Recent content by NickCity

I've gotten 3 estimates for getting my 1.5 car attached garage demo'd & rebuilt (carpnter ants ate it before I bought the place) Can only do atch'd 1.5 due to size of property. Contractor #1 quotes me a price of $x but doesn't do electrical, I have to find my own person to wire it up. Add those...

I'm finally pulling the trigger on getting my attached garage built (the old one had carpenter ant damage). Nothing fancy, 21 x 17 with a single 9' door but it's a flat or "sloping roof" because I don't want to get into moving windows & such. I wish I did it LAST year as my estimate went up by...

I'd like to but 6' behind the garage it drops off 8' down to the rest of the yard. It's take a lot of fill to level that out for a garage. Probably about $30k budget. The whole house & land was only $115k and people can get a detached 1 car stall for about $7k here so I'm not sure what $30k...

I checked and all 3 walls can come down. I'm trying to "ballpark" the price or the two options. I called a place for an estimate and told him I wasn't doing anything until the spring and he wouldn't even talk to me! While I can understand that labor and lumber prices can change I thought they...

Long time lurker and noob here. I've enjoyed this board for a while and now I'm trying to plan for a new(er) garage for the spring. I need a "mancave" to work on my Jeeps out of the Buffalo snow! It'll be a 1.5 attached because the existing one has carpenter ant damage on the outside wall and...