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ddurrett896

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Finally finished my garage and figured I'd posted everything at once. Thanks for the advice and hope something from this can help someone down the road.

Had a detached 14x24 (336 sqft) that came with the house and wanted to add a 20x24 in the back. City only allows 500sqft MAX detached so I decided to demo the 14x24 and rebuild attached.

This allows me to build the 500sqft detached in the future. Did most of the work on weekends with my buddies.

Below picture - demo started May 14 2019.

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Looks great! That’s a lot of work you did there! BTW, how deep do your footings have to be in that location?
 
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stricht8 said:
Looks great! That’s a lot of work you did there! BTW, how deep do your footings have to be in that location?
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City said minimum was 12" wide X 8" deep. Ended up like 24" wide (the bucket width) X 16-24" deep depending on where the bucket was.

Took out a lot and didn't want to backfill. Ended up like 20 yards in the footer and 20 on the slab. My brick guy loved having the extra room.
 
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I guess I meant, how deep below grade so you don’t have frost issues. I’m in Maine and the bottom of the footer has to be 4 feet below grade!
 
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stricht8 said:
I guess I meant, how deep below grade so you don’t have frost issues. I’m in Maine and the bottom of the footer has to be 4 feet below grade!
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Our frost line is like 10". The guy I called at the city said 8" is fine but I can't imagine it. Couple yard of extra concrete is worth it for the peace of mind.
 
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stricht8 said:
I guess I meant, how deep below grade so you don’t have frost issues. I’m in Maine and the bottom of the footer has to be 4 feet below grade!
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I just built a house about 2 hours north of VA beach. Our footers needed to be 14" deep.
 
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Looking good!

Have you ever thought about removing the white siding next to the small garage door and put in some brick work there instead?
 
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wes73 said:
I bet that area used to be a porch someone framed in.
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Bingo.

Turned into a laundry room right when I moved in. I should have done brick but now I’d have to go with a thin brick since I only have an inch or two between the sheathing and edge of surrounding brick.

I kinda forget about it. That wall faces my neighbor who enclosed a car port with the same siding so it flows with the neighborhood.
 
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