40X60 Shop Build - Washington State

[drivesitfar]

Krucks: well i guess hot dry days are WAAAAAAY better than cold wet ones, but maybe too hot to work hard. hope you are enjoying the progress on your shop/garage and heres to more success after the trusses arrive.

cheers

 

[KrucksGarage]

Haha, very true. At least the tools stay dry this way! I hope I can coordinate the truss delivery and equipment in the next couple weeks, I'm pretty excited to see that stage come together.

 

[frostbiteoffroad]

Awesome build so far, look forward to seeing the end product.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Thanks, me too!

 

[KrucksGarage]

I fell off of my scaffolding onto the slab yesterday and had to take a ride in an ambulance. Luckily I'm almost ready for trusses so shouldn't hold things up too bad. I feel lucky, I fell from 14-15 feet and other than a fracture in my pelvis which is in an ok place to maintain mobility, and a hell of a lump on my head, things are looking good. Hurts to move and walk, but PT went ok this morning. Let me be an example, be careful on scaffolding! I had a wall section rigged up with my excavator and it came to rest against one of the studs and I didn't realize it, while I was manipulating the section into position, the machine pushed a stud off​ the nails and came into me. That shoved me backwards off the scaffolding. If I had realized the down force had become a factor I would have re-positioned the setup.

 

[tadams72]

Well that *****. Here's to a speedy recovery.


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[drivesitfar]

Krucks: good thing you weren't working alone so somebody could call 911 or did you have to make the call?

here's to a speedy recovery and when you get some time please post in the Safety 101 thread cause i've heard about too many of these little mishaps that can end up much much worse. a neighbor of mine was painting his trim on his first floor windows, but it was on his side of the house where the daylight basement was so he was about 12 feet in the air when he fell off his ladder. 3 weeks in a hospital bed not knowing if he was going to remain paralyzed and 6 months of rehab and he's back to walking again.

take care and glad it wasn't worse. OUCH!!

cheers

 

[KrucksGarage]

Well that *****. Here's to a speedy recovery.


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Cheers friend!

 

[KrucksGarage]

Krucks: good thing you weren't working alone so somebody could call 911 or did you have to make the call?

here's to a speedy recovery and when you get some time please post in the Safety 101 thread cause i've heard about too many of these little mishaps that can end up much much worse. a neighbor of mine was painting his trim on his first floor windows, but it was on his side of the house where the daylight basement was so he was about 12 feet in the air when he fell off his ladder. 3 weeks in a hospital bed not knowing if he was going to remain paralyzed and 6 months of rehab and he's back to walking again.

take care and glad it wasn't worse. OUCH!!

cheers

My wife and kids were home and took care of business like champs!

 

[drivesitfar]

KRUCKS: feeling better I hope? for sore muscles which i'm sure you've got a few i take a couple Advil gels i buy at Costco instead of getting into prescription meds.

hope you are healing quickly cause i know you are getting close to the fun part where you have the trusses and roof on so it looks like a garage/shop.

cheers

 

[KrucksGarage]

KRUCKS: feeling better I hope? for sore muscles which i'm sure you've got a few i take a couple Advil gels i buy at Costco instead of getting into prescription meds.

hope you are healing quickly cause i know you are getting close to the fun part where you have the trusses and roof on so it looks like a garage/shop.

cheers

Doing alright. Stopped the prescription meds a couple days ago. Having a hard time walking and pretty sore but making progress. Pretty lucky really that it wasn't worse. I have a few family and friends coming over today and tomorrow to help get the building finished up for truss delivery. I just spoke with the truss company and a couple framers. Looks like I'll be able to line it all up in June.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Made some progress on the shop front today. Upper wall framing completed and double top plate installed. Sheathing is going up and will be finished up tomorrow. Thank God for good help from family and friends while I'm busted up!

 

[KrucksGarage]

The garage is ready for trusses. I have a few small things to wrap up inside and a little bit of sheathing to finish up but nothing major, double top plates went on great and helped to true up and stiffen up the walls. I'm working on coordinating a framer to come out to help me with the trusses, I'm not going to tackle that part myself. I hope to see them on this month.

