@@NightWrencher haha yeah it escalated pretty quickly. The real work was adding those three beams to get that ceiling height and having it all pass code.
Wow that’s tight. Nice job working it out to get what you wanted. I remember my gramps place in Fullerton, CA. Small 2 bed one bath with porch. Out back though he had room for a 2.5 car garage with a carport on that. 90 degrees from it was another 2 car garage with a 10’ workshop he called his Dog house. He had all his deer antlers, rams horn from Catalina island bow hunts and an antique barber chair. He still had room for a garden and lemon and nut trees on that small lot. I got lucky. I sold my 3 bed ranch on a 50x100 lot back in 2007-just before the crash and with that same money I purchased 7 acres with a 20 year old cottage and two outbuilding: 30x40. & 30x50. My taxes are lower than living in the city and I’m surrounded with trees and farm fields. But that’s Wisconsin so I don’t have your nice weather or rust free cars.
First time viewer. Just want to note it was fun seeing a grapefruit tree in your back yard. I'm in Utah now, but grew up in southern California with citrus and avocado groves close by. Congrats on fulfilling one of your lifetime dreams.
Always great to have the additional space, amazing what just several feet in width or depth can do. Living in the Midwest it’s interesting to see the difference in building requirements. Due to our climate and frost levels, I’m in Wisconsin, our footings must be set at no less than 48” under grade, upon this the foundation walls are then poured. This is why basements are so common as little additional excavation is required to remove the balance of earth. Over the last 18 months I have added an extension on to my garage, this for a space to store as wrench on my Fairlane, other than excavation & concrete, I have done it all myself. Curious to your decision on the lift.
Just buy a 2 post lift. I picked up a Atlas 9k lift off amazon delivered to my employer (at the time) for 3,050 after tax. I don't really like working on vehicles so its just for maintenance. It makes things so much easier.
Really enjoyed this video and the differing requirements for construction. I have an 18x30 garage which I love but I want to gain more access within so your garage project was cool!
@@grantlingley1385 thanks! Yeah definitely a lot of earthquake related requirements like wall anchors and sheer walls but the rest of the inspection was honestly pretty chill. I didn’t mention it much in the video but also hit a lot of road blocks trying to expand my square footage due the houses in my neighborhood being so close together. But I’m very happy with how it all played out
@@matzrat5006 yeah, truth be told that wall I had removed was actually sagging down by a few inches and the slab was pretty badly cracked. New footings were probably needed
Congratulations on your shop expansion... Hopefully you're getting a 4-post lift, that's what I put in my 3 car garage to handle the 4th car. It makes a world of difference with routine maintenance and repairs, oil changes, tire changes and ALL undercarriage repairs. I'm too old and fat to be climbing under cars on jack stands anymore. Lol...My ceilings are 13ft also and I park my 70 Torino on top, with my wife's 2013 Ford Expedition King Ranch EL below. If it is a 4-post, just remember your first 5-10 lifts are critical to keeping it adjusted properly. All that should be explained in the packaging of your new lift.
@@jamesharris2615 thanks man, and yes I’m getting a double wide xl 4-post. The plan is to park one car in the middle so I can use the full 7’ headroom but have the option to store two up when needed. I can’t wait!
You got a great work crew on that job. Very impressed with the progress in just that short a period. BTW. Where did you store all your STUFF? Just getting started is always my hardest part of the job.
10mm sockets and spanners both go to the same place as 1 of a pair of socks. Once a pair of socks is placed into either a wasing machine or a tumble dryer it vanishes and goes to the same place as all the 10mms
@@charyllwenger1376 I may put some on the ceiling to keep the heat out if I ever close that off. But in the walls, completely unnecessary in my climate.
@@vatechguy3 thought about it, but I would have had to move the front door which would have caused some city code issues. Also sound, my garage gets pretty noisy.
Not bad for a few 1/2 days of work..probably better to just tear it down and start over..could have built a 2 story garage or 1.5 story with a storge loft..
