Those pics look awesome! Lots of room for activities! And getting all the sheeting up is a huge accomplishment! I kinda love the 4 bay door arrangement!

 

Thanks! My hope was to try to limit conditioned air loss. One thing that really drives me nuts with my current 2 car (standard double wide door) is that opening the door dumps practically all of the cooled air, so I start from scratch (with the admittedly undersized window AC) trying to cool the air back down every time I need to open the door.

I will say one downside to the single doors is backing a trailer in. Gives you a lot narrower slot to maneuver into, especially after having just made the turn to line up with the door. I probably just need to practice more though, lol..



Not much big progress this weekend. Had several other things to do (yardwork, transmission fluid change on the Traverse, oil change on the lawnmower, etc) and it got up to 117 on Saturday, so that sure dampens my enthusiasm for working outside, even if it is partly shaded. I did get two things done:
-Finished framing & double top plate on the front parapet wall. All done with 2x6s for the build now.
-Made 3 full trailer dump runs for all of the wood scraps (concrete form boards, temporary support boards from framing, mis cuts, bad wood, and cut ends). Ended up around 2000 lbs across the 3 runs.


One upside, Ridgid determined both of my broken tools out for repair are beyond fixable: oscillating tool (after returning it 3 times for the same issue) and framing nailer (head destroyed after a nail came out crooked). Itll be nice to get a 2nd framing nailer back for doing the fill in of nails on the OSB. Those nailers overheat pretty quickly in this heat doing a bunch back to back. Having 2 working should be nice to flip back and forth to keep them cool enough to not power down.

 

A couple of fair sized mini splits would probably do well. Might be worth considering insulating the garage doors (or the ones least used)

 

That's exactly what I was thinking too. I need to read up on manual J calculations to try doing one to see what btu it suggests. My gut feel based on similar sized houses around here is that it needs about 5 tons to keep up in summer.

Bad thing is 5 ton mini splits are fairly limited / much more expensive. I'm thinking maybe 2x mini splits at either 2.5 or 3 tons each should be good and will fit within the power supply I have planned. I think I'd rather lean towards a pinch oversized to shorten recovery time after opening a door. I know that drives cycle time down / reduces the ability to remove humidity, but humidity is almost never a concern around here.

I have been doing some reading and keeping an eye out for end of season sales as it starts to cool down. I know the refrigerant changeover is coming soon, so I want to make sure I get one with 410 as I just had to replace the house's central AC so Id like them on the same refrigerant.

Absolutely. Ive actually got them all already stacked up in the living room (I was afraid lead times were still crazy, but they weren't too bad). I went with Clopay 2" thick polyurethane filled - supposedly R 18.4. The 4 doors on the front are full sun exposure all day, so it should be worthwhile - especially since the doors are practically all of the insulation thats possible on that wall.

 

Doesn't look like much has changed from the previous picture, but had a big win last night. Just put up the final panel of roof sheathing (last pic was maybe 1/4 done, so most of the roof was wide open to the sky). Also got the whole roof covered with temporary plastic to help keep any rain out until I can get through inspection and on to roofing.

Not much left until the next inspection - pretty much just down to adding remaining fasteners to meet print. Several of the non shear wall OSB panels are just held in with a handful of nails, so I need to go back and fully fill out the nailing patterns. Picked up another 2000 PC box, so hopefully that gets me through.

The other big thing is I've got a broken truss web to repair. It was cracked at a knot mid board on install, but has since spread to a full break through from sitting in the sun. City is requiring I get an Engineer approved letter for the repair to include at inspection, so I've been trying to push the truss manufacturer for a response. May need to just hire a PE to do a quick write up if they keep dragging their feet.


Goal is to at least get it dried in before year end as we tend to have spotty rain in January.

 

Even if it is not much progress, progress IS progress!
Things I want to do with my garage have hit a standstill, but I have been sketching out some of the next ideas.

 

Crazy how time flies. Got busy with work and travel around the year end so my target goal slipped a bit. The finishing details also took me a lot longer than expected. That nailing patterns requirement on the sheathing are pretty onerous - I've got north of 12k nails in the wall+ roof sheathing alone (not even including the framing nails).

As of last night, I stuck the last nail in to complete the roughed in structure. Scheduled rough framing inspection for Friday. Fingers crossed...



Already have a pile of stuff ready for the next step:
-Man door
-5x garage doors
-Base layer house wrap (2 layers needed for stucco)
-Perimeter termite treatment
-Borate lower stud treatment
-EPDM roofing on order

Although I'm trying to DIY as much as I can, I'm seriously considering paying someone to stucco it. Given the very visible location, I've got a baseball card collection size stack of people who have left cards on our front door trying to get the stucco work. My wife also doesn't do heights, so it would be 100% a one man job if I decide to DIY.

 

A long time ago I use to hang lath for a stucco company. It was 2 layers (30 lbs) of tar paper then the lath (Minnesota ) What is the standard these days ?

 

The brand new tract houses around here are super bizarre (at least to me). Given the huge push for energy efficiency and cost savings, they're only wood sheathing the hqndful of shear wall panels, leaving the bulk of the outside of the house as bare studs. Then they do an EIFS system over the top of everything (most of the thickness being insulation foam with a relatively thin coat of lightweight synthetic stucco over top).

No lath at all (although there seems to be some kind of fairly fine fabric mesh used in the stucco top coat), but they do have some kind of weather resistant barrier / drainage plane. Ive seen that tyvek stucco wrap used before. This latest one down the road had some kind of completely white wrap / no markings with deep vertical grooves.



For legitimate stucco systems, I do still see the tar paper + lath setups like youre talking about - especially additions / renovations on older homes. All of the ground up builds seem to use some other type of WRB though.

 

That looks great! And that is a lot of nails lol! Right now, it is so cold where I am at, I am not interested in doing stuff outside. But I am anxious to get working on things for my garage.

And it might be worth paying a company to stucco that garage. Especially if it is NOT a task you enjoy.