My 720 sqft garage.

[Harv]

I have been garageless since we moved to a new house. Well, today the block was put down on the footer and tomorrow the 720sqft. garage goes up. It will be constructed with SIP's (structural insulated pannals) and have a heated slab.

John

Here's what came with the house. It just wouldn't do.

Tore it down.

My friend Jeff changing fouled spark plugs on his 750 at Christmas.

Forgot to take pictures of the 40 inch deep footer being dug. but here it is being filled.

Joe knows all.

Block is down!!!!!

John

 

[HAMAR]

Beautiful BMW-girl and a nice garage

 

[cm2677]

Hi, did you put up the SIP's yourself or did you have someone else put them up?

 

[Quiksilver]

Looking good. Try to tell me everything you can about the SIPs, they seem very appealing to me.

 

[Harv]

Thanks for all the nice comments. Anna wants Daddy to finish his 2002 in comfort!

The sips were put up by the guys that I hired to build/help build my garage. I had asked a lot of contractors about sips and no one wanted to touch it. These guys are local builders/craftsmen and had built a few houses out of the stuff.

I did business with S.I.S ( http://www.sishomes.com/ )and was satisfied with their performance. It's not cheep but their price includes the plans that you will need to get permits and quotes. My garage is custom sized to fit the extent of my variance (720 sqft) and they were easy to deal with and revisions were no problem at all. Funny that my salesman was in LA California, SIS is located in Boca Raton FL, and the SIPS came from Fisher SIPS in Kentucky. Everything else like the trusses and hardware came from a local lumber and building supply house. They were contracted by SIS.

So far so good. Walls like this with thermal splines have a working R value of 38.

John

 

[Fins/413]

I like those walls they will certainly keep out the cold Ohio winter. Your little girl looks like she is a pistol.

 

[Richard Givan]

I thought your original garage looked pretty nice, but I guess you can really use the additional space, not to mention the insulation and design to keep you warm in those winter months. Keep us posted on developments as the weather breaks.

 

[Harv]

I thought your original garage looked pretty nice, but I guess you can really use the additional space,

I liked the look of it but it was so small and had holes in it where it met the footer. Floor was lumpy thin cement. This will be a lot better.

John

 

[Harv]

Here we go with some progress.

John

Then the vapor barrier and foam.

 

[autoist]

My entire house is made out of those panels...its a styrofoam cooler year round! Nice in any time of the year.

 

[Fueler]

I was wondering how the wall panels are fastened to the base and what ties them together horizontally?

 

[twinturbosupra123]

nice cant wait to see what it will look like when you are finished with it

 

[Frank Elson]

I was wondering how the wall panels are fastened to the base and what ties them together horizontally?

+1 here.
also, what weatherproofs it? Do you paint it in the end ?
I also have to find out if this stuff is available here in the UK. I like the look of it.

 

[autoist]

Don't know how he did his garage but my house is a timber frame using 6x6's & the panels are then nailed to the outside of them...where 2 panels go together with no interior 6x6, we glued 2x4's into the panels and nailed them together...we also used a liquid sealer between panels & then wrapped the entire house before siding.

 

[Harv]

Each panel has a recessed edge. You can see it in some of the early pictures. Each panel sits on a 2X6 plate that's on top of the sill plate. The edges are nailed to the plate through the edges of the panel. You can join them with 4X4 wood studs but I opted for the thermal spline which is 4X4 and constructed just like the panel but of course smaller to fit inside the edges. They are glued and nailed together. There are in effect, no studs.

John

Panels

Thermal splines

You can see the spline in a panel here

 

[Frank Elson]

help a foreigner out here, is "siding" some sort of timber-batten covering ?

 

[Harv]

Ok.

Some progress has been made.

Remember this picture with the question "How am I gonna get that air compressor up there?"

Well, this is how I did it.
That's a winch bolted to the top of my compressor between the motor and compressor.

Anna running around in the back yard while I was doing this.

The sofets are done and most of the trim is done too.

Man door is in too.

Still trying to decide on what material to use for siding. Hardi Plank?


John

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

help a foreigner out here, is "siding" some sort of timber-batten covering ?

The outside coverings (brick, vinyl, hardi-plank, clap board, cedar, etc...)

 

[toadjammer]

What are the approximate 1" square channels in the panels for?

 

[Stuart in MN]

Very nice! How are you going to insulate the roof? My neighbor built a garage with SIPs a couple years ago and they used the SIP panels for the roof structure as well.

 

[Harv]

The 1 inch channels your looking at are "chases" for electric wire.

I thought about using SIP's for the roof, but the cost for that was out of my budget. As it is. The roof trusses are a raised heal type and will have at least R19 insulation and I may end up blowing more in there in the future.

No comments on the air compressor install?

John

 

[T4Turtle]

Great thinking on using the winch this way!

I will now be installing my air compressor in the storage space of my garage because of this post, thank you!

 

[clean]

I am interested in how this finished up... ???


Sorry for the bump. Was seeing peoples SIP builds.

 

[E30bimmer]

How did you relocate the controls for the compressor now that it's up there?

 

[danehoy]

So many things I like about your garage. Truly a functional place to work. I do have one complaint though--I think with such a great deal of work in making it a place you can spend so much time, adding windows for natural light would have made your garage far more enjoyable to work in when you want the door down. Another thing I would have considered is to make the roof go the same direction as your house. You have a beautiful home, and the garage is positioned well to look like a natural extension, but where as the roof of the house goes in an east-west direction, the garage goes in a north-south direction.

I think one idea that you may like for your daughter is to plant some raspberry trees where the run-off from the rain hits your garden. I have had success in Ohio with that before. It helps with protecting the ground underneath that tends to get eroded, and they do very well with the slow, constant supply of water.

Great looking garage and an inspiration to me! Thanks for the pictures!