Mazdeuce fixes the grosh

Were you lumping plywood up the ladder?

In reply to TRoglodyte:

I think of it like backward ski jumping for plywood. Set it on the ladder horizontally and slide it up in front of you. When you get close to the top give it a mighty shove and it pops gloriously over the top and flops down on the roof. When it works, it works great. When it goes bad, it's quite bad. This is where Tuna's advice of just letting it go is important. Also my decision to not engage in these shenanigans when it's windy.

I'm out of plywood and places to put it for the time being. Finished the bit of the roof I got too tired for yesterday. I also finally put the last of the sheeting on the bottom of the tall wall. I remember why I waited to do it. It sucks trying to hold a sheet in place and nail it by yourself. I got the pinky of one of my gloves in between two sheets and when I tried to pull it out it ripped it right off the glove. I think I've worn out four pairs of gloves so far.
Tomorrow the tar paper goes on if the wind lies down. It's really breezy now and I don't feel like fighting with it when there is no rain in the forecast. I have enough done to call the garage door place and figure out what they can sell me that can fit in the hole.

Man this has seriously come along since the last time I looked at it - and that was just last week!

I feel like if I blink I'll miss the part where you throw a bunch of cars in it.

mazdeuce wrote: The main roof is 5/12. I could do a 3/12 shed dormer and get what I need for a lot less work, but 3/12 is kind of pushing it with asphalt shingles (or so I read) and I don't particularly like shed dormers visually. Dumb reason, but I'll be looking at the building for the next 15 years or so and I don't want to be pissed off every time I do.

I can sympathize..

It'd be like tiling your bathroom and staring at one bad tile joint or cut every time you E36 M3 (only worse) .

I know for a fact how much that sucks.

you have a wonderful garage coming together, and a very understanding wife. my wife would castrate me if I left her yard looking like that for more than a couple of days.

Dusterbd13 wrote: you have a wonderful garage coming together, and a very understanding wife. my wife would castrate me if I left her yard looking like that for more than a couple of days.

I am glad I am not the only one.

Actually, Tunawife already wants to castrate me, and I only have the existing garage messy.

Dusterbd13 wrote: you have a wonderful garage coming together, and a very understanding wife. my wife would castrate me if I left her yard looking like that for more than a couple of days.

I'm a stay at home dad. It's my yard, my garage, my house. My wife just visits when she's not at work.

Please don't tell her I said that.

Now that's funny.

You might want to get that part of the roof shingled sooner rather than later; tar paper will tear off really quickly and easily. I lost almost an entire roofs worth of tar paper off my in-progress garage in one day when the wind kicked up.

The garage is looking really good though!

Tar paper on both sides. It's mostly covering wood, but some of it is over open space. Gives the whole thing a bit of an Indiana Jones feel. The tar paper that's going on now is sacraficial. $50 covers the whole building in 15 pound felt. The plan is for it to protect the building until my inlaws get here four weeks from Friday and help me put on the shingles. They REALLY want to help and there's nothing quite like inviting a couple of Social Security collecting retirees up on the roof to spice up a build.

Other than the tar paper, I spent the morning picking through wood so I have enough to get enough rafters up to get more roof up and then I took the 911 to get inspected. It's the last year for emissions inspections and I was very happy to have it pass.

This is a picture from this morning. Yesterday I got hurricane ties and the plate on the ends of the trusses which let me get more plywood on. I ended up getting three more sheets up. I also spent way too much time figuring out the angles and such for framing the dormer. It's not hard, but it takes me longer than it should to get things to fit.
I had an old lady from the neighborhood walk through the gate and ask me if I was a contractor. She's looking for someone to hang sheetrock so she can kick her granddaughter out of the house into a different house. I declined. It was weird.
A friend of mine is coming up this weekend to help. It's funny how much this project makes people want to help. There's something about watching a building go up that makes people want to pick up a hammer. Mostly I'm going to hand him a crowbar and the sawzall and let him work on taking apart the rest of the old garage. I've assigned him this work because he very strongly dislikes spiders and it will be fun so spend the day laughing at his screaming while I build.

