the spindoctor
New member
bought my 1st home in april, been lurking around here for a while gathering info and drooling at all the pics.
my house is 50yrs old and the garage was enclosed in the 70's so obviously that was a problem for a car/motorcycle guy like me. the 1st week i moved in i got my permit to make it back into a garage again and started tearing things up. it ended up being a lot more involved than i had expected, but at least now i'm finished enough to actually use it.
here's what i started out with- a big nasty room off of the living room and a big storage area off of the kitchen, separated by an interior wall, and full of junk from the previous owners.
what did i get myself into?
the kiddos double checking my work
i quickly found out that my house originally had two 8' doors with a 1' center post and that the two 2x12's supporting the roof over the doors weren't strong enough for a single 17' door like i wanted. so i got the joy of either replacing the header, or reinforcing it to be up to current code.
here comes the 14" LVL to the rescue.
i used six 1/2" x 5" lag bolts and also nailed it 3 places under each cripple stud to attach it to the existing header. to distribute the load across all 3 beams, i cut new 2x6 studs above and below. this made me have to frame in 6" on each side and use a standard 16x7 door.
passed my inspections, then found out that the horizontal door track would make you play limbo coming out of the kitchen (2 steps up), so i had to make it a slight high lift with a jackshaft opener.
i has a door.
went with a liftmaster 3800 and couldn't be happier with it. super quiet and easy to setup.
i just got done tearing down the old nasty carport and need to finish up the trim around the soffits and get some serious storage ideas because i'm quickly running out of room. it's 19x26, so it could be worse i guess! still up in the air on what to do with the floor, it had vinyl tile down underneath the subfloor, and that thin layer of adhesive is still there so i'm gonna have a lot of prep no matter what i do.
my house is 50yrs old and the garage was enclosed in the 70's so obviously that was a problem for a car/motorcycle guy like me. the 1st week i moved in i got my permit to make it back into a garage again and started tearing things up. it ended up being a lot more involved than i had expected, but at least now i'm finished enough to actually use it.
here's what i started out with- a big nasty room off of the living room and a big storage area off of the kitchen, separated by an interior wall, and full of junk from the previous owners.
what did i get myself into?
the kiddos double checking my work
i quickly found out that my house originally had two 8' doors with a 1' center post and that the two 2x12's supporting the roof over the doors weren't strong enough for a single 17' door like i wanted. so i got the joy of either replacing the header, or reinforcing it to be up to current code.
here comes the 14" LVL to the rescue.
i used six 1/2" x 5" lag bolts and also nailed it 3 places under each cripple stud to attach it to the existing header. to distribute the load across all 3 beams, i cut new 2x6 studs above and below. this made me have to frame in 6" on each side and use a standard 16x7 door.
passed my inspections, then found out that the horizontal door track would make you play limbo coming out of the kitchen (2 steps up), so i had to make it a slight high lift with a jackshaft opener.
i has a door.
went with a liftmaster 3800 and couldn't be happier with it. super quiet and easy to setup.
i just got done tearing down the old nasty carport and need to finish up the trim around the soffits and get some serious storage ideas because i'm quickly running out of room. it's 19x26, so it could be worse i guess! still up in the air on what to do with the floor, it had vinyl tile down underneath the subfloor, and that thin layer of adhesive is still there so i'm gonna have a lot of prep no matter what i do.