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The new Garage
- Thread starter r3dd0g
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I'm tired of working in my tiny 2 car garage so I'm finally building a big (30'x60') shop to work in.
I've been talking about building a garage forever, and back in June I finally put the plan in motion. For those that don't know, I have a cul-de-sac lot with a relatively large (just over 1/3 acre) lot for being in town in the Metro Phoenix area (it's the reason I bought the house). However, before I started on the garage build I wanted to fix the exterior of my house, it needed paint bad and I wanted to do some updates.
Here's a couple before shots of the sad state my house was in.
I've been in the house for 14 years now and I have an issue where I want to do everything myself, as a result not everything gets done. I finally decided that I would never have a garage if I didn't just pay someone to build it, so to ensure I was hiring someone good I had them do the work on the house first. It's an older house (1983) and the wood siding on the top and the course stucco looked dated, I updated and cleaned up the house by having new doors and double pane windows installed along with having the entire house stuccoed with the more modern "sanded" finish. I think it came out nice (we painted the trim ourselves).
The house project came out awesome! The contractor I used was Reve Design and is co-owned by Jason Hurst, co-dog for Andrew McLauglin (LetzRoll), he came highly recommended and was someone I already was acquainted with.
Here's a couple before shots of the sad state my house was in.
I've been in the house for 14 years now and I have an issue where I want to do everything myself, as a result not everything gets done. I finally decided that I would never have a garage if I didn't just pay someone to build it, so to ensure I was hiring someone good I had them do the work on the house first. It's an older house (1983) and the wood siding on the top and the course stucco looked dated, I updated and cleaned up the house by having new doors and double pane windows installed along with having the entire house stuccoed with the more modern "sanded" finish. I think it came out nice (we painted the trim ourselves).
The house project came out awesome! The contractor I used was Reve Design and is co-owned by Jason Hurst, co-dog for Andrew McLauglin (LetzRoll), he came highly recommended and was someone I already was acquainted with.
With the house project a success, we started making plans for the garage. After several meetings with Jason we decided to make it an attached garage as that gave us much more leeway with getting permits from the city (it's an addition rather than an accessory building). Here's a fairly crude screen grab from Google Earth of what my lot looks like.
The garage will be built on the North West side of the house starting at the end of the driveway and extending into the yard. After much discussion, we decided to go big, the rough size of the garage will be 30ftx60ft with the front corner being cut down to maintain 5' from the property line. I made a rough sketch to figure out how things were going to work out and that's where we came up with the 30x60 (originally it was 25x50, then 30x55, then after the drawing 30x60).
I wanted to be able to get my RV in the garage along with a 2 post lift, bathroom, office and space for parking all my rigs. The drawing shows two lines at the back of the garage (55 and 60ft), I decided to do 60 ft because it would allow me to fit 2 cars behind the lift (with a truck on it) and the RV would be able to move further back and I could get 2 rigs in behind it.
As you can see from the Google Maps picture, I had to do some cleanup prior to being able to start construction. I had several trees to get rid of, along with tons of scrap metal, old rigs and 2 sheds. I wanted to keep one shed, so we had to pour a new slab for that and also we needed to make a way to keep our dogs away from the construction area since the wall was going to get knocked down.
The Shop Truck was put into action hauling scrap metal to the recycler and garbage to the dump. Here's a shot with ~1500lbs of palm tree in the bed!
We had a very large Eucalyptus that was going to be right where the garage was going so that had to come down.
Next we poured a slab for the shed we were keeping.
Then we utilized an AAM axle and some steel tube to move it to its new home.
Neither one of us took any pictures of the fence building, so here's some shots from tonight. The privacy covering will come off after construction is done, it's just to minimise how much my dogs bark at the construction workers.
The garage will be built on the North West side of the house starting at the end of the driveway and extending into the yard. After much discussion, we decided to go big, the rough size of the garage will be 30ftx60ft with the front corner being cut down to maintain 5' from the property line. I made a rough sketch to figure out how things were going to work out and that's where we came up with the 30x60 (originally it was 25x50, then 30x55, then after the drawing 30x60).
I wanted to be able to get my RV in the garage along with a 2 post lift, bathroom, office and space for parking all my rigs. The drawing shows two lines at the back of the garage (55 and 60ft), I decided to do 60 ft because it would allow me to fit 2 cars behind the lift (with a truck on it) and the RV would be able to move further back and I could get 2 rigs in behind it.
As you can see from the Google Maps picture, I had to do some cleanup prior to being able to start construction. I had several trees to get rid of, along with tons of scrap metal, old rigs and 2 sheds. I wanted to keep one shed, so we had to pour a new slab for that and also we needed to make a way to keep our dogs away from the construction area since the wall was going to get knocked down.
The Shop Truck was put into action hauling scrap metal to the recycler and garbage to the dump. Here's a shot with ~1500lbs of palm tree in the bed!
We had a very large Eucalyptus that was going to be right where the garage was going so that had to come down.
Next we poured a slab for the shed we were keeping.
Then we utilized an AAM axle and some steel tube to move it to its new home.
Neither one of us took any pictures of the fence building, so here's some shots from tonight. The privacy covering will come off after construction is done, it's just to minimise how much my dogs bark at the construction workers.
The second shed was moved in a similar fashion, but loaded onto a trailer and hauled to a friends house. The RV, Sonoma and car trailer were moved to friends houses (3 different ones...), the Beast was given to a friend (he swears he's going to make it trail worthy again) and everything else was shuffled around, sold or taken in for scrap.
