CMG
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Hello all. New to forum. As all others here it’s all about the garage. Looking for great advice as to move forward on having a nice,comfortable,inviting garage. Thanks
Hello from rochester ny
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driftpin
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The city, or a suburb? What are you planning to do in your garage or what are you now doing? What improvements are you making?
I have a friend in Churchville, who lives on > 50 acres, so plenty of isolation from neighbors. He's retired, he owned a motorcycle dealership in Rochester for many years.
Here are pics of what he does, or has-done.
A Supra, he has two of these.
A KZ1000 shaft-drive he restored, not-stock.
A BSA Hornet, in his family from new, raced flat-track by one of his brothers, sold, bought back decades later, a resto-mod he did.
My friend flat-tracking in his younger years. The family has 5 brothers, all involved in motorcycles, their family owned multiple dealerships or bike shops, going-back-to the 1950's. They are well-known locally, especially among the older racing enthusiasts.
Another resto-mod, a KZ900, really-pretty, and it goes well, too, those wheels are wide aluminum rims, allowing use of modern tires.
I have a friend in Churchville, who lives on > 50 acres, so plenty of isolation from neighbors. He's retired, he owned a motorcycle dealership in Rochester for many years.
Here are pics of what he does, or has-done.
A Supra, he has two of these.
A KZ1000 shaft-drive he restored, not-stock.
A BSA Hornet, in his family from new, raced flat-track by one of his brothers, sold, bought back decades later, a resto-mod he did.
My friend flat-tracking in his younger years. The family has 5 brothers, all involved in motorcycles, their family owned multiple dealerships or bike shops, going-back-to the 1950's. They are well-known locally, especially among the older racing enthusiasts.
Another resto-mod, a KZ900, really-pretty, and it goes well, too, those wheels are wide aluminum rims, allowing use of modern tires.
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Hey driftpin. I actually live 20 miles from the city line. Sodus is the town I’m in. I just put Rochester as a general location. I bought the house last December. Was a complete gutout from wall to wall each way. What a mess. House is finally finished for wife and kids. Now to what daddy wants. His attached garage into some what of hangout/ workshop. What I’m doing now is trying to figure out how to insulate and finish off garage with a small budget as house took all of my savings to renovate. It’s a 24x24 attached garage. I want to see if I could just insulate to ceiling 2x6 cross members and install 7/16 Osb without having to do rafters up to peak of garage. I have NO ventilation now. I am not looking to store anything above ceiling so that space means nothing to me. What are your thoughts?. I know where churchville is. I am a volunteer fireman and use churchville fire equipment a lot. Some what familiar with the area. My brother in law is in the iron horse man motorcycle club and also knows many bike dealers and riders. Though he has never raced a motorcycle he sure sometimes thinks he is a racer.
driftpin
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Congratulations on doing 'first things, first.' It sounds like your priorities are where they should-be.
Now to the garage. While the walls will benefit from the insulation, I believe your comfort level in there during Jan/Feb will be much-better if you also insulate between the rafters. Going to the ceiling joists is OK if that's what you can afford now, but I definitely would be looking to do the roof insulation as-well. I suspect you have an open framing above 8 ft, w/trusses or rafters above that point, and now, no drywall on the bottom chords of your trusses?
As a volunteer f.f., you should invest in the installation of 5/8" type-X drywall, from a fire-resistant design standpoint, and maybe double thickness on the common wall to your dwelling, floor to ceiling/roof. The NFPA has all-sorts of info on fires in garages spreading to the living space, and smoldering fires' output of toxic gases causing mortality in adjoining spaces due-to migration through insufficiently-sealed wall penetrations without appropriate fire-resistant/smoke-resistant materials and installation methods.
Whoever does the life-safety plans review where you are, should be able to point you to the typical wall and ceiling cross-sections in the NFPA docs. You should look at those and follow the examples in your renovation work. The structural plans examiner should likewise be very-familiar with these.
Disclosure: I am a retired f.f/paramedic, plans examiner, fire service instructor, firesafety inspector, certs current. I grew-up on the other side of Rochester/Monroe Co. but left the snow belt for a sub-tropical environment as a young adult. I have never-regretted it.
Now to the garage. While the walls will benefit from the insulation, I believe your comfort level in there during Jan/Feb will be much-better if you also insulate between the rafters. Going to the ceiling joists is OK if that's what you can afford now, but I definitely would be looking to do the roof insulation as-well. I suspect you have an open framing above 8 ft, w/trusses or rafters above that point, and now, no drywall on the bottom chords of your trusses?
As a volunteer f.f., you should invest in the installation of 5/8" type-X drywall, from a fire-resistant design standpoint, and maybe double thickness on the common wall to your dwelling, floor to ceiling/roof. The NFPA has all-sorts of info on fires in garages spreading to the living space, and smoldering fires' output of toxic gases causing mortality in adjoining spaces due-to migration through insufficiently-sealed wall penetrations without appropriate fire-resistant/smoke-resistant materials and installation methods.
Whoever does the life-safety plans review where you are, should be able to point you to the typical wall and ceiling cross-sections in the NFPA docs. You should look at those and follow the examples in your renovation work. The structural plans examiner should likewise be very-familiar with these.
Disclosure: I am a retired f.f/paramedic, plans examiner, fire service instructor, firesafety inspector, certs current. I grew-up on the other side of Rochester/Monroe Co. but left the snow belt for a sub-tropical environment as a young adult. I have never-regretted it.
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MikeF2316
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Hello and welcome from across the lake!