So Many Men, So Little Time

This garage project is taking forever.

When last we left, the garage roof had just been framed and the old doors were still on the front. All that has changed. In fact, it's now early July and the garage is almost done. 'Bout freakin' time.

By the middle of June the garage had a roof and siding, as you can see here. Our original plan had called for a door in the back of the peaked roof so we could walk into our new storage space. That didn't work. For starters, the city didn't like that idea at all, saying it would turn the garage into "living space," which would trigger all sorts of zoning problems. That turned out to be moot, because the peaked area of the garage is only about three feet high. There's no way you could walk into it, so no need for a door.

Instead, we put in a hatch. From inside the garage, we just pull a rope in the ceiling and out pops a folding ladder, like an old attic hatchway. That'll give us access to the storage space above, and convinces the city that we're not renting out the space to illegal aliens.

After the roof and hatch came weeks and weeks of... nothing. We could hear the power tools but couldn't see much progress. The guys were doing detail work to the front, making the peak match the gables on the house. They did a terrific job, but it seemed to take forever, and we're paying them by the hour.

By late June the garage doors had come off and the three remaining sides had been covered in ship-lap siding, just like the house. The center concrete post is also gone, replaced by a much narrower framed-in one. Now we're ready for doors. Hah!