Found a bigger hammer
Neighbors love their new landscaping rocks!
It's gonna be a big one
Found a bigger hammer
Neighbors love their new landscaping rocks!
It's gonna be a big one
When brute force doesn't work
...use more.
Remember to water those rocks so they'll grow even bigger.
You will love it when it's finished. I would hate to have your neighbor's driveway in the snow
Imagine all the broken cars I can fit here!
Encased conduit for running power out to the garage.
Looks great!!
That looks awesome and nicely done.
Make sure you turn that downspout so rainwater runs down to the road (instead of into your new 2nd garage).
Love it!
Looks great, very envious of that nice new driveway!
This explains why I haven't been seeing a bunch of Camry updates! 
Looks like you are going to have tons of room there.
Don't worry, Camry update coming soon too.
Envious. Would love to do something like this, but it's been a nightmare just getting the *ACC* to approve a damn fence...
Also jealous of the fresh driveway. I have *highly desirable* pebble driveway, and I berkeleying hate it.
Finally got started on framing...by hand! The borrowed air nailer hadn't been used in 20 years so it blew out a brittle rubber seal pretty quickly. Parts should arrive tonight.
But I did get a corner. Already regret my blocking strategy because I should have taking into account the sheathing edges. Could always add more blocking later.
Also, 12ft ceilings are TALL! You won't even know there's an illegal shed back there.
Nice touch on widening the driveway out to that brick retaining wall
Nice touch on widening the driveway out to that brick retaining wall
Day 2 progress! Should have more time this weekend to finish up. Trusses deliver next week.
Wow that is looking great! I can only dream of having a huge driveway like that, can't wait to see how the garage turns out.
Looking good!
Get some sheathing on those walls before you load trusses.
Almost done framing the walls. Doing a portal frame for the full width LVL garage door headers. I wasn't sure if it was necessary since my plans didn't include it, but seemed like a good idea to help brace against wind. These jack walls will come down so I can attach the headers and pony wall on the ground, then flip the whole thing back up.
Please read doing "Movie trailer voice-over guy":
Into a World - in need of a Garage - rides a Man with a Vision, Drive and Mortgaged dirt.
ADD A 70 Elky!, A 90? Camry COUPE!, A Suzi XC90!, A coupe body! An Illegal Shed!(Hold on, Is that The Love Shack?), A Multi page Thread Hijack by well meaning and really smart concrete engineer guys with slightly differing methods for ultimate success??! Too Many cement mixers!, Tons of Hot Mud!, Cold temps!, Re-Bar!, Weather!, Extreme old concrete removal!
OH NO!! BUT THEN, to top it all off, Stone Mountain's knees poke up and our ersatz geologist/ hero decides they need a trim! Bringing on: MUCHO brute force! supplemented with a side of EVEN MORE AND BIGGER BRUTE FORCE!!que: diesel smoke(plus the neighbors get some pretty rocks!)
I laughed, 
I cried, I can't wait to see what happens with the Texas Toothpick!(huge Glue Lam beam) hopefully no 
hernias.
Children were frightened! A Spouse was Mollified! A zoning board was cowed into submission! IMNSHO This is better than a RE-make of Godzilla VS Mothra(in Japanese with 'Merican subtitles directed by Kurosawa) where they both WIN and ride off into the sunset for a date night at Applebee's!
MORE! POPCORN! PLEASE!®
This my fellows, this IS "Best Forum Post 2024" materiel!©
IIRC you're in Marietta. If you need ever need an extra pair of hands - message me. Happy to chip in. Also would love to see the fleet.
In reply to OHSCrifle :
Thanks! I'll reach out. I will definitely need help hanging trusses.
Speaking of which, they arrived last week right before it snowed, which basically shut down this corner of the country all weekend. Hoping to make more progress as weather and my work schedule allows. Next steps are to frame the 4th wall with the big pair of LVL headers, sheath the walls, then hang trusses. Gratuitous El Camino after my last trans drop EVER without a 2 post lift...hopefully :)
In reply to maschinenbau :
I know I offered earlier, but I'm willing to help if you need a hand.
I recently did a roof about the same size. There were 4 of us, and we set the trusses AND installed the sheathing in 1 day. Not a skilled crew- me, 2 reasonably strong unskilled guys, and my girlfriend.
The trick was I pre-built the gables. They had sheathing on them AND the complete overhang assembled as 1 piece. We set them on the top of the walls upside down (peak down) then rolled them over into place (manually- no crane). Walls were sheathed and braced before we started, trusses and plywood were laying on the floor in the space before we started.
With your 12' walls, yours will take a little longer. We had 8' walls.
Do yourself a favor... buy ZIP sheathing for the roof. It's a bit pricier, but it makes a nice traction surface to walk on. Especially good when you are using inexperienced volunteer labor. You can tape it the same day and have a reasonably waterproof roof instantly.
Also consider renting 5 sections of pipe scaffolding with braces and 10 metal walk boards. Build a scaffold 28' long down the middle of the room (under the roof ridge) with 2 walk boards the entire length. That will let you walk the entire length at a decent height to set and brace the trusses. It would also be good to have 2 rolling scaffolds tall enough to have the top of the walls at waist height (so you can secure the trusses).
If you prepare and have 5 or 6 people there, the roof can be dried in in 1 day.
Let me know if you need a hand.
In reply to SV reX :
I texted you!
Weather was too nice for the office so now I'm ready for the final wall raise when I have more people over.
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