40x37.5 Stick built

[Azgdds]

Hello all. I have lurked for some time now, but it is time I post. I have broke ground on my new garage. It is 40x37.5x20. I am limited to these dimensions by the local township zoning (1500 sq ft, 20 ft tall). It will have 3 10x10 garage doors on the front and one 8x9 on the back for lawn mowers etc. The walls will be 12 feet and the center bay will have scissor trusses for a 2 post lift and a practice golf area (eventual simulator). I am running in floor tubing for heat, but that along with plumbing and electrical will all be done with your help, by myself and friends over the next year.

 

[draider]

That's going to be a nice size. Where are you located?

 

[theoldwizard1]

Please posts lots of pictures !

I am very interested in the trusses, both shape and installation.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I guess pictures can be deceiving becasue it doesn't look that big.

 

[Azgdds]

Block laid today. I am in mid-Michigan.

 

[Azgdds]

Here are the rides waiting for their new stable.

 

[03HD-F150]

Nice Raptor!!

 

[NUTTSGT]

My golly, 7 courses, you're halfway to a nice basement.

 

[Azgdds]

My golly, 7 courses, you're halfway to a nice basement.

Yeah, bit of an elevation issue. I dont want water problems, my house was built well above the natural grade for a reason. I guess I am going with the motto, if you're going to do it, do it right. Or, I could go by yours, "too much is... just enough".

 

[Azgdds]

Nice Raptor!!

Thanks! The truck is incredible both on and off the road.

 

[Azgdds]

I bet tomorrow things really start to look different.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Wow, that is a ton of back filling. I bet the walls will be up tomorrow.

 

[snipes]

What do you have planned to help your building blend in. You live in a nice neighborhood, you are going to need some great design work. Looking great so far!

 

[kert]

looking at the block-work, my money is on brick.

Looking great!

 

[Azgdds]

What do you have planned to help your building blend in. You live in a nice neighborhood, you are going to need some great design work. Looking great so far!

it will be brick, siding, and roofing to match my house. it will also have windows on all sides except where there are doors. brick will only be 4 feet up on the walls facing the road, whereas it covers the whole face on my home.

 

[Azgdds]

 

[teuflhund]

Nice size. I hope to start a similar 2 story soon. Is it the pic or are the window headers half the wall thickness?

 

[NUTTSGT]

Man, that's alot of windows.

 

[Azgdds]

That's a lot of block, that's a lot of fill, that's a lot of windows... Am I screwing something up that I don't see?

 

[NickD]

No - his owe sig. advice is 'Too much is.... Just enough.'
Looking great so far. Keep us posted with updates.

 

[KPSquared]

Looks awesome!

My wheeling club got to participate in a media day for the Raptor. Beat the ever loving hell out of it with the Ford rep giggling in the passenger seat. Had it in the air a few times. Awesome truck. . .Hennessy makes it better. . . Although not much of a trail rig.

 

[kert]

Why build the walls before the floor is poured? I appreciated having a nice hard flat surface to assemble the walls.

Edit: plus it made it easier for the concrete truck to get right in to pour.

 

[Azgdds]

have to ask the contractor... some of it may have to do with when he is paid vs. when the concrete contractor bills him. other reasons - a lot of traffic on the fill for compaction, nice enclosed place for running the pex and pressure testing, no rain issues, easier to get a nice finish on the concrete...

 

[Azgdds]

 

[kert]

I guess that gives another reason to pour the floor afterward. You can brace from the inside so you don't interfere with the sheathing. I'm kinda fighting that on my build right now, but fortunately, I have a lot of windows I can brace into.

BTW, you are now ahead of me on framing, but I'm doing mine myself nights and weekends. Have had some help here and there, but I'm mostly a one-man crew.

 

[Azgdds]

After the floor is poured it will slow dramatically. I will be doing the interior.

 

[mzbk2l]

Looks great, Azgdds! When I saw your username on the index of posts, I thought you might be building near me in Arizona. Instead, I guess you're building near where I grew up, in mid-Michigan.

 

[NUTTSGT]

That's a lot of block, that's a lot of fill, that's a lot of windows... Am I screwing something up that I don't see?

No man, it's all good. Block. . . you're in mid Michigan and probably have a 3 foot frost level plus, you have 7 course of block (if I counted right). That should be plenty to get below the frost level. It's not that often you can see "that much" of the block work without it being built into a hill.

Fill . .. . honestly, I knew it would take alot of fill but with 7 courses of block, I was expecting to see a couple of courses out of the ground not just one. It's fine.

Windows. . . if you read around here, alot of guys prefer to have few if any windows for security purposes. While the natural light is great, you can't trust many of today's society. Windows create a weak point to that low life class of society. The windows you added look to be above eye level where most people can't see in without some form of ladder. If they can't see in, they don't know what you have and they don't if you're inside either especially if you leaving a radio playing 24/7.


Take no offense to my comments, they are merely my opinion and nothing more. It's not my build nor am I paying for it. Looking at your build so far, I'd say you have found a good contractor and have many things thought out. I'll be following the build.

 

[NUTTSGT]

have to ask the contractor... some of it may have to do with when he is paid vs. when the concrete contractor bills him. other reasons - a lot of traffic on the fill for compaction, nice enclosed place for running the pex and pressure testing, no rain issues, easier to get a nice finish on the concrete...

It also keeps the sun off the concrete. Although some guys like being able to get access from all sides to finish the concrete it's nothing more than "6 of one and half dozen of another" lines of thought.

 

[iancoletx]

Looks great so far! We should all be so lucky to have such a large garage!

 

[Azgdds]

You'd have to be one tall mfer to see in those windows. 7 ft up off grade. I should have some good pics tonight, roof went on.

 

[Azgdds]

 

[NUTTSGT]

Can you take some closer pics of the jacks that the walking plank is sitting on ? Including how it fastens at the top... does it come up over the wall through the eaves (soffit)

Your contractor and his crew is busting his hump, I think you owe him and his crew some pizza on the last day.

 

[Azgdds]

Yep, over the walls, much like an over the door coat/towel hanger.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Thank you. Somebody had a great idea for hanging that walking plank.

 

[Azgdds]

Have some more pex to run. Pressure test tomorrow.

 

[ODIS]

If you have not had radiant floor heat before, you will love it going forward. What will be your heat source? Looks like this will be a great garage.

Ody.

 

[Azgdds]

Don't know yet. Probably will be a proper boiler. Recommendations?

 

[knixon804]

awesome!!! where at in MI are you?

 

[theoldwizard1]

The trusses are "interesting". Sort of a modified vaulted/scissors truss there in the middle.

How much insulation under the pex ?


If I ever do a build with in-floor radiant heating, I am going to pressurized the system and leave it that way. The day the floor is poured I will make sure that the foreman of the concrete crew sees the pressure gauge and understands the ramifications if the pressures drops after the concrete is poured !