madstat
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I thought I might share with the GJ my garage (more like shed) that I inherited when my wife and I bought our house.
It once was a single bay 1920's structure but sometime later the left lean-to was added. Despite my mom's pleading to save one of our home's "orginal structures" I can't see any possible way of saving it as I'm sure some of the pics here will attest.
I've been pleading my case to my wife that we need to tear it down and spend some huge coin to build a shiny new garage like so many of you have shared on the GJ. Last year I noticed a groundhog had taken up residence in the garage, but this spring it has turned into a duplex with a groundhog living in the left bay while a skunk has moved into the right bay. (They are separated by a wall, though not fire rated
). I told my wife about the skunk and she said "rebuild it END OF STORY!"
So here I'll chronicle the last of our garage's life.
The photo above is as wide as I can get the doors open. In the winter due to frost heave I can't open the doors at all. Much of the sill is completely gone and the SW corner of the garage has sunken over a foot.
Above you can see one of the holes that the groundhog has burrowed out, in fact he's turned the whole area under the garage into swiss cheese, it's like the easiest thing to dig by hand, so much so that I once had the thought of underpinning the structure instead of demolishing it.
The current plan is to dismantle it and reuse some of the materials to build two smaller sheds. One to keep garden tools and equipment that don't belong in a proper garage. Another to hide our large trash, compost and recycle bins.
Once that is done, we will build a new 20x24, which I plan to document here on a new thread. I'm not a wrencher like most of you guys on the forum although I wish I had a lot more knowledge when it comes to cars. I'd eventually like to tinker a bit, I definitely have a thing for 50's era pickups.
My father and I will be doing almost all the building, we successfully built his garage and another outbuilding on my parents property. Back in 2002 we were able to build his 36x24 stick frame with attic for just under 20k! He's worked in construction all his life and myself in an earlier time was a cabinet maker. I had my own business making custom retail displays for small to medium size stores. Nowadays I mostly woodwork as a hobby and my current shop is in the basement which bugs the **** out of my wife cause she has to go down there on a regular basis to do laundry. It's only a shadow of a shop since I have gotten rid of most of my tools. (I'm a statistician now).
I plan to start demolition last week of May so if this kind of stuff interests you feel free to follow along as I document.
It once was a single bay 1920's structure but sometime later the left lean-to was added. Despite my mom's pleading to save one of our home's "orginal structures" I can't see any possible way of saving it as I'm sure some of the pics here will attest.
I've been pleading my case to my wife that we need to tear it down and spend some huge coin to build a shiny new garage like so many of you have shared on the GJ. Last year I noticed a groundhog had taken up residence in the garage, but this spring it has turned into a duplex with a groundhog living in the left bay while a skunk has moved into the right bay. (They are separated by a wall, though not fire rated
). I told my wife about the skunk and she said "rebuild it END OF STORY!"So here I'll chronicle the last of our garage's life.
The photo above is as wide as I can get the doors open. In the winter due to frost heave I can't open the doors at all. Much of the sill is completely gone and the SW corner of the garage has sunken over a foot.
Above you can see one of the holes that the groundhog has burrowed out, in fact he's turned the whole area under the garage into swiss cheese, it's like the easiest thing to dig by hand, so much so that I once had the thought of underpinning the structure instead of demolishing it.
The current plan is to dismantle it and reuse some of the materials to build two smaller sheds. One to keep garden tools and equipment that don't belong in a proper garage. Another to hide our large trash, compost and recycle bins.
Once that is done, we will build a new 20x24, which I plan to document here on a new thread. I'm not a wrencher like most of you guys on the forum although I wish I had a lot more knowledge when it comes to cars. I'd eventually like to tinker a bit, I definitely have a thing for 50's era pickups.
My father and I will be doing almost all the building, we successfully built his garage and another outbuilding on my parents property. Back in 2002 we were able to build his 36x24 stick frame with attic for just under 20k! He's worked in construction all his life and myself in an earlier time was a cabinet maker. I had my own business making custom retail displays for small to medium size stores. Nowadays I mostly woodwork as a hobby and my current shop is in the basement which bugs the **** out of my wife cause she has to go down there on a regular basis to do laundry. It's only a shadow of a shop since I have gotten rid of most of my tools. (I'm a statistician now).
I plan to start demolition last week of May so if this kind of stuff interests you feel free to follow along as I document.
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