A Garage is Born

Got the steel and the floor poured and the back and sides up (can't see them in this photo)

Bar-joist laid out and some upper pieces made and painted

My son and grandson helped hoist main bar-joist into place here posing with great pride.

Rented manual lifts worked great. End mounts were pre-assembled to the main bar-joist before lifting it in place.

Front and rear sub bar-joists were also set in place with the rented lifts. Every piece above the 8 foot perimeter were bolted in place while the studs (3.5x3.5) and the corners (6x6 angle) and the complete perimeter are all welded together except the section between garage door #2 and #3. This is bolted and hinged as detailed later.

Ends complete and front purlins installed. Original design was to set the purlins down flush with the top of the bar-joist but it was time consuming to do it that way. Note that the peak is not centered which makes a steep front half. This was due to the availability of the sizes of bar-joist. The longer ones could have been cut short to get a centered peek but that would have increased cost and required a re-fabricating of the joists.

Rear purlins were installed in a conventional mount on top for ease of mounting. The design engineer who had the purlins set down level with the top of the bar-joists on the front of the building was fired and a new engineer brought in on the project. (Old Me & New Me)

Front section where the two 8 ft garage doors are separated by a 4 ft section that can be also raised to allow ingress and egress of a Long E-Z airplane.

Upper part is complete and waiting for at least a 4 day forecast of good weather so the insulation and sheet metal can be installed on the roof.

Footers for the wall sheet metal are painted and waiting for roof install and floor to be refinished in E-poxy.

Some car work couldn't wait for roof so-----

While on the creeper I noticed the sky. Beautiful! Wish I was up there in my plane. Beautiful view from a creeper, thought I better get the shot before the roof covers it up. 

The roof is on and already a car sneaks in to get worked on. Back wall is up too.

Garage door tracks were modified to track up the roof line. Front is almost finished except for door lentil , door seals and some kind of gable over the access door.

One end finished, still need to finish other end and lentils over garage doors. Electric is just about finished. Still need to put up the loft at one end and close in the office/ PC room.

The framing of the loft is complete. Decking, more lights, hand rail and fold up stairs still needed.

Flooring, lights under the deck and a staircase from the rear of a TWA 727 have been added.

Hmmmm! Open a door and a Boyd Coddington rod rolls in. What next?

What else but a wing off of a Mooney. Hmmmm! I think if I measure I can get two full planes in if I hang them from that main beam.