While I finalize the plans for my new 36x72 garage/shop, I needed to tackle the smaller 17x22 unit next to the house. It has some rather odd design and construction decisions, poor condition, and was actually leaning against the tree on the left side. The concrete is in good condition so building a new one on that pad will be pretty straight forward. The sizing is a bit odd at 17x22, but am thinking to just put one 9x7 door and one man door on the front and leave it at that. Planning to finish the interior since this one will be the "clean room" for parking the wife's daily driver. Also planning to run two courses of block around the perimeter of the pad and set the walls on that. Nearly all of the wood was starting to rot at the bottom so getting the walls away from the ground would be a plus.
Here it is before:
Minus the skins... note the power pole on the right hand side. That gets significant in a minute...
Turns out the power pole is rotted at the base and was leaning on the garage not just because it wasn't straight in the hole as we thought but the pole is broken just below the surface and the garage was actually supporting it. We expected the garage to simply pull away from the pole but got a tad worried when it kept following the garage to the ground. Had to stop and strap it to a couple trees...
As expected the power company won't fix it since they don't consider that pole part of their responsibility. That is actually good news since I really didn't like having that pole there and now I can put that breaker box inside the new building and just hang the meter on the wall and get rid of that pole altogether.
Always seems to be something to add drama to a project!
Here it is before:
Minus the skins... note the power pole on the right hand side. That gets significant in a minute...
Turns out the power pole is rotted at the base and was leaning on the garage not just because it wasn't straight in the hole as we thought but the pole is broken just below the surface and the garage was actually supporting it. We expected the garage to simply pull away from the pole but got a tad worried when it kept following the garage to the ground. Had to stop and strap it to a couple trees...
As expected the power company won't fix it since they don't consider that pole part of their responsibility. That is actually good news since I really didn't like having that pole there and now I can put that breaker box inside the new building and just hang the meter on the wall and get rid of that pole altogether.
Always seems to be something to add drama to a project!