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Hi All, Years ago I built my 20 x 40 shop here in North Alabama. It has worked out well but now I have some new requirements and I'm looking at tearing the roof off and building an apartment above the shop for my daughter and new grandbaby. My plan is to add a ledger board around the top of the...

Hi All, I am ready to start putting some siding on my new shop and I need some opinions. I was originally planning on doing a 2 ft tall border of corrugated metal all the way around the bottom and then 8 ft sheets of T-111 siding on top of that ( I have 10 ft walls). I figured it out and both...

Hey All, I am installing the windows in my shop. I watched a bunch of videos and followed the instructions and got the first one in. Now I have a question. I put the shims in on the bottom and the sides but now that I have screwed the window flange all the way around the shims really aren't...

Well I bought my shingles today so I can start roofing my garage. I think I have a reasonable handle on things but I have a question about the starter row of shingles. I am using the 3D architectural shingles for the roof but I bought some flat 3 tabs for the starter strips. Do you need to cut...

Well I wasn't planning on doing my electrical for awhile but the inspector said they wanted to see the electrical stuff when they come out to do the first rough in inspection so I need to knock it out now so I can finish the rest of the garage.. I was planning on doing everything surface mount...

Well I got both LVL beams up on my garage project. The next step was to join them together. I looked up the manufacturers specs for nailing them together and bought the proper nails. Well that didn't work so well. Those damn beams are harder than the nails! I only got about 3 of them in out of...

Hi All, I posted here recently with some questions about my 20 x 40 detached garage project and got some great responses. Now that I have started I figured I would start a thread showing the build. So here goes.... I got the permit and the concrete guy started framing things up for the slab...

Hi All, I'm getting ready to build a new garage in the backyard and found this site while searching for some answers. I didn't find exactly what I was hunting for so I thought I would join and see if anyone could steer me in the right direction. I'm building a 20 x 40 ft garage with 10 ft...