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I asked an architectural engineer friend of mine to look at it and he agreed I should be good with it as is. I will be sheathing the outside and the inside of the garage door walls with plywood to reinforce those corners, then covering the inside with drywall on top of the ply. It is good to...

I'm in the clear! Thank you everyone for your comments, suggestions, and help as I've been working through this. I went to my code department and met with one of the engineers. The very first thing I told him was "I have made a mistake, and I am here to see what I need to do." I had drawn up...

Please don't misunderstand, this is 100% my fault. I mentioned it in an earlier comment, but I made a mistake about 6 months ago when submitting for my permit by specifying something in my plans that I did not understand. My goal at this point is to find out if what I've done will be...

Yeah, it is clear to me now that I've lost sleep over my framing and agonized over braced walls and portal details. I can now visualize the failure point of the elbow at an opening and what actually happens. We'll see what the codes department tells me tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can appease...

Well, gonna find out how they feel about the header only extending 1' into a 3' shear wall. Guessing code office will be sending me off to write a check to an engineer to find out if what I did was appropriate or what I need to add to it. Here's the floor plan of the addition, with the right...

I’ll get off my phone and hop on a computer and check again if I can locate the load tables for my LVLs and find trimmer quantity. Maybe it was there and I just missed it. My LVLs are 20’ long, so I allowed for 1’ overhang on each side of the garage door. I sure hope they weren’t supposed to go...

Not sure if I can convince myself to frame with just a single king! Granted, the 16’ door I removed as part of this addition did have a single king on each end. Sure seemed wimpy. Woah, that’s a lot of bracing strapping! Not in a hurricane zone here, but dang that’s interesting to see. Kansas...

No engineer-designed plans for this addition. There is 3’ of wall on each side of each of the garage doors. The hold down straps seemed like a great idea, can’t imagine building a garage with 18’ doors without them. My city was satisfied with a pair of upsized anchor bolts (and square washers)...

Oops, should have shared an image of the progress from today - 1' stem walls and 11' stud walls - very heavy to lift up there!!

As my title states, I'll be building the wall and rough framing for an 18' x 8' garage door (actually two of them) tomorrow and reading the IRC (TABLE R603.7(1) TOTAL NUMBER OF JACK AND KING STUDS REQUIRED AT EACH END OF AN OPENING) it looks like I need 4 jack studs and 4 king studs on each end...

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it. I get to start framing this weekend!

Well, the pex is all encased in concrete now, so no changes there at this point. Haha. The manifold is going in my basement on the shared foundation wall between my basement and the garage. So that puts it as close as it could possibly be to the slab. The pex runs dive down into a 45* PVC...

Thanks for the help everyone! Laid out the pex Monday night with a few zip ties, then several more hours Tuesday finishing the zip ties, then many more hours Wednesday and Thursday checking and re-checking every 12" that everything was properly zip tied and all the tails were cut off. Concrete...

Even just being 22' deep rather than 20' deep will be nice. Like I said, I had a 30' wide x 20' deep and it was closer than I liked for carrying stuff back and forth between the front bumpers of the vehicles and the shelving I had (especially with things sticking out from the shelving or...

I must have missed that you were looking at a different house. I thought you were going to have two bays that were extra deep. Looks good, though!

Thank you the info. Was really hoping final grading was going to be completed earlier this week, but still hasn't happened. I've got a ton of pictures, was just going to wait until closer to finished (at least with the slab!) to start sharing them! Teaser image of digging a really deep trench...

I have a full outline of the fill situation in my [really long] reply to LLWillysFan, but in short the fill is from when the house was built 30 years ago. The excavator had to dig down 9’ to get to virgin soil for my addition’s footer. So it wasn’t that the fill was brought in for my project...

You are correct, it will be a 6” structural slab supported by a row of piers in the middle of the slab and rebar anchored into the foundation walls every 12” all the way around. We have expansive clay soils here, which probably means more to you than me. My original design with the beveled...

Well oh boy, I'm not going to sleep well tonight. The columns are supposed to support the slab. And they're already poured. We decided to go with a 1/2" expansion joint material to achieve the heat break, which I'm happy with. So no worry with cracking/chipping as you rightly described...

Getting close to my slab pour and discussing with my concrete contractor what rigid foam to use for underneath the slab I reminded him to make sure and order enough for the inside of the foundation wall up to the top of the slab (cut at 45* angle at the top so it's covered by concrete). He...