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Milt, I was more than willing to order what I needed. I just wished he would have mentioned it when I told him the garage door opening side. It wasn't like I walked in and said, wellllll, i really don't have that kind of money. If I said that then I have no business building anyway. It makes me...

Trusses were "purchased" through Lowes but special ordered from Caudill Truss and Metal in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

Where I live we have very few "true" lumber yards and places to buy. We have one place but they are actually about the same cost as Lowes. The nearest Home Depot is 50 minutes away. And Carter Lumber is about 35 minutes away and the prices are about the same. I get a fairly good discount on...

milt, I think the best solution I have concluded is that the Lowes guy is an idiot and I'm going back up tomorrow morning to get this all straightened out. The header is going to be a load bearing wall. The trusses will be sitting on this, the garage header is on the eave side, so it will have...

Thanks for the quick responses guys. We have 2x4 walls with 8" block on the bottom. So I still have to put the inside wood trim pieces so finish framing the garage door out. It's currently 16'3" wide so the 2x8 up to finish the inside will give me the extra room to build out the wall to support...

Hey guys, new here and been reading a lot. We broke ground last Summer/Fall with the construction of our new garage. We went back and forth on size and height and "settled" for 30 ft wide x 28 ft deep (the wife didn't want to take up anymore room we had). I'm going to make a build thread, but...