TomcoPDR
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Great size home garage, good build.
24'x60' garage addition build
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The floor to ceiling height is about 12' 3"
Garage looks great.
jarhead
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Have you finished off the inside yet? Why all the CAT6?
The inside ceiling is all sheetrocked and insulated. I used 12 foot sheets of 5/8 sheetrock which was a lot of fun to do by myself. I used fiberglass insulation under where the attic floor is (R42), and I blew in 19" of all Borate cellulose on both sides which settled to about 16". The walls are not done yet. I got sidetracked with some car projects, so I haven't really worked on the garage. I really want to get the radiant floor hooked up before winter and continue with the sheetrock on the walls.
The cat6 is for POE security cameras, network jacks, I ran a couple runs to where the TV is just incase, and I even used the cat 6 to the phone jack. There is a whole 1000 foot spool of cat6 in there. It's overkill, but down the road I didn't want to regret not doing enough.
I have a few more pictures I will post
I insulated under where the attic floor is with 2 layers of R21 fiberglass insulation. No one around here stocked unfaced R21, so I just peeled the facing off of the top layer.
The sheetrock is 4'x12'x5/8" fire rated. Its hard to see in this picture, but I built a platform that is sitting on my car dollies. This allowed me to easily move the pile of sheetrock around the garage.
I hate bothering people for help, but there was no way I could lift the sheetrock up and put it on the sheetrock jack by myself, so I made up this contraption. It has metal brackets at the bottom that go under the edge of the sheetrock. I put an eyebolt in the top and used my Warn Pullzall to lift the sheetrock up and rest it on the sheetrock jack. It worked great and allowed me to sheetrock the entire ceiling 100% by myself.
I ran a string line the whole length of the garage that was parallel to the side walls. I used that string line as a guide to run the first coarse of sheetrock.
Every joint was staggered so no 2 seams ended up on the same truss.
In the area next to where the fiberglass insulation was on both sides I installed Certainteed Membrain as a vapor barrier and taped all the seams.
And here are the 2 pallets of cellulose insulation waiting to be blown in. I don't have any pictures of that process, but I can assure you it was unpleasant! I got the machine from Home Depot. My girlfriend fed the machine, and I went up in the attic and guided all 72 bags (2160 pounds) into place. When I finished it was about 19 inches deep, but it has since settled to a little less than 16.
I will be using mineral wool bats for the walls.
The sheetrock is 4'x12'x5/8" fire rated. Its hard to see in this picture, but I built a platform that is sitting on my car dollies. This allowed me to easily move the pile of sheetrock around the garage.
I hate bothering people for help, but there was no way I could lift the sheetrock up and put it on the sheetrock jack by myself, so I made up this contraption. It has metal brackets at the bottom that go under the edge of the sheetrock. I put an eyebolt in the top and used my Warn Pullzall to lift the sheetrock up and rest it on the sheetrock jack. It worked great and allowed me to sheetrock the entire ceiling 100% by myself.
I ran a string line the whole length of the garage that was parallel to the side walls. I used that string line as a guide to run the first coarse of sheetrock.
Every joint was staggered so no 2 seams ended up on the same truss.
In the area next to where the fiberglass insulation was on both sides I installed Certainteed Membrain as a vapor barrier and taped all the seams.
And here are the 2 pallets of cellulose insulation waiting to be blown in. I don't have any pictures of that process, but I can assure you it was unpleasant! I got the machine from Home Depot. My girlfriend fed the machine, and I went up in the attic and guided all 72 bags (2160 pounds) into place. When I finished it was about 19 inches deep, but it has since settled to a little less than 16.
I will be using mineral wool bats for the walls.
Bib Overalls
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Nice work. My wife feed the insulation blower when we built our cabin years ago. When we built our house years later she was on the beach in Florida BFF when it came time to blow the attic. Nasty job. You owe your girlfriend big time.
jarhead
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Thanks for the reply, really like the build and all the information.
I am thinking of doing something similar with a 20x20 but would leave the current building and add 24x20 to the front of it.
NelsonLt1
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Really cool build! I enjoy seeing how others deal with the original small garages most houses have.
I see that you have a header already framed in the rear wall. Any reason you haven't put in a rear door?
Luke
I see that you have a header already framed in the rear wall. Any reason you haven't put in a rear door?
Luke
I put the header there just in case. I have no plans to install a door, but if I ever change my mind it would be fairly easy to cut the wall and put the door in. For only the cost of a couple 2x10's I made the job a lot easier in the future.
AA7483
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Looks awesome. Out of curiosity, why did you remove the existing structure instead of just adding onto it?
I wanted to have 12' ceiling height in the entire garage. I could have added to the top of the front and side walls, but the original framing was 2x4, and the original garage doors were only 7' tall. It really didn't cost that much more for the lumber to just rebuild both of those walls from scratch. Now I have all 2x6 framing in the walls, and also 9' tall garage doors.
AA7483
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I see. Looks awesome
^I was curious about that also, but I would imagine tying into an existing structure is just as, or if not more challenging then building new from the ground up. Our garage is able to be added onto in that back, and this is great info for future reference.