 

[readhead]

Great looking project. I would suggest a lot of bracing before you start setting trusses.

 

[KrucksGarage]

I modified a lot of the internal bracing and what you can't see is that there's a lot of braces still up on the outside of the structure. I think the framer will be pulling a lot of my braces down when they do the final plumb and layout.

 

[KrucksGarage]

New truss date set for Saturday 24th, sheathing should be following Wednesday! Hopefully it all comes together this time.

 

[drivesitfar]

Krucks: how are you feeling? sounds great that the trusses are scheduled.

good luck and hope you are feeling better.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Krucks: how are you feeling? sounds great that the trusses are scheduled.

good luck and hope you are feeling better.

Doing just fine, stiff and sore but making progress! It'll be a while. For now I'm going to progress the trusses and hire a roofer to roof it for me. That'll be great progress on the garage until I can get after it a little better.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Trusses get delivered on Monday, so just cleaning up the front of the garage to make a nice landing and work area. Trusses get installed in one week! Roof sheathing the next Saturday.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Looking from back deck.

 

[jhark123]

Please be careful with those scaffolds, they are not osha compliant without top guards. You are very luck to be alive and walking around after the first fall. When I was framing I always felt safer riding the top plate than being on ladders or scaffold.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Trusses were dropped off today, flying into place this Saturday.

 

[KrucksGarage]

First truss headed for the top.

 

[madoc1]

Looking from back deck.

going to need a riding mower soon! pretty view.

jim

 

[drivesitfar]

Krucks: i hope you are feeling as well as your garage is looking. are you?

congrats on getting to this point and keep up the good work!!

 

[drivesitfar]

Krucks: i know you have more pictures to post of some more progress and hope you figure it out. i use the paperclip method just above where we write our posts and download up to 7 pictures per post and if i have more than 7 pictures i just make a new post.

that said I have issues posting pictures or even posting on GJ from my cell phone and mostly just read on it when i have time while i'm waiting for something. some guys use Tapatalk, but i prefer to take pictures with my cell phone and email them to myself (i guess if you have an Iphone your pictures automatically go to the cloud where you can save them to your computer if you own an Iphone). then i save pictures to my laptop and post from my laptop. there is a huge issue with Photobucket currently where they want $400 a year so you can post on other websites so a lot of threads have lost their pictures.

best of luck with the trusses and hope your feeling better.

cheers

 

[KrucksGarage]

Trusses getting rigged.

 

[KrucksGarage]

A few more pictures of truss install.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Starting to button up some hardware items on the list.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Half of the roof sheathing in place.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Roof sheathing in place! Time to get a roof on this shop!

 

[Farmall450]

Wow, looking awesome Krucks! Being in that hillside will probably keep it cooler in the summer too!

 

[KrucksGarage]

Thanks! Yea I think that will help out a lot. I'm curious how the inside climate will change through the seasons with the building half underground.

 

[SiGmA_X]

Lookin' very good! Nice work.

 

[drivesitfar]

Krucks: the garage/shop is looking AWESOME!!

thanks for including the pictures with part of your deck and lawn in the picture cause i wasn't sure if you were building this shop/garage in the woods or close to your house like you are showing now.

just curious on your deck cause i'm rebuilding an old fence. did you wrap 4x4 posts with 1x6 cedar or do tell how you made those posts cause yours looks great.

i'm working with old 4x4 posts from an old fence that are still in great shape but are treated and i'm building this cedar fence.

thanks and glad you got the pictures to work

 

[KrucksGarage]

I've got some good pictures of the deck on another device I'll put together and post. These are just pressure treated 6x6 posts wrapped in white wood and caulked and painted. Basically facia or trim board. I think it was primed Spruce. The deck is tigerwood and looks beautiful when treated. It's a little neglected this year with all that's going on. I built the whole deck, fun project!

 

[KrucksGarage]

One shot of that deck.

 

[KrucksGarage]

This is "Tigerdeck" which is a decking brand of tigerwood.

 

[KrucksGarage]

Just some unsuspecting grass!

 

[SiGmA_X]

Beautiful deck.