wazzza
Well-known member
Hi everyone
I have been registered here for a long time, but never really written much. I have gone through many of the buildthreads here and gathering inspiration for my garagebuild. I am 26 years old, living in northern Norway. English is not my first language, but I will try the best I can.
I have always wanted my own garage, but since I lived in an apartment earlier there was no room to build a garage. Finally, last fall I bought a house with a descent sized property, at least what we think is descent
. The house is old and out of date interiorwise, but well maintained from the previous owners. That means I dont have to do much repairs on the house, so I can spend my time and money on a nice garage/workshop.
I sent the build-application and started planning ang gathered offers from different builders this winter.. Regulations says that I can build up to 70 sq/meters ~ 750 Sq/feet without involving a contractor. The application is also very simplified if you keep it below that limit. The good thing is that I can send a new application next year and extend the garage with another 70 sq/meters With that in mind I wanted a wide garage and sacrifise depth at this stage. Its easier and cheaper to extend the garage lenghtwise rather the widen it.
After talking to a local garage and home-builder I ended up with 7,2 m X 9,5 m = 68,5 sq/m (23,6 ft X 31,1 ft) with 3,4 meters height. I have already done all the work on foundations and are currently waiting for the garage to be delivered. The builder sells pre-cut garages were everything is cut, marked, and ready to be installed, but they wanted very little money to prebuild the walls compared to what this will cost in total. The prebuilt walls and trusses will be delivered with a crane-semitruck in less then a week.
These first posts will basically be a summary of the project so far. Feel free to ask and comment.
When I bought the house
The plan
Started digging
I bought a long pipe to use under my road for drainage.
The entire build so far has been done by me with the help of good friends. I rented a 2,7 ton excevator and wheel loader to do all the digging and removal of dirt. Luckily I have (had) a slope next to the house were I could dump all the dirt and make a lawn there later. The garage is actually only a small part of this project. Since I hade to get concrete-trucks and the semitruck up to the footings I had to improve the road up to my house. I dug out and widen the road by 2 meters all the way and greatly enlarged the parkingarea. In total I estimate that we dug out and removed almsot 300 cubicmeters of dirt.
Rental-equipment at work.
We had a small accident with the wheel loader. One of my friends forgot the lower the bucket and hit a hole when he was turning so the loader fell on its side.. Luckilly he was not hurt as he could get his foot crushed by the loader. I work part time as a towtruckdriver and many of my friends at the site are members of the local offroadclub so we had plenty of winches available. It took 10 minutes from the accident until it was back on its wheels. Here is a video from my dashcam.
My neighbour a contractor and is currently working on a jobsite only a few hundered metres from my house so he had ordered a large shipment of gravel (8-22 mm diameter sand/rock) and another mixture of crushed rocks (0-120 mm diameter sand/rocks) for his project. I made a deal with him so he delivered 50 loads of 0-120 up to my house using his Volvo L90 loader. I have
not received the bill yet, but it would cost a fortune to get this delivered by truck because the roads here have strict weight-limits. 0-120 is ideal for constructing roads and it gives a strong foundation for my garage. I have laid drainagepipes along my entire driveway and around the footings. There is also a pipe going from the footings and downwards to drain around the fottings.
Drainage
After delivering back the loader and excevator I finally received some parts for my friends excevator so I could repair it and use it while he was at sea. I rented this 500 kg heavy vibrating machine wich I have no idea what you call in english. It vibrates and compacts the ground.
My friends excevator
The foundations has a 5 cm drop towards the front to keep water from staying inside the garage. I have insulated and laid plastic on the ground before I framed up for the concrete. I have laid 3 rounds of rebar. The concrete is reinforced with steel fibres from the factory so I dont need rebar-nets.
It took two trucks to deliver all the concrete while two friends and I did the work. I rented a "helicopter" to smoothen the concrete. I have never done any kind of concrete work before, but I am very pleased with the result. The helicopter made a huge difference in the finish.
Right before I went offshore myself I got the lower concrete walls finished and leveled out the top. Finnaly the footings are ready for the wooden structure.
