25x28 Detached Garage

[MRFORDMAN1994]

Now that's a nice garage!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Now that's a nice garage!

Thanks!

I am happy to report we have finally started construction on the final phase of our 3 phase renovation plan.

Phase 1: Finish an undeveloped basement, completely renovate main floor upstairs, reshingle the roof, new exterior doors, upgrade to 200amp service, new furnace and add central air conditioning. - Completed

Phase 2: Build detached garage, full exterior renovation of house to match garage, all new windows on house, add 2 inches of insulation to house, reinsulate attic. - Completed

Phase 3: Install drainage system, extend gravel driveway from the front yard to the detached garage, install concrete driveway in front yard up to the house, finish landscaping yard, add covered deck off the back of the house, level and repair existing concrete floor in attached garage, full interior renovation of attached garage (my favorite part of phase 3 )

 

[WarrenJ]

Looking forward to this massive check list of work.

 

[LCG]

First time I see this thread, apart from the flood I must say that the garage ended up awesome.

When I saw the bulkhead I thought you were on something

 

[bonecrrusher]

Ben - do you have another build thread elsewhere?

I remember asking a really dumb question of where the garage door rails went - but I don't think that was on here - maybe 6speedoline, or one of the Pro Touring sites.

I scrolled back through all 17 pages - awesome job on the garage, and ***** on the flooding part!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Looking forward to this massive check list of work.

Me too, we`ve been in a constant state of renovation/construction since February of 2012, can't wait to be done.

First time I see this thread, apart from the flood I must say that the garage ended up awesome.

When I saw the bulkhead I thought you were on something

Thanks, yeah the flood sucked but hopefully the work we are doing now will prevent that from ever happening again. Yeah the bulkheads were funny to deal with, people couldn't visualize what we were trying to do there.

Ben - do you have another build thread elsewhere?

I remember asking a really dumb question of where the garage door rails went - but I don't think that was on here - maybe 6speedoline, or one of the Pro Touring sites.

I scrolled back through all 17 pages - awesome job on the garage, and ***** on the flooding part!

I haven't posted my garage build anywhere else, but there is a member of this forum (pumalex) who has built a garage very similar to this, perhaps you are thinking of his build? You can see it here: My dream garage underway, 28x32

 

[bonecrrusher]

Thats the guy - found my post on 6speed.

Really like the way you guys are hiding the garage door rails and the angled T8 housings.

Looks like your both in Canada - is that a common design up there?

I haven't seen that in the States.

Thanks.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Thats the guy - found my post on 6speed.

Really like the way you guys are hiding the garage door rails and the angled T8 housings.

Looks like your both in Canada - is that a common design up there?

I haven't seen that in the States.

Thanks.

Other than what pumalex did and my own garage, I've never seen anyone else do this. I just wanted to hide the rails b/c I think they look ugly and being that this garage is an extension of our home I wanted it to look a bit nicer. The angled light panels were an idea I got from seeing automotive paint booths and how they have their lighting coming in angled like that.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Here is the drainage ditch dug out with the beginnings of the concrete forms.

90 degree corner to redirect the water towards the street. The driveway will be poured on top of this with metal grates which will allow the water to flow into it from the driveway as well.

Interior of the attached garage. A bit of a mess right now, its been a catch all for our junk during all the previous renovation work.

We put in a new larger overhead door in 2012 (10' wide and 8' high) to give my wife more room when she pulls in with her car.

To start off we are leveling and patching the floor in the attached garage where the the floor cracked and dropped a long time ago, probably shortly after it was poured. Its been brought up 3/4 of an inch in this photo, with more to go yet.

 

[txbonds]

Love the detached. Great work and thanks for sharing.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Love the detached. Great work and thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Poured the bottom of the trench yesterday afternoon.

Forms made up for the metal grates that will go in the surface of the trench.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Pouring the sides and top, the open parts are where the metal grates will slot into.

Today is a great day for pouring concrete!

 

[green2kgt]

damn man! This is awesome!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

damn man! This is awesome!

Thanks, the drainage system is already getting a good workout from all the rain we've been having.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Finished pouring concrete into the forms yesterday afternoon. Luckily is was perfect weather for it, and it had just enough time to dry before the rain and hail storm we had in the evening hit. The trench is essentially done, all we have to do now is do a bit of grinding on the metal grates to clean them up, give them a coat of paint.

Next step is hooking our weeping tile network to the trench, and then we can move on to landscaping, and preparing for the driveway.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Your drainage system looks great, very different from what we do out here.

Keep up the great work.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Your drainage system looks great, very different from what we do out here.

Keep up the great work.

This is different than what most people do here too, but desperate times call for thinking outside the box solutions. The problem is that our house was the first one built on this street back in the 80's, after it was built all the other houses in the area were built at a higher elevation meaning our neighbors send all their water to us.

Normally a drainage ditch that went around the house would allow the excess water to just flow around us and it was no big deal, but now that we have added the detached garage and need access to the back yard with vehicles, the earthen drainage ditch wasn't going to work anymore.

Once everything is sloped to this drainage system properly, and all the weeping tile is in place, I am really hoping it is the end of our water issues.

 

[green2kgt]

Thanks, the drainage system is already getting a good workout from all the rain we've been having.

gotta make sure it works, right? lol

 

[Nolift911]

Looking good - great work!!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Looking good - great work!!

