Close your eyes and imagine a 10' high wall that is 10" wide with a window in the middle. ;)

I did that and the window looks crooked 😂

This is the last two weeks progress. 2 guys with nail guns could have framed this in about 2 hours but not me working alone with a hammer. Oh well I have pride! ;)

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It rained last night as you can see. Next weekend is the Rolex 24 so I'll be giving my hammering arm a rest. And it will allow my nail holding finger to heal because this morning I hit the wrong nail. It's still throbbing. That 22 oz. hammer packs a wallop. :(

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Paul you are getting there and I must say the cheap Harbor Freight framing nailer I purchased to build my garage was money well spent . The only nails hit were the one's in the gun :D I am curious to see what you are going to do for a roof line . Enjoy the 24 ! SmileWavy

It's been a few weeks so here's an update,

Here are the threaded rods installed. They really do the job of pulling everything down tight.

Top of walls;

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Bottom of wall:


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The back wall ends up having 9 rods in it due to the window, the door and the joint when 2 wall sections come together. The wall will not be going anywhere soon.

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I now have walls up going all the way around to reconnect to the other end of the existing wall. The new garage door opening is next to the existing corner. I had to rebuild the corner so I had to cut out all the overhangs that were in the way.

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It is framed with 2 king studs and 2 jack studs.

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The LVL beam is 9 1/2" deep x 3 1/2" thick x 125 3/4"long.

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All clamped in. I can't put the top plates on until I remove the back existing wall next weekend.

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This is an existing 1/2" anchor bolt. Well it used to be 1/2". I was able to break it off with one tap of my hammer.

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And some 1956 wiring details.....

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So I see the guy next door and he says, "Hey I hear you hammering over there, are you doing all with a hammer?" I said, "No I'm going buy a nail gun for next part." He says, "Well I got a nail gun you can use." He brings me this gun with 100' of hose. :eek: Dude you could have done this a month ago. :rolleyes:

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Better late than never!

Nice job!

Those are a great pneumatic nailer. Made in Japan.
Not all the Hitachi guns are.

I am LOVIN' daylight savings time!! I can get a few hours of work in after I get home from work.

Tonight I removed the lap siding and the interior masonite. The interior of the wall had masonite pegboard. The stuff was so old, dried out and brittle. I tried pulling it off the wall and it would snap off like plate glass.

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The old studs on the left of the above pic will be removed and replaced with double 15' x 12" LVL beam. I pick them up Saturday. Next up is cutting off the 4' overhang. Then use some of the studs as temporary supports for the roof joists until the beam is installed.

I found some termite damage around the door opening. It will all be coming out.

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Looking good, Paul! Appreciate the updates and all the pics!

This is $464.34 of workshop parts. The 2, 12" x 1.75" x 15' beams are on the bottom right. Also there are 10, 2 x 8 x 20' and 8, 2 x 8 x 16' and 4, 2 x 4 x 16'. My material storage space is limited so I employ the latest in just-in-time deliveries to manage my jobsite logistics. My race car trailer makes an excellent workshop parts hauler.

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Just catching up on this, you're making good progress, your $'s buy a lot more than my £'s would

Thanks for the updates, always interesting to follow a good build thread

Yesterday was spent cutting the roof overhang off. I was trying to use my sawzall but I ended up using my worm drive Skillsaw to cut through the roofing shingles and the 3/4" decking. There's two layers of shingles which makes it just that much more work. Now I'm ready to hoist up the 15' beams. I have a plan to do it by myself. Shouldn't be a problem.

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Thanks Captain. I find this thread helps my progress in a way.

Here's one of the 2 hold down brackets for my shear wall. 5/8" threaded rod epoxied 10" in the slab with 26 16d nails. That should hold it. ;)

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This is one of the old anchor bolts. Started out as 1/2" rusted down to about to 3/16" or so. I found a few of these. It's no wonder old houses get destroyed by hurricanes in Florida.

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Also decided to try using some unistruct and 1/2" rods to secure the wood to the trailer. I double nuts the rods and tightened the **** of them. Anyone see a problem with this?

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Interesting use of the unistrut it is strong stuff . I see no issues with what you are asking it to do .

Happy Easter everyone. I think its time for an update as it been a little over a month now.

I've finished the vertical wall framing and now it is on to the horizontal 2x8 joists and a pair of LVL beams that are 1 3/4' x 11 7/8" x 20'. Those are the beams on the left at the bottom of the stack.


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Getting these beams up on the walls by myself was a chore and took some planning but I got it done. I used my 2 rolling scaffolds and a bunch of clamps to move them up on end at a time. Pick one end up, clamp it off, pick up the other, clamp it off, etc. etc. and finally they are in place. When I got them on the walls which are 10' high, I made some book ends to hold them from falling over. These SOB's are 120 pounds a piece so if they start to fall you just better get out of the way.

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All the joists are in place and next is the tying into the existing roof and installing the 2x6 rafters.

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This is from the existing roof that I'm tying in to. Those are 1x4 used as "rat runs" on the top of the joists and nailed off to each joist to keep them from tripping over.

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Looks great, Paul. Any damage from the storm that just blew through?

Here you can see the 2 LVL's and the differace in size compared to a 2x8.


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Nope. I knew it was coming so I was ready. Everything was nailed down.

As is typical with anything I own with wheels under it I had to hot rod my rolling scaffold. I added unistruct extensions to the ends and a cross member as a railing. All the joist work was done off of the scaffolds. Must have climbing up and down 500 times.

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Thanks for the update and pics! Looking great, Paul.

Questions:

1. What's an LVL?

2. What kind of roof are you going to have? Metal?

Looking forward to the update when you tie it into your existing roof!

Have fun! :)

Wow, you are doing a great job.

I built a detached garage a while back and this brings back some fun memories.

I know it's a little late but down here is S.Florida we use a piece of 30lb roofing paper between any wood that touches concrete. It's not needed but just for a little extra protection from the wood wicking up any moisture out of the concrete.

Just thought i'd share that tip with you.