I have been registered here for a long time, but never really written much. I have gone through many of the buildthreads here and gathering inspiration for my garagebuild. I am 26 years old, living in northern Norway. English is not my first language, but I will try the best I can.
I have always wanted my own garage, but since I lived in an apartment earlier there was no room to build a garage. Finally, last fall I bought a house with a descent sized property, at least what we think is descent
. The house is old and out of date interiorwise, but well maintained from the previous owners. That means I dont have to do much repairs on the house, so I can spend my time and money on a nice garage/workshop. I sent the build-application and started planning ang gathered offers from different builders this winter.. Regulations says that I can build up to 70 sq/meters ~ 750 Sq/feet without involving a contractor. The application is also very simplified if you keep it below that limit. The good thing is that I can send a new application next year and extend the garage with another 70 sq/meters
With that in mind I wanted a wide garage and sacrifise depth at this stage. Its easier and cheaper to extend the garage lenghtwise rather the widen it. After talking to a local garage and home-builder I ended up with 7,2 m X 9,5 m = 68,5 sq/m (23,6 ft X 31,1 ft) with 3,4 meters height. I have already done all the work on foundations and are currently waiting for the garage to be delivered. The builder sells pre-cut garages were everything is cut, marked, and ready to be installed, but they wanted very little money to prebuild the walls compared to what this will cost in total. The prebuilt walls and trusses will be delivered with a crane-semitruck in less then a week.
These first posts will basically be a summary of the project so far. Feel free to ask and comment.
When I bought the house
The plan
Started digging
I bought a long pipe to use under my road for drainage.
The entire build so far has been done by me with the help of good friends. I rented a 2,7 ton excevator and wheel loader to do all the digging and removal of dirt. Luckily I have (had) a slope next to the house were I could dump all the dirt and make a lawn there later. The garage is actually only a small part of this project. Since I hade to get concrete-trucks and the semitruck up to the footings I had to improve the road up to my house. I dug out and widen the road by 2 meters all the way and greatly enlarged the parkingarea. In total I estimate that we dug out and removed almsot 300 cubicmeters of dirt.
Rental-equipment at work.
We had a small accident with the wheel loader. One of my friends forgot the lower the bucket and hit a hole when he was turning so the loader fell on its side.. Luckilly he was not hurt as he could get his foot crushed by the loader. I work part time as a towtruckdriver and many of my friends at the site are members of the local offroadclub so we had plenty of winches available. It took 10 minutes from the accident until it was back on its wheels. Here is a video from my dashcam.
My neighbour a contractor and is currently working on a jobsite only a few hundered metres from my house so he had ordered a large shipment of gravel (8-22 mm diameter sand/rock) and another mixture of crushed rocks (0-120 mm diameter sand/rocks) for his project. I made a deal with him so he delivered 50 loads of 0-120 up to my house using his Volvo L90 loader. I have
not received the bill yet, but it would cost a fortune to get this delivered by truck because the roads here have strict weight-limits. 0-120 is ideal for constructing roads and it gives a strong foundation for my garage. I have laid drainagepipes along my entire driveway and around the footings. There is also a pipe going from the footings and downwards to drain around the fottings.
Drainage
After delivering back the loader and excevator I finally received some parts for my friends excevator so I could repair it and use it while he was at sea. I rented this 500 kg heavy vibrating machine wich I have no idea what you call in english. It vibrates and compacts the ground.
My friends excevator
The foundations has a 5 cm drop towards the front to keep water from staying inside the garage. I have insulated and laid plastic on the ground before I framed up for the concrete. I have laid 3 rounds of rebar. The concrete is reinforced with steel fibres from the factory so I dont need rebar-nets.
It took two trucks to deliver all the concrete while two friends and I did the work. I rented a "helicopter" to smoothen the concrete. I have never done any kind of concrete work before, but I am very pleased with the result. The helicopter made a huge difference in the finish.
Right before I went offshore myself I got the lower concrete walls finished and leveled out the top. Finnaly the footings are ready for the wooden structure.
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I'm following.
Hopefully you will have things straightened out and buttoned up before you go back out on the Rig.