@@JonnyMopar oh and I’d like to point out that my old garage size was about 6” too short to fit a second gen Charger. After it’s finished it should clear one with a few inches to spare 😉
@@chaseprosser8489 my garage sits right on the property line so had I torn the whole thing down, I would have had to rebuild it set back about 5ft. Would have lost a bunch of square footage
Looking at the build overall, I think you’d have been better off demolishing the building and starting from scratch. The work was made more difficult by working around existing structure. I also would have cut the grapefruit tree much further back.
@@mattbarrett41 not possible unfortunately… I had a wall sitting on the property line, had I knocked it down completely I would have had to build it about 5ft inward
As a builder and engineer, that was THE MOST complicated, expensive, way to (a) create enough floor strength for a hoist (2 or 4 post) and (b) create the extra headroom for a car on a hoist. (a) Pouring 0.5m³ of concrete under each leg (2 or 4) would have been sufficient. (b) To remove any roofing truss bottom cord only requires sister doubling of the rafters on each side. A short (high) collar tie can be added. And it only needs doing right over the hoist where your vehicle is lifted. Wall plates did not need touching.
Really nice to have more space, even though enough is never enough. I would have probably removed the entire roof and installed new trusses to span the new width of the garage. Would have probably not needed all the beams.
@@BubbasDad the main purpose of the project was to remove the trusses completely so I can gain ceiling height for my lift. That’s what those beams were for
OK good idea. Could have eliminated the beams by increasing the height of the walls. Already have one new wall. Engineered roof trusses can be designed to give you a vaulted ceiling with more height.
@ originally I wanted to do something like that, raise the wall height and do a flat type roof for double lift headroom. The price for building that up to current code was way out of my budget unfortunately
@@tonycosta3302 yeah actually wanted to do exactly that, but unfortunately it wasn’t an option. The garage is built exactly on my property line so had I rebuilt I would have had to move it I think five feet inward and set back from the alley another couple feet. I would have lost about a quarter of my square footage.
@@noboltsleftbehind Gave me a heart attack when you mentioned every car but the Z. Congrats on achieving your lifelong dream! Very quality videos can't wait for more !
If you don't mind me asking, but how much was it to do all this? I am contemplating building a garage; my house doesn't have one. I'm in the Los Angeles area too.....
@@eekay3646 architect and structural engineer plans were 3,500, city permitting was I think around 1000, demo and concrete was 12k, and rebuild was around 16k.
@ I had the extra square footage in the plans from the beginning, but the lack of wall footing after the concrete demo is what got me. Had it been maybe 6” I would have been ok but I had nothing extra under the normal slab so I had to go full 18”. One of my walls was sagging by a few inches so it was probably a good call anyway.
Those weren't trusses. Those were collar ties, and they keep your walls from splaying out and the roof collapsing. You need them. Are you maybe adding smaller ones further up?
Its a shame you couldn't go longer. Theres no way I'd cut down that grapefruit tree either. Its just a shame as a longer shop is sometime more useful than a wider one .
@@vatechguy3 because one of my walls is directly on the property line. Had I torn the whole thing down I would have had to rebuild it something like 5ft inward, shrinking the garage.
@@noboltsleftbehind Hello young man I just ran across your channel very interesting in getting that lift home ha ha it was really cool but I live in Dallas Texas about three minutes from Grapevine do you mind sharing the information with me about where to purchase a lift like that I have the garage that will fit perfectly I just need to know where I can buy one. Thank you so very much for your videos and may Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you and your family and your channel and I pray to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth to give you lots of love peace prosperity and safety for the rest of your life for you your family and all your viewers on your channel amen. PS please don’t forget to tell me where you purchased it and how much that would be very Grateful thank you. ✝️✝️✝️🙏🏻🇺🇸
@ I ordered my lift at heavyliftdirect.com and it’s an Amgo brand lift, they have a warehouse in Dallas. If you’re local you can order for will call and save yourself a ton I shipping 👍
I like watching your channel! I'm a relatively new subscriber and really enjoyed your C3 LS swap series! It would be better to watch if you would not swing your camera around so much and so fast. It makes your videos hard to watch.
YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SMARTER and better off to tear down all that old lumber and build a new garage , 2 story with a loft on top. I know you should of called me before you started all that work.
@@kingtut5923 my garage is built exactly on the property line, if I tore it all down I would have had to build the new one back about five feet and lose a bunch of square footage 😉
I am sure your neighbor loves that they can't fully open the door to their house. How in the world did you get permits to build new construction on a property line.
@@noboltsleftbehind First time viewer here. I did notice your camera has some weird perspective thing going on, everything looks smaller than it is. I thought your garage was only 10 or 12ft wide at the beginning of the video, until you put the camera down and started packing everything up 😆
Eh. Hired the work out.. lame.. bet that cost you around 20k at least to do.. if youd a done it yourself you woulda just paid maybe 3k for parts and materials.. tool rental would be another 600.. but yea like 4-5k
"I extended my shop out 3ft." When you told me this, this was not how I imagined you did it 🤣
@@NightWrencher haha yeah it escalated pretty quickly. The real work was adding those three beams to get that ceiling height and having it all pass code.
Wow that’s tight. Nice job working it out to get what you wanted.
I remember my gramps place in Fullerton, CA. Small 2 bed one bath with porch. Out back though he had room for a 2.5 car garage with a carport on that. 90 degrees from it was another 2 car garage with a 10’ workshop he called his Dog house.
He had all his deer antlers, rams horn from Catalina island bow hunts and an antique barber chair.
He still had room for a garden and lemon and nut trees on that small lot.
I got lucky. I sold my 3 bed ranch on a 50x100 lot back in 2007-just before the crash and with that same money I purchased 7 acres with a 20 year old cottage and two outbuilding: 30x40. & 30x50.
My taxes are lower than living in the city and I’m surrounded with trees and farm fields.
But that’s Wisconsin so I don’t have your nice weather or rust free cars.
Good deal man. Forget the naysayers, small garges and shops can do as well as gigantic shops.
Where did you buy the garage door and lift from?
Great build and great construction crew! Enjoyed the appreciation for the 1930's construction and the dettails for the new requirements for the build.
First time viewer. Just want to note it was fun seeing a grapefruit tree in your back yard. I'm in Utah now, but grew up in southern California with citrus and avocado groves close by. Congrats on fulfilling one of your lifetime dreams.
@@Bacardi_Limon thank you! I actually have an avocado tree in my yard too so a classic Southern California setup 👍 cheers from Long Beach 🍻
Just found your channel, Nice work on the garage reno! Its a cool garage
@@austinadventure thanks man!
Always great to have the additional space, amazing what just several feet in width or depth can do. Living in the Midwest it’s interesting to see the difference in building requirements. Due to our climate and frost levels, I’m in Wisconsin, our footings must be set at no less than 48” under grade, upon this the foundation walls are then poured. This is why basements are so common as little additional excavation is required to remove the balance of earth. Over the last 18 months I have added an extension on to my garage, this for a space to store as wrench on my Fairlane, other than excavation & concrete, I have done it all myself.
Curious to your decision on the lift.
Awesome!!!! I have a 40x30 shop and a large garage but I can’t convince the boss the lift is warranted lol
@@givemeaname1999 just get it. She'll never see it 🤣
Just buy a 2 post lift. I picked up a Atlas 9k lift off amazon delivered to my employer (at the time) for 3,050 after tax. I don't really like working on vehicles so its just for maintenance. It makes things so much easier.
Really enjoyed this video and the differing requirements for construction. I have an 18x30 garage which I love but I want to gain more access within so your garage project was cool!
