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Garage Update! - All the space in the world (Patreon)

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2023-03-05 20:49:58
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2026-06
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The next big milestone for the garage renovation has been hit! The rafter ties were limiting the amount of usable vertical space, so I completely nixed them and added a super huge LVL beam running across the ridge!

The newly added collar ties are almost 4 feet higher than where the rafter ties were, leaving the total usable height to just over 11 feet! That might actually be the same amount of height I had in the big red barn, but either way, there's actually room to throw a motorcycle on the moveable workbench I built and wheel it around, and of course room to install a car lift!

There's still a few more little things to take care of before I'm done filming the next episode, but this is such a huge improvement to the space already! I'm honestly so excited :)

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Ethan

Wow that looks so great!

Steve Bausman

It looks really great Ronnie. But maybe it's just the camera angle or something but it looks like one single really long glb. Did a structural engineer already sign off on it for horizontal shear? I just want to make sure you live through high winds :-). Perhaps some more hurricane ties and hangers?

Chris Holly

Will it be Wildfire or Bendpak?

Ronald Finger

Good eye! It is just a single LVL beam. I specifically asked my structural engineer about that since I've almost always seen them doubled up, but he said as long as it's braced with collar ties every 8 feet, it'll be perfectly fine! And more hurricane ties are coming! I just didn't feel up to installing them on every rafter just yet haha

Ronald Finger

I'm probably just going to steal the MaxJax one from my parents barn :)

Steve Bausman

Sweet! Grab yourself a palm nailer from harbor freight to lay all of those Simpson strong nails in and it goes super fast and easy.

Joseph Piarulli

All I can say is WOW My friend did something similar when he brought in one of those heady topper wood spans for his NJ farmhouse he renovated down to the studs. This is going to make a HUGE difference when you can work on the bikes and the 280

Goofy_Goober

Did you bring the garage cat or did he come with the home?

Nubbles

Love this for you! What an awesome space

TheSnadd

G A R A G E C A T

Richard Farmer

Garage looks really good Ronald, nice to have some usable space. Looking forward to you adding the lift.

Scott Hampshire

The video on this installation is going to be legit.

Matt McDonough

I loved the video and renovation in the garage. While it was emptied out you should have epoxied the floors. Trust me from experience, if you wait, it will never be this empty ever again and you will never get back around to it.

Andreas M

Really cool, would you explain how this kind of structural change is possible?

Great Joe

I do hope you wound up putting a GFCI into that breaker panel. Typical breakers don't protect against ground faults, and those are the ones where the metal shell of a machine could zap you dead. The house's main panel also isn't protecting you against ground faults, since you ran that separate ground spike.