Recent content by Bigave

I'm moving slow and the heat is causing the wood to shift and twist. I have to get this thing covered adap or I will be replacing wood again for the umph teen time.

Unc, I'm in south Texas! My neighbor might stop by later. I'm figuring out my next move now while I'm finishing the front wall

Now that I'm caught up, this is what things looked like when I awakened today. I have OSB 8' up around the building except the front which I'm working on now. I had to take a break from the heat today.

Day 1 framing and my neighbor came over to help with the heavy lifting. The walls are 2x6x14 and they were heavy!

The apron and driveway are 3.5" thick with #4 rebar and it's 3500psi.

The pad is a monolithic slab, 24" deep w/ 2 rows of #5 rebar around the perimeter and 6" deep w/#4 rebar in the field. The concrete is 4000psi.

Time for concrete. They poured the garage pad, apron and new driveway in a week. Great job by those guys.

I had to get a form survey completed in order to obtain a permit, so here are the forms.

They were mostly weeds and two trees, but they're gone now!

I had the trees removed along with the sprinkler lines.

Another view from a different angle.

Hello everyone, I'm currently building a 30x45x14 garage. This is my first time building a garage. I've finished basements and built home theaters in my previous homes, but nothing this adventurous. This is a picture of the space where I will be putting the garage.

Hello everyone. I've peeped in for sometime now and finally decided to join in and get my feet wet. I just started building my garage and wondering why I would wait to do this in the Texas summer heat! Oh well, here I go with my cooler/break seat.