Whitey's workshop and Rubicon test lab - new build

rugadog · Nov 29, 2019

So about a year ago I found this forum and made my first post about building my bucket-list garage/ man cave/ retreat/ dog house/ future Jeep home. I've always wanted to build/ modify a Jeep to take on the Rubicon and other off-road adventures in Northern California, Nevada, and Oregon. My plan was to get started once my son eventually left home to play college baseball***somewhere***. This August, he started school in Oregon and has a spot on their squad.

For the past 12 years the majority of my free time went into my son's baseball in some capacity to give him his best opportunity to do what only about 7% of high school athletes get to do...play at the next level. Whether it was coaching him working, with him individually, taking him to lessons, traveling with him to travel ball tournaments all over the country or just watching his heavy schedule of local games, which really didn't leave large blocks of time to work on my garage. This past 12 years was the best 12 years of my life!

I knew once he left for college I would have a large amount of newly found free time on my hands because my best buddy would probably never live under the same Roof is me again, and new I would have to do something with that time otherwise I would drive my wife crazy.

To get ahead of the game I had the foundation poured December (2018) of his Senior year of HS.

rugadog · Nov 29, 2019

To be continued....

J-man67 · Nov 29, 2019

Tuned in! Looks good thus far! Good luck to your son. I'm sure he appreciates all of the time and effort you devoted.

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rugadog · Nov 30, 2019

Thanks J-man!

rugadog · Nov 30, 2019

Prior to having the foundation poured my wife a I made several attempts to get a building permit from the city and we kept getting told different restrictions that made it difficult for us get approved for the garage and location we wanted. We kept getting told different restrictions regarding our set backs and limits on the height and size the garage could be.

My wife worked for the county transportation engineering dept. as a tech and although she wasn't an engineer she had access to people in the county that did know building construction, so we thought we could draw up the plans ourselves. On our 3rd denial because of MORE conflicting info from the city we decided to high a gun and have a P.E. draw up and directly submit what we wanted to the city...

That was all it took! He was in and out in less than 30min. with everything we wanted plus the option to go even bigger! We opted to stay the course with the 24'X 34' X 16' garage.

These are the plans he submitted:

rugadog · Nov 30, 2019

Garage will be located in the *red* area on my lot.

rugadog · Dec 1, 2019

2019: Once high school baseball season, summer Legion Ball season and my son's first season of fall ball ended I began construction the second weekend of October. I'm fortunate enough to work for myself with one employee in the office and I basically worked from home for six weeks to get to the point I'm at right now. I would get up at about 5 a.m. and and work for my customers until about 8 or 9 a.m. and then work on my garage from 9 a.m. until dark, eat dinner and work for my customers until about 11 p.m. and repeat this process for 6 weeks. Weekends were 12+ hour days.

I had a contractor buddy draw-up a framing plan and come out and brush me up on framing skills for half a day and after that I ran with it. Got help from some extra local muscle raising my walls and solid 12 X 6 beam.

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rugadog · Dec 3, 2019

Truss delivery and install:

It was a tight squeeze getting the delivery truck through my gate to deliver the engineered trusses.

I got half the trusses raised on a Sunday, it took me and my buddies a little extra time to figure out how to do it right. The next day I raised everything but the other cable end by myself. Then I had to hire a friend of a friend to come in and help me fix a couple mistakes and get the other Gable end up and help with the barge rafters.

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gte718p · Dec 3, 2019

Nice pool. Congrats on getting the garage started.

zmotorsports · Dec 3, 2019

Looking good.

Anxious to see your Jeep project once you get the shop built. :thumbup:

theundermount · Dec 3, 2019

shop is looking great, and wow great yard love the pool

rugadog · Dec 14, 2019

I'm paying another friend of friend labor to put on the tile roof. The guys got the roof papered and batted just before we got our first rains, the week of Thanksgiving.

I cut (4) 36X48 and (4) 36X12 window openings and my man door with a router. This is one of the coolest, most time saving tricks I've learned during this build. Cutting with a router only took me about 60 seconds for each opening but makes a huge mess, and I was covered head to toe in saw dust, but the actual opening is so smooth!

Here's the video I found the trick in:

Window cutting begins at 3 minutes into the video.

Due to fire code, because my garage was so close to the property line, I had to go with the smaller windows on the fence side of the Garage. I also wasn't allowed to use block vents on that side of the garage. I had to use roof vents, and they couldn't be within 5' of property line.

Next up stucco lathe...

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rugadog · Dec 21, 2019

theundermount said:
shop is looking great, and wow great yard love the pool

Thanks theundermount!

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rugadog · Dec 21, 2019

zmotorsports said:
Looking good.

Anxious to see your Jeep project once you get the shop built.[emoji106]

I'll probably be coming to guys like you with questions and for Jeep advice once I get started. [emoji16]

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rugadog · Dec 21, 2019

gte718p said:
Nice pool. Congrats on getting the garage started.

Thanks bud[emoji106]

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rugadog · Dec 21, 2019

Now I'm letting the professionals take over. Progress pics of the roof and stucco process.

My stucco guy used my garage to make a pretty cool how-to video of lathing:

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