Building A 16x26 garage

[clulow30]

Hello my name is Derek.Me and my wife bought this house 5 years ago, when we were looking at buying, the house had to have a garage that was useable or a house that didn't have a garage at all so we could build one the way we wanted... we ended up building a garage.


when we bought the house it came with a play large playhouse so we needed to remove that to make way for the garage.

 

[clulow30]

The fence needs to come out so we the driveway can extend all the way through.

after the fence was out of the way we could arrange for the digging to begin.

 

[Bib Overalls]

A 16' x 26' garage is a good size to start with. It will easily handle one vehicle and leave you some room to work on projects.

Looks like you have a good patch of lawn to build on. Room for future expansion if your hobbies grow.

Good luck and keep the pictures coming. We like pictures.

 

[clulow30]

the footings are formed and cement is poured...

 

[clulow30]

After the footings were in place we were able to assemble the 4 foot walls. we placed the steel 2 foot wide by 4 foot tall walls in place and got ready for concrete.

 

[captain14]

Looking good so far. So you post your location under you avatar so others maybe able to help you out with a regional problem or issue.

Good luck. Remember pictures, lot of them.

Thanks.

 

[clulow30]

We poured our walls and took off the forms, we started to build the walls

 

[clulow30]

the town that we live in only permits such a size of garage depending on our lot, the building is a 16x26 building with a max height of 4.5m. We ended up going with 9.5 foot interior walls. we did scissor rafters to give us some added headroom. the garage door is a 12x8. we have a man door with 2 windows.

 

[clulow30]

we finished sheathing the building and got it all wrapped then installed two windows. we will pour the floor then add the door.

 

[clulow30]

so we installed the floor we had a 5 inch pour and we used 6x6 rebar and we also put down a layer of poly under the floor to keep the moisture out of the shop on those humid days. its been a while and I keep forgetting to take pictures as we move along. we installed the door, its a fiberglass door. we are trimming the building out in white so instead of having 8 inches of concrete showing on the bottom we are going to wrap 2x8 with white aluminum to give it a nice clean look. the roof shingles went on we are using 3 tab architect shingles. (shakes)

 

[clulow30]

so it has been about 3 weeks and we have gone from this to that.

 

[levimorris85]

That will be a nice place for sure. Keep up the good work.

 

[clulow30]

well its been a busy week but we have had a chance to finish the roof and getting the soffit, facia and get all of the base aluminum capped. next week the siding arrives and we can start that then we will wait for the garage door arrival.


coming up.. we will be digging a 60 foot trench from the garage to the house to run electrical and gas lines. here is a sneak peak of the tube heater that ive purchased. its from infrasave which is made by schwank, its a 40,000 btu model its a 20 foot tube but it is compacted in a 10 foot unit. (u turn model)

 

[1/2 Cup]

Looking great.

 

[matt_i]

Curious on the siding brake, did you rent it or buy your own, borrow, etc.? Just curious as I will need one in the future for a couple of days.

 

[clulow30]

we rented the brake from home depot its a 10 foot model. it was the same cost for 2 days or for the week, we got it for the week. for some spots I wish it was a 14footer but all in all it worked great

 

[jon72vega]

Very nice garage!
Yours is almost the same size as the one I had built last year.

 

[clulow30]

Thanks Jon yess.. I did enjoy reading your build.. too bad I don't have a spare hood for my F100 to put up

 

[captain14]

Looking good. Very nice progress Are you building it yourself ?

Hard to tell on my phone but is that a 2 by on the bottom that was wrapped with aluminum?

 

[clulow30]

Hello for the bottom we wrapped a 2x8 in aluminum, it just finished it off instead of seeing the 8" of exposed concrete wall, we will then install the J channel and install trim

door 2x4
garage door 2x6
base 2x8

 

[captain14]

I like the 2 by material as trim. I never would have thought of that.

What color will the siding be?

 

[clulow30]

hi, for the siding we are using 4" clap board and in the top of the peak we will be installing some vinly shakes that we had left over from when we did our house in the spring. we are using gentek siding and foundry shakes, the colour is darkdrift

 

[Brunow]

nice!

 

[clulow30]

hello, its been quite awhile and a lot has been done. we started by ripping up the old driveway. we then started to finish the siding. and hang the exterior lights.

 

[clulow30]

Hello, so we got the garage door installed, and we installed a side mount door opener by lift master. I really like the way that the door turned out.

 

[captain14]

Glad to see your update on the garage. What are your interior plans?

 

[hobbs4002]

Wow this looks great! love to see how you use the 16x26... I've been looking to build something similar for my small backyard....

 

[Ziggs280]

Derek,

Great looking garage and great size!