Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The "Glendora Garage"

[kaymccampbell]

Looks great. I like the rafter detail.

 

[larry4406]

Looks great. I like the rafter detail.

Agreed!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Looks great. I like the rafter detail.

Agreed!

Thanks. It matches the rafter detail on the front of the house.

 

[Jayman17]

Some good progress going on, on your project Dan, that is going to be real nice.


Jay

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks Jay!

The exterior rafters are now installed and the rafters that will not show because they'll be under the roof and behind the exterior wall were started today. Pretty sure they'll be finished tomorrow.

The columns on the front porch have a finished "surround" with routed details, etc will be duplicated here but not sure when that will happen. Wiring, roofing, a 4x4 post in the wall from the inside, new Santa Barbara stucco to match, yada, yada, all to come. 3 weeks into this "4 to 6 week" schedule leads me to think we'll overrun that but I'm ok with it.

 

[PugetDude]

That's looking great, Dan.
Nice attention to detail on the rafter tails and "detached" slabs. It's going to look seamless, the true test of a well-thought out remodel.
I may have missed it, but did you hire an architect.designer to tie the additions into the existing or do it yourselves?

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

....I may have missed it, but did you hire an architect.designer to tie the additions into the existing or do it yourselves?

Thanks for the kind words, Dude.

This patio room was always part of the architect's remodel plans. The prior owner even installed the foundations for the posts w/post anchors & brick surrounds. But then - I assume because of cost - didn't do the work. There were big flower pots sitting on those brick piers when we bought it (See photo below from listing)



We could have easily built a much cheaper shade structure but I wanted to complete the architect's vision for the redesign. The only thing we changed was it had a full ceiling on the plans and we wanted a vaulted ceiling for aesthetics and to allow summer heat to rise. It will be wired for overhead heaters we MAY install later.

The house was built in 1971. The prior owner is a contractor and he bought it intending to redo it to keep permanently. He had an architect totally redesign it, adding 700 sq ft including raising the ceilings to 10 ft, added a big master bedroom, en suite bathroom w/ walk-in closet, mud room, two tankless water heaters, an office, etc.

He gutted it to the studs and did all the work before his family ever moved in. In 2018 he had the pool installed but then decided to sell it for the profit.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Nice pool. I'd never get out of it.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks, Kay. I’ve never had a pool before so it was a totally new experience all summer. Had some record high temperatures this summer and we were in it all day and into the evening those days.

Brick finally went into the driveway entry today and the roof sheathing started going on. It will be finished tomorrow along with running some electrical conduit (above) so it will not be visible from below when it’s all done.

 

[softailgarage]

Just came across this. The place looks fantastic Dan. My family lived on N. Wildwood Ave off Foothill Blvd. back in the 60's, then San Dimas. I still love that area, not much of an ocean breeze though, lol

 

[larry4406]

Beautiful Dan! I agree with Kay that pool looks fantastic.

 

[PugetDude]

Nice pool. I'd never get out of it.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Latest:





1st of the columns to be veneered in brick. He did a very good job - my dad was a career brick mason and I worked with him on weekends after I was about 11 or 12. My dad was a helluva lot faster but in those days brick was used commonly for construction. Now, it's mostly for decoration only. All the brick on these are sliced down the middle, not full width.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

From the picture above on left - the basic concrete block column. On right after brick veneer has been applied, and below this final appearance using white cement in the mortar and sorta "washing" it over the individual brick to match the house veneer.

There will be a narrow brick wall between the column and house leaving wide spaces between brick so the dogs can "watch". No way to do a doggy window in the PVC gates that wouldn't look odd.

PS: The melamine cabinet will be disposed of.

 

[don long]

The remodel project is looking great.
I stopped by to wish you a great thanksgiving

Don

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks Don!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours too. If you get chance, please take a picture of you munching on a big turkey leg out in the BPG!

Have a wonderful day however you celebrate it. No matter what the virus has brought to many of us - and I know it's been a real tragedy for way too many - we all have much to be thankful for. At least we're upright and breathing!

 

[Jayman17]

Happy Thanksgiving Dan. I hope you have a great day. That wash they put on your brick columns really matches the house brick well.

Jay

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks, Jay.

To ALL you guys I sincerely wish you and yours a happy day whether you can be with them or not. We've all got lots to be thankful for.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Christmas lights went on the new house for the first time yesterday. What I used on the old house was not remotely right or enough for the new house. Plus, the lightweight concrete roof tiles are damn delicate. Had to walk like on eggshells to make sure I didn't step on an under supported area or they will crack. Mostly crawled around on my belly.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Back to the garage for a bit:

On some thread - maybe the workbench one(?) - I posted that I am building a clean workbench and I am blatantly copying someone's bench from GJ!

