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Think he means 2 foot overhang at the roof edges all the way around. The easy way to frame on the gable ends is to build a ladder out of 2x4s and spike to the last truss. Then bring the sheathing plywood out to the edge of it. Cover underneath with soffet material. On the roof over the side...

What's the reason for the really wide door? That's a load-bearing wall and (as already said) the header for that span is going to be seriously big. Also, the door; expensive. Can you get by with a smaller door? On the shed/carport, if you typically get any snow, I'd put some posts adjacent to...

I don't have a photo but I'll try to decsribe this. It's brilliant. My brother in law came up with it. Drill and put a fairly stout eye hook in a bottom corner of your garage door. Run a cable straight up to the corner of the ceiling and through a pulley. Now go along the ceiling parallel to...

What's under the vapor barrier/insulation is something to consider, too. You'll want no organic material (tree stumps) or loose fill. I use either sand or 304 limestone and rent a power tamper to work it down. Try to get at least a couple inches uniform thickness, more is Ok but too much is...

i did this to my barn a few years ago. the idiots that originally built it poured footers one foot wide by six inches thick, one foot below grade. this is northeastern ohio where footers are usually four feet down. the floor was poor quality concrete. i got a jack hammer and removed the...

i'd tear off the tar paper, it isn't that much money and you'd get to see the condition of the osb. probably hard to save the paper anyway as you rip off the shingles. bang for buck has a time element too. i get thirty year shingles because i don't want to do it again, not soon anyway. i go to...

generaly around here you put a 2x10 or some such on each side, inner and outer, of the poles. use pole barn spikes. you can close off the top with a 2x somethng, width to match the poles plus the two 2x's. lay the ends of the rafters on this platform, after having cut the appropriate bird's...

or you could get a spool of mason's line (tough string, usually orange) and hook it or nail the end of it to the far end of the barn. Pull it along the barn and out into the area where your new add'n will be. Mind that it is tight and skimming along the side of the barn, just touching it...

I lifted my barn a couple years ago. The footers had been only dug a foot deep and had cracked and broken. It's an old barn built post & beam style with board & batten. I didn't want the frame to pull apart as I was raising it up so my first job was to screw 2 x 6s to the inside of the frame. I...

If you have a few tools and know how/like to do stuff, it's a Saturday morning to put it in yourself.

Two things come to mind. Get out your graph paper and draw the footprint of the garage. then cut out the silhouette of the car, looking from overhead. Fit the cars where you can on the paper. I know it sounds childish but it helps to know if you can even do it before struggling to put 10 lbs of...