New garage time!

fatjay · Oct 14, 2020

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me. Young enough to do it with barely enough money. Rising material prices is starting to hurt though. I may have to wait on the siding until spring, but I want to get the roof done, tyvex, ice guard, and doors on it asap.

dragoneggs · Oct 14, 2020

fatjay said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me. Young enough to do it with barely enough money. Rising material prices is starting to hurt though. I may have to wait on the siding until spring, but I want to get the roof done, tyvex, ice guard, and doors on it asap.

Yep... get it dry as fast as you can... everything else can wait.

sodamo · Oct 14, 2020

Looking good

Citydude · Oct 14, 2020

It’s been fun following along with this build. The no stairs concept to the upper floor is great for the young guys.

In less than 15 years from now, there will be stairs installed.

747driver · Oct 14, 2020

I always make it a point to get the roof sheathing covered up and walls tyvek done before going any further. Sometimes to have to take a extra day or so to get the building protected. Especially if you live up north where the cold, ice and snow will be here sooner than later ! Enjoy following and admire the work you do !!

fatjay · Oct 14, 2020

Top plates off and got the left, back and quarter of the right side riased to the new heights. Will finish tomorrow then continue plywood. I don't think we'll get to the front before trusses get here at 10am on friday.

fatjay · Oct 15, 2020

Straitened the left wall, got second top plate on. Back wall and 2nd top plate. Finished building right wall, got top plate on, measured 24', had a **** of a time getting that wall strait and 24' in all areas. Still, managed to do it and get the last of the second top plates on just as it was getting to dark to see the nails.

Trusses tomorrow at 10am, we're going to get things cleaned up starting at 8. Now that walls are up i feel like it's narrower than the first floor, it could just be all the junk up there though.

dragoneggs · Oct 15, 2020

Stay safe... don't work too fast. Be deliberate. I know you are but just a reminder. You don't want your take away from this project to be you!

fatjay · Oct 15, 2020

Yes, I'm very deliberate in my movements when i'm up there. Wife just sent me this one.

goeduck · Oct 16, 2020

MossRoad said:
That's what we put on our application for our garage addition. Storage. No water. No heat. No phone, no lights, no motor car
not a single luxury
like Robinson Crusoe,
it's primitive as can be. :laughing:.

That is basically my plan to add a lean to garage on the side of my shop. Shop is tall enough to support a lean to and I would not need much, just lights and a garage door opener.

dragoneggs · Oct 16, 2020

goeduck said:
That is basically my plan to add a lean to garage on the side of my shop. Shop is tall enough to support a lean to and I would not need much, just lights and a garage door opener.

No permit for you! Hope the wrong people aren't listening.

MossRoad · Oct 16, 2020

fatjay said:
Yes, I'm very deliberate in my movements when i'm up there. Wife just sent me this one.

You could always get a job with Cirque du Soleil...

EddieWalker · Oct 16, 2020

I must have the comprehension skills of a rock. Why are you raising the walls? How tall are they going to be? Does this mean you are no longer going for the third floor storage area? Is the long term goal still to eventually make the second floor a living space? Will their be any windows? especially where a bed will go? I guess I got caught up on the lift discussion and missed what's happening now.

dodge man · Oct 16, 2020

I think they, the government, shot down the third floor idea.

fatjay · Oct 16, 2020

Government shot down the 3rd floor, so i was limited to 2 floors and 26' overall height. With a 1:12 pitch I could make the 2nd floor 12' high. Then I can create loft storage over the bathroom and office areas. I don't know that there's going to be actaul bedrooms, that is just something I was looking at potentially down the line.

Trusses came. Having never installed trusses I had no idea what to expect. Had an extra helper in the middle nailing the trusses to the 2x4. I was on one end lining it up side to side and nailing it, once that was done middle and other end got nailed in. Overall it went pretty smooth, took about 2 hours. We didn't get the front wall finished in time so the last 4 trusses are just butted up against another truss and strapped together.

It poured the entire time and was about 50F, The last 10 days were sunny and 70 and the next 10 days are sunny and 70, but of course, the weather is crappy on the one day I'm at the mercy of the delivery.

Couple videos of the crane in action:
https://i.imgur.com/2NafdDa.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/qpLPhI0.mp4

dodge man · Oct 16, 2020

Looks good, I am used to seeing trusses with a steeper pitch.

ovrszd · Oct 16, 2020

Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.

MossRoad · Oct 16, 2020

ovrszd said:
Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.

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Several years ago I saw a remote control drywall truck. The operator had the controls on a shoulder harness and was walking around the parking lot while booming sheets of drywall up into a 4th floor window of a building. Pretty cool.

ovrszd · Oct 16, 2020

I think this guy's truck is known as a drywall truck. He was a professional operator. A treat to watch and video.

fatjay · Oct 16, 2020

ovrszd said:
Equipment technology amazes me.

Seeing the pics of setting the trusses with a truck boom is an example.

A good friend of mine is building a new house. I took this pic with my Drone. The person running the boom is the guy with the blue shirt standing in the middle of the pad. He even unhooked the chain by wiggling the boom. Amazing.

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