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I have two 8x10 CHI doors in my garage with Liftmaster 8500 openers. I love mine, however only had them installed for a year. If there’s anyone who comes home late/leaves early in the morning while someone is sleeping in the rooms above the garage... I’d recommend the jack shaft openers for...

That’s exactly what I did. They’ll be by this weekend to disassemble the end trusses, lower them, and put the 2x4s in as supports. The radiant sheathing is probably a gimmick, but it’s meant to block heat from the sun. It’s said to keep attic temps down up to 30%... either way, I paid more per...

Ok so with the overhang issue, and the overhangs being 12”, they want to just build a support system underneath instead of building the cantilever in. Will that be an issue long term? It also means they won’t be re sheathing the trusses to the walls. The other thing they want to do is put some...

Shorty and 850, I agree. They’ll be disassembling the end trusses and removing the **** that was added. From there theyll be proper height for the cantilever structure. The the front and rear walls will get re-sheathed properly as well as the entire roof. I caught all of this before the...

Well after calling Menards and getting the breakdown, the gable end trusses are designed as drop trusses since I specified overhangs. What the framer did was prop them up from the bottom to match the roofline. Now they get to remove the roof sheathing to replace with the radiant barrier, and...

Thanks 850, the trusses were pre engineered and built by Menards. Not sure if they can retrofit the overhangs or not. I’m calling today to see what can be done, I just know that it won’t pass inspection as is.

Alright everyone, I have a couple build related questions before we proceed. I know very little about the build protocol. As they were starting to sheathe the walls, I saw they were using the radiant barrier wood, barrier out. I THOUGHT that was for the roof, so I asked my contractor and he...

Well it was a good weekend/beginning of the week. We were able to wrap up the build this afternoon. I’ll tell ya, the 10’ ceilings make it feel much bigger than my last garage at 7 1/2’. Can’t wait to get it to a point where I can begin the finishing touches. The high on Sunday was 23 degrees...

Shortykorte, I agree. My brother in law recently had his kitchen done with 7x19 tiles in a random pattern, similar color. I’m thinking I may cut these in half to 8x24 and make my life a bit easier. As of today all of my materials have been delivered, trusses dropped off this morning. We’ve been...

Finally started to make some progress on the build. This time of year it’s dark when I get home from work so pictures are limited. It took a couple weeks to get all of the needed info for the city and receive the build permit. The day after it was posted on my home, we got about 10” of snow...

Thanks Sublime. I guess I should rephrase the plan, I need it built before the ground freezes. The rest can be done heated. I took last Thursday off to finish the cleanup from the demo so the concrete could be excavated Saturday. During cleanup, I got a call from my contractor that the city...

Bump. Does anyone have a good rule of thumb when it comes to space needed in front of the hoist? I’ll be having to submit my dimensions within the next couple of days. The lift I’m using is an older Rotary PAL5E that I got for free from a body shop that I worked in. It’s a parallelogram hoist...

Well made some progress today. Demo cleanup is complete (worked well into the dark so no pics), the build permit was passed and will arrive Monday. Existing footings will be removed this weekend and hopefully pouring new footings next week before Thanksgiving. I have to pre plan where my hoist...

Good question, I forgot that part. I plan on splitting the room at the 15’ mark with a floor to ceiling curtain for when I’m making a mess. The shop/storage will be split also, keeping my dust to one side. I really won’t be doing any massive paint projects at home, I can use the booth at work...

I’ll be posting most everything from my phone, so bear with me if I need to correct or change photo quality/hosting etc. I always used Photobucket and we know what happened there.