@@grantlingley1385 thanks! Yeah definitely a lot of earthquake related requirements like wall anchors and sheer walls but the rest of the inspection was honestly pretty chill. I didn’t mention it much in the video but also hit a lot of road blocks trying to expand my square footage due the houses in my neighborhood being so close together. But I’m very happy with how it all played out
The footings are a nightmare, but you are going to have one solid garage. you'll love it.Do a wall of peg board.
@@matzrat5006 yeah, truth be told that wall I had removed was actually sagging down by a few inches and the slab was pretty badly cracked. New footings were probably needed
Congratulations on your shop expansion... Hopefully you're getting a 4-post lift, that's what I put in my 3 car garage to handle the 4th car. It makes a world of difference with routine maintenance and repairs, oil changes, tire changes and ALL undercarriage repairs. I'm too old and fat to be climbing under cars on jack stands anymore. Lol...My ceilings are 13ft also and I park my 70 Torino on top, with my wife's 2013 Ford Expedition King Ranch EL below. If it is a 4-post, just remember your first 5-10 lifts are critical to keeping it adjusted properly. All that should be explained in the packaging of your new lift.
@@jamesharris2615 thanks man, and yes I’m getting a double wide xl 4-post. The plan is to park one car in the middle so I can use the full 7’ headroom but have the option to store two up when needed. I can’t wait!
@noboltsleftbehind done deal!
That’s pretty cool, gave me motivation for mine lol
Got to love tree climbing Barry. Great video! Looking great!
@@just_another_car_show thank you good sir! Next time I see you I’ll bring you some grapefruits
Super impressed with your skills!
What a ton of great work!! Looking good! Now come do mine! LOL!
So when you had it in the air did you consider jacking it up 3 ft pouring a stem wall to set it on
thanks for getting the cages out tray
You got a great work crew on that job. Very impressed with the progress in just that short a period. BTW. Where did you store all your STUFF? Just getting started is always my hardest part of the job.
@@pjdambra I piled all my junk in my backyard and prayed it didn’t rain 😂
10mm sockets and spanners both go to the same place as 1 of a pair of socks. Once a pair of socks is placed into either a wasing machine or a tumble dryer it vanishes and goes to the same place as all the 10mms
We insulated and sheetrocked our garage when we built it
16:38 saws all with a Diablo blade
Thanks for sharing!
Damn that looks good!
@@liquidflorian thanks!
Great video 👍
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Cool car my favorite to mustang
My is name Jimmy Weaver
As a Canadian, who relies on the stuff, insulation, even in warmer climates.
@@charyllwenger1376 I may put some on the ceiling to keep the heat out if I ever close that off. But in the walls, completely unnecessary in my climate.
All that work to get 3’? Insanity! You should have pushed it right to your house and have another egress.
Did you consider connecting the garage to the house?
@@vatechguy3 thought about it, but I would have had to move the front door which would have caused some city code issues. Also sound, my garage gets pretty noisy.
WOW...that's a lot of stuff !! Good job ! Did you sell your rear disk brakes from your 8 3/4 yet? If not how much did you want for it? Thanks
Thanks! And yes, those disc brakes are spoken for unfortunately, I found someone local that's gonna take them.
Ok, thanks 😊
Not bad for a few 1/2 days of work..probably better to just tear it down and start over..could have built a 2 story garage or 1.5 story with a storge loft..
Congrats ..
Just out of pure curiosity. What was the reasoning not to just connect to the house ? I’m assuming insurance or code reasons?
It was a building code thing, it would have gotten complicated to move the door.
That's awesome. What was the old foot print? 20'x20'? And the new foot print?
@@JonnyMopar old footprint was 17x17, new footprint is 18x20
@@JonnyMopar oh and I’d like to point out that my old garage size was about 6” too short to fit a second gen Charger. After it’s finished it should clear one with a few inches to spare 😉
I'm confused, all the labor, removal,additional wood. I don't really see much being saved. Wouldn't be best to scrap it and start from flat?
