This Garage is Massively OVERBUILT!

[@tkskagen]

There is nothing wrong with "over building/over engineering" a structure. Just means that it will last longer!

[@fergwork3092]

Love the tire tracks on the the sheathing. Haha sure sign of proper handling of our materials.

[@MyDIYAdventures]

Pre-ruined straight from the supplier! LOL

[@terrythomas790]

@@MyDIYAdventures Just like pre-arched 2x4's at HD. Have to move 5 to find a straight one.

[@richardnipper1395]

Love your video and really admire your skill - can't believe how much you get done in a day working solo! Here in western Colorado where I live the building codes are insane. Everything you've done on this build is minimum code here. Of course we have snow loads to consider, but our codes are still over the top. Must be nice to live in an area where the codes are reasonable and you don't have to overbuild every job.

[@MyDIYAdventures]

Yeah, we’re kinda like the wild (mid)west here😂

[@ericfraser7543]

3:55 Start looking for holes that looks like a big carpenter bee eating the house!

[@MyDIYAdventures]

I actually have about a minute of video following him around while he was looking for a place to start digging in. I should have added it as bonus footage.

[@HEAVENGLAMOUR]

Amazing video

[@MyDIYAdventures]

Thanks!

[@MichaelHelinsky-ws1nt]

Nice work !! i admire your carpentry skills !

[@MyDIYAdventures]

Thank you!

[@Cherokee10g]

Really nice job, you say it's overbuilt, I say not! looking at your build it's like looking at my own work, the way I've built for years since the seventies, except I don't use OSB Boards I can't get away from using 1/2" CDX Plywood for sides and 5/8"- 3/4" for roofs, also I still use the 1950's style wind bracing 1"X 6" boards on all walls braced from the top plate to the bottom plate embeded into the wall studs at a 45 degree angle, other than that we build identical rafters and all, I'm still very impressed, my eyes open wide as I looked at your build, because I don't see this kind of building anymore. I've watch construction jobs fall to the ground in storms that should have left them standing but didn't, In a really bad storm one day my Brother-in Law left work in a panic jumped into his vehicle to check the 24' X 38' addition I was building onto his home, he was really scared, to his surprise his addition was standing strong, he said Wow! now I see why you build that way, he said I seen a lot of construction site on the ground, and I though mine was too! so that why I say You did great and it's not over overbuilt you are just good! P.S. Can't wait to see your Rafter Bracing which can be time consuming.

[@MyDIYAdventures]

We did have a garage fall once. It was just stud walls and porch beams up. We knew a storm was coming so we braced with everything we had (which wasn’t much, the contractor mis-ordered) before we went home. The wind gust that took it down was reported at 70+ mph. When we got back to the job, there was a trampoline in the yard…the homeowner said it came from the neighbor’s several doors down LOL. As for rafter bracing on this job, what ya see is it, that’s all the roof framing it needs.

[@JohnGorman355]

I never use the word overkill in my projects! Instead I use the words superior and quality to describe the building of my projects! Building codes are minimal and builders should strive for better than minimal.

[@MyDIYAdventures]

I don’t disagree, but sometimes the customer’s budget only allows for minimal.

[@JohnGorman355]

@@MyDIYAdventures I understand completely! Thanks for the great videos!

[@OSS-CAN]

Those king posts are useless in this situation. You should take them out. You're either building a rafter roof or a truss roof - you need to decide. In this case you built a roof with rafters and non-supported ridge board. The rafter to ridge board connection is in compression. If you have any significant snow load the king posts will be in compression, and that load will be transferred down the king posts to the rafter ties (i.e. ceiling ties if there was an actual ceiling). In other words, you are transferring roof/snow load from the load bearing walls to the rafter ties. But your rafter ties are not designed to take that load over that span! Since you do not have "truss grade" gusset connections to the king posts, etc., they will NOT act as trusses. Big problem. You're better off NOT having the king posts at all in this kind of build. I don't know how this became common folklore in the midwest, but it is actually a dangerous practice.

[@MyDIYAdventures]

I’ll be sure to tell the building inspectors to change their code books👍

[@timb7814]

Most building inspectors are glorified bureaucrats that think they know something about structures just because they're familiar with the current prescriptive code book. There is no substitute for a Registered Professional Engineer who actually knows how to design structures properly.@@MyDIYAdventures