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For those of you thinking about tackling cinder blocks, I've learned a few things during this project from other guys on here, internet research, and painful trial and error and error and error. 1. Use the right mortar. Guys at Lowe's have no idea what mortar to use (mostly). DO NOT use type N...

Garage door going in between these blocks <a href="http://s1225.beta.photobucket.com/user/draggahj/media/Shop/20130224_160523.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee395/draggahj/Shop/20130224_160523.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 20130224_160523.jpg"/></a> ready...

Made a lot of progress this weekend. Started removing the tree stumps from around the shop. That's not a fun project. Quite the pain, but necessary. Two of them are in the way of my new garage door. Also took out the flying walkthrough door, which was the highlight of the day. It was such a...

Progress... This is a shot of the garage bay, taken from the workshop area. <a href="http://s1225.beta.photobucket.com/user/draggahj/media/Shop/20130217_160629.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee395/draggahj/Shop/20130217_160629.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo...

I thought about using treated lumber but decided on insulation. I'm putting it between the wood and the blocks. Its the blue stuff in the pic. Should do the job for a few decades. <a href="http://s1225.beta.photobucket.com/user/draggahj/media/Shop/20130217_160459.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img...

Well, you see...that's the weird part. Its the only place in the shop that had block. If you look on the left side of the pic, the blocks just end. It does the same thing on the right side. <a href="http://s1225.beta.photobucket.com/user/draggahj/media/Shop/20130209_144505.jpg.html"...

Yep. He did it to the other door too. He found a double steel door frame and had it installed about a foot high. No doors in it, though. I can't figure out why.

I actually thought about that, but it would end up being a complete rebuild. I'm tearing up the walls as it is by jacking it up. The east wall is the worst. As I leveled out the roof beams the wall pretty much stayed where it was. I have to cover up a lot of open space now. So I left the 8' on...

The footings are great, at least 18" deep. They did something right on this building. My dad's cousin is bringing out his tractor to clear away all the dirt. I started to clean off the little slab in front of the door and found that it kept going. It's about 6'X6' with almost 8" of dirt on top...

I used 4" blocks. I didn't want the extra block sticking out from the wall. Makes for a cleaner look.

It rained last night. No water came in where we have placed the blocks. Good news so far. We dug out around the slab and have plans to make a drain along the bad wall. Adding gutters on that side as well so hopefully it will cure our leakage issues. Oh, here's my "walkthrough" door I mentioned...

osb will take a few beatings, sheetrock will only take one

Hey, my pictures are up now, thanks Mr. Moderator! New process works well. Thanks for all the ideas, fellas. I got one side wall done and the back wall 3/4 complete. I had to let the blocks dry before I put weight on them. More progress pictures coming soon.

well, I posted pictures last week but they aren't up yet...

OK, so here is what I'm dealing with. I got halfway down one wall and figured out the mortar wasn't sticking to anything, really. We were able to knock it off the blocks as well. We tried several different consistencies but none seemed to work. I took what I had left back to Lowe's and picked up...

This is essentially what I have. I'll get some pictures up soon. We jacked up a portion of the wall with a 12' header beam we made, then cut about 16" off the bottom of the studs to clear the blocks. I'm just going to add new studs and nail the old ones to them, that way I don't have to worry...

I have a 20x50 shop that has seen better days. The property we bought used to part of an old dairy farm and some of the structures are still here. I believe my shop used to be some part of it, based on how odd the dimensions are and the fact that it has two drains in the floor. Anyway...the slab...