Well, this happened today:
Looks pretty good, huh? My initial reaction is that wow, these walls are… TALL. The walls, including the concrete block stem walls are nearly 10 feet tall, which is not an accident since that’s the maximum wall height the City of Minneapolis will permit on a detached garage. At first glance, this garage is going to completely dwarf my neighbors garage.
Of course, we’re using a very low pitch roof truss, so it’s nearly at full height – it’s not going to get much taller than it is now. We’re going to absolutely love having 10′ walls, but I do wonder what my neighbors will think of it….
No place for a baby like a construction site.
We did make a major blunder today, which is that we sheathed the back wall of the garage with OSB rather than the fireblock stuff we had planned to use. We were just on a roll and it completely slipped our minds. Not sure what we’re gonna do about that yet.
Keep your eyes peeled for more info tomorrow. We’re hoping to have the walls totally finished by tomorrow evening, and we’ll start on the trusses Thursday.
This is beautiful! And inspiring! Keep up the good work… and post more pictures of KP!
Maybe you’re still planning to do it, but depending on how close to the property line the garage is, you may or may not have to have a certain fire rating on the walls per building code. I’m not a building code guy though, so I might have dreamt that one up. No? Anyway, looking good!
Yay! Good work all around.
You know, KP can go to daycare even when you’re home. That’s okay. 🙂
Wow! It’s looking great! I can’t wait to see the finish product.