Garage / workshop project

gasstingy · 04-21-10, 08:05 AM

My wifes aunt passed away yesterday, sothe demands on my time are shifting somewhat until after the funeral tomorrow.

Still managed some time after visiting family to do just a little. My walk-in door headers and window headers are made with two 2x6's parallel sitting on a 2x6, sort of a U shape. I planned to cap one of the headers with 1/2" plywood before installing it so I could use the scrap pieces I had from making the headers. The scrap was about 1/4" too short. Before covering the open part of the U with plywood, I took a can of Great Stuff foam and some small pieces of extruded polystyrene and insulated the void. I cut the four cripple studs and think I have all the materials I need for this first wall section. It was getting late, so after a couple of pictures were taken, we swept the garage.

This morning, I tried to download the pictures and found the battery dead on the camera. I'll try again this evening with fresh batteries to download the pictures so I can post them tomorrow. That failing, I'll take a couple more pictures and try to get them posted tomorrow or Friday. Thank God for this forum. Without posting here frequently, I would likely put off some of the work and it would take even longer. I can't tell if more than Daox is looking, but you guys keep me going.

Thanks! Mark

I came back and added the door header picture. It turns out that the camera did not store the picture on the removable disc, but in its internal memory.

All I had to do to the header after this picture was let the foam cure over night and I went back and trimmed it with a regular hacksaw. Some of it the hacksaw cut, some it just ground off sort of like a cheese grater file. Then I added a 1/2" piece of plywood on top and called it complete

04-21-10, 08:05 AM	#11
gasstingy Journeyman EcoRenovator Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Arab, AL Posts: 491 Thanks: 109 Thanked 49 Times in 43 Posts	My wifes aunt passed away yesterday, sothe demands on my time are shifting somewhat until after the funeral tomorrow. Still managed some time after visiting family to do just a little. My walk-in door headers and window headers are made with two 2x6's parallel sitting on a 2x6, sort of a U shape. I planned to cap one of the headers with 1/2" plywood before installing it so I could use the scrap pieces I had from making the headers. The scrap was about 1/4" too short. Before covering the open part of the U with plywood, I took a can of Great Stuff foam and some small pieces of extruded polystyrene and insulated the void. I cut the four cripple studs and think I have all the materials I need for this first wall section. It was getting late, so after a couple of pictures were taken, we swept the garage. This morning, I tried to download the pictures and found the battery dead on the camera. I'll try again this evening with fresh batteries to download the pictures so I can post them tomorrow. That failing, I'll take a couple more pictures and try to get them posted tomorrow or Friday. Thank God for this forum. Without posting here frequently, I would likely put off some of the work and it would take even longer. I can't tell if more than Daox is looking, but you guys keep me going. Thanks! Mark I came back and added the door header picture. It turns out that the camera did not store the picture on the removable disc, but in its internal memory. All I had to do to the header after this picture was let the foam cure over night and I went back and trimmed it with a regular hacksaw. Some of it the hacksaw cut, some it just ground off sort of like a cheese grater file. Then I added a 1/2" piece of plywood on top and called it complete Attached Thumbnails Last edited by gasstingy; 05-06-10 at 12:55 PM..