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First layer for the air gap between the wood and the windproofing: More insulation: These roof beams need to be cut to size.

Wind protection almost complete: Started insulating the walls. The heat pump have arrived too:

Roof is weather proof. Not finished ,but it will last for at least a couple of years like this:

The side-part of the roof is completed too: Here the pipes for the heating system can be seen:

First visitor: All the roof trusses are up: In this picture it's easy to see all the ice forming on the slab, and that it's not dry like all the snow around the slab: I moved the compressor inside the house to get easy access to power and to keep it dry. It's a 7,5hp unit. From this...

A little later... or actually at least a month or two later: The framing starts going up. The snow didn't exactly make it easy. The roof trusses has been moved "inside" to make them somwhat easier to get to. They are not directly on the concrete as I noticed the ice starting to build up. I...

Next was the pouring of the slab. About the only thing I didn't do myself. They also put in rebar pieces for anchoring the rear wall. I was at work when they poured it so no pictures of that. They put plastic on the concret it so it would cure properly, and as you can see the plastic was not...

Thank you :) Regarding the concrete volume I belive it was about 68 cubic yards or 52 cubic meters. I was with steel fibers too, in addition to the rebar net. Like the ones in the picture below. I was worried about cracking...

Fast forward through all the drainage and piping etc, to the ground insulation. Before the insulation the gravel was compacted by a 700kg compacter. Then lots of packages of extruded polystyrene. There is a layer of plastic between the insulation layers, so it would not get punctured. Then...

Onto the digging a few days later. The digger was rented for a small fee from a a guy I know. The tractor and trailer belonged to a friend of mine and me. Didn't have do drive the excatvated material too far. Maybe 5minutes for a roundtrip to another part of my land where i filled in a little...

I agree with you on that Zick. I just assumed (maybe wrongly) that the array would collect enough heat for both the floor and the accumularor during the day. But that would require calculations and engineering I suppose, which might be prohibitive cost-vise.

Nice garage! Quite like mine actually. I like the water/solar heating system but I wonder why you don't have an accumulator tank ? With a sizeable tank you can take advantage of the midday sun and it'd heat even when the sun has gone down. I don't know how big the tank needs to be but I imagine...

There was a huge amount of used wood/timer under som roofing metal just where the garage was going: At the time I was in a hurry to start digging so this is how it was disposed of : It could probably have been cut up into firewood but there might have been a lot of nails and some of it was...

Lathe & milling machine :) and any other machinery that is too big for the main room. Lift would be nice, I am looking for a used one.

Very interesting. If it wasn't for the flat wood pieces sticking out a little it would look like concrete to anyone. I like it.

The garage is about 40x40' (12x12m) - outside dimensions. The free height in the main room is close to 12'(3,6m). Hint.. difficult without giving it away but it is not difficult to guess really :) The little door into the main room is not happening. I figured it would just be in the way as...

Here is the drawing of the building from the front to show height and some design principles. The concrete floor sides was done almost like the detail in the lower center, and not like in the drawing. There were a number of reason for that: Among others was the number of pours needed and the...

You got a very good point the Beavo :) I will start out with the floorplan. I have been making a lot of different designs over the last years but I ended up with the one shown below. I had another good alternative too which was shallower and had more car places side by side and was meant to be...

Hello everyone :) I am newly registered on this forum, altough I have been looking at a few threads on and off for more than a year, maybe 2 or 3 years too, hard to rememeber. I have bought a house with enough land to build a garage, so now I am wondering if anyone is interested in a thread...