Hope everyone is well, join me as I fix some rotten timber framing in my garage. Not a bad job just time consuming but the end result was worthwhile. Take care 🙂
I just bought an older metal 'Versatile' garage on TradeMe in Christchurch, 6m x 6m. It was up for sale at 'buy now' price of NZ $3000, and I bought it. I then hired someone to take the garage apart for me, and he then brought it to my property in two large trailer loads for about $1200. So I've spent $4200 already on it, and it still needs cement floor (at at least $2000). So I'll be at $6,200 MINIMUM when it's mostly finished. Unfortunately though, neither myself nor the person I had hired to help me, had looked at the condition of the wood framing carefully enough, until after it reached my property. And there is lots of sponge-y, rotten, wood in most of the timber framing. The garage would be at least 20 years old, but is likely quite a bit older than that. So I don't know what to do now? I don't know if I have to replace all of the wood framing that is rotten, which I'm guessing would be very costly, or if there is a way that I can 'fix' just the rotted parts of the framing, (of course, it might ALL be rotten. But I'm not sure about that yet.). ANY ADVICE OR IDEAS YOU CAN GIVE ME PLEASE?? I'll be in financial trouble if I end up not able to afford the cost of the job. I would initially be using the garage for storage, as I have no more space in my house for it. Thanks for any advice - Cheers!
Hi there, sorry to hear about that about your timber framing especially going to the trouble with transporting it to a new site and then finding the rot. Have you had a chance to inspect all the framing now what is it like? I would find it hard believe for a 20 year old garage that all the timber will be full of rot, unless the garage was already disassembled stored outside and the wood left exposed to the weather or sitting on the ground for a considerable amount of time. For me I would just inspect what you have, and replace the wood framing that is rotten similar to what I had done in the video. If its just all the bottom timber plates that have rot I would replace them and should be easier to do if the garage is still apart you will just need an extra pair of hands to help move the disassembled garage sections, remove nails to bottom plate from cladding side, lie sections with the cladding side on ground (grass or soft ground) and remove rotten timber bottom plate and replace with new timber. However if it was every bit of timber it may not be worth while. Hope that helps, interested to hear your findings, Thanks 👍
@@MannixGarage - Thank you. As soon it stops raining I"ll start having a better look at what I've now got. Heavy black plastic sheeting was put on the ground, and then more sheeting was placed over it on top. But the guys who removed the garage to my property didn't do the best sheet covering job to make sure that water wouldn't get in under the sheeting. They did accidentally cut in to some of the sheeting and it's been a nightmare trying to cover up every little slash. Anyway - thanks for now
Hope everyone is well, join me as I fix some rotten timber framing in my garage. Not a bad job just time consuming but the end result was worthwhile. Take care 🙂
Many congratulations 🥳
Thanks so much, hope you and the family are well 🙂👍
I just bought an older metal 'Versatile' garage on TradeMe in Christchurch, 6m x 6m. It was up for sale at 'buy now' price of NZ $3000, and I bought it. I then hired someone to take the garage apart for me, and he then brought it to my property in two large trailer loads for about $1200. So I've spent $4200 already on it, and it still needs cement floor (at at least $2000). So I'll be at $6,200 MINIMUM when it's mostly finished.
Unfortunately though, neither myself nor the person I had hired to help me, had looked at the condition of the wood framing carefully enough, until after it reached my property. And there is lots of sponge-y, rotten, wood in most of the timber framing. The garage would be at least 20 years old, but is likely quite a bit older than that.
So I don't know what to do now? I don't know if I have to replace all of the wood framing that is rotten, which I'm guessing would be very costly, or if there is a way that I can 'fix' just the rotted parts of the framing, (of course, it might ALL be rotten. But I'm not sure about that yet.).
ANY ADVICE OR IDEAS YOU CAN GIVE ME PLEASE?? I'll be in financial trouble if I end up not able to afford the cost of the job. I would initially be using the garage for storage, as I have no more space in my house for it.
Thanks for any advice - Cheers!
Hi there, sorry to hear about that about your timber framing especially going to the trouble with transporting it to a new site and then finding the rot. Have you had a chance to inspect all the framing now what is it like?
I would find it hard believe for a 20 year old garage that all the timber will be full of rot, unless the garage was already disassembled stored outside and the wood left exposed to the weather or sitting on the ground for a considerable amount of time.
For me I would just inspect what you have, and replace the wood framing that is rotten similar to what I had done in the video. If its just all the bottom timber plates that have rot I would replace them and should be easier to do if the garage is still apart you will just need an extra pair of hands to help move the disassembled garage sections, remove nails to bottom plate from cladding side, lie sections with the cladding side on ground (grass or soft ground) and remove rotten timber bottom plate and replace with new timber. However if it was every bit of timber it may not be worth while.
Hope that helps, interested to hear your findings, Thanks 👍
@@MannixGarage - Thank you. As soon it stops raining I"ll start having a better look at what I've now got. Heavy black plastic sheeting was put on the ground, and then more sheeting was placed over it on top. But the guys who removed the garage to my property didn't do the best sheet covering job to make sure that water wouldn't get in under the sheeting. They did accidentally cut in to some of the sheeting and it's been a nightmare trying to cover up every little slash. Anyway - thanks for now
@protospha cool, yes let me know what you find. Thanks 👍