Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 54
Location: Michigan
Hi Morg
I hired out the stone, cement and Aluminum trim work, rest I built with B5-Lorien and a few other people.
Fallguy
Joined: Mar 10, 2012
Posts: 216
Location: Athens.Greece.
Very nice work there Fallguy!
Joined: Feb 12, 2012
Posts: 1570
Location: MO. USA
Joined: Nov 14, 2012
Posts: 196
Location: Nova Scotia ,Canada
Looks Great ! Well done .
Joined: Jan 25, 2010
Posts: 948
Location: Thunder Bay, ON Canada
Nice!! Great sizes for a bunch of toys too!! Just make sure when you lock up that B5 isn't hiding behind one of the boxes.
Joined: Dec 09, 2012
Posts: 364
Location: Chicago, Il by Wrigleyfield
Cool, the first pic looks like its in the middle of the woods with the campfire and everything the next pic I see fences and houses, its in the middle of town I need to do something like this
Joined: May 31, 2011
Posts: 2631
Location: Fort McMurray, AB
You didn't live up to your name in the process, I hope.
-- Of all the soles I've ever tasted, his had the most ....cumin. --
Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Posts: 54
Location: Michigan
Came close. I was working on the front of the garage on a ladder adding some lighting when the ladder slid out. I was able to grab the front truss. Made sure the ladder was not under me and dropped to ground (not to high).
Only real war wound I received was shooting a nail into my finger with a nail gun. I was nailing some cross members between the trusses to add strength and stability to the garage. Kind of like what you see in the basements between the floor joists (I had a lot of scrap wood left over). I shot a nail to close to the edge and it either skipped ot shot through the edge of the wood and went into my finger. Lucky it only put a small hole in my bone and did not shatter anything. I was easily able to pull it out but I forgot to get pictures. I went back to the method I thought was easier after that. I screwed in the remaining cross members in. They really were not needed since the garage is built with lots of extra strength. I tripled up all the corners with 2*4's and went 16" on center for the trusses (code says 24" on center for the trusses is fine). Also, I went 42 inches deep for my footer on the garage and I believe code for a rat wall is 24 or 36 inches.