25x28 Detached Garage

[Gentle_Ben]

Checking in on your progress, beautifully executed as per usual.

Regards

Thanks man, in the final stages now so will finally be able to relax soon I hope, haha.

Ran into one issue with the driveway company I hired to do our driveway, they missed three promised dates to do the work, and then once again no showed on Thursday (but sent me an email at 11:00pm the day before to say I had been bumped by another job) so unless I can find another company on short notice then it might have to wait until spring to get done.

 

[seth13_1984]

This garage is great!! Always looking for ideas for mine, but I wouldn't even know where to start to get to this level!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

This garage is great!! Always looking for ideas for mine, but I wouldn't even know where to start to get to this level!! Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for the compliments. My biggest advice is start by planning your garage out with a sketching program. I used Google Sketchup b/c it was free and pretty easy to learn with lots of online resources.

I spent countless hours trying different designs to see what I liked, and what would work within the space I had available. I maintain that without sketchup my garage would look completely different since I wouldn't have been able to have so much control over the design.

Good luck with your garage projects!

 

[Jimbo..]

Great thread! Subscribed. Love the lighting in the detached garage, it looks like a space ship, and I admire your attention to detail and overall craftsmanship. Nice work

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Great thread! Subscribed. Love the lighting in the detached garage, it looks like a space ship, and I admire your attention to detail and overall craftsmanship. Nice work

Thanks very much, I love the lighting too. I rarely turn on the fluorescent lights unless I am working on something, but its fun to see people's reaction b/c they don't even notice they are there most of the time and when they turn on it just floods the place with light.

 

[richtersrodz]

Very nice setup.. I have lots of back reading to do..

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Very nice setup.. I have lots of back reading to do..

Thanks, hope you enjoy the read through.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

So the concrete company I had hired to do my driveway and I have parted ways, unfortunately since I know they do great work, but after multiple delays and a price that was getting out of hand and finally a no show on the day they were supposed to start work we finally pulled the pin.

Met with a new concrete guy yesterday and he agreed to take on the job, seems a lot more reasonable and he will let me use my existing material suppliers and just charge me for labour which I think will be great.

Also meeting with a guy to tape and mud my attached garage so I can get it painted and ready for the trim and race deck to go in.

 

[WILLIE*WILL]

wow........

 

[toofart]

You can see the 300cfm fan in the middle which will be used for ventilation, it will be controlled by a humidistat.

I was thinking of doing something similar for ventilation, but I ended up concocting an arm with some scrap. The fan is a large 130 cfm bathroom fan. I don't need permanent controlled ventilation like you do, but I did want to remove smoke/dust in the winter. I can place the mouth in close proximity to the weld torch or grinder. Since it's standard 4" household duct, I can put all kinds of attachments on the end, including longer flex pipe.

 

[bmxdad]

I was thinking of doing something similar for ventilation, but I ended up concocting an arm with some scrap. The fan is a large 130 cfm bathroom fan. I don't need permanent controlled ventilation like you do, but I did want to remove smoke/dust in the winter. I can place the mouth in close proximity to the weld torch or grinder. Since it's standard 4" household duct, I can put all kinds of attachments on the end, including longer flex pipe.

I know a few fabricators that need this ... nice job

 

[Gentle_Ben]

I was thinking of doing something similar for ventilation, but I ended up concocting an arm with some scrap. The fan is a large 130 cfm bathroom fan. I don't need permanent controlled ventilation like you do, but I did want to remove smoke/dust in the winter. I can place the mouth in close proximity to the weld torch or grinder. Since it's standard 4" household duct, I can put all kinds of attachments on the end, including longer flex pipe.

Nice work! I haven't had the opportunity to test my system yet really, but I like your idea of being able to concentrate your ventilation to a certain area to get rid of fumes.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

So we've had a bit of bad luck and some major setbacks. Our community was hit with a catastrophic rain storm a couple weeks ago which fell at a rate of 12.8 inches per hour and completely overwhelmed all the city drainage and sewer systems.

The good news is our new drainage system worked flawlessly, the bad news is we had a sewer backup in our newly finished basement. We had roughly 12 inches of sewer water in our basement which ruined virtually everything it touched. We were able to save a few things in time, but there was a lot of loss. We also had to gut the bottom 18 inches of the entire basement.