@@chaseprosser8489 my garage sits right on the property line so had I torn the whole thing down, I would have had to rebuild it set back about 5ft. Would have lost a bunch of square footage
ok, so city grandfather law keeps the sqft in place. Got it. Ty
How many yards were poured? How much did it cost ?
Was that Odel concrete that did the slab? They have a YT channel as well.
You only rent 10mm sockets and spanners. It is the way of the world.
Are you going to insulate the walls?
@@onmywayout I’m doing some sound insulation on one side, otherwise no
Looking at the build overall, I think you’d have been better off demolishing the building and starting from scratch. The work was made more difficult by working around existing structure. I also would have cut the grapefruit tree much further back.
@@mattbarrett41 not possible unfortunately… I had a wall sitting on the property line, had I knocked it down completely I would have had to build it about 5ft inward
@. Sounds about right. I dealt with a lot line issue like that when I lived in Massachusetts.
As a builder and engineer, that was THE MOST complicated, expensive, way to (a) create enough floor strength for a hoist (2 or 4 post) and (b) create the extra headroom for a car on a hoist.
(a) Pouring 0.5m³ of concrete under each leg (2 or 4) would have been sufficient.
(b) To remove any roofing truss bottom cord only requires sister doubling of the rafters on each side. A short (high) collar tie can be added. And it only needs doing right over the hoist where your vehicle is lifted. Wall plates did not need touching.
Are those grapefruit for sale? 😂
@@mrphiscal haha man if I could sell those I’d be rich, at any given moment I seem to have about five hundred of them
Really nice to have more space, even though enough is never enough. I would have probably removed the entire roof and installed new trusses to span the new width of the garage. Would have probably not needed all the beams.
@@BubbasDad the main purpose of the project was to remove the trusses completely so I can gain ceiling height for my lift. That’s what those beams were for
OK good idea. Could have eliminated the beams by increasing the height of the walls. Already have one new wall. Engineered roof trusses can be designed to give you a vaulted ceiling with more height.
@ originally I wanted to do something like that, raise the wall height and do a flat type roof for double lift headroom. The price for building that up to current code was way out of my budget unfortunately
I understand
It seems like it would have been cheaper and faster to tear it down and rebuild it. A garage that size can go up in a few days with a good crew.
Thats what I thought.
@@tonycosta3302 yeah actually wanted to do exactly that, but unfortunately it wasn’t an option. The garage is built exactly on my property line so had I rebuilt I would have had to move it I think five feet inward and set back from the alley another couple feet. I would have lost about a quarter of my square footage.
Hopefully a couch or bed doesn't need to be moved from the house out that door 😲
My lifelong dream is having a billion dollars, yours is getting a lift? Dream bigger bro!
He got the lift before you will ever get a billion dollars.
@ yeah when you dream small I guess
Do you still have the z32?
@@Soukoou yes I do, I realized I forgot to mention it when I was watching the video back 😂
@@noboltsleftbehind Gave me a heart attack when you mentioned every car but the Z. Congrats on achieving your lifelong dream! Very quality videos can't wait for more !
If you don't mind me asking, but how much was it to do all this? I am contemplating building a garage; my house doesn't have one. I'm in the Los Angeles area too.....
@@eekay3646 architect and structural engineer plans were 3,500, city permitting was I think around 1000, demo and concrete was 12k, and rebuild was around 16k.
@@noboltsleftbehind
Thanks for the info.
@@noboltsleftbehind Did the assessor reassess because you added sq. ft.?
@ I had the extra square footage in the plans from the beginning, but the lack of wall footing after the concrete demo is what got me. Had it been maybe 6” I would have been ok but I had nothing extra under the normal slab so I had to go full 18”. One of my walls was sagging by a few inches so it was probably a good call anyway.
@noboltsleftbehind over $30k?? That's absolutley insane..
More room, more activites, more cars...
