Recent content by 26Red

Making the upstairs window smaller may be easier than trying to design a new roof line. You can order custom sizes at lowes or HD pretty cheaply. I just spent $250 on a replacement for my house. I'd match the existing roof and extend the garage to what ever length you want. As for the...

If your going to do two separate garage doors with a full size truck, make it at least 10ft wide. I can barely get mine in a 9x7 without worrying about hitting the side mirrors. Or go do a big single door at 18-20 wide x 7. My neighbor has a 20 and its great. I hate my 16x7. its tight with a...

I used to have an non insulated 30x24 garage in northern mn. I put in a cheap barrel stove. It warmed things up but we sure went through the wood pile keeping it stoaked. It was okay for the weekends, but the following year we added some batt insulation. That sure made it nice.

How thick is the cement slab? 10 inches? Will you add relief cuts to control cracking? What are your plans for heat? I like the overhung truss on the front of the garage.

I've been looking for a good insulated garage door for my attached garage. I currently have the cheapo vinyl door (sectional 16 x7) with the polystyrene inserts. It's pointless to run my reznor garage heater with the existing doors in temps below 20 deg. I was ready to buy a new clopay door...

I went through the same garage size- "BS" in 2003. I looked at 50 or so new homes with a so called "2 car" garage. Most of them were too short for a full size extended cab short box pickup! You would think builders in MN would make a decent sized garage? Nope. Even on the homes over $300k...

I found one for you on craigslist: http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/tls/1521109625.html

I would bet you could get one out of Detroit, Chicago, Milwakee, Minneapolis, or Des Moines, pretty easy and cheap. Contact the local bridge crane/hoist vendor (yellow pages under-"material handling equipment") for those cities and they could hook you up with a well used hoist and bridge for...