[brunothedog]

New job as the Clients want another opening for a second car.
Its a historic building and will be doing it the old way.
Here I had to order 2 300yr. old oak beams,

 

[brunothedog]

Finally, Client wants a garage door where the window is.
gutters.
And something to hold the walls together.
We bid a little more than 15k.
This structure i am told has around 250yrs.
Was worked on 40yrs ago.
All materials must pass thru the Engineer for approval
Enjoy

the house

 

[brunothedog]

 

[mrcharles]

Cool project!! Looks great! what trucks are those?

 

[brunothedog]

dug out a 2 ft. by 3ft. by 4ft hole for a little foundation for a concrete column for the insidewe could not dig under the brick so we drilled and inserted 14, ½ ", rebar thru the rocks and dirt, then poured.
Next we will excavate the inside and do the same.
The column will go up were we notched into the brick.

 

[brunothedog]

evened up some where the copper gutters will go with Mapegrout

 

[brunothedog]

Coppers on, looks cool new

Started core drilling to place some 1" rebar to tighten up the old girl up high

 

[brunothedog]

The outside steel plates The Engineer wants not seen, so after drilling I dug out 5" of stone, then parge for the plate

 

[Easy Gibson]

That's a pretty wild rig you've got there for the Hilti.

How big are the holes you drill to mount that thing?

 

[brunothedog]

That's a pretty wild rig you've got there for the Hilti.

How big are the holes you drill to mount that thing?

2" holes for 1" rebar.
I tried a long time ago to drill without the rail, never again

 

[brunothedog]

Plate installed and torqued

the inside

 

[brunothedog]

closing the wall,

Found this piece when we started digging the foundation for the inside.

 

[brunothedog]

ironed out and ready to pour

 

[Easy Gibson]

Awesome thread.

Where is this if you don't mind my asking?

 

[brunothedog]

Currently working in the Republic of San Marino.
Anyways,
poured concrete column.
if i got the math right , to fill it took 14 cubic ft.(.35 cubic mtr. ) of concrete and it took 2 of us an hour and a half.
another half day to form it.

 

[jlsconstruction]

Looks like a cool project, a few years ago we cut the roof off of a carriage barn from 1810 and re framed it, it was a fun gig

 

[brunothedog]

I agree, these small restorations are cool because your doing something different everyday.
organizing it is a pita, you have to know how to do almost everything for the fact that subs usually shy away from small jobs, or make ya wait days for them, which is unacceptable

 

[D.S.I.]

It makes my historic garage project look like a pup at 150 years old.

 

[brunothedog]

haven't done much other than pour the column, and set the wood beams this week, tuckpointed some facing also.
The engineer will test the concrete column before we can open the wall

 

[brunothedog]

Finally got around to the opening, its been a wet week