It was devastating to have this happen, and my wife and kids had to leave for a few weeks (not safe for the kids to be here until everything is cleaned up), but soon we got to installing some preventative measures to try and avoid this in the future.

First we hammer drilled the floor, hammered out the concrete and dug out a cavity to put in a sump pit with pump.

Sump system installed and working, along with a sewer backup valve we retrofitted.

Concrete poured, now we just wait for it to dry.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

While we were installing the sump pump and backwater valve, the concrete outfit I hired showed up a week early as another job they were doing got rained out.

Digging out the area for the sidewalk to the detached garage.

 

[LCG]

hmm.. Never had such problems here, but I think I will buy a sewer valve just to be sure.

 

[dubber]

Wow, very sorry to hear about that set back. Definitely a scary thing to go through. Good luck with the rebuilding of the basement.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

hmm.. Never had such problems here, but I think I will buy a sewer valve just to be sure.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I sure wish I would have installed one, would have saved me a lot of grief potentially. This house has never had a sewer backup in its entire history, so I thought we were safe.

Wow, very sorry to hear about that set back. Definitely a scary thing to go through. Good luck with the rebuilding of the basement.

Thanks man, its been a rough one, but had some amazing help from family and friends. I don't know what I would have done without them.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Unbelievable, nearly 13 inches of rain.

All the best with your clean up and its great to see you have a really good support network around to help.

Regards

 

[Jimbo..]

Man, we barely get that much rain in an entire year where I live. Or at least we don't anymore... Hope you get things sorted soon. What a bummer.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Started pouring concrete at 6:00am today.

Got a few angry honks this morning as people squeezed by, one trouble with doing construction in a completely developed neighborhood.

Became the neighborhood spectacle again with the pumper truck boom stretched over our house.

Everything sloped to work with our drainage system.

Soon I will be able to walk to my garage without getting muddy boots!

Smoothing the driveway alongside the attached garage.

Doing everything in two phases, second phase will start next Monday for the front driveway.

 

[37ford4dr]

very nice indeed!

 

[lobrow]

This is how the Liftmaster 8500's are mounted. There was very little room for error here, we measured 3 times to make sure we had enough room when deciding where the doors were going to be mounted. I am quite pleased with these, just need to clean up the white wires a bit more, but b.c. of the door pocket and the bulkhead you can't see these anyways.

Did you install these yourself? Very nicely done! Im planning to use the 8500 Liftmaster and have been debating on having a professional do the install. Ive researched some here and online and havent made an unltimate decision on if I feel capable of doing the install successfully or not. Garage loosk great!

 

[xtremek]

No muddy boots?!?!? Next thing you'll know, you'll want the garage to stay nice and clean. Oh the horror



Seriously though, looking very nice.

 

[bmxdad]

Originally Posted by Gentle_Ben

Are you going to be installing a small retaining wall between neighbors yard and driveway? Hard to tell with picture, but looks like a 6"+ step where the guy is working on the right.

 

[Kimarieck]

Did you glue up the panels for the cabinet or were those some sort of pre-glued product?

 

[Gentle_Ben]

very nice indeed!

Thanks!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Did you install these yourself? Very nicely done! Im planning to use the 8500 Liftmaster and have been debating on having a professional do the install. Ive researched some here and online and havent made an unltimate decision on if I feel capable of doing the install successfully or not. Garage loosk great!

My contractor installed them, he said it was actually easier to install these than a regular garage door opener. I don't know how it would go retro fitting them to an existing garage door, but we knew from the start we were using these and ordered keyed shafts for the doors as well.

I've been really happy with these openers and I would never go back to the traditional style, in fact I wish I had enough room to put one of these in my attached garage too, but we upgraded to a 10ft wide door and the wall is too narrow on the sides for it.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

No muddy boots?!?!? Next thing you'll know, you'll want the garage to stay nice and clean. Oh the horror



Seriously though, looking very nice.

Haha well I do like a clean garage, but before we had a sidewalk or driveway to the garage you had to walk through a mud pit to get to it. Sometimes we have pizza delivered to the garage and the delivery guys were complaining too, not anymore though!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Are you going to be installing a small retaining wall between neighbors yard and driveway? Hard to tell with picture, but looks like a 6"+ step where the guy is working on the right.

