Placed with the task of adding a half basketball court/dance area for some folks has been quite a nice project. About 3500 sq ft of new concrete in the court and garage addition, plus the 18X50 attic storage space. This is all added on to a approx 400 sq ft 12 year old house. Excellent quiet neighborhood close to everything.
I’ll post as many pics as I can, and keep them coming as we go. The old garage will become a new living room with mudroom/bath. We will also be installing new cabinets and granite tops and re-trimming the main level. A new patio door and deck addition were also recently added to the list.
Wonderful people to work for.
The first pics are of the foundation and you can also get a feel for what we’re tying into with the existing house. The lower level court floor is 10 ft lower than the new garage floor and the finished height of the court will be just at 20 ft. I built the walls on the court floor and sttod them to be lifted into place by the boss and his crane truck. Worked slick!
Neither cold, nor darkness will deter good people from hastening to the dreadful place to quench the flame. They do it not for the sake of reward or fame; but they have a reward in themselves, and they love one another.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Wow. Very cool project. More photos please.
Those are massive joists... 4x? Are they sitting on PT sleepers?
Since you have a boom truck to set walls I'm surprised you aren't sheeting them flat.
The concrete work looks great. You guys do that also?
Thanks. We have the concrete subbed out. There is a precast area 16 W X 22 D on the small door area of the garage. This is for storage and a "locker room" for the athletes.
The walls were built down in the hole and leaned up. It was a gamble, but I wanted to get them all up to square and brace them all together. The framed walls themselves were 16w and 11'8'' tall. It worked well to omit the 2 window headers on the joints and install later from scaffold.Neither cold, nor darkness will deter good people from hastening to the dreadful place to quench the flame. They do it not for the sake of reward or fame; but they have a reward in themselves, and they love one another.
-Benjamin Franklin
Trusses. The attic storage added quite a lot of cost and PITA to the trusses and install. Heavy units with 2x8 top cord and 1 1/2 timberstrand bottoms. Of course at 10/12, piggybacks.
There is a bedroom above the existing garage that has 8 ft added onto. We needed the egress, so the engineers designed this for the window to face the street. This makes for a goofy pitch change, but overall I feel it will work nicely. The 16 yr old daughter is very happy about the new space, also.
The main girder truss that sits atop the big garage door supposedly is able to carry 30,000 lbs at each point load, fully loaded with attic and snow loads. We're in Wisconsin. Hasn't happened a lot lately, but Oh Yes, we will get big snow again! Hence the large garage door header specced to carry that weight.
The waving guy in the pic is Jason the in house designer. Used to wear regular bags, but now is happy to get out with "the boys" a little. It was nice to have his help.
Neither cold, nor darkness will deter good people from hastening to the dreadful place to quench the flame. They do it not for the sake of reward or fame; but they have a reward in themselves, and they love one another.
-Benjamin Franklin
is this jason again ?
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nice neat job.... where are you located ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Not Jason, but me. I wanted to show the "largeness" of the room. It closes in some after trusses, but seems darn big standing down there with 20' of wall.
Thanks. We are in the La Crosse/Onalaska area of southern west beautiful Wisconsin. Right on the Mississippi. Neither cold, nor darkness will deter good people from hastening to the dreadful place to quench the flame. They do it not for the sake of reward or fame; but they have a reward in themselves, and they love one another.
-Benjamin Franklin