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I was looking at starting to run the electrical and then have someone come out and run the service from the house. If I don’t plan on enclosing the walls, is it possible to secure romex to the framing or is it better practice to utilize conduit? I plan on running outlets down both sides of the...

Finally got home before complete dark to take some crappy pictures. I got all four vehicles inside plus my zero turn with room to spare. My only complaint is the doors are a PITA to slide the lock into the locked position. Otherwise the building seems to be of good quality and I’m glad how it...

Just moved from there. I learned a lot of what not to do from the garage that was pre-existing when we bought the house. Plan on spending a good bit of money on concrete work. There are a lot of ways to cut corners here and it can lead to a lot of cracking and water damage if not done correctly...

Plans are to change out the door, add some additional windows, and then a wood front porch with wood wrapped supports on the lean-to. I also have to coordinate getting more dirt on the far side of the garage to build up the drive.

And here are some not so good picture from the builder today. I am happy with the color choice relative to the home. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here are pictures from day one. I really didn't understand the height of a 10' door and 12' sidewall! It's big..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey guys so lots of updates. I've been traveling with both my job and the military so its been difficult to keep up with the thread. So here is the drama for the last 45 days: -I sent pictures of the slab to the garage builder for proof that it was complete. I guess they have an issue with...

Yesterday was a big day. We had the concrete poured for the garage. The inspector had come out Monday and wanted all the footers to be a minimum of 12" below grade. So they had to go and dig out around the foundation and put in additional rebar. This corner has about 3' of concrete which...

Garage foundation also got some work. They roughed in the electric We also were able to settle on a price for the drain. They originally wanted to do this massive 2x2' cast iron drain with a cast iron box and heavy gauge piping. I told them I really only wanted it as a drain and it was...

Thursday they were supposed to have the inspection done and start pouring. I am still hung up with the garage company pulling the building permit (really frustrated with them at this point) but they ended up filing for a foundation only permit. We should be able to pour on Tuesday following...

Wednesday they came and framed out the sidewalk to the front door. I wanted to put in some curves since it was such a large sidewalk. I also added in some brick bands that match the house so help break up all the concrete.

Crew got onsite on Tuesday and started framing out the garage pad. We ran into a problem pretty quick. When looking at it originally the lot looked fairly flat and easily graded with a few truckloads of dirt. There was a significant drop over the span of 50', we realized that there will be a...

hmmm. didn't think about that. Although im not super keen on giving up another parking spot. Do you think that ill be kicking myself if I put the lift all the way against the wall? No, the right side of the diagram is the front of the house, you can kind of see in the bottom right corner...

bump... any input on the lift location?

I just want a drain that would empty out the backside of the garage. I don't plan on putting anything nasty down there. Just want to be able to hose stuff off or if I have a biodegradable spill to be able to push it down the drain. Last garage had a problem getting water in it on a heavy rain. I...

Here is current plan for the garage. Sorry for the crude drawing but I am on my laptop with limited tools.. Anyways I am having difficulty figuring where the two post lift should go. This is my current plan. Note that its 180 from what you are looking at above.. the top is the side that has a...

Here is a plot that shows where the garage will go.

yea I wonder if the grate is the big cost. They want to use a 2'x2' cast iron unit. I just want two 8-10" circular units. I don't think the PVC is that expensive.

So minor update. Concrete company went and pulled all their permits to start working tomorrow. The city won't allow them to pour util footers are inspected. However the garage builder wasn't wanting to pull the permit. After going in circles I had to crack some eggs and make some omelets. They...

I had a slight concern that it would be tight, however its a steel building with no insulation/studs/drywall. I think its tight but the cost differential once I went about 24' was substantial.