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For subfloor we used 23/32” T&G Durastrand, which the manufacturer says is rain resistant because it’s made with waterproof glues, and used around here on houses that are built through the middle of winter where it’s raining almost every day. That said, you do get slight little delaminating...

Looking good! We are getting roofing on our house and shop this week and I am happy because we are indeed getting into the rainy season in Puget Sound, but I honestly think you will be fine. When your I-joists are waiting to be installed I would have them covered with a tarp or something, but...

Nice work, any updates? Would be interested in which Ghostshield products you chose and why.

Framing the upstairs rafters, the post is temporary until the gable end wall framing is done and supports the ridge beam from the end. The wall is a little more complicated because of a window in the middle.

A little more progress, in the second picture taken from above you can really see how the flooring in the upstairs storage area is shaping up.

Here is the valley the back of the house looks out to. It was this view of Mt. Rainier that helped sell us on the property a few years ago.

Here is a high level site plan that shows the alignment. Our house backs up to a steep slope down to a valley below. We had to have a GeoTech engineering company determine how close to the edge we could safely build. They said 30ft but we went at least 20ft further back from that, both for...

Thanks jbrentd, they do face each other but are not directly across from each other. The west end wall of the attached garage is almost in alignment with the east end wall of the detached. I’ll try to post a drawing or picture that shows the layout better.

And here’s a couple pictures of the detached garage:

After waiting 4 months for the price of lumber to drop to (somewhat) acceptable levels, in August we opened the wallet and started buying it. Six weeks later I finally have some progress to show on the garage. Most of the framing energy over the last 6 weeks has been going into the house so we...

Looking good! We had a similar problem with a soft spot when excavating for our house foundation. In our case the GeoTech engineer specified quarry spalls to fill it back but it sounds like it was the same effect as your 1 1/4 minus.

Thanks makemenuconfig. No, I didn’t do any of the forms or pouring myself. The concrete company had essentially 4 guys working the pour- one handling the pump truck nozzle, one following behind vibrating the concrete in the forms and tamping out air voids, one behind him doing rough leveling...

Ok, I said I was going to post about the structure design and decisions around the upstairs storage area in my shop. I’ve had previous experiences with an overhead shop storage area that almost catastrophically failed due to overload, and it happened one transmission core, cylinder head, and...

Great work and pictures, thanks. Maybe a little spray foam into the insulation cavity would seal that all up and re-insulate it.

The pour got delayed due to a few 100+ degree days we had, but finally happened this last week.

Thanks captain14 and Mikewire. The ceiling on the wide side is 9’ and the ceiling on the tall bay is 12’6” (although that is with a flat ceiling truss and some of designs on here have me questioning why I wouldn’t put a scissor truss in there and gain some more height in the middle). The...

Thanks jbrentd for your feedback and ideas. It’s not in our way, but also not in the best spot and the mortar in the upper front is pretty crumbled. One day last fall I was checking that out and wiggled a brick out of the front, only to have like a dozen black (garter) snakes start wiggling...

Not really garage related, but thought this would be interesting to ask for ideas on. The property we are building on had an old farmhouse on it at one time. Some cement slabs and an old fireplace are all that’s left standing. We are leaving this alone for now as it’s not in our way, but are...

Thanks Krfjkm! Footings are in and stem walls are waiting for inspection before pour. That should all happen this week.

Very nice, I really like the coordinated color scheme and I don’t normally pay much attention to that kind of thing. Please update over time on the durability of the floor finish, I will be looking at doing the same in probably 9-12 months and that looks like a nice option if it holds up well.