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Thanks, yeah they seem to be working well so far. Some snow had made it into the window wells before we got the covers built, and either by trapping heat lost from the basement windows or heat from the sun, all the snow melted inside already. Even with a fair amount of snow on top of them, a...

Thanks! Yeah tinted Lexan would work well for that.

Some minor updates. I was tired of having to shovel out my basement window wells, and last spring one of our window well drains froze up on us. I wanted to come up with a solution to prevent both of these issues. I drew this up in sketchup, I wanted a simple low profile design that would...

That ***** you had a bad experience with the dropcam. A full system like the one you've chosen would be better of course, I just didn't have the ability to run new wiring to anything by the time I decided I wanted some sort of security system. The range on our drop cam is really good, I don't...

I cheaped out with our home security system. I use a few dropcams which I repurposed after we were done using them as baby cameras. They have night vision, run on wifi, and they can record to the cloud for a monthly fee. They send me a message with a picture anytime they see any movement in...

So I've discovered an interesting problem I am having with the garages. Because all of our drainage system is tied together, when we get a powerful north wind hitting our concrete drainage trench it is actually pushing air up through both our floor drains in the attached and detached garages...

haha, well that's pretty clever getting an old oven to heat your garage like that. When we first moved here, we were just renting this house and I had to use the uninsulated attached garage with a terrible overhead door as my shop for snowmobile racing. I had a 220 construction heater and two...

Thanks. Having the different types and levels of light has really come in handy quite a few times already. Thanks, glad my thread could inspire you. :thumbup:

This is the exact size I wanted to build, but our bylaws only allow for 700sf so I had to build mine 28'x25'.

I would say it will handle anything you could typically do with vinyl siding. We looked at a number of different options, and if stone is the look your going for, and your on a budget, this material is an excellent choice. I've had quite a few people tell me they thought it was real stone...

What we did is use a vinyl siding starter strip overtop the nailing strip for the novistone, then attached the siding to that. Makes for a very clean install without having the added expense of the trim piece from novistone that normally would go in this spot. If the siding is already...

Thanks I appreciate that! :thumbup: Had to work on my truck last night, two garage's to choose from. Freezing temperatures outside, and its dark. Where do we work on the truck? In the driveway... old habits are hard to break I guess. lol

Oh wow, that's gone up quite a bit. I paid around $3.50 per sf, and the corner pieces and starter strips weren't bad either. Probably has something to do with our dollar even though it a Canadian company.

The six 6 inch pot lights I have in the upper ceiling come on automatically with a sensor switch. These are the lights that are on all the time whenever someone is in the garage. They are basically there in place of the automatic garage lights you would normally have with conventional garage...

I really like the bulkhead, I would do it again if I built another garage for sure! 40x44, with 12' ceilings yet, that's massive! If I remember correctly, the bulkheads come out from the wall at the bottom 18". The bottom of the bulkhead is at the 10' mark, and they go up the remaining...

Sorry for the late reply. Glad you are enjoying my thread. I definitely got a lot of use out of both my garage's this summer. Right now we are preparing for fall and winter. My wife and I are both looking forward to being able to park our vehicles inside for the first time this winter!

Have a look at novistone, made in Canada, and its very cost effective. We used it on our house and garage. Goes on just like siding. http://www.novik.com/novistone-ds-en Here is what it looks like on the back of our attached garage.

I love this build. Great job!

Thank you very much, I'll look forward to seeing your garage remodel on this forum if your planning on starting a thread. :thumbup:

It was more like 4 inches of rain in a 10 hour period. It was pretty intense. The maximum rate of precipitation our city drains can handle is 2 inches per hour, which is why we had big issues last summer when we had a freak storm that delivered rain at a rate of 12 inches per hour.