Recent content by mk18

Slowly but surely making progress, got 4 walls up and sheathed, structural steel in for the roof and now onto beam packing and cutting rafters.

20m3 of mud in the hole and we have a suspended slab garage floor! curbs go on this weekend and then we start framing! finally feels like some progress. Finish is 4 hours of power trowelling to a "hard trowel" finish, its so smooth its almost shiny!

So far into it for about $30000, including excavating, forms, rebar, engineering, concrete and pumping (includes slab). have bout another 3K to 4K in materials, plus the roof and siding after that. should be able to finish for under $50k, but that doesnt include my labour...

last major concrete pour is inbound 20m3 of 35MPa concrete! 10" thick suspended slab over a crawlspace, 2 mats of 15mm rebar on 12"x12"

Finally making some progress, Foundation stem walls poured and stripped, now onto drainage, backfilling and then suspended slab forming.

slightly out of sequence, but here are some pics of the footing forms and reinforcing. Building on a hill *****, but this thing is going to be bomb proof. Did all the rebar cutting and bending onsite, turned out pretty good for a first timer. Actually got complements from both the Engineer and...

It is definitely pretty substantial, here we dont have the high wind loads to deal with but we do have seismic requirements that need to be taken into account. the rest of the walls all employ various Simpson HDU hold down brackets with 5/8" bolts with typically 10" embedded into the concrete...

Well finally making progress with this project, winter and spring was brutal here and resulted in a pit full of water that put the brakes on to everything, then I had about $20K in tools stolen... anyway back on track and making progress now. Footings poured and in the process of doing rebar and...

I am in the midst of a garage build that has a similar situation, 2 large doors in the gable end with only 2 feet of shear wall in either corner and a post in the middle between doors. I am not using trusses, but instead an I beam as the ridge and rafters to maximize height inside. I had an...

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rescaled structural drawings

hey guys, so the plan is to try and get the foundation done before winter sets in, then depending on that try to move ahead with the framing, just depends on the work schedule and how much help I get at various stages. Trying do most of the labour myself to save a few pennies. On that note I...

Thanks Guys! Don, I have been navigating the gauntlet of New West City Hall for the last 5 months, and finally just got my building permit issued! like you mentioned we are limited to 15' peak height, and maximum 10% lot coverage for my area. In order to maximize space I am actually doing a...

Hi All! long time lurker on the forum, but finally building my garage so starting to post! Just bought a new to us house on 7600SQFT lot, and now trying to build the biggest garage I can legally get away with. Got some grand ideas (Ill admit lots stolen from threads on here!), but trying to...

A few pictures of the build site, there is a 6 to 7 foot tall railway tie retaining wall that is currently starting to fail, all this is being removed as part of the excavation.