How to Build a Garage #1 - Layout and Concrete Piers

What's up guys so I am going to be starting We are going to be starting a 30 by 40 garage and this is a residential garage It's gonna be 12 foot tall and it's gonna have a 16 foot door in the front what I would say is probably the most common residential garage out there and Small enough to be built by just about anybody What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to this build series. You're gonna want to follow along you're gonna want to subscribe I'm gonna try to take you through step by step what it takes to put this up And hopefully you'll be able to do this yourself if you want to if you're not my area if you're in my area You know, hopefully you give me a call. Let me build it for you first thing that I got to do when we show up site is Logistically, we've got to make sure everything is where we want it and get prepared a site that is basically a jumbled up mess You just start off on the wrong foot. We don't have a ton of room I mean, you know typically if you're out in a farm You know out the middle of a field you got all sorts of room to put stuff everywhere But this is our site. We've got a 30 by 40. I don't probably need the 33 94 mega deck but You know, I'm gonna use it. Anyway, all this material got dropped by my supplier Now we've got to put it in a spot get it out of our way So that we can start cutting it up. So we lay out this building and get it dug in so one of the first things that we're going to do is we're going to find in our layout our constant line and so what the customers requested back here is they've got a porch off the house that they want us to square the back or Run our back of our wall parallel with so what we're doing back here is we're getting a string line Attached to that porch and then we ran it Parallel to that porch to determine where the back of our building is And once we have that line to find that will be your constant line that you won't move Throughout the process of getting your building laid out and square Pretty old-fashioned way of doing our setup we use jet Stakes so you can see this nail right down here. That is our loose location that was defined Based on running a parallel line off of this porch You can see the string sitting there. This is the location the customer already determined where they wanted to start the building over here There was a post here a little stick So we measured over our 30 foot on this string line to determine that point so this line will stay here and we'll use that to determine the Front two corners up here and we'll do that by pulling some tapes Both on the walls and across the diagonal. Okay. So what we've done is we use that back line as our constant we then basically used Two nails on the ground to find a square dimension Which is this nail that we got on the ground right here? And then all we're gonna do temporarily is put our string lines Visually over that nail to get it close enough that we can then pull out our tapes and get exact dimensions on these strings Gregor you looped down there. Yeah, okay Little over-under not Okay There's that and then let's pull Let's go ahead and pull then Greg gonna pull the tape off Yeah, but you don't have a 39 Niner, right? Yep So we're just pulling off of that mark down there, this is a 39-foot nine to mention He's burning me a foot, which means I'm gonna mark 40 foot nine inch And we're all set a nail You got enough over there Zack if I put a loop Do it a little tug, okay All right, we just got everything laid down we got our marks all on the ground So now the fun part busting out the Kubota to do some digging What I always have Greg do is he goes around with the level and that level? Not only oops that level not only determines to be perfectly underneath that string line but also the distance of it so that like two and a half inches of level keeps our whole Center so that our bracket when it sits center of The peer if that makes sense So when the bracket is in the center of the peer on the center of the hole It should be on the edge of that string line that make sense Greg. I think it does Yeah, you've done it a lot of time. So the more time that you spend in the setup stage You know the layout the thought process the more time you spend there. Don't get in a hurry the better The end result will be guaranteed All right, we got the holes dug and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna go around And we're gonna take what we call crummers or like a clamshell Shovel, and we're gonna clean out all that loose dirt that's down in the bottom I know in some of the videos you see us kick the dirt back in that's really just to clean around the hole Instead of having to shovel it over to the pile. We let the auger do the work so you can kind of see here Getting a little bit of moisture down there in the bottom we have had a bunch of rain in the last couple days But goal is to get these cleaned out as much as possible well look at that That was cool, huh? We're right by an airport, so we're gonna have planes flying over us It's a big I think it's a FedEx UPS terminal big one. So there's always 747s coming in so that's kind of cool. We got the Stabila rotary laser set up We're gonna go around now, we're gonna set all of our tubes in their locations and get them to grade So when I say sonotubes these are what I'm talking about. They're really that's just a generic name These are actually coil inserts 40 inch by 20 inch 20 inch diameter 40 inches tall and we cut these down just to form the top of our sonotube and make the top a little bit smaller than the bottom of the hole and these come from Metal suppliers. So these are Basically, I don't pay but I think 2 bucks apiece for these things if anybody's bought sonotubes, you know how expensive they are So now that it's time to set our tubes in the ground We've already got a predetermined grade height measurement So that's sitting on the laser and I'm gonna basically put this tube I'm gonna put this tube at that laser mark And the top of them will all be the same and that kind of is more of a visual thing and it makes it easier for us to Build our walls later on down the road. We don't have measurements all across the board Oh, hey Greg, yeah Yep Go ahead So we're just gonna then fill around this tube and that friction alone is what's gonna hold this tube where we want it Yep, it's gonna hold it where we want it until we pour already mix and all so what this does is this This brings the top of this hole a little bit smaller than what the rest of the hole is at the bottom that way there's a little bit of a bell shape and it helps with uplift or heat down the road So, there we go, we've got all of our holes Ready for concrete you can see in there nice and clean on the bottom this is Usually the case if you look around see how much further Zoom in here way back in that corner, see how that tube is sticking out of the ground about 8 inches and across that whole back typical Excavator comes in puts in a quote unquote level pad and it's usually closed But the sonotubes never lie the top of them are all set with the laser and you can see this one is flush And then they drop down drop down drop down drop down and then they come back up the hill So, you know, we're gonna always set our tubes Level so that our brackets are level when you look across because eventually they're gonna pour a floor in here They're gonna do all that work and we want that to be nice and level all the way around So there we go. That's it now Concrete truck will come in here after lunch. We'll get these poured and then we'll set these brackets These are midwest perma column brackets. So we get these questions all the time They're sturdy wall 630 Peas and these are for actually it's 63 Ot and the OT is for Ohio Timberland. These are made specifically for Ohio Timberland Post because Ohio Timberland Post Which is what we're using they are milled they take those three ply columns and every two by six in them gets ran through a mill to get to become true Dimension and when they do that, you're obviously gonna lose a little bit of dimension So instead of being a four and a half by five and a half post, it's like four and three-eighths by five and three-eighths Okay, you can see behind me. We got the concrete truck coming so Six bag mix is what we're putting in these holes. We're out of the, you know winter time calcium hot water thing Just like that concrete board Get everything poured we got it smoothed off Now we're going to do we're going to go through we'll mark all of our locations on the string Exactly where we want to set these brackets and then we will We'll get them set Easy Burn the foot eight four and a half 23 You

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Length: 15min 22sec (922 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 06 2018