Thanks!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

The drainage trench is done, minus a few more metal grates which I've ordered and will be in next week. Its already been tested by some very heavy rains and I am happy to say it is working very well so far.

A few things going on here, first we replaced the troughs that came off the downspouts with elbows that go into our new underground (weeping tile) drainage system. There are a total of 6 weeping tile pipes buried underground that feed into the concrete trench. This should greatly reduce the amount of surface water in my backyard during a rainstorm or spring thaws. All the weeping tile is heated with heat trace to keep things flowing in spring.

Started on the deck after work today, got two of the 6 footings installed.

We are using these for our footings, they are called Ground Hawgs, 8 ft long with 8 inch auger blades on the ends of them for the main supports, and 6 ft ones for a BBQ kickout.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

After installing the ground hawgs, we trenched in the weeping tile that would collect any water that made it under the deck and send it to the trench.

Weeping tile feeding into the trench.

Weeping tile buried with gravel and a frame built to contain the gravel.

End of day 1 of work on the deck. Framing mostly completed. My little helper inspecting my work.

End of day 2. Not many pictures taken on day 2, basically spent all day putting the decking on which is easy but boring. The first 4 support posts are up for the roof that will be over the deck. Also raised the deck 3/4" and leveled the deck, extremely easy to do when your using Ground Hawgs, took 5 minutes and a crescent wrench.

 

[vekster]

Never seen those 'ground hawgs' before.
Look pretty slick.
How do you drive them in?


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[Gentle_Ben]

Never seen those 'ground hawgs' before.
Look pretty slick.
How do you drive them in?

They are extremely simple to use, there is a tool the hardware store will lend or rent to you, its basically a piece of square tubing that slides onto the Ground Hawg, then there are 6ft poles that slot into the tool. You walk in circles, (2 people can do it easily) and they auger into the ground. When the tool hits the ground, you just slide it further up the pipe and continue making your rotations. They sell larger ones that you can build a cabin on if you wanted too.

 

[Blackhawks63]

Looks great. Will you be putting in a driveway to get to that back garage?

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Looks great. Will you be putting in a driveway to get to that back garage?

Thanks, yeah the driveway is in the works. We are booked in with a driveway company who will be doing concrete from the street to the house, and wrap around the attached garage, from there it will be crushed limestone to the detached garage.

 

[dcuthill]

They are extremely simple to use, there is a tool the hardware store will lend or rent to you, its basically a piece of square tubing that slides onto the Ground Hawg, then there are 6ft poles that slot into the tool. You walk in circles, (2 people can do it easily) and they auger into the ground. When the tool hits the ground, you just slide it further up the pipe and continue making your rotations. They sell larger ones that you can build a cabin on if you wanted too.

What happens if you hit some rocks?

 

[Gentle_Ben]

What happens if you hit some rocks?

We hit a rock with one of them, we left some torque on the ground hawg for a few minutes, and then gently turned it and luckily the rock moved.

These aren't going to be ideal for every situation but if you are in a fairly rock free environment they work pretty slick.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

We've been making some progress despite the heavy rains we've been getting.

Had to relocate the satellite dish to the gable end of the covered deck.

The renovation of the attached garage is still happening, but its last on our list of items to complete as the drainage system (of which the deck is a part of that system) takes priority.

Met with the concrete guys last week and went over our proposed changes to driveway width and length. We are scheduled to have that done in early August.

 

[green2kgt]

man thats gonna be nice!!!!

 

[Nick_Wa]

We've been making some progress despite the heavy rains we've been getting.

Had to relocate the satellite dish to the gable end of the covered deck.

The renovation of the attached garage is still happening, but its last on our list of items to complete as the drainage system (of which the deck is a part of that system) takes priority.

Met with the concrete guys last week and went over our proposed changes to driveway width and length. We are scheduled to have that done in early August.

Any chance you could get me a picture of how you tired the roof line into the wall of your home? I want to do similar for my rear garage addition...

Thanks

 

[bagged89s10]

Your garage looks amazing!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Any chance you could get me a picture of how you tired the roof line into the wall of your home? I want to do similar for my rear garage addition...

Thanks

This deck is not attached to our house, and neither is the roof. Technically speaking its a gazebo and part of the reason for using ground hawgs instead of attaching the deck to the side of our house.

Had we attached the roof to our house, we would have been required to get engineer stamped blueprints, permits, etc, and after building my garage and going through that whole process, I wanted to avoid it.

To prevent water from coming in between the deck roof and house, we used a piece of flashing to fill in the gap, and since it sits underneath the overhang of our house, it would take a very powerful south driving rain (which is pretty rare) to get water in there, and it would simply just trickle down our siding harmlessly.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Your garage looks amazing!

Thanks!

 

[s2kattracks]

Just finished reading. AMAZING!

Simply amazing. Love the three step lighting and the custom workbench and cabinets.

 

[74 Camaro LT]

That's one nice garage. You gave me some good idea's.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Just finished reading. AMAZING!

Simply amazing. Love the three step lighting and the custom workbench and cabinets.

Thanks! I am a bit obsessed when it comes to lighting.

That's one nice garage. You gave me some good idea's.

Thanks!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Happy to say we are under construction again after taking a two week break after my son was born on July 3rd (almost a 4th of July baby haha).

 

[xtremek]

CONGRATS!!!!! I hope everyone is happy and healthy. Now get back to work.