w33b8t1
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Hi, I just joined up on this forum after lurking for some time. Mostly I was lurking about different building methods and interior finishes. I like the organization threads as well.
Anyway, after many years of wanting, my wife and I have decided to build a garage in our back yard.
There isn't a whole lot of room where we wanted it to go so I was limited to an 18'x30' with a 14'x18' "L" off the side. The "L" will mostly be for my wife as a craft room less a 4' chunk of it or so. The walls are 10' tall.
Pad is 5" thick. I also did a tighter rebar grid where a two post may go sometime, but who knows.
We are going to go with OSB on the inside and paint it. If that doesn't turn out then maybe like a wainscoting and some thin drywall, but this is actually a shop. No real plans for the floor. My father keeps telling me to epoxy or at least seal it. I just don't see the benefit though.?.
Our attached garage will now be the clean, tool less, hang out. We will take down the shelving and put in a couple old couches, a kegerator, and and a nice TV. That way we can hang outside/inside at the same time. It will double as a 'who gives a ****' type playroom where the kids can destroy at will (to an extent).
We hit a few snags I didn't think of.
-one cannot run THHN exposed inside and one can not run service cable in a conduit outside (at least the types that are readily available here. So I had to run THHN in the buried conduit and then put a JB in the craw space to switch cables and make it to the main panel. It was the only way I could think of doing it. Of course the inspector didn't care and didn't even ask to look so it was probably time wasted, but at least it's legal.
-The framer framed the doors about an inch short. That was aggravating. I had to cut an inch out of the headers, but they are 5.5" insulated headers so it is still fine. Plus it's only an 18' span truss system.
- I bought 1" conduit for TV and CAT5. Thought I could get three of each through that size. HA, two of each without ripping it in half.
- Windows. I cannot believe I was only going to put in two. We ended up with 9 in the end. Glad we made that change.
Anyway, we are nearing the end and I thought I would just share what we have.
Getting the ground flat.
Another shot.
Foundation done and framing started.
More Framing.
More of the framing. The whole back yard is a work in progress. We have landscaping going on, an outdoor kitchen with a courtyard wall started, a little play area with my old rock crawler cage as a jungle gym
Jungle Gym owner showing off our "second house".
Oh and I am building my wife a goldfish pond too. My back hurts.
Basically up to date at this point. Outside is done less soffit and fascia. The stand there will now become my outside welding table. I am going to bolt a 4'x4' plate to it. It used to be my tubing bender stand, but the garage is in the way. I thought about putting a little doggy door in the wall of the garage and running it into a 6" or so PVC pipe so I could still use the bender there, but it may have looked a bit goofy.
More
More.
Last one for now. Kitchen wall got stuccoed too.
Anyway, after many years of wanting, my wife and I have decided to build a garage in our back yard.
There isn't a whole lot of room where we wanted it to go so I was limited to an 18'x30' with a 14'x18' "L" off the side. The "L" will mostly be for my wife as a craft room less a 4' chunk of it or so. The walls are 10' tall.
Pad is 5" thick. I also did a tighter rebar grid where a two post may go sometime, but who knows.
We are going to go with OSB on the inside and paint it. If that doesn't turn out then maybe like a wainscoting and some thin drywall, but this is actually a shop. No real plans for the floor. My father keeps telling me to epoxy or at least seal it. I just don't see the benefit though.?.
Our attached garage will now be the clean, tool less, hang out. We will take down the shelving and put in a couple old couches, a kegerator, and and a nice TV. That way we can hang outside/inside at the same time. It will double as a 'who gives a ****' type playroom where the kids can destroy at will (to an extent).
We hit a few snags I didn't think of.
-one cannot run THHN exposed inside and one can not run service cable in a conduit outside (at least the types that are readily available here. So I had to run THHN in the buried conduit and then put a JB in the craw space to switch cables and make it to the main panel. It was the only way I could think of doing it. Of course the inspector didn't care and didn't even ask to look so it was probably time wasted, but at least it's legal.
-The framer framed the doors about an inch short. That was aggravating. I had to cut an inch out of the headers, but they are 5.5" insulated headers so it is still fine. Plus it's only an 18' span truss system.
- I bought 1" conduit for TV and CAT5. Thought I could get three of each through that size. HA, two of each without ripping it in half.
- Windows. I cannot believe I was only going to put in two. We ended up with 9 in the end. Glad we made that change.
Anyway, we are nearing the end and I thought I would just share what we have.
Getting the ground flat.
Another shot.
Foundation done and framing started.
More Framing.
More of the framing. The whole back yard is a work in progress. We have landscaping going on, an outdoor kitchen with a courtyard wall started, a little play area with my old rock crawler cage as a jungle gym
Jungle Gym owner showing off our "second house".
Oh and I am building my wife a goldfish pond too. My back hurts.
Basically up to date at this point. Outside is done less soffit and fascia. The stand there will now become my outside welding table. I am going to bolt a 4'x4' plate to it. It used to be my tubing bender stand, but the garage is in the way. I thought about putting a little doggy door in the wall of the garage and running it into a 6" or so PVC pipe so I could still use the bender there, but it may have looked a bit goofy.
More
More.
Last one for now. Kitchen wall got stuccoed too.
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