Well after many months of planning my new garage will be up by the weekend. I contracted someone to pour the pad and driveway about a month ago. Today the custom trusses arrived. I hired a specialty garage builder to frame, shingle and side. They only take a day and a half! I guess you get good at it when you've been building garages for 20+ years and build 50/year.
The garage is just a good sized double at 26 wide x 24 deep x 9 ' walls. It's as big as I could go on the lot. It's 2x6 construction. I've got a mixed truss set I special ordered. I have the back 18 feet of the garage with a tray ceiling type truss that gives me 11' for the middle 18' and 4' ceiling on the sides. This should provide enough room for a 4 post lift (barely). I was really trying to keep the overall wall height to a minimum as the garage is only 30 feet from the house and I don't want to look at a towering wall for the next 25 years. The front 6' of trusses, over the overhead door, has attic trusses so I can put some shelving and my compressor up there. It's a touch goofy and I hope it works out okay. I might have to do some framing myself where the trusses change over to get reasonable access. I think pictures will be required to show what I've done.
I went with 16x8 R16 doors, R40 ceiling, R20 walls, 45000btu Modine Hot Dawg heater, all gas and electrical, drywall and taping to be done by myself. Fortunately I found shingles and siding to match the 50 year old house. I reshingled last year so matching was easy. I had to change all of the power, phone and cable lines from overhead to underground service which involves putting masts on the garage and trenching to the house. What a PITA.
I don't have many pics but here are the first few. The pad is very high because the yard is low as compared to the alley. I'll have to bring the hard elevation up a bit when I redo it next year after destroying it this year. I had to have the gas line redone as it goes under the garage. Numerous trees were also cut down but they were just spruce and lilacs so no big deal.
The 2 year old cedar fence also had to be taken down
The garage is just a good sized double at 26 wide x 24 deep x 9 ' walls. It's as big as I could go on the lot. It's 2x6 construction. I've got a mixed truss set I special ordered. I have the back 18 feet of the garage with a tray ceiling type truss that gives me 11' for the middle 18' and 4' ceiling on the sides. This should provide enough room for a 4 post lift (barely). I was really trying to keep the overall wall height to a minimum as the garage is only 30 feet from the house and I don't want to look at a towering wall for the next 25 years. The front 6' of trusses, over the overhead door, has attic trusses so I can put some shelving and my compressor up there. It's a touch goofy and I hope it works out okay. I might have to do some framing myself where the trusses change over to get reasonable access. I think pictures will be required to show what I've done.
I went with 16x8 R16 doors, R40 ceiling, R20 walls, 45000btu Modine Hot Dawg heater, all gas and electrical, drywall and taping to be done by myself. Fortunately I found shingles and siding to match the 50 year old house. I reshingled last year so matching was easy. I had to change all of the power, phone and cable lines from overhead to underground service which involves putting masts on the garage and trenching to the house. What a PITA.
I don't have many pics but here are the first few. The pad is very high because the yard is low as compared to the alley. I'll have to bring the hard elevation up a bit when I redo it next year after destroying it this year. I had to have the gas line redone as it goes under the garage. Numerous trees were also cut down but they were just spruce and lilacs so no big deal.
The 2 year old cedar fence also had to be taken down
