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Reviewing the Dream Garage Project Plans

Bob and Ryley review the architectural plans for the "Dream Garage". Features, such as the various storage areas and window elements, are discussed as well as the project's post and beam construction.
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Reviewing the Dream Garage Project Plans

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" Well we have got ourselves. Great little design doing here let's kind of review. On your plan what we're talking about building what this is the profile up at the side elevation right. Yeah that's I eighty feet long and it's going to be this is a group. The garage door in the center of the built -- little off center. And this side over here has got a lot cathedral ceiling. In the middle here is a loft area where Bob this is where the skylight look into a lot yet in this section over here is that more story and it's accessible."

" From both ends so that it -- and we've got a large twelve foot garage door and the other and we got a pair of doors and we're hoping to be able to put together window configurations like this but I'm not sure about that yet. Let's let's look at it in in plan though has its. Pretty complicated. Off this. Storage area is really that the kind of the largest area 38 feet by 26 feet. We'll throw in some skylight so there's always liked there then a set of stairs that leads up to a loft space. Good dry storage space space and then we'll be partitioning this area off. To create. An area that can be. Heated in the wintertime right that's -- parent putting in some hydronic heat in the slab yes exactly right exactly and then we'll have to -- from here."

" Let's let's let's look at your foundation Baghdad. It's really great that this whole tradition is still with us you know this whole post and -- tradition -- beauty of timber frame here knowing one's lends itself to residential as well as facilities as -- storage the beauty of the post and beam helps us get these -- spans and cathedrals Britain's large cavities -- boat -- that's for sure. Now we won't have a basement under this right united slab on grade so we do have this concern ourselves with is getting below the frost line as live in New England there. I'm so that means digging how deep but we want to get at least four feet below the frost line or so off putting Sierra going to be about four point eight. Down below grade. This is today a little green indicates the flooding that's not putting him right he even got front and the key way and win every battle corrupt. Connect the wall to the foot okay and this is the wall itself now we're not doing a traditional wooden form work pour here on this going to be an interesting -- knew that product we're gonna try out here called lite form yeah and it's that I set up farms they may have two inch. -- And you set the foam on the footings and and you pull out the concrete inside of -- man to leave it and that the -- can actually hold the concrete I can't wait to see it -- joke all right so than this is that the perimeter of the building right here Paul what are these squares here those suburbs putting it's which helps disperse the waste of these. Hostess being structured coming down under slab treatment. If you're better bearing capacity Yorkers have you put a post directly on those values probably end up cracking it."

" Well let's walk the plot of land a little bit to get a better idea where it actually -- the back end is over here right -- The overall size of the building has 26 by eighty. Yeah as a large building it's not like putting up a little ten by ten foot garden -- your backyard all right not at all so this is a corner of the building what are all these little flags all over the place while they spelled and is adjacent to the existing going here right in the corridor -- utilities are coming and so the first thing we did was called fixate may have come down knocked out the gas lines. Underground cable and electrical lines are lots of stuff so we. Don't get into any problems and all these things are buried here close enough that -- prosecuted have to do some hand digging in this area right definitely but this is the back of the building where we'll have to garage doors tight right this is Jim while Bob Tim our -- or not he's not surveyor are here today. So the this is the actual twenty what does it when he wanted to mention to respect -- yeah now the the first question that comes to mind is how do you figure out exactly where these points are on. A person's locked."

" In this case here we started with the center line of the road and and this particular building is on minimum says -- minimum setback. From the sidelines so account in sixteen feet from the silent -- and that's where we begin. With the building -- OK so almost any community will have some sort of regulations about how close you can set your building to. The side of the road yes there -- various zoning suspects in this in this case here it's fifteen but in order to give everybody an extra what. We've made it sixty animals or there's a rural unrest OK so that's where will be digging for the corner right there."

" That's right and once we get bad day again I'm actually a column back to have painted inside the hole because we have so claws and likely to get that machine started. You know are promised that I haven't -- ago."

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