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Anyone? I’m going to go ahead and assume I should wrap the entire “front” of the garage thereby requiring me to pull all the siding off. I was going to try to get away with the area I repaired, but that’s a pretty big area…

Agreed. With that being said, I’m stuck on figuring out how to proceed. We’ve been having some crazy weather- snow, windstorms just bad in general. I haven’t wrapped the structure yet. To do this right, I should wait to do the whole side, correct? Can you “partially wrap” where repairs are...

Sometimes I confuse myself lol. I meant to ask if you guys thought the other bay header (pictured) should be replaced also? the other side which was much, much, so much worse than this..

Also, here’s the “finished” product on the side I just finished

Good call. Yeah, mines a detached shop but the scenario sounds identical. I got one side done in 4 days by myself, but that’s not including the sheathing or the siding. The plan is to replace all the siding on this side where the damage was. At this point I’m in too deep to wait. I’ve got tarps...

I think to make this safer/easier I’m going to take an 8’ 2x6 and run it across trusses behind the area I’m working on which to hang the chain hoist, which I will use to get 4x12 up there. My brother isn’t going to be able to work around my schedule, so I’m going at this alone. I am assuming...

So since I have a temp wall, I can tear this stuff out and leave it for a day or two, right? With my crazy schedule, I’m gonna have to do it piecemeal

Oh man, that’s genius! These are all tricks of the trade, I suppose! I think this is what I will do even though I already bought the chain hoist lol. Needed one anyway I guess.

Quick question- so I picked up a Doug fir 4x12. Eric was right, was going to be a special order for gluelam and time is of the essence, as they say. Since this huge beast is going to be probably too much for my bro and I to muscle up there, can I use a chain hoist attached to one of the trusses...

The upper part has no sheeting- so if you rip off the siding, which is the plan, you could probably get the new trusses in between the studs. So you think that that the roof would essentially need to come off and be redone to accommodate an apartment? Doing something like that I’d hire out to...

Ah, I see. The old bones were making noise when my brother and I were opening up the wall. They had 1/2” plywood instead of sheet rock, so it took a while to open it up and I was kind of worried that the walls were helping to hold the whole thing up lol. Looking back now, I can tell there wasn’t...

Thank you! You posted while I was typing up an addendum project to think about since I’ve got this wall opened up. Yeah, after I was done putting it together I realized it was way more than needed, but as I’m not a builder I appreciate that I can know for sure that she isn’t gonna come on down...

Thanks for all the help thanks for all the help so far. Feels good to get this moving forward. I know this is a little carriage-before-the-horse-ish, but I’ve been wondering about putting an apartment up above the shop. I’m out here all the time and I figure I could rent the house out and just...

Here’s the temp wall. This ok? Should I brace it?

Right, I was going to cut them to length and screw them to the 2x8 up top which you can see in the 2nd picture down. I mounted the 2x8 first. Currently rotohammer info where the bottom sill will go