Picture from before dinner. I have all of the wood on the house side of the roof except for one tiny piece. After dinner I got that on and then put tar paper on all of it. I'm happy and done for the time being with this side of the garage.
On the back side of the garage I put up plywood on the half wall that I got up a few days ago and started with the rafters for that next section. These have that little stub 2x4 thingy that will make a very high shelf all along the top and give a little support to things. When I built the first 4 I used a truss as a pattern to lay them all out. I had to take some time to make a jig so the first one took a while. I just need to make five more and I can get the next 8 feet of roof on the back and then I have enough dry space to completely and permanently remove all of the old garage. It's going to be awesome.
I also did something today that made me want to punch myself in the neck. The old workbench which was one of the very first things to get dragged outside when I started cleaning.....is back inside. I NEED space to put things. As much as it pains me to have it back in, that's where it is for now.

Made the old garage into a targa.
Didn't like it and went full convertible. I made a mess.

A car buddy came over today to help me. It was one of those days where I didn't really have anything that required two people so instead of really working hard and getting stuff done we shot the bull and just moseyed along. We probably accomplished 90% of what I would have done working alone but had a lot more fun. We got the cap on the back wall and put up the full half wall. I finally made it to the back of the garage with new construction.
We also finished the cap on the side of the garage facing the house but I need to put up the center wall and the floor before I can build that wall. And I'm out of 2x4's.
I did get two more rafters up after dinner before it started raining. I only have two to go and I can put up 8 more feet of roof. I need to get more wood tomorrow. I've gotten to the point where I have to actually count what I need so I don't end up with extra. Before this I could just eyeball it and get 5 more than I though I needed because I would always always need more.

Remember Tron? The original one. Light cycles. Getting all of the walls to meet at the common center point at the back wall is like playing the slowest game of light cycles ever. I didn't have a lot of time to work today. I needed more wood, grocery shopping and I had to wash the 911. Apparently I haven't been keeping the Porsche in the condition to which Mrs. Deuce has become accustomed. It's shiny now, though I somehow got my hours mixed up and the pork roast for tonight is going to be an hour later than it should be. Probably a good thing I washed her car today.

Just want to let you know we're still watching. Although I am sure having a nice garage when all said and done is motivation enough.

As further encouragement, this is one of my favourite threads. I'm presently limited to inside-of-the-house renovations, and I'm hanging out for the day I can build my own garage. This is awesome.

The Grosh might have gnomes.

mazdeuce wrote: The Grosh might have gnomes.

Did one of the gnomes snap that hammer in half?

You wanted 18" eaves, right?

In reply to tuna55:

That hammer quit, but it quit honestly. It didn't want to hammer any more and went out like a man. My other hammer was a coward and (I think) jumped of the roof while I was tearing it off the other day. It might be in the pile of debris on the ground, it might have hitched a ride to someplace where it doesn't have to work so hard. I don't know. I'm down to one hammer.

Slow day. I'll explain later. I spent some time clearing debris away from the building partly because I need to so I can use a ladder to attach the wall sheeting, and partly to look for the missing hammer, which I didn't find. I built and put up the last two rafters in the group of six that lets me install more roof. I'll get the end plate and hurricane ties on tonight after dinner and then get the roof on tomorrow before it rains. Again.

So far today I've gotten a bit done. I put two more sheets of plywood on the roof and added tar paper.
This gave me room to move the tool boxes and mostly dead motorcycles. Which in turn gave me room to cut out the old shelves that were in the way of putting up the header that needs to go here. I have all of the top caps on and all I need to do is get the header in and then I can put the floor joists in and then build the rest of the walls. If the rain holds off, I'll get some of that done.

i'm not that great at 80's motorcycle trivia night, but is that a nighthawk S?