It's probably more like 12" at its highest point, but yes it's an issue that needs addressing. My neighbour is really cool about everything (it's a rental property for him) and said we could shave and slope his yard down to better match ours, but we are going to build a small retaining wall and then back fill to flatten his lawn out instead. Afterwards we are going to be putting a fence up on the property line.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Did you glue up the panels for the cabinet or were those some sort of pre-glued product?

I'm not sure if I understand the question, can you elaborate?

 

[Kimarieck]

I'm not sure if I understand the question, can you elaborate?

Let's take a cabinet door, for instance. It appears to be built of several boards edge-glued together. Did you do the gluing or did you find pre-glued panels somewhere?

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Let's take a cabinet door, for instance. It appears to be built of several boards edge-glued together. Did you do the gluing or did you find pre-glued panels somewhere?

They were pre glued panels that we cut to size.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

They let the concrete dry all afternoon Friday and Friday night, and then came first thing Saturday morning to do the saw cut lines.

It rained on Sunday and it was extremely satisfying watching the water flow across the pavement and into the drain instead of making a lake in my yard like its been doing for the past 6 years.

My wife seems to think a Hot Tub would look pretty nice on this little square pad beside the deck. We'll see... lol

 

[lobrow]

My contractor installed them, he said it was actually easier to install these than a regular garage door opener. I don't know how it would go retro fitting them to an existing garage door, but we knew from the start we were using these and ordered keyed shafts for the doors as well.

I've been really happy with these openers and I would never go back to the traditional style, in fact I wish I had enough room to put one of these in my attached garage too, but we upgraded to a 10ft wide door and the wall is too narrow on the sides for it.

Ok thanks. Is a keyed shaft required to mate these to the door? I thought a collar was used to couple them to the opener itself. Maybe I am mistaken?

 

[Tonus72]

****** about the flooding mate. Feel for you.

That is some serious rain though!! Your drainage system passed a good test.

Cheers

Tony

 

[bonecrrusher]

There is a Coupler that goes on the end of the jackshaft on those openers.

Liking the progress - when is the rest of the driveway getting poured?

 

[Gentle_Ben]

****** about the flooding mate. Feel for you.

That is some serious rain though!! Your drainage system passed a good test.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks very much, and yeah you are right, the drainage system had one helluva first test. One of my neighbors described it as an "evil rain" and he couldn't be more right. I've never seen anything like it, here or elsewhere.

Liking the progress - when is the rest of the driveway getting poured?

We were working on digging out the front of it all yesterday, which included cutting off and removing the existing apron that was in front of our entranceway and garage door as it was poured wrong. We have all sorts of obstacles to overcome, including electricity wires to our house, and the ones that feed the neighborhood, as well as fiber optic and coaxial lines. It normally takes 2 hours to dig out a driveway this size, and yesterday we were only half done at the 12 hour mark. The electric company makes us hand dig their lines out, and they have to provide an employee to do a safety watch while we do it.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

Ok thanks. Is a keyed shaft required to mate these to the door? I thought a collar was used to couple them to the opener itself. Maybe I am mistaken?

When I was ordering the doors they asked if I was using a jackshaft door actuator and when I said yes he said "ok we will get you the keyed shafts then".

 

[hoho98925]

Very nice work. Your space is awesome!

 

[Gentle_Ben]

This was my nightmare yesterday, we had to hand dig out the fiber optic line running to my house as well as hand dig around the electrical wires. It was all going smoothly until we accidentally cut the fiber optic line running to my neighbors house. It was supposed to be a minimum of 24" down, but we hit it at only 8 inches in the ground. I called the phone company right away so they could come and fix it before we pour concrete, but they couldn't be bothered. Can't make sense of that. We even offered to bury conduit so they wouldn't have to directional drill to repair it, and still they said no.

After a long day this was the final result. Forms in place, 16" of gravel graded and compacted, and all my various drains and wires going to my house buried. This morning they are putting the rebar in place, and the concrete trucks are scheduled to arrive at 1:00pm.