Priariecanary
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This is a thread about a garage I built about 10 years ago. Nothing special on the inside just lots of space and a storage loft. I tried to match the exterior design of the house. I have since moved and will be building a new garage this summer. I thought I would post this one in the mean time.
The house. Note the shingle detail on the gable ends.
Better pic of the gable end. Each row of shingles has a different pattern and the pattern repeats every 4 or 5 rows.
Site prep. Digging the hole for the foundation.
Trench for the footings.
Footings in place. I had subcontracted all of the work to this point.
My brother and I framed and sheathed it in about a week. Getting started here.
Titling up a wall section.
Those microlam beams over the garage door openings were heavy. It about killed us getting those walls tilted up by ourselves.
We hired a crane to set the roof trusses. Took a couple of hours on a saturday to get them all in place.
You can see the storage loft taking shape here. I would have preferred 10 foot walls on the first floor and 12/12 roof pitch to match the house but had to use 8 foot walls and 10/12 pitch due to local height restrictions.
Sheathed and wrapped. I hired a guy to wrap the building and build the stairs. He didn't do the best work as you can see.
View of the stairs. I wanted to put the stairs on the outside to save interior space but that turned out to be not such a great idea given the minnesota winters.
View of the loft. Floors were 3/4 plywood, glued and screwed to the floor joists, 24 O.C.
Exterior trimmed out but not painted. I used cedar lap siding like the house.
Testing out shingle patterns. I found an old-school lumber yard that still sold bulk cedar shakes. I ripped each shingle to width on my table saw. I then cut in the end detail on each one using a custom angle fixture and a radial arm saw. I think it took about a dozen bundles of shakes to do the whole garage. I had a regular production line set up. I must have cut shingles for the better part of the summer. I had to pre-drill the nail holes in each shingle to prevent splitting. Each shingle was nailed using a copper roofing nail. I painted the first coat before nailing to make the second coat easier once they were installed.
Getting "help" from my dog.
A pic showing the finished gable end with the shingles in place and painted. I must have run out of warm weather before I had a chance to paint the soffits!
I will start a new thread once work gets going on my new garage.
The house. Note the shingle detail on the gable ends.
Better pic of the gable end. Each row of shingles has a different pattern and the pattern repeats every 4 or 5 rows.
Site prep. Digging the hole for the foundation.
Trench for the footings.
Footings in place. I had subcontracted all of the work to this point.
My brother and I framed and sheathed it in about a week. Getting started here.
Titling up a wall section.
Those microlam beams over the garage door openings were heavy. It about killed us getting those walls tilted up by ourselves.
We hired a crane to set the roof trusses. Took a couple of hours on a saturday to get them all in place.
You can see the storage loft taking shape here. I would have preferred 10 foot walls on the first floor and 12/12 roof pitch to match the house but had to use 8 foot walls and 10/12 pitch due to local height restrictions.
Sheathed and wrapped. I hired a guy to wrap the building and build the stairs. He didn't do the best work as you can see.
View of the stairs. I wanted to put the stairs on the outside to save interior space but that turned out to be not such a great idea given the minnesota winters.
View of the loft. Floors were 3/4 plywood, glued and screwed to the floor joists, 24 O.C.
Exterior trimmed out but not painted. I used cedar lap siding like the house.
Testing out shingle patterns. I found an old-school lumber yard that still sold bulk cedar shakes. I ripped each shingle to width on my table saw. I then cut in the end detail on each one using a custom angle fixture and a radial arm saw. I think it took about a dozen bundles of shakes to do the whole garage. I had a regular production line set up. I must have cut shingles for the better part of the summer. I had to pre-drill the nail holes in each shingle to prevent splitting. Each shingle was nailed using a copper roofing nail. I painted the first coat before nailing to make the second coat easier once they were installed.
Getting "help" from my dog.
A pic showing the finished gable end with the shingles in place and painted. I must have run out of warm weather before I had a chance to paint the soffits!
I will start a new thread once work gets going on my new garage.
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