Hello all. Just wanted to start out by saying, wow, what an excellent site! I wish I would have found this months ago. I can't beleive all the knowledge/info here. I've been spending alot of my summer working on my new garage, so I thought I might as well post some info about it here. I'm actually in the middle-to-end stages of it now.
It is 28' wide by 48' deep with 10' walls. It is divided into 2 rooms, one being a 28' wide x 34' deep "shop" area in front, and in the back is a 28w x 14d storage/dirty area. All 2x6 walls, with one row of concrete block around the bottom (3 rows on the left side where the ground is a little higher), and manufactured roof trusses. Outside is vinyl siding, and aluminum soffit & fascia (to match the house). The front has two 10w x 8h overhead steel insulated doors into the shop area. In the right wall, way towards the back, there is a 9x8 door into the storage area, and in the back wall, way towards the left, is an 8x7 door into the storage area. The left wall has a 3' people door into the shop area, and the dividing wall has a people door from the shop area to the storage area. Oh, and it will have in-floor hydronic radiant heat with a natural gas boiler. That all sounds kinda confusing, but hopefully I explained it okay.
I have a friend who's a contractor who helped me with the shell, and I'll finish everything else myself. As it stands right now, the exterior is pretty much done, and the interior is maybe half done. All the wiring for outlets & lights are roughed in, and the the ceiling is sheetrocked, cuz I wanted that done before the garage doors went in. I'm not sure if it will be fully insulated and/or heated by this winter, but hopefully before too long. Right now I'm working on insulating the walls with R19 fiberglass, and then I'll blow cellulose in 12" deep above the ceiling. For electrical, I have 200 amp service to the house, so I ran 100 amps out to the garage, which I finished last week. I threw a few early pics up on my geocities site, and you can see them here if you want. http://www.geocities.com/dlhanson.rm/Garage.html
Doesn't look like too much yet though. Towards the end I got pretty lazy about taking pics, so they're outdated by a couple months. I'll have to get some updated ones up soon.
I'm sure I'm probably forgetting some important details, but that's all I can think of for now. Any questions, suggestions, advice, or (constructive) critisizm are welcome.
It is 28' wide by 48' deep with 10' walls. It is divided into 2 rooms, one being a 28' wide x 34' deep "shop" area in front, and in the back is a 28w x 14d storage/dirty area. All 2x6 walls, with one row of concrete block around the bottom (3 rows on the left side where the ground is a little higher), and manufactured roof trusses. Outside is vinyl siding, and aluminum soffit & fascia (to match the house). The front has two 10w x 8h overhead steel insulated doors into the shop area. In the right wall, way towards the back, there is a 9x8 door into the storage area, and in the back wall, way towards the left, is an 8x7 door into the storage area. The left wall has a 3' people door into the shop area, and the dividing wall has a people door from the shop area to the storage area. Oh, and it will have in-floor hydronic radiant heat with a natural gas boiler. That all sounds kinda confusing, but hopefully I explained it okay.
I have a friend who's a contractor who helped me with the shell, and I'll finish everything else myself. As it stands right now, the exterior is pretty much done, and the interior is maybe half done. All the wiring for outlets & lights are roughed in, and the the ceiling is sheetrocked, cuz I wanted that done before the garage doors went in. I'm not sure if it will be fully insulated and/or heated by this winter, but hopefully before too long. Right now I'm working on insulating the walls with R19 fiberglass, and then I'll blow cellulose in 12" deep above the ceiling. For electrical, I have 200 amp service to the house, so I ran 100 amps out to the garage, which I finished last week. I threw a few early pics up on my geocities site, and you can see them here if you want. http://www.geocities.com/dlhanson.rm/Garage.html
Doesn't look like too much yet though. Towards the end I got pretty lazy about taking pics, so they're outdated by a couple months. I'll have to get some updated ones up soon.
I'm sure I'm probably forgetting some important details, but that's all I can think of for now. Any questions, suggestions, advice, or (constructive) critisizm are welcome.
