Why "The G-Word"?

Prior to this project actually breaking ground, the word Garage had become something of a 6-lettered swear word in our family. You see, we bought this house ~5 years ago only after I had verified that the setbacks and septic were ok to support building this garage. I've built foam core models in 1:20 scale; I've spent hundreds of hours playing with various designs with home CAD software.; I've studied neighborhood covenants, code books, and educated myself on proper building techniques. And through this all, and much to my wife's dismay, I've been talking about this experience to the point of driving those closest to me nuts. So, since around the beginning of this year, when I really started to get this ball rolling, this garage has been affectionately referred to as "The G-word".

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Final Passed!

Inspector had a couple comments (didn't like my toe boards still screwed to the roof on the jut-out that I left up there when painting), but was ok otherwise and passed the garage final inspection for us. Garage door guy is coming back Monday to lower the spring on the high lift an inch and a half so we can sheetrock at some point later without having to do excessive boxing into the ceiling cavity. The good news, for the garage door guy anyway, is that we decided to keep these garage door window panels - after much deliberation (and those that know me know that I did an exhaustive comparison of my options) we think these are sorta cool looking. Gutters will be installed toward the beginning of next week as well. Just have a bit more painting to finish up this weekend, and then we can start electrical work.

The end is near!
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