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"garage" = "carriage house"

The wall of the garage had been pushed out
due to frequent bumps during car parking,
as the garage space is tight for parking.

I'm building a "bump-out" to give them 
an extra two feet of length for parking.


















Rather than fetch 2-plus tons of gravel 
and cement and hauling it up their steep
driveway, I'm giving them a wood floor in
the bump-out.



















Covering the opening with plywood each evening
to keep prowlers out of the garage.

The clients have full use of the garage for
both cars each evening:















I'm restoring the entire garage.

Wall bases have been buried in dirt for decades.
In some areas, the bottom plates and bottom couple 
of inches of studs have completely disintegrated.

On this corner, I've simply placed cement blocks
onto the existing sub-slab onto which I've placed
a treated bottom plate.  The ends of the studs
have been sawed off.

Rubber membrane will go over the sheathing and 
extend into the ground, keeping the bottom plate 
"high and dry":




Digging the 24" deep trench for the rubber membrane.
Space is tight for working.  Moving dirt with the
little two-wheeled wood cart, which I made just for 
the task.

Not shown here: I replaced my temporary 1x4 bottom
board with a treated 1x4 and installed a six-inch wide 
treated board along the entire base of the bump-out, 
right over the siding and the 1x4, sealed at the top 
with Vulkem:





Wrapping the rubber membrane around the bump-out.
Treated 1x6 not yet installed:





Opening up another wall-base for rebuilding and
water-proofing:





The 3/4" old-growth fir t&g sheathing makes for 
such a rigid wall that placing treated boards under 
alternating studs is more than ample support.
Again, the treated plates rest on the sub-slab:





Treated sheathing.  Rubber membrane extending
below ground-line and outward follows that:







Rubber membrane over the treated sheathing:











Treated bottom board:





Cedar siding.  The entire garage is now "high and dry".
Ground cover goes over the rubber membrane:





I keep forgetting to bring my wheel-barrel (or my
two-wheeler handtruck), so I'm hauling dirt in large
blue tubs on top of this little dirt cart:





Put down a lot of mulch after painting was complete:







Made a downspout extension:





I removed the baseboards which roofers had installed
along the base of the dormers, then re-installed the
siding.  This is the third set of dormers to which 
I've made that fix for clients.

This is the "before" picture