Within days of finishing cleanup, construction started. As a result I didn't get a chance to take an aerial shot before the demo work started. The first shot I have is after they knocked the fence down, removed the two shed slabs, trenched for the sewer pipe and started working on the pad. It does show how everything got moved around pretty well though.
You can start to see the scale of the garage in that shot.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) when the subcontractor was trenching for sewer, they caught the power wires coming into my house (yes it was marked). Jason pulled some strings and got our power company, the city inspector and his electrician out the same day to get it all fixed and I got an upgraded breaker box out of the deal. From snafu at 10:30AM to power back on at 7PM all on the Friday before Christmas. Pretty impressive!
The new breaker panel will make it much easier to add the sub-panel for the new garage as well.
Within days of finishing cleanup, construction started. As a result I didn't get a chance to take an aerial shot before the demo work started. The first shot I have is after they knocked the fence down, removed the two shed slabs, trenched for the sewer pipe and started working on the pad. It does show how everything got moved around pretty well though.
You can start to see the scale of the garage in that shot.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) when the subcontractor was trenching for sewer, they caught the power wires coming into my house (yes it was marked). Jason pulled some strings and got our power company, the city inspector and his electrician out the same day to get it all fixed and I got an upgraded breaker box out of the deal. From snafu at 10:30AM to power back on at 7PM all on the Friday before Christmas. Pretty impressive!
The new breaker panel will make it much easier to add the sub-panel for the new garage as well.
Next came the forms for the slab, it's going to be a 6" steel reinforced slab with 2 3x3x1' columns under the lift. The plumbing was also installed and inspected as well.
In my original drawing it showed the shop sink right outside the bathroom, but unfortunately we had to shuffle some stuff around to make everything work right so it got moved to the opposite side of the front garage door (there will be 14'x14' garage doors at both ends).
Here's the final aerial shot of how it sits today.
The next step is to run the electrical conduit for the sub-panel, finish the pad and pour the slab. This should all be done by the end of next week.
In my original drawing it showed the shop sink right outside the bathroom, but unfortunately we had to shuffle some stuff around to make everything work right so it got moved to the opposite side of the front garage door (there will be 14'x14' garage doors at both ends).
Here's the final aerial shot of how it sits today.
The next step is to run the electrical conduit for the sub-panel, finish the pad and pour the slab. This should all be done by the end of next week.
Sorry for the huge post all at once, we started construction on the house back in June but have been super busy getting the yard prepped since then. I have way too much crap...
The original estimate is that the garage will be "done" by April, however it seems to be going a lot quicker than we originally discussed so I'm betting it's done earlier than that.
I'm only paying to have minimal electrical installed (sub-panel, lights by the man door and inside the garage to make it to code) and they're doing drywall on the ceiling. They're also only doing the sewer lines for the garage, I'll have to run the water lines for the toilet and sink, I just plan on using an instant hot water heater so I just need to run a cold line that I'll run up through the joined attic with the second floor of my house. Once they hand the garage off to me I'll be doing that, running all the rest of the electrical, insulation and drywall. Hopefully I can finish up by the end of summer and start working on fun stuff again.
The original estimate is that the garage will be "done" by April, however it seems to be going a lot quicker than we originally discussed so I'm betting it's done earlier than that.
I'm only paying to have minimal electrical installed (sub-panel, lights by the man door and inside the garage to make it to code) and they're doing drywall on the ceiling. They're also only doing the sewer lines for the garage, I'll have to run the water lines for the toilet and sink, I just plan on using an instant hot water heater so I just need to run a cold line that I'll run up through the joined attic with the second floor of my house. Once they hand the garage off to me I'll be doing that, running all the rest of the electrical, insulation and drywall. Hopefully I can finish up by the end of summer and start working on fun stuff again.
Sounds like a big project, but it will give you a VERY enviable garage to say the least. It's nice that you have the space to make such a big man cave. Very inventive way of moving your shed around. I hope you didn't need that cab that the tree fell on...
That is awesome!
In final processes of putting up a 2400sqft shop at my place up here in the desert hills.
Everyone should have a giant garage. Haha.
In final processes of putting up a 2400sqft shop at my place up here in the desert hills.
Everyone should have a giant garage. Haha.
I wanna see this.
No, I intentionally put it there to drop the tree on it. There's a youtube video there of me doing it as well. It was destined for the scrap yard and I thought I'd have some fun with it before it went.
Mine will be probably be somewhere around 1600 sq ft when it's done (internal dimensions), but that makes it almost as big as my house (1640). Add in my other 2 car garage at 500 sq ft and it comes out perfect!
So awesome. Mine is smaller, only 1200 Sq ft well actually 1131 inside but it's freaking awesome.
Very cool indeed!
Off topic....whats with the 510`s ?
Off topic....whats with the 510`s ?
I used to be into 510s before my son came back to live with me (15ish years ago). I decided that wasn't a very good family hobby and switched it to 4 wheeling and camping, that's when I originally bought the 72 Blazer.
That and I have an issue selling things...
That and I have an issue selling things...
Haha 15 years just sitting there! Awesome I wish I would have stashed some of mine away. I bought every one I could way back when they were cheep.
Had over 20 510s over the years. Now you can’t find them. Cool to see anouther ck5er that was into them.
I have an almost complete 72 4 door with a KA24DE, a 70 4 door that was getting an SR20DET and a 69 2 door that I haven't touched (missing most stuff). All of them are worse for wear from sitting so long.
beags86
Eastbound and Down
What's a 510?
Datsun 510. Freaking sweet old Datsun.
beags86
Eastbound and Down
That's cool, I could daily that.