Here's the one I am copying:



And here's my copy so far. I obviously need to finish it, hang my Craftsman wall cabinets above, mount my old school stereo, and decorate it. I'm not a VW guy so mine will have Chevrolet garage art, models, etc and maybe some Porsche stuff in homage to my now sold 911 I restored a few years ago.

Instead of the 11 drawer cabinet on the left I'll have a small welding/persuasion all steel bench with large vise on it. It still needs restoration. The "pretty" bench will have my smaller Craftsman vise on it where the drill press is using some kind of nutsert - though I don't know if they will hold at all in the 3/4" OSB covered by 1/8" plywood?




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[rharman]

That's coming along nicely...

 

[PugetDude]

Great start on the workbench, Dan.

 

[Jayman17]

Dan, the workbench is real nice. Maybe try T-nut inserts from the bottom side, they should work.

Jay

 

[zmotorsports]

Workbench is looking great Dan.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks guys!

Picked u some brass nutserts for wood at Home Depot this morning. (Yeah, I don't know why they are brass either!) They're 3/8x16 and about 3/4" long. Was going to get 3 ea. to bolt down my small vise then thought I should figure out a way to also use them to hold my bench grinder/wire wheel so I got a 4th one.

Nothing says what drill size so I assume(?) it's like an ordinary wood screw and you drill the bas diameter below the threads? I'm also wondering if I should "lube" the threads with some HD Construction Adhesive so they stay in the OSB permanently? Opinions?

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Electrical progress on the patio project today:

Conductors were pulled to the outlet boxes in the main brick column bases (no pic) that were built 5 years ago. Also pulled conductors and installed the gate column lanterns. Of course when we opened the boxes we found 1 of 4 had broken glass - natch.

They also built the narrow brick wall between the pedestrian gate column and house. I asked that they build it so the dogs can see through it. I had thought about some kind of openings in the PVC gates themselves but the girlfriend didn't like it - thought it might look Mickey Mouse so we went with this option.





While they were doing this I spent the day putting Christmas lights into our 5 front yard trees - PITA to wrap them somewhat evenly, not get poked in the eye by a branch and run extension cords all over. But it looks pretty good. Sorry the pic is out of focus but at least you can see the five trees.

 

[rharman]

Surprised the inserts didn't come with the pilot hole size info.

Take a look here. Appears to be a 15/32" pilot hole for the 3/8-16...

https://www.hillmangroup.com/us/en/...sortment-(#4-40-thru-3-8"-16-Thread)/p/546WI1

An idea I saw a long time ago was to put a few in the face of the bench so you could fasten various things to the bench. Think of a grinder on a plywood base with a lip that gets screwed to the bench face. I would have done that except I have an adhesive ruler running the length of my bench.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Surprised the inserts didn't come with the pilot hole size info.

Take a look here. Appears to be a 15/32" pilot hole for the 3/8-16...

https://www.hillmangroup.com/us/en/Fastening-Solutions/Specialty/Threaded-Inserts/Wood-Inserts/Brass-plated-Wood-Inserts-Assortment-(#4-40-thru-3-8"-16-Thread)/p/546WI1

An idea I saw a long time ago was to put a few in the face of the bench so you could fasten various things to the bench. Think of a grinder on a plywood base with a lip that gets screwed to the bench face. I would have done that except I have an adhesive ruler running the length of my bench.

Thanks for the pilot hole size info! Nope, no info whatsoever on the simple sealed plastic pouch they come in.

After installing my bench vise this afternoon I realized I can drill all the way through and use a regular bolt & nut so I thought I'd return the nutserts until I read your idea about the bench grinder. I hadn't considered the idea of a lip to mount one on the bench "face" - which in my case is a 2x4. It'll work perfectly, thanks!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Painting began today. Or should I say primer? Painter used 8 spray cans of Kilz shellac based spray can primer on the knots - he said that though it is expensive that way it's the fastest most reliable way he's found to not have the brown stains come through later.

Then he spent the whole day spraying coat after coat of primer and the rough sawn lumber just sucked it up. Tomorrow finish paint will be applied...twice, and back rolled.

If anything it makes the structure look even bigger.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Anyone have any experience with the 5 ft. whip hose from Harbor Freight with a swivel? I attached it to my hose reel and then through their "Merlin" brand swivel fitting to my little Senco twin tank compressor. I'm hoping for the best!

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Today is my birthday so I took the day "off" and played the day away in the garage listening to sportstalk radio and futzing around with my stuff.

Finished the wooden shelf above my clean bench and also mounted my little Craftsman vise. Yeah, the paint needs refreshing and that swivel bolt straightened out!

 

[don long]

Your bench is looking great. I hate putting up lites so I have my helper do it for me. Yours look good.
I have a swivel on the end of the air hose in my booth for my paint guns but after about a year or 2 it has started to leak air when bent a bit. fyi
By the way I've put your name under my welcome mat just in case you find time to drop over..

