Mrmanface3
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Hi my name is Marcel. First time posting, but I've been looking around the forum for a while now.
I guess to begin with I'll give a little back story.
A little less than three years ago my parents decided to move. My brother Pascal and I were pretty exited because this new house had a two car garage. The original setup was that our parents would take one space and we would get the other. We made a work bench and built shelves on the back wall to store the buckets of parts and tools that we had. Everything was put away neatly and for the first six months it looked like this setup would work great.
However, once we started building our race car things went downhill. We quickly took over the whole garage and thankfully we have really great parents who have allowed us to keep using both spaces. Our biggest problem has been that every time we work on something the garage becomes a huge mess. The kind of mess that takes a whole weekend to clean up. Since we started using both spaces we've spent a weekend almost every month cleaning the garage.
Finally this summer we decided that things had to change. Thinking that having more space would help us keep the garage clean, we made plans to build a shed. Our parents liked the idea a lot and only had two requirements. The outside of the shed had to look nice and the inside had to be set up so that it would stay neat. We ended making it 8'x12' since that is the largest size we could have without getting any permits.
Heres the area we chose to build on.
After pouring the footings and letting them cure for a few days we put together the floor.
Next we put together the walls. Had a little difficulty getting them all square but after some pushing and pulling they were fine.
The next weekend we put up the rafters and joists. Everything went nice and smooth, which was good.
Once the frame was complete we started putting up the siding and roofing. We decided to use a grey metal roofing. For siding we used T1-11 for three of the walls. To make the front look a little nicer we used tongue and groove boards.
Next we put in a window and made the ramp.
Once the ramp was done we made the door and mounted it. The hinges we used were given to use by an old neighbor and are from the 1700s. Made it a little harder to mount them but they ended up looking nice.
The decorative looking piece in the middle of the door is actually what operates the latch. It is connected to a rod that goes through the door and operates the mechanism which is shown below. Turn it one way and it slides the rod through the three 2x4s that make up the door frame. Turn it the other way and it comes out.
I don't have any pictures of the inside yet but as soon as I get it all cleaned up I'll post a couple. Here is a picture of it after our first snow fall.
Now it is time to start on the garage. We haven't really done anything yet but here is what we are starting with.
I guess to begin with I'll give a little back story.
A little less than three years ago my parents decided to move. My brother Pascal and I were pretty exited because this new house had a two car garage. The original setup was that our parents would take one space and we would get the other. We made a work bench and built shelves on the back wall to store the buckets of parts and tools that we had. Everything was put away neatly and for the first six months it looked like this setup would work great.
However, once we started building our race car things went downhill. We quickly took over the whole garage and thankfully we have really great parents who have allowed us to keep using both spaces. Our biggest problem has been that every time we work on something the garage becomes a huge mess. The kind of mess that takes a whole weekend to clean up. Since we started using both spaces we've spent a weekend almost every month cleaning the garage.
Finally this summer we decided that things had to change. Thinking that having more space would help us keep the garage clean, we made plans to build a shed. Our parents liked the idea a lot and only had two requirements. The outside of the shed had to look nice and the inside had to be set up so that it would stay neat. We ended making it 8'x12' since that is the largest size we could have without getting any permits.
Heres the area we chose to build on.
After pouring the footings and letting them cure for a few days we put together the floor.
Next we put together the walls. Had a little difficulty getting them all square but after some pushing and pulling they were fine.
The next weekend we put up the rafters and joists. Everything went nice and smooth, which was good.
Once the frame was complete we started putting up the siding and roofing. We decided to use a grey metal roofing. For siding we used T1-11 for three of the walls. To make the front look a little nicer we used tongue and groove boards.
Next we put in a window and made the ramp.
Once the ramp was done we made the door and mounted it. The hinges we used were given to use by an old neighbor and are from the 1700s. Made it a little harder to mount them but they ended up looking nice.
The decorative looking piece in the middle of the door is actually what operates the latch. It is connected to a rod that goes through the door and operates the mechanism which is shown below. Turn it one way and it slides the rod through the three 2x4s that make up the door frame. Turn it the other way and it comes out.
I don't have any pictures of the inside yet but as soon as I get it all cleaned up I'll post a couple. Here is a picture of it after our first snow fall.
Now it is time to start on the garage. We haven't really done anything yet but here is what we are starting with.
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