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Rebar in place, waiting for concrete.
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25x28 Detached Garage
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Rebar in place, waiting for concrete.
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Pouring the last bit. Can you believe some clown made the concrete truck move to get by WHILE THEY WERE POURING CONCRETE! I nearly lost it, but surprisingly the guy moved the truck without complaint, I guess they are used to it. There is street 30 yards away you can take instead of mine that gets you to the same place btw.
All done, I watched it like a hawk all night to make sure someone didn't try and write something in it or a curious animal putting their paw prints in it. Its firmed up quite well this morning despite being near freezing temps all night.
Feels good to be at this stage, this is the last phase of our renovation other than some landscaping to repair the damage to the lawn and backfilling, as well as making a small retaining wall along my property line.
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diggler306
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Great success!! I love fresh poured concrete. So satisfying. It's looking excellent my friend. You've done a ton of work.
dubber
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Great job Ben, i'm sure that wasn't ideal having to deal with the neighbours being pissy during the process.
bonecrrusher
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Looking good - is there going to be a pad between the drain/driveway on the side yard to the second shop?
xtremek
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And here I was going to ride my bicycle through the wet cement as a sign of what good friends we are. 
I bet this is a big weight off of your shoulders. Looks great.
I bet this is a big weight off of your shoulders. Looks great.
Back in the detached garage we've been modifying the gun cabinet to add a drawer system.
The bottom two drawers pull out, while the top one stays fixed.
There is room to expand my collection, but for now the bottom drawers are sized to fit my current firearms.
that's a kel-tec KSG bullpup shotgun, isn't it?!? love that thing! god help anyone foolish enough to mess with your garage.
vonhef
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Very nice build.... thanks for sharing your progress. 
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Thanks for all the kind words everyone, it really does mean a lot. With a project this big and that's consumed nearly 2 years of my life, feels pretty good to have all the major stuff completed.
Really looking forward to not having to always tell people "I'm working on my house" when they ask what I am up too, lol.
Really looking forward to not having to always tell people "I'm working on my house" when they ask what I am up too, lol.
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No, this area is going to remain gravel for a number of reasons.
Drainage, if I made this area concrete, our drainage system would be 100% reliant on the drainage trench, by keeping it gravel I am at least able to have a small catchment area that can handle some water absorbtion on it own.
Cost, concrete is expensive, and we had to break our budget to even do the areas shown.
This may sound like a silly one, but it really ***** loading snowmobiles onto trucks and/or trailers off of concrete due to the fact that carbide wear bars on the skis and the carbide picks on the track cut right through concrete.
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Yeah it sure is a KSG, I wanted one as soon as I saw one in action. Took me a long time to find one, but I eventually did. Its a very intimidating firearm for sure. I've added a much better optic and a center mass laser since taking this photo.
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It firmed up enough by 6:00pm yesterday to do the saw cut lines.
Ran outside at night to see what it would look like all lit up. I'm liking it!
I think that's a decent amount of light for finding your way back to the garage.
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My first post here is going to go out to congratulate you on making everyone here jealous! Wow, you have done some amazing work on your house and mancave!
painter12
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Definately an inspirational build !!
Jimbo..
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Looks great
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I'm honored my thread got your first post on this site, thanks!
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m_dunnie
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What an awesome transformation you have accomplished!
sean Buick 76
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Greatings from Edmonton! AWESOME job, simply amazing!!!! I love the overkill insulation, and making it all look really good!!! Talk about doing it right, your contractor is great!
dubber
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Love that last shot. Well done sir, looks like it all ties in nicely.
bikingpro5
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wow those lights really change the space as well as the concrete, I really like the drainage system you installed also.
bonecrrusher
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Looks awesome man!
Wow, what an amazing build. I really like it. I live in Winnipeg, so I know how fighting the cold weather is. With the amount of grinding and welding I do, I would be scared to wreck anything, but I may just steal your lighting idea. [emoji6] It's very impressive.
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Thank you very much!
Thanks, some might call the insulation overkill, others might call it necessary for this crazy climate we live in.
Yeah, its rained a few times since getting it done and I'm pretty happy with how things are flowing. Now its just a matter of keeping that trench clear.
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Thanks, yeah it was so dark around this house when we first bought it, I really wanted to light it up, both for utility and for looks. I wish more houses in my neighborhood would do the same as it can be quite dark down our street.
Thanks!
Thanks, go ahead and steal away, the 45 degree lights weren't even an original idea of mine either but one I blatantly stole from a build here on Garage Journal as well. Super happy with how they turned out, and I can't wait to stop working on my house/garage and begin doing projects out there like I've been waiting to do since this whole process started.