Car guys are coming by in the morning 9:30 ish come join them for a donut.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Hi Don,

I'd absolutely LOVE to come over for a donut with my '55 but I have to be a Nazi about the virus because my 98 year old mother-in-law is living with us now. We're trying hard to keep it from getting her. If it'd be bad for guys our age it'd be a sure death sentence for her.

Please take pictures of the guys and the cars and of course more good shots of the BPG!

Looking forward to seeing them.

PS: Thanks for the info on the swivels. I knew it was unlikely to work or work for long. I JUST took off the quick connect I had on my reel and it held air great when I had my air chuck on it. When my little blow gun was on it you couldn't hear/feel anything but the compressor would turn itself on and refill every once in a while.

 

[Jayman17]

Happy Birthday Dan. Your workbench and Christmas lights look great. I have couple of those vises too.

Jay

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Thanks Jay!

The vise has always served me well despite my abuse! But since coming to GJ of course I HAD to get a big honking vise - my manhood was at stake, ha ha. I found a big old Columbia I still need to clean up and find a replacement jaw for. Then I'll mount it on my small but heavy steel welding/"persuasion" table.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Cut, bent and screwed in the edge trim on the workbench shelf. Added some decorations just for the halibut.





Finally got around to repainting the trash sourced stool (7Up) to match my OTHER trash sourced stool. Yes, I know I could have just bought new ones cheaper, ha ha

 

[PugetDude]

That shelf edging looks great, Dan.
What did you use?

 

[don long]

Hey Dan
Happy birthday. Looks like you are enjoying some quality shop time in your new home. Bench just keeps gittin better.

I'm going to be going through the same mess around here that you have been experiencing. In the next few weeks. New windows, roof and a paint job on the house. No Christmas decorations here this year.

 

[driftpin]

I use a HFT swivel lead hose (a 'whip?') for my scavenged HFT media blasting cabinet. It still doesn't leak at the swivel, so that's good, however, for some reason, the rubber at the end of the crimped brass connector began to tear, and it eventually cut-through, and began leaking. I used a Dremel-style tool to cut-through the brass crimp fitting for the hose, at the threaded 1/4" hose connection and I took it to my friend who makes SS hydraulic hoses for pressure washers and for motorcycle uses (brake lines, NOS systems) and he crimped on a new fitting, after cutting the hose back to a good point. I suppose that with time, it may occur again, but it lasted a couple of years. We'll see. I bought another whip just in-case, they weren't available for awhile, I had trouble finding one on-line in the length and fitting configuration I wanted, though I could have bought a shorter one, and cut-out the brass fittings and had my friend crimp-on a new SS hose, if I wanted-to. I suspect the swivel would then be the point of failure at some distant time. Here are shots of replacing the glass, of the 2x4 base I made for the benchtop cabinet, using BORLA casters, and at the cabinet back, a shot of the repaired whip, and the NAPA filter I installed. I got the cabinet when I was headed to an electrical supply house, and in the warehouse area as I was driving-through, a worker was putting-out the cabinet for junk. I stopped, and he helped me load it into my truck. I also got a 10-ton bottle jack in-need of some fluid.

The backyard loggia is coming-along great. That's gonna be a good entertainment place.

A question about the brick-work: is the wide mortar a 'thing?' I'm no mason, but that seems like a lotta mud. I believe in Florida with the HVHZ (high-velocity hurricane zone) requirements, a wall would need smaller joints to meet the wind-load codes. The 'open' brick pattern for the dogs, despite being able to 'pass' air, is something I doubt could be done here.

We did a couple of additions to our CBS home, one was a new attached 2-car garage, using part-of the existing 2-car, and we had-to have rebar from the foundation footers to the 1-story top-of-wall tie beam, every several feet, the CBS cell with the tie-beam filled with grout. Since Hurricane Andrew, the Florida Building Code has undergone several revisions, and the buildings are the better for it.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Hi driftpin,

Thanks for your interest. I got the term "whip" hose from here. I've read a few guys use that term.

The width of the mortar joint on the brick work is standard here. I always thought it was standard everywhere for masonry and I spent my entire career as the Project Quality Manager for the Metro rail work in Los Angeles.

My Dad was a brick mason and his work always had joints this wide. But they looked different because his were usually raked or sometimes tooled to a U shape. In my case you can see the house already had the white mortar troweled flush when we moved in which results in the white "wash" on all the brick. The lattice design was my dad's though I've seen others use it on work in older parts of the area. I remembered it when we were thinking of cutting holes in the new gates that are being built now.

Back in the day if one of my dad's clients wanted the white mortar look he used lime in the mix to give it this look. On this work the mortar used standard gray concrete and was raked about 1/2" deep, then they mixed a finish mortar using white cement and put it on top of the gray mortar. I think you can see the darker color in one of the pictures I posted before the columns were finished.

THIS picture: