Hey All,
I finally wanted to share my build. I lurked on here for a while before joining when I got to the inside stage in December and wanted some ideas.
I had a 23'x23' at my old house but we decided to move last year to be closer to family with the pending arrival of our first born. A garage was on the list of priorities but when all was said and done we chose a place with no garage based on location; with intent to build. We added a "plus improvements" to the mortgage in order to do so. They ended up giving us half of what we asked for though so I tried to do as much myself as possible as opposed to building half the garage I wanted!
This was the existing storage they had. It was a shed with an open side that faced South about 18'x8' with 3 seperate bays. When we first moved this is where I threw a bunch of junk and garbage - I banged my head so many times on this... But I ended up re-using parts of it. I actually took a sawzall and cut the middle bay out. I moved one bay for lawn tractor storage and kept one near the house for garbage / recycling (and head banging) until the garage was up. The 2 bays are now re-united, just a little closer together than originally.
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We moved in May but I didn't get started on the build until late September. The aforementioned baby came in June, we had a trip to PEI in August and my work was moving to a building 3x bigger at the end of September. Plus I thought Fall would be a nice time of year to work... I'd say I was 50% right on that.
Found a guy to do the little excavating required on Sunday Sept 23 and I was off to the races. Got the forms up that day and got rebar and wire mesh ready during the evenings that week for the slab pour which happened on the 28th. View media item 28810View media item 28811View media item 28812
The work move went off with out a hitch and I got my materials delivered the next week so I could start building Thanksgiving weekend (first weekend in Oct here in Canada). Got 2 walls up on the Saturday and completed the other 2 on the holiday Monday. View media item 28813View media item 28814View media item 28815
Here's the garage in relation to the house - about 18 feet away
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The trusses came in time to go up the next weekend. Had help from my dad and a few friends for this - thankfully.
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My biggest delay on the whole project came on the roof. I decided to go with metal which added some cost and apparently a big delay. It was supposed to be there the same time as the trusses. I lost the rest of that weekend and the next. It turns out somehow the order had never gone through. Oh well. Of course the weekend it finally came had a forecast of rain. Luckily I still got one helper and even in the drizzle and near freezing temps I got the roof on.
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I ended up doing all of the soffit and fascia in the evenings - here's where working in the Fall wasn't what I'd expected. It was cold, dark and frosty out there. I typically worked for about 3 hours a night after 7:30 when the baby went down. I could hear the coyotes howling in the bush and I hoped they weren't waiting for me to topple from the top of the frosty ladder.
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The siding went fairly well. I installed the corners and starter strips on a Saturday and had my Dad's help on the Sunday. I ended up taking the Monday off work to complete it myself.
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I'll have to make the rest into a part 2... time is slipping away from me. To be completed soon!
I finally wanted to share my build. I lurked on here for a while before joining when I got to the inside stage in December and wanted some ideas.
I had a 23'x23' at my old house but we decided to move last year to be closer to family with the pending arrival of our first born. A garage was on the list of priorities but when all was said and done we chose a place with no garage based on location; with intent to build. We added a "plus improvements" to the mortgage in order to do so. They ended up giving us half of what we asked for though so I tried to do as much myself as possible as opposed to building half the garage I wanted!
This was the existing storage they had. It was a shed with an open side that faced South about 18'x8' with 3 seperate bays. When we first moved this is where I threw a bunch of junk and garbage - I banged my head so many times on this... But I ended up re-using parts of it. I actually took a sawzall and cut the middle bay out. I moved one bay for lawn tractor storage and kept one near the house for garbage / recycling (and head banging) until the garage was up. The 2 bays are now re-united, just a little closer together than originally.
View media item 28809
We moved in May but I didn't get started on the build until late September. The aforementioned baby came in June, we had a trip to PEI in August and my work was moving to a building 3x bigger at the end of September. Plus I thought Fall would be a nice time of year to work... I'd say I was 50% right on that.
Found a guy to do the little excavating required on Sunday Sept 23 and I was off to the races. Got the forms up that day and got rebar and wire mesh ready during the evenings that week for the slab pour which happened on the 28th. View media item 28810View media item 28811View media item 28812
The work move went off with out a hitch and I got my materials delivered the next week so I could start building Thanksgiving weekend (first weekend in Oct here in Canada). Got 2 walls up on the Saturday and completed the other 2 on the holiday Monday. View media item 28813View media item 28814View media item 28815
Here's the garage in relation to the house - about 18 feet away
View media item 28816
The trusses came in time to go up the next weekend. Had help from my dad and a few friends for this - thankfully.
View media item 28819
My biggest delay on the whole project came on the roof. I decided to go with metal which added some cost and apparently a big delay. It was supposed to be there the same time as the trusses. I lost the rest of that weekend and the next. It turns out somehow the order had never gone through. Oh well. Of course the weekend it finally came had a forecast of rain. Luckily I still got one helper and even in the drizzle and near freezing temps I got the roof on.
View media item 28826
I ended up doing all of the soffit and fascia in the evenings - here's where working in the Fall wasn't what I'd expected. It was cold, dark and frosty out there. I typically worked for about 3 hours a night after 7:30 when the baby went down. I could hear the coyotes howling in the bush and I hoped they weren't waiting for me to topple from the top of the frosty ladder.
View media item 28827
The siding went fairly well. I installed the corners and starter strips on a Saturday and had my Dad's help on the Sunday. I ended up taking the Monday off work to complete it myself.
View media item 28831
I'll have to make the rest into a part 2... time is slipping away from me. To be completed soon!
