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Luckily it has been a mild winter!

Mostly just stick-built we have an excellent building supply very close to me and they had some great prices on everything and free delivery. The only real expensive part were the custom attic trusses. I added it up last week and all in currently I am around $36K including the wall and...

Plugging along slowly was able to get the plywood up on the front wall and the trim all installed for the doors. hopefully, they will show up in the next couple of weeks, probably could have ordered them earlier but couldn't decide on colors finally went with mocha brown, plan to do a darker...

I also ran a 10-3 30 amp to my attic on the back wall for a heat pump later for ac and some heat mid-season and 2 50amp 240v outlets in between each bay for future electric car chargers, I imagine one of my next cars will be electric. For the 3 exterior lights, they will be motion activated but...

Looking good, I thought I had it bad moving stuff around, that must be real fun!

Finally starting to have fun with the build, during Christmas week I was able to get all my electrical roughed in with all the boxes and wiring. I went with a 200 amp 30 circuit and I almost have it full decided to go with 3, 50 amp circuits 1 for a welder and 2 for anything else figure that I...

It is sitting the correct direction so the prevailing wind comes in from the back so I get some snow and lots of leaves in it. On the back I am actually adding a extension to hold my boat and fire wood so the steel will be well under cover.

Anyone have any pictures of open shed doors. Want to try and find a good way to close this building in thinking rolling doors that can all roll into one bay. Just have tarps across the front now but it is a real pain when you want to get anything out.

Now that I have the outside somewhat closed in and winter here is in full swing figured I would get started on interior projects so that I can get my garage doors installed. To do that I want to get my ceiling installed and trim on around the doors. First step to the ceiling is installing the...

Had a couple of nice days just before thanksgiving and I was able to get my gable ends all closed up. Very happy to have it done before our first significant snow on thanksgiving also more on the way tomorrow!

Things are slowing down a bit now that winter has arrived was able to get more of the siding on to try and get the garage closed in. Last weekend we had temps in the single digits so not a great time to do siding. the good news is that the roof sheds snow really well! It pushed it out almost 30...

Finally got the strapping done and roof on this past weekend, just in time as we are suppose to get our first snow at the end of this week. Its nice to be able to finally keep everything dry as we have been getting quite a bit of rain in the past 2 weeks. Bought the panels at length 28' on the...

Next step are the trusses! I purchased special built trusses 36 wide with an attic space clear span and a 2ft drop on one side to give it a bit of a salt box feel. I live in Maine I wanted my doors on the gable end where I don't have to worry about a giant snow pile from the roof sliding! A...

With the walls all framed I wrapped with typar and installed the windows then began some siding to help tie all the walls together. With 3/4 in thick shiplap pine siding I applied it directly to the studs without any sheathing, much faster and less cost.

Looking good, Nice size very happy I went with 12' walls plenty of room for a lift! Just putting my steel roofing on my 28x36 this weekend and not a moment to soon talking snow here in Maine next weekend.

Walls went up really quick nice thing about using CAD software is that i made a cut list for each wall and was able to kit each one. a couple friends and I were able to get all the walls up in a day. Only hard one was the front one with the doors made it in 2 pieces instead of 3 but tractor was...

Same color roof but will probably stain the pine siding a dark color. Will also do the same to the tractor shed.

more pics of foundation

Once the wall was done I was able to final grade the site and compact nice and hard. Foundation is a 6" floating slab with a 1ft haunch and 8" wall with rebar. The site is on pure gravel so it shouldn't go anywhere. Also included a pic of the cad model going 36 across the front with 2 garage...

Now that the old one is out of the way time to remove the big spruce stump and build a retaining wall to hold back the new foundation. Previous garage was just built on the side hill with a few rocks to hold it back new one will be another 4 feet deeper so need the wall. Ended up using the...