Showboy
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Let me get this out of the way first. The way I see it >>> you are making improvements -- which will benefit home values in the neighborhood >>> so these people that are getting worked up need to just get over it >>> plain and simple.
If having to edge past a concrete truck is someone's greatest complaint, then their life is pretty good ---- and they should see it that way.
But let's move on to the good stuff that's being said...
I agree. It looks great. It should be very functional. Well done and thumbs up.
xtremek
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..........and I can't wait to stop working on my house/garage and begin doing projects out there like I've been waiting to do since this whole process started.
As always top notch and looking great.
Do us a foavor and document those projects here as well
for those of us still chipping away on our builds. I hope to finish my builds in the next two years so I can start pumping the fun stuff.I've only read through the first 3 pages or so...but if I were you, I would have used one double-wide garage door in the center. If you have anything along the walls of your shop (workbench, toolboxes, cabinets, etc...), you will have a rough time getting vehicles in and out. You'll either be pulling in at an angle towards the center of the shop....or be running into **** and banging your car doors on them.
Our garage is setup like this...and it *****!
Our garage is setup like this...and it *****!
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No we are located just outside the city. Aside from the duplex right next to me, most of my neighbors have large beautiful homes. The guy I bought the house from was the developer for this area, and it was intended as an upscale neighborhood but initially it was a tough sale as the economy was in a downturn at that time. He built two houses, the one I am in currently, and a duplex right next to it that were "starter homes" just to get some interest going in the area. As time went on the interest in the area grew and the upscale homes started popping up. As a result my house and the house next to it were the "ugly ducklings".
I think we have raised the resale values of our neighbors by improving this house though, and hopefully that is not enough to keep them happy after dealing with all the construction noise and mess over the past 2 years+
Wow!! Just read every single page and this is astonishing work! Keep it up
Thanks!
As always top notch and looking great.
Thanks, for sure I will keep posting here, this forum is great and the community is very supportive.
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Couple reasons I went with the dual doors instead of one large one.
No door supplier I could find could get me a 10' high double wide insulated residential garage door, I would have had to go to commercial and that was not appealing looks wise (since I wouldn't be able to match the garage door on the attached garage) or price wise since commercial doors generally cost more.
By having two doors, I can at least somewhat reduce the amount of cold air that will blast in every time I open it to pull my truck in. The front of the garage faces north so it gets blasted with Arctic air all winter long.
The biggest reason though is the bulkhead required the use of two doors b/c of how it attaches to the trusses in the center between the two door pockets.
Nam11b
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I was browsing the builds and came across yours. Awesome garage and nice work on the rest of the house. You gave me a lot of ideas for mine AND now I want a KSG!
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Glad you enjoyed the build. The KSG is so much fun to shoot, I absolutely love it.
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Yeah your right, feels like we have been working on our house and garage for a very long time, but there were numerous breaks taken throughout the process so if I actually condensed it all into solid work it was probably 6-7 months for everything. I am very happy with how everything turned out, despite all our setbacks, and I plan on staying here for a while.
I think you managed to cause some minor depression and halt the garage project I was considering starting sometime soon. I'll have to double my budget just so when I look at my garage I don't have garage envy. Mine will be bigger, so far that's my only positive
lol, well your garage should make you happy and not depressed. I got a lot of criticism from friends and family for doing the garage this way. The way I looked at it was this, we were already building a garage so the investment was happening either way. Looking at the entire picture it wasn't that much more to have it the way I wanted vs doing everything the cheaper way. I'm just lucky the city limited me to 700sf otherwise I could have gone really overboard, lol.
winnipegtibook
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Great work Ben. Looks like you're ready for winter.
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Thanks, I really need to clear the trench of debris before the snow flies. The concrete workers did their best to keep gravel and what not from getting into it, but it was inevitable.
I've been hard at work in the attached garage trying to get it finsihed as well. We were going to keep it simple, but it seems like I am incapable of doing that. lol
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Got the drywall finished yesterday. Just have to find some spare time to prime and paint it this week.
This space here I am not quite sure what I am going to do with yet. Previously there was a large shelf about 6ft off the ground here which we used for storage and the lawn mower and other miscellaneous items went below.
I'm toying with the idea of enclosing it and making it a walk in storage room with wrap around shelving. I really want the storage space but I don't like having things out in the open, even in a garage. Putting a wall here will also further isolate garage sounds from my daughters bedroom.
This space here I am not quite sure what I am going to do with yet. Previously there was a large shelf about 6ft off the ground here which we used for storage and the lawn mower and other miscellaneous items went below.
I'm toying with the idea of enclosing it and making it a walk in storage room with wrap around shelving. I really want the storage space but I don't like having things out in the open, even in a garage. Putting a wall here will also further isolate garage sounds from my daughters bedroom.
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