My 26x40 garage project

Ord · May 10, 2010

Excavation should begin tomorrow, I am very excited that we're getting started.

Here is the "before" picture showing the spot where it will go. It will be about halfway between the house and the barn.

ebstein · May 10, 2010

keep us updated.....

RbrtAWhyt · May 10, 2010

This is going to be cool...

NUTTSGT · May 10, 2010

Do you have any details of the build ?

Ord · May 11, 2010

Excavation in progress

Excavation completed

NUTTSGT said:
Do you have any details of the build ?

Yes - it's 26x40 feet, 12 foot walls. It is being built on footings and frost walls. The floor will be a 6" slab. The roof is gambrel type, with space inside the trusses for a loft. Stairs lead up to the loft area, and I will eventually have an office up there.

There will be two 10x10 doors and one man door. Still trying to figure out how many windows and where to put them.

Bib Overalls · May 11, 2010

Keep the pictures coming!!

Ord · May 12, 2010

The building inspector is coming this afternoon to check the excavation, then later today the footing forms will be assembled, and the footings poured tomorrow. I'll post some pictures of the progress once work starts.

Ord · May 13, 2010

Water seeped into the trench during the night. They will have to pump it all out and shovel out the mud before we get the OK from the building inspector to pour footings.

Ord · May 13, 2010

Gravel truck arrives:

Gravel was used to support the footing forms.

Pouring the footings:

"The Boss" supervises:

Footings:

RbrtAWhyt · May 13, 2010

Ord said:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakworld/4604395881/
"The Boss" supervises:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breakworld/4605011742/

She looks unamused. Sure you're not going to have to live in the garage when it's finished??

Ord · May 13, 2010

RbrtAWhyt said:
She looks unamused. Sure you're not going to have to live in the garage when it's finished??

I'd better make it as comfortable as I can just in case.

Ord · May 19, 2010

Started on the forms for the foundation walls. Later this week the walls should be poured.

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Ord · May 20, 2010

Foundation walls were poured this afternoon!

Ord · May 26, 2010

Backfilling started today, and also filling the inside with gravel to support the slab. He brought in 4 trucks of gravel today, and should be delivering another 5 loads tomorrow to finish it up.

Foundation done:

Backfill in progress:

Pipe that will connect to floor drains:

Machines everywhere:

RbrtAWhyt · May 26, 2010

Thats gonna be awesome!

RobSmith · May 28, 2010

RbrtAWhyt said:
She looks unamused. Sure you're not going to have to live in the garage when it's finished??

She's thinkin that all of this money could've gone into a sun room or a sewing room extension. Maybe even a larger living room. Not a stupid workshop ! Ha ha ha ha

Grizz1963 · May 28, 2010

I love the fact that you have machines everywhere.

Your wife should be nurtured. My almost wife (6th August at high noon we get married) is the best part of my projects and things I get up to .

She encourages and helps..... gotta love a good partnership.

Ord · May 28, 2010

Grizz1963 said:
I love the fact that you have machines everywhere.

Your wife should be nurtured. My almost wife (6th August at high noon we get married) is the best part of my projects and things I get up to .

She encourages and helps..... gotta love a good partnership.

Congratulations! On August 5th of this year we'll celebrate our 10 year anniversary.

She is actually very encouraging, some of the guys working said she seems more excited about it than me! She is a bit anxious for me to get it done and get my "stuff" out of the house - then the room that has been my work space will turn into a sitting room/library.

Ord · Jun 7, 2010

Framing started today!

Roof trusses and floor joists arrive:

Walls going up:

This is how it stands at the end of the day:

Tomorrow the rest of the sheathing goes on, and the floor joists.

Those 12 foot walls look really tall!

Gareth · Jun 7, 2010

I wish I had the space you have!

Looks like it's going to be fantastic.

blackice · Jun 7, 2010

looks good so far. There in Ontario are you?

Ord · Jun 7, 2010

blackice said:
looks good so far. There in Ontario are you?

I am in eastern Ontario, near Alexandria.

Ord · Jun 8, 2010

Floor joists and sub floor done today, and the first roof trusses assembled. It's starting to come together!

