The door is in! We ended up using a company named Felluca Garage Doors. This is a colonial style with windows as the top row. So nice to be able to go out to the garage, turn a handle and open a door! For the last few years I was the only one who could open the door. Our last door was heavy and this one you could lift with one finger!
Our little monkey, Ryan, loves the new door!
This garage was built as a horse stall in the early 1900s. Since the day we moved in I hated the eaves--they were open and painted with a rounded moulding. I decided to add eaves and a roof return on each side that matches our house.
The front of the garage is now ready for siding. I think I will house wrap the front--so we don't have to look at that nasty siding all winter. Still working on the estimate for the siding. I will purchase the siding from B & L Wholesale, the same place I got the siding for the house a few years ago.
The Finished product! This project was way to much work. Thank goodness I won't have to touch this roof again for thirty years. On Saturday, I spent around five hours shingling up to the very top. I had to add a row to the other side and then cut a bunch of 3 tab shingles to make the cap.
I spent some time Sunday preparing the garage opening for our new garage door. We have an appointment to sign a contract for a colonial style door with windows. The door opening was suppose to be sixteen feet--the original opening was just shy of that. Today tore off the siding on either side of the opening. I removed the boards on either side and installed new columns on each side. Then I sheeted the side with plywood. I installed PVC board as the trip on the inside and on the front. The blue tarp is a poor attempt at keeping animals out for the next two days. I don't need to fight a raccoon.
The garage project has been on hold for the last few weekends. Two weekends ago I turned 40 and my wife took the entire family to NYC. We took the train in to watch the Yankees beat up on the Boston Red Sox. So no garage that weekend :( yeah right! Last weekend we spent the entire weekend at a lake house with friends. No garage again.
Today I got out there around 8am setting up the tools, music, and getting things started. My two boys came out to throw shingles away that I was throwing on the ground. Jackson also cleaned the entire garage of all the debris from the other side tear off! Looks great in there.
At around 9am, two of my friends showed up--Jerry and TK. Both had told me they wanted to come by and help me today but I didn't want to call them this morning. Not that getting help would have stunk, I just didn't want them to give any of their Saturday to slave at my place. It was so awesome to have their help!!! Jerry helped me tear off the last of the shingles and then the three of us started slamming up the plywood. When I was working alone, it took me so much time to bring each piece of plywood up and get it positioned. Today, in a matter of seconds the plywood was up and we were nailing it down! The tar paper was next as we made our way to the bottom. That was tons easier! By 1:15 we had this side ready for shingles--something that took be three weekends working alone. Check out our progress and thanks again guys!
This shows the foot long piece at the front that was rotted away. It also shows the plywood laid down by the previous owners when they fixed this side of the garage 20 years ago. The boards on the side of the garage were part of a system the previous owner used to hold several canoes. They were bolted in with the largest lag bolts I've ever seen.
This is the completed side. Doesn't look like much but there is new plywood and tar paper down.
Here is another view. Don't look at the nasty siding. We have lived with that garage looking like that because, honestly, I didn't know if I could fix the garage. Should have painted it but what for--it was a mess already. I have plans to side the garage to match the house. Probably, early spring!
Two weekends ago I finished the first side. I feel like I'm working so slow but doing this alone is really taking me forever. I've started work on the second side and hope to progress more. At least I've got this side done.
