Garage Package from 84 LUMBER
Brokenjack, a garage package from 84 Lumber is the way to go. Thats what I built in 2001 and am very glad I did. You can make up-grades to your package if you want at time of order. I upgraded 20yr. shingles to 30 yr.Upgraded to treated wood around the framing at the 16' overhead door. After see what black ants did to my son-in-laws header above his 16' overhead door I changed to treated wood in that area. The ants almost ate up his header above his 16' door to the point where he had to jack it up and tear it out and replace it.After seeing that,I always spray for ants once a year around the house and garage. Added a slider window for each of the other walls so that I could have good cross flow ventillation. Installed eve vents at each end.Inside the garage I nailed in hurricane ties purchase from 84 Lumber,and I fastened 4x8 sheets of OSB with drywall screws all the way around the inside of the walls . This served as a nice kick barrier from the floor to 4' up the wall,and also adds alot of strength to the building.From the top of the OSB to the bottom of the trusses I used drywall and then finished and painted it with a good outdoor white Semi-gloss paint from Sears. Use semi-gloss paint because its cleans up good with soap and water where using flat paint does not,you have to repaint then when using flat paint.After the framing is all up and the roof is done and OSB is attached to all your outside walls, and all your electrical outlet boxes are mounted at the wall studs,drill all your holes in your wall studs where you are going to run your electric wires and dont forget NOW is the time to run your SPEAKER wires through your wall studs around the garage to wherever you want if you are gong to have speakers mounted on the wall as I did. Its nice having all that wiring hidden.Dont forget to cut-out and install the inside wall braces at each wall like they show you on your BLUEPRINTS for your Garage Package.When I first started to plan my Garage, I measured it out and drove stakes in the ground and attached ribbon to the stakes and looked at it that way.Then had someone come out and do all the excavating.Then I built the forms and squared them all up and took the time to make sure everything was SQUARE because eveything you do from here-on out will be affected if you dont take the time to get your forms SQUARE. Then I dug out inside the form area where my floor drains wood be and installed Schedule 40 pipe and covered it over. Then I rented a gas powered tamper and tamped the whole area inside the forms. Then I spread about 4 in. of #57 limestone inside the area and then tamped (compackted) it. Then layed down my plastic moisture barrier and wire and rods. My Garage Package was 24x24 and I had five other buddies help me the day we poured all the concrete and we all were kept busy. Important: Ive heard so many different opinions on how long to keep the Concrete wet that I was confused,some said 24 hrs;a couple of days;so between my wife and I we kept it wet for one week solid and to this day I dont have any cracks in the floor and that was poured in 2001. Next I myself built all the walls on top of the pad (which is very nice working on) and when I got all the walls built ,myself and my Son-In Law lifted them up one section at a time and anchored each section to the pad and then fastened each section at the walls together. Then I attached temp. outside braces to help secure the walls.Then myself and a buddy built and attached the beam that went overtop of the ovehead garage door. I attached 2 sheets of OSB to each corner,then Myself and two other buddies erected by hand all the trusses and nailed them in.Myself and one other buddy then installed all the roof sheeting and nailed it all down.Then I went ahead and installed the rest of the OSB on the outside.Then myself and one other friend finished the rest of the roof (shingled it). All the rest I did all myself,vinyl siding,windows,doors,finish inside of garage,drywall,etc. With the exception of the electrical wiring I had someone experenced do all that. I didnt want a seperate meter for the garage because the power company charges you a certain fee whether you go out and turn on a light or not. So I had my guy run all the wiries from my basement where the main box is at,out the wall of the basement and cut a hole in the wall outside of the garage,and installed and sealed a certain length of schedule 40 pipe and ran all the wires through it and into the garage wall where I built a cupboard like deal to hide everything.Looks just like a cupboard small storage area. Now all I pay for is only the electric that I actually use. I LOVE my Garage and am PROUD of all the work that I did on it. It was a very fun and good expreiece. I used to work building constuction before so al that came in handy. Good Luck in you Garage Project and remember to build everything Square and everything will go smooth. Mark
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