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Hey everyone. Happy Thursday! I work in maintenance in a polyurethane fork truck tire and wheel factory, and when I walked back into the maintenance shop and over to my bench, and had this Nash machine tool laying on it. Apparently they cleaned out the desk of a fired engineer, and laid this...

So, when I was framing the walls for my garage addition, I framed in window spaces. But, for some reason I didn't think about needing jack studs & king studs with a header and the cripple studs. My studs are 24" OC. I made the window frame studs 30" (29.5" wide). Withy garage walls only being...

Hey all, I'm shingling my garage Monday, and I'm finishing up my prep tomorrow. I have tons more pictures for my build thread, just too damn busy to get it updated, but I will soon! I live in central Iowa, I'm not insulating it, not sure if I ever will at this point. So, do I put in any roof...

Hey all, getting ready to put up the sheathing on my garage addition. I'm using 3/4" osb to match the 3/4" stuff that's up there. My problem is I can't find any h clips for 3/4". Do I need them? Do I just space out the sheathing with say a nail or something for the expansion? I need some help...

I'm thinking about putting the man door in my garage so that it swings out instead of in to save a little space inside. I see that all of the doors here at work swing out & they drilled holes in each of the hinges on the inside and put a set screw in to hold the pin in place. I know they're also...

Hey all, I have a question for the forum. I'm in the process of my garage addition & hate the low ceiling height (7'6") and like the looks of this style of rafters. Can anyone tell me if this setup has a name, & if it will hold up to the snow load of a winter in central Iowa with a roof...

Hi all. I picked up my permit Friday, started Saturday by taking off the vinyl siding on the end of existing garage. Today I started digging, thanks to my Buddy from work who came and helped me! Got the overall area dug out, still have to level it out after I dig the footings, going with a...

Well, my wife & I decided to put an addition on the garage. We currently have a 12 x 20, which when she parks her durango in there in the winter, getting in my tool box or my workbench is near impossible! In the summer I get the garage for my road king, so the addition we're looking at is adding...

Hey all, need some advice. In the middle of my permit process to add on to my garage ( a small addition to keep my harley, tools, storage & workspace). Anyway, planning my foundation & the inspector said I need 6" between grade & my sill. He said people pour a short "curb" to put the sill on to...

Hi everybody. Just want to start off by saying wow, a lot of information here & a lot of intelligent people here, probably goes hand in hand, huh. Lol I'm Josh, been lurking for awhile, getting ready to add on to my garage ( actually my wife's garage, moved into her house a couple of years ago...