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So, I have a 18x8 insulated garage door. I bought a liftmaster 8500 for it and my 9x8 door. The 9x8 door works amazing, but I've had nothing but trouble on the 18x8 door. Sometimes, the door will begin to go down 2 inches, stop and reverse. about 8 times, it un-spooled the tension cable off the...

I have to order entry doors for the garage and was curious what size jamb thickness do I buy? The Amish builders are going to be using 1/2" sheathing on the outside, 2x6 studs, and going to finish the inside with 5/8 drywall (garage is attached). I was worried the 6-9/16 jamb wouldn't be wide...

Hi, Guys! So, I've made a few posts on here about an attached garage project and I'm happy to say it's underway and I've been real excited.....until my wife told me I can't have my tools in it...but that's a different problem. Okay, so I wanted to put a couple windows on the back wall and on...

I'm thinking of a different place to put a 36" man door in the side of my garage (garage isn't built yet). Concrete guys are coming next week!. Right now my plans show the door on the east side of a 30' wall. I'm kinda wanting to put it on the other side closest to the house but that side has 4...

My garage should be getting underway next month and I'm working on a few details about framing. The garage is going to be attached to the house and the roof will run opposite the gable the house does. When the garage is built, the house roof will extend over to the garage roof. My home has a...

I've got a contractor lined up to do the concrete work for our attached garage. What I didn't realize is he only pours foundations using the forms that look like brick. My home was poured using the flat forms. Right now there is ~ 12"-16" of foundation showing but I plan on raising the yard...

I'm talking to some contractors for bids on my garage and was curious what thickness I should go for on the foundation stem walls. The studs are going to be 2x6. I've heard 8" is the standard but I was concerned with flushing one of the walls with the existing house wall. The garage will be...

With better weather brings me back to garage planning. Wife and I are still fixed on a 3 car garage and I'm still debating having a single 18'x9' door with a single 8'x9' 3rd bay (recessed) for guest/kid's future parking spot or doing two 10'x9' doors and a single 8'x9' (recessed) for...

I can't seem to find if there is a setting on how long you can be logged into the site before it kicks you off. I feel like it's logging me off in 3 minutes. By the time I write a post response and click submit, it tells me I need to login again. Is there a place to change this? Thanks!

Apologies up front for the long post! I've posted once before about dabbling with the idea of building an attached garage myself. I was pretty much talking myself out of doing it, but after talking to some contractors for bids, I'm getting determined to just attempt it myself, 100% committed...

Hi, everyone! I'll try to make this easy to understand Question: What's the easiest way to plan out/calculate aligning the roof eaves of a new garage edition to the house? Details: Our home is a 27 1/2 x 60 ranch with a 5/12 gable roof. I would like to build an attached garage to the right...

Hello All! Thanks for clicking on my post and to those who reply to it. My wife and I are wanting to add an attached garage to our 60' x 27'6" home. She would like it to be a 3 car so I have been playing around with some ideas and was curious what you all thought of a 36'w x 32'd? Does that...