It's now late August and the garage is actually... done!
Well, almost. The professional construction is finished. Kathy and I still have to paint the garage and take care of a few small details. But the contractors have packed up, they've submitted their final invoices* and we've got the place back to ourselves.
One of the last steps was hot-mopping the "deck" portion on the back of the garage, seen here. The garage roof doesn't extend all the way over the entire garage. That would have interfered with the house, so we roofed over only the front three-quarters of the garage and left the back portion (that is, the end away from the street) flat. It was waterproofed with black roofing tar covered with a layer of white sand, and that's what this photo shows.
You can also just make out a shiny new metal scupper (gutter) running along the back edge of the garage. This catches rainwater and guides it into a rain barrel that we'll place just out of sight in the lower-right corner of the photo.
The city permit says we're not supposed to have access to this "deck" area. Otherwise it would need a safety railing around it and all sorts of other complications. We're planning to set a few flowerpots on it and that's about it.
The back end of the roof just needs a few more cedar shingles, as you can see, and then it'll be all done. At last!
*The #^&@! garage remodel cost more than the cars parked inside it. Seriously.
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