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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Pic 12: Up-North Michigan begins North of this sign!
It does?  I always figured it started at the bridge. 
Not for us trolls who live below the bridge! Though we do love the U.P.and try to vacation up there once a year, Antrim County is a wonderful slice of America! 
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Awesome indeed! Can you share how much $$ you are into this for? I am looking to do a similar master suite over a 2 bay garage that would be connected by a short elevated hallway to my smallish Cape Cod. 
I want geothermal also, but a wood stove/ pellet stove should heat what you have with no trouble.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Looks awesome! Out of curiousity, how do you plan to manaage the cold garage under the living space? Will you heat the garage too or insulate the floor? It gets quite cold here in Kansas and our walls have a blown-in insulation which does a great job filling any voids you can't get too with rolled insulation. See ya got it shingled quickly too. Once you get the roof and siding done you are in good shape for winter! Again, looks great and keep the picts coming! 
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Looks awesome! Out of curiousity, how do you plan to manaage the cold garage under the living space? Will you heat the garage too or insulate the floor?
We're going to have the floor trusses (18" deep) blown full of insulation after the plumbing heat/cold-air-runs and electrical are finished. I need to drywall the ceiling of the garage and leave a 4-foot section of drywall out down the center of the ceiling. This is so the insulating company can blow it in both ways. They then net and fill the void before I finishing hanging the drywall.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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We're going to have the floor trusses (18" deep) blown full of insulation after the plumbing heat/cold-air-runs and electrical are finished. I need to drywall the ceiling of the garage and leave a 4-foot section of drywall out down the center of the ceiling. This is so the insulating company can blow it in both ways. They then net and fill the void before I finishing hanging the drywall.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Looks great!
Remember not to run your engines in there on cold days. Carbon monodxide kills every winter!
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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11/25/11 10:53 PM
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Me and my wife our building this in Northern Michigan, on a recreational piece of property we own. I was going to build a pole bar and continue using our camper until we could afford to build a cabin. But this design allows living space and storage for the toys for a price we can afford. We just got back from working on it. I worked one day from 4:00 in the morning til 6:00 at night screwing deck boards down during a nasty snow storm.  We池e trying to do as much work on it ourselves as we can to save money. We hope to have it sided and weathered in by the first week of December.
Boy can we relate. Building a similar layout here on St. Croix now, will eventually be my yacht design office/guest house over the garage/shop. That is, if we can ever afford to build the main house.
One question, is there any steel in that pour???? I guess you don't get hurricanes and earthquakes like we do.
Good luck with the project, we will be up early sanding, wood oiling, routing, screwing, gluing, sawing on ours tomorrow.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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One question, is there any steel in that pour???? I guess you don't get hurricanes and earthquakes like we do.
We did put re-rod in the footings, and believe it or not 卜etal hurricane clips are required on all roof trusses by the Michigan building codes. They fasten the trusses to the walls.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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11/26/11 10:30 AM
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That is really neat. I looked at some plans for something like that a year or so ago when my wife and I found a piece of property we were interested in buying. It was sold just mins. before we were going to make an offer and then back on the market for twice as much 10 days later.  We still may do something like that in the future so I can't wait to see more progress pics. BTW, pic 11 is very nice. Joe
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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Wow... that is one cool place. I'd love to build something like that but my knees couldn't handle the stairs ever day. I'd need a lift...lol!
Congrats....
Bryan
Bryan, I知 sure I値l regret all the stairs someday. I must have already gone up and down them 500 times. We hope to move up there someday. And when we do, I plan to build a single story home onto the garage.
Well that solves the only issue/question I saw with a very nice-looking setup. Enjoy.
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Re: I知 building a 3-stall garage with living space above
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11/27/11 04:53 PM
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How thick do they require the garage sheet rock be on the ceiling for a fire block?
5/8th sheet rock is required for a fire block. 
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