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Roofers crew.. 4 to setup.. ie drop off equipment n material and then bulk of work was 2 guys, they took one day, the other two took off, presumably to set up crews at other jobs. I've seen guys fly through stack of shingles, these by comparison were working at very relaxed pace. We wanted it...

Soon after siding was up, we started looking into fascia wrap and gutters - another item we contracted since cost was reasonable and learning curve.. steep. Maybe its easier than it looks, but wasting coil of flashing to learn - not on my to do list. In mean time, we placed order for our lifts...

After sheathing the roof, we decided to hire out the shingles, drip edge and ridge vent install. We selected the drip edge F5? and shingles, Fox Hollow Gray from Timberline and in a day, they were done. Now that's progress! We considered steel but higher cost and not any better ROI, shingles...

The box was the hard part... the rest is copy / paste. We started with upright "colum" that will carry some of the load off of the ridge beam. One in the front, one in the back, dead middle. Making sure point points carry down to solid member beneath. Check. We built the triangle section laying...

Heavy wall went up and after that, we used same structure to lift back wall. Due to overlapping nature of sheathing, it was only partly covered, making it a bit lighter. We squared and sheathed as many wall section as possible before lifting them into place. We used pulleys as much as possible...

Now we had a stem wall w anchor bolts, we needed to build some walls. We went back n forth few times on how to best achieve this goal. Our approach may not be the most.. conventional. The whole garage was built in CAD in layers, so as we built up, we knew where everything below was supposed to...

We watered the slab daily for week hoping walls would spring up on their own, after much waiting and no progress, we figure we needed to muscle those blocks into shape. We have been fighting squareness since we put footing in, so we use this opportunity to tweak the square and level to...

In the midst of covid-19 outbreak, getting materials, labor was quite the challenge. But, we had a footing, we had a stem wall. Due to weather and other obligations, the forms sat in place for about a week. When it came time to remove them, even all design that went into making them easy to...

After lots of lasering, compacting and gravel, bottom of fotting was ready for steal. We set and tied all of the rebar. Using a pipe bender for corners meant realllyy large radius - oops. We had to go medieval for lifting and placing form walls into place. A-frames and pulleys to do the lifting...

Once land was flat - it was time for layouts. We had setbacks we needed to observe, so first thing was to located markers we had set when we bought the place.. some 10 years earlier. Minimum depth for footing for general building code are was 16".. our town said, nah, 3 feet.. **** - that's a...

It all started with 1920's house with tiny detached garage. The garage served it's purpose well during renovation of the house. As renovation got closer to done, attention shifted to the garage, which had a heavy lean and not straight wall in sight. There was no foundation, no footings - just...

What type of grease fitting / nozzle / needle is required for the joints ?

We started our garage framing in March.. 2x4 about $3.50 each.. we finished recently, 2x4 at $5/each.. needless to say we sold some extras for about what we paid in March.. plus or minus few nail or screw holes. Big demand, shrinking supply.

Attached is our install of the FM9SL. Essentially, the garage was built around them given size limitation we had to work with (zoning ordinances). Pit bases were poured along with footing and stem wall. Slab was framed, slopped and framing built for the pits. There was even some welding with...