wouldn't let me take the easy way out and just order a steel building.

I also just happen to be a bit of a bookworm and I stubmbled across a lot of books about Gustav Stickey and the Greene Bros.

 

[PAToyota]

Most excellent!

I seem to recall you posting the picture of the truss now that I think about it.

 

[700jfm]

What kind of live load, dead load do you think you have?

 

[Sundowner]

What kind of live load, dead load do you think you have?

the trusses provide moment support at the post connections and as far as dead load is concerned, the loft floor is just 2x10's laid flat. They are designed to support 50lbs/sf of live load above and a concurrent 1000lb point load at any position in the span. Everything else tracks down to the timberframe around the walls. The overall frame was designed to be a stand-alone structurally independant entity, so in conccept, they would absorb all wind loads, too. but the town made me attach the garage to the house, so the wind loads are pretty much nil.

 

[700jfm]

Wow 1000lb. You know two month ago I would not had a clue as to what all that live load, dead load was all about. But now it's mostly all I think about. I was going to use a 26'X12" I joists as ceiling joists on my garage. I was going to get them for 51.00 each. per the man at the lumber yard. when I went to order them he gave me the wrong price. it turned out to be 91.00 each. He could sell me a 2"X12"X26' N0.1 for 45.00 that would be about 20 live/10 dead. So I'm just going to put it all on hold for now.

 

[Iron-Iceberg]

Wow, I like the look of the roof. And making your own trusses is really impressive.
But what I would like to see is video of the exploding truss test. LOL that would be really cool.

 

[Sundowner]

Wow 1000lb. You know two month ago I would not had a clue as to what all that live load, dead load was all about. But now it's mostly all I think about. I was going to use a 26'X12" I joists as ceiling joists on my garage. I was going to get them for 51.00 each. per the man at the lumber yard. when I went to order them he gave me the wrong price. it turned out to be 91.00 each. He could sell me a 2"X12"X26' N0.1 for 45.00 that would be about 20 live/10 dead. So I'm just going to put it all on hold for now.

Rip the 2x12 in half, use the resulting 2x6-ish's to built a straight truss and space them at 4'

It only gets more fun as you extrapolate that concept to the world around you. Have you ever looked at a sign structure over a roadway? Not the sign panel, the actual structure that holds it up. They're facinating. Pratt trusses Vierendeel trusses, space frames, curved monotubes... lots of truss inspiration.

 

[lodemia]

I know I am bouncing a dead thread, but what is on the bottom 1/4 of the wall? Is that cement board or something? Do you plan on putting stone there or anything?

I am thinking of building a supersize version of what you have, minus the loft.