@@AutomotiveAnatomy damn right 💪
yea way over there is death valley,vegas
u gotta figure in the underground lots, usually it goes in order common sense
I would have done it myself. I would have took the whole thing down and rebuilt it 3 ft bigger nonsense I'm happy you got your dream accomplished
Those weren't trusses. Those were collar ties, and they keep your walls from splaying out and the roof collapsing. You need them. Are you maybe adding smaller ones further up?
@@paulheitkemper1559 I’m not adding any back in, it’ll be like a vaulted ceiling
@noboltsleftbehind interesting. Best of luck!
@ thanks! Obviously this was designed by an architect and structural engineer, and then approved by the city. Pretty common thing to do
.......If only I had known. I would of let you put those old jankee tool boxes in the back of my truck and sent them over to my house.
@@Dancing_Alone_wRentals 😂
Its a shame you couldn't go longer. Theres no way I'd cut down that grapefruit tree either. Its just a shame as a longer shop is sometime more useful than a wider one .
we stay swappinf families in and out on bunker hill
no im staying in todayim cutting wires to all these hidden devices
Probably should have just connected it to your house. you do you though.
@@gengiex there were some issues with building code and moving the front door, it would have gotten complicated.
just pretwnd jr theres a prison cell under each valid trailer address, lol
Rafter ties, they aren’t trusses
18" concrete for a shed / Garage?.. Ridiculous
He's doing it for a car lift, it's a lot better just to do it beefy the first time. Buy once cry once.
WTF Shit Shingles, you should've used steel. Stronger and last a lot longer.
Why not tear it down and start from scratch?
@@vatechguy3 because one of my walls is directly on the property line. Had I torn the whole thing down I would have had to rebuild it something like 5ft inward, shrinking the garage.
@@noboltsleftbehind Hello young man I just ran across your channel very interesting in getting that lift home ha ha it was really cool but I live in Dallas Texas about three minutes from Grapevine do you mind sharing the information with me about where to purchase a lift like that I have the garage that will fit perfectly I just need to know where I can buy one. Thank you so very much for your videos and may Jesus Christ of Nazareth bless you and your family and your channel and I pray to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth to give you lots of love peace prosperity and safety for the rest of your life for you your family and all your viewers on your channel amen. PS please don’t forget to tell me where you purchased it and how much that would be very Grateful thank you. ✝️✝️✝️🙏🏻🇺🇸
@ I ordered my lift at heavyliftdirect.com and it’s an Amgo brand lift, they have a warehouse in Dallas. If you’re local you can order for will call and save yourself a ton I shipping 👍
is that dora the explorer
Your QR code doesn't work on your shed door. 🙄
Your not going to put in installation
@@OwenWilson-f5x nah. Not really any need in my climate
I like watching your channel! I'm a relatively new subscriber and really enjoyed your C3 LS swap series! It would be better to watch if you would not swing your camera around so much and so fast. It makes your videos hard to watch.
have a clean out first
1:39 this could be the most annoying music I’ve ever heard but it fits so well with the high speed video work clip. I’m so confused.
YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SMARTER and better off to tear down all that old lumber and build a new garage , 2 story with a loft on top. I know you should of called me before you started all that work.
@@kingtut5923 my garage is built exactly on the property line, if I tore it all down I would have had to build the new one back about five feet and lose a bunch of square footage 😉
@@kingtut5923 oh, and that old lumber is California redwood, pretty darn good stuff. Why waste it?
I am sure your neighbor loves that they can't fully open the door to their house. How in the world did you get permits to build new construction on a property line.
That little building there is mine, and the space between the two structures is well within city code. But thanks for your concern 😉
@@noboltsleftbehind First time viewer here. I did notice your camera has some weird perspective thing going on, everything looks smaller than it is. I thought your garage was only 10 or 12ft wide at the beginning of the video, until you put the camera down and started packing everything up 😆
Eh. Hired the work out.. lame.. bet that cost you around 20k at least to do.. if youd a done it yourself you woulda just paid maybe 3k for parts and materials.. tool rental would be another 600.. but yea like 4-5k
It cost him over 30k...