Disaster struck – in a classic battle between Winter and Spring, icy sleet turned to snow and dumped six inches of ice and hard-packed snow in my garage. And I had a lumber delivery lined up, and a carpenter coming…
Fortunately, I had the good sense to lay down tarps. I was out there 6am this morning, shoveling – by the time the carpenter arrived to help unload the truck, the snow was in garbage-can-size snow men, lining the alley! And now the carpenter is going to town… Says he may even lay some plywood today!
The roof should be completed early this week – h*ll, it’s almost done now! Then for the vinyl deck, then the mason comes back to put on the cap, then the garage door and alley door goes in, then the steps to the deck and the deck fence goes in, then…
The plywood is all down… If the weather can stay dry long enough, the roofer will come out next week and glue the vinyl decking material down. But the block has to be good and dry – the contact cement they use when they wrap the vinyl up the wall, won’t stick to wet block (although the latex cement for the plywood is fine). Here’s some pix, with Bailey enjoying his new habitat… You can see I have to move some cable television wires, too.
Meanwhile, the garage door is a bit of a mess. The floor isn’t level, so a strip of cedar needs to be fixed to the bottom panel. And the side boards need to be replaced with non-pressure treated (it will corrode the metal rails, I’m told); and they need to go all the way up, and tie into the rafters. Furthermore, because they used extra-heavy angle iron for the header (it’s a 12 foot garage door, doncha know!), the block sticks out further than it should on the inside, and needs to be ground down…
Well, no project is without its travails, and I’ve had my share of 'em. But we’re getting there!
Dan - 12’ door?? Is that 12 foot high? In one of your pictures I counted 14 courses of block. That should be plenty high for a car lift . I’m still thinking of getting one but the hard part is deciding who to buy it from. Backyard Buddy wants $5200 for a 4-post with a few accessories and other companies are around $1500 to $2400 for a 4-post. In BYB advertising, they show competitors lifts collapsing. That wouldn’t be good. I think I will inquire on the FWDLK site for opinions.
How strange Dan. Out here we are REQUIRED to used galvanized nails, straps, and bolts when contacting trstrf lumber.
A 12’ high door?! What are you gonna do, park a moving van in there? Seems like a lot of wasted space-
If you go with an 8’ foot door now, you’ have to fill inthe upper area with studs and siding or windows, but you’d solve the prodruding block problem.
Oops – Sorry, guys, for not being clear. The garage door is 12’ WIDE (to allow the cruiser to turn into the garage half-sideways from the alley. It would never make it through an 8’ door. And the door is 7’ high.
I was thinking about using four garage door openers for a lift from the ceiling, what do you think?
Yes – but the side rails of the garage door are steel, and get bolted right to the framing, which right now is PT. According to my garage guy, the rails will corrode unless I replace with untreated wood.
It’s a beautiful day here in Philly! Now to get to work, filling the seams with floor leveler…
the overhead door tracks simply HAVE to be galvanized..nobody does anything other. So you are getting it done.
My roof is leaking,the headaches are coming steadily
Bailey sure looks happy But he’ll be happy when the garage is finished and you will have time again for long walks with him (through the alley to admire your garage!)
You certainly had your share of problems but it starts to look like a real nice garage. You have seen mine so you know why I envy you.
Thanks Ron! You and Matthew and Stefan and me sitting out there, sipping mint juleps this summer, while the women folk are out shopping. Ain’t life grand! (Oh right – forgot. Matthew will be in the garage, under Faulkner.)
Here’s a couple more pix – we’re waterproof now (or, as we say in Fildelfya, “wooderproof”…)
There’s a scupper through the wall just to the left of the bay window. (There’s a couple “crickets” in the sloping roof to direct water to it.) I still have to tie it into the drain, but at least the water won’t stay.
WOW! I bet Faulkner can’t wait to get home. LOTS of work Dan, but a great garage! Mine is small, has a few chinks in the walls, has mice/moles and when it rains really hard I get rain on the floor, but because the concrete is sloped the water goes down my also sloped driveway .. I hope you don’t get what we got about a month ago here-- 4 inches of rain in about 12 hours. I’ll take the ice! Beth.
hey i feel a little bit better now, my garage flooded last weekend. we had about that same amount of rain, but maybe it took 24 hours to come down. we need/ed it very bad, it has been dry here for the past few years. we still haven’t totally recovered from the drought we had 6 years ago. so we’ll take it where we can get it. i had a couple of inches of water in garage, it just has shingles (my dad had a few extra)on the floor to keep the grass from growing so the water dissappeared soon enough. have worked the ground right in front so the water won’t puddle so bad right by the door. also will put cement in as soon as this truck is put back together. which by the way when the coolant filled up the cylinder and then the engine was started, it hydro-locked the bad boy and bent the no. 2 rod. the noise/knocking i was hearing was the piston hitting the crankshaft counter weight. no serious damage done to either. waiting on machine shop to return parts so i can start reassembly.
also, kind of off topic (i always am ) i just bought a boat, a 79 16ft tri hull w/ an inboard outboard 4 cylinder. it needed some points, i’ve got her running again, but she is still far from lake ready. it also means i have to get rid of one of my other projects. batmobile was never considered . i will have to sell the edsel. i did not like the feel of the car when u sat behind the wheel anyways, felt too cramped and the dash was too far away. that will free up some space and maybe some dough for my main gal. --jeremy
. I’m still thinking of getting one but the hard part is deciding who to buy it from. Backyard Buddy wants $5200 for a 4-post with a few accessories and other companies are around $1500 to $2400 for a 4-post. In BYB advertising, they show competitors lifts collapsing. That wouldn’t be good. I think I will inquire on the FWDLK site for opinions.
hey i feel a little bit better now, my garage flooded last weekend. we had about that same amount of rain, but maybe it took 24 hours to come down. we need/ed it very bad, it has been dry here for the past few years. we still haven’t totally recovered from the drought we had 6 years ago. so we’ll take it where we can get it. i had a couple of inches of water in garage, it just has shingles (my dad had a few extra)on the floor to keep the grass from growing so the water dissappeared soon enough. have worked the ground right in front so the water won’t puddle so bad right by the door. also will put cement in as soon as this truck is put back together. which by the way when the coolant filled up the cylinder and then the engine was started, it hydro-locked the bad boy and bent the no. 2 rod. the noise/knocking i was hearing was the piston hitting the crankshaft counter weight. no serious damage done to either. waiting on machine shop to return parts so i can start reassembly.
) i just bought a boat, a 79 16ft tri hull w/ an inboard outboard 4 cylinder. it needed some points, i’ve got her running again, but she is still far from lake ready. it also means i have to get rid of one of my other projects. batmobile was never considered