My friends new 40 x 80 garage

[MBAtarga]

The roof structure is basically undamaged - it must have done a monkey roll!

[yellowperil]

Started over again, scraped most everything, began again all new. Just in time
for Hurricane Hermine.

The windmill farm in the background sort of gives it away that it might be a good spot for high winds, right? Hope they get it right this time.

[1990C4S]

Obviously the windmill blew it over.

[yellowperil]

No, but maybe Don Quixote had something to do with it.

[rusnak]

If that windmill is plumb, then the building looks to be not square.

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by rusnak

If that windmill is plumb, then the building looks to be not square.

The WM is about a half mile away, but I see what you mean. Maybe.

[DanielDudley]

Those boys do not know how to brace a building.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Require your contractors to carry builders risk and carry payment and performance bonds to your satisfaction, in addition to general liability. If they give you a hard time about it, tell them to take a long walk off a short pier and go to the next guy. You want a professional, not a fly-by-night residential wood butcher. A professional GC will have it or can get it without any issues - the premium cost will be baked into his bid price.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by rusnak

If that windmill is plumb, then the building looks to be not square.

Looks plumb to me...

[Schumi]

I would think any modern garage that large would be using steel. I don't understand why you would build something so large with stick walls and trusses. The truss roof alone negates using any of that roof space for anything but storage.

[David]

Make sure they put the wall covering on before they do anything else to the roof.

[yellowperil]

[yellowperil]

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by rusnak

If that windmill is plumb, then the building looks to be not square.

Those longitudinal braces on the trusses and studs are off-kilter.

[sugarwood]

Looks perfect for those "slammed camber" cars!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Schumi

I would think any modern garage that large would be using steel. I don't understand why you would build something so large with stick walls and trusses. The truss roof alone negates using any of that roof space for anything but storage.

Exactly, i don't understand why there is so much reliance on wood construction in the US.
Industrial steel construction is so much more easy and faster to build, more options in design, much stronger and durable.
Probably cheaper as well.

[rusnak]

Glad it turned out well.

But my question now is, will he connect the two with a doorway on each building? Put a roof structure over the connection?

I'm doing something similar by building two buildings, but I decided to connect them via a door way through a common wall. Wood stick frame. Interesting building. Also building a steel building with a metal roof next door. I'll post pics if anyone is interested.

[yellowperil]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Those boys do not know how to brace a building.

Well, we're car guys not carpenters, or looking at it from another angle, we're not carpenters, we're car guys.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by tcar

Looks plumb to me...

Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, “It says sprocket not socket!”

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by svandamme

Exactly, i don't understand why there is so much reliance on wood construction in the US.
Industrial steel construction is so much more easy and faster to build, more options in design, much stronger and durable.
Probably cheaper as well.

I'm guessing two reasons. We have a lot of wood, and it's easy to work and handle. I watched a guy with a big excavator tear down a stick built building once. I thought it was just going to break apart, but he actually chewed off sections as big as his bucket, while the rest of the structure remained intact and unyielding.

If you build with sticks and plywood, and use enough nails, pound for pound, it will be as strong as steel. When I designed my shop, I deliberately made it so that every component could be handled and placed by two people with no special equipment.