26 foot span open web floor joists:

This is how it is at the end of the day:

Ord · Jun 9, 2010

All trusses up now. The truss design gives a lot of room in the loft, more that I had expected.

sammm · Jun 9, 2010

Wow....great looking building. Look forward to your progress! :thumbup:

PERFORMANCE-RED · Jun 10, 2010

That is a cute barn. Can't wait to see more details.

Motown 454 · Jun 10, 2010

It looks great, it should be a great shop.

Ord · Jun 15, 2010

Yesterday and today we got the trenches dug for water, septic and electrical. We buried two 1 1/4 inch conduits that will protect 1/2" pex tubing brining pre heated water for the in floor radiant heating. We ran these in channels in XPS foam, with another 2" of foam on top. We filled in the joints with low expansion foam. Hopefully this will limit the heat loss in the pipes on the way to the garage.

The building is wrapped. The roof is ordered, and should be installed at the beginning of next week. The electrical panel and plumbing is roughed in.

central1ny · Jun 15, 2010

Nice job on your garage. So if my calculations are correct, it took you 8 days to get from start of framing to the point where you are ready for siding? Are you doing the work yourself?

Ord · Jun 16, 2010

Thanks Central1ny. I am not doing the framing, I hired a construction company to do the foundation, framing and roof. It took them 5 working days to do the framing. I'll be doing the siding, and interior.

ebstein · Jun 16, 2010

Ord said:
Yesterday and today we got the trenches dug for water, septic and electrical. We buried two 1 1/4 inch conduits that will protect 1/2" pex tubing brining pre heated water for the in floor radiant heating. We ran these in channels in XPS foam, with another 2" of foam on top. We filled in the joints with low expansion foam. Hopefully this will limit the heat loss in the pipes on the way to the garage.

The building is wrapped. The roof is ordered, and should be installed at the beginning of next week. The electrical panel and plumbing is roughed in.

do you have a boiler in the house?
how far are you running the water lines?

Ord · Jun 16, 2010

ebstein said:
do you have a boiler in the house?
how far are you running the water lines?

I don't have a boiler. I have a geo thermal heat pump in the house that can make hot water pretty efficiently when it's running.

There is 75 feet of pipe between the two buildings.

gjz30075 · Jun 16, 2010

When does the floor get poured?

Ord · Jun 16, 2010

gjz30075 said:
When does the floor get poured?

Probably about two weeks from now. I still need to get another inch of gravel in, then place the styrofoam and wire mesh, and layout the pex tubing. It will depend on how fast I get that done.

ebstein · Jun 17, 2010

Ord said:
I don't have a boiler. I have a geo thermal heat pump in the house that can make hot water pretty efficiently when it's running.

There is 75 feet of pipe between the two buildings.

are you doing infloor?

I wonder if that would work with a boiler...???

Ord · Jun 17, 2010

Yes, I am doing infloor heating.

There are better systems available for insulating underground pipes, but they are very expensive. I don't know how well this will work, but I thought I might as well try.

bazzateer · Jun 17, 2010

That is a beautiful building.

Ord · Jun 21, 2010

The inspector came today and approved the framing. The roof should be done this week.

Rtaite · Jul 13, 2010

Looks like a real nice shop! I'm looking at putting up a 30 x 45. I'm also in Ont. and was curious about costing for my project. I will b doing the finishing myself ,and was just wondering how much your structure cost was ? I need excavation,concrete,ruff ins and framing done for me! in process of getting plans now! Any help appreciated!

Ord · Jul 13, 2010

Hi Rtaite,

I am not sure yet, the bills are just starting to come in. The estimate was $60K, plus electrical and plumbing. Since then I've added about 10K by switching from asphalt to metal roof, in floor heating, wood siding and changing to engineered joists so I don't need beams or poles. Same as you, I will be doing the finishing myself.

So far I have spent $15K on materials, which includes the lumber, sheathing, doors, windows, metal roof, fasteners, wall and roof wrap. The roof and floor trusses will be another $6K or so. The excavation, backfill, gravel, plumbing and septic connections in and trench for electrical came to $8K.

The recent hot weather has delayed things, no one wants to work on installing my roof these days! And when it's not crazy hot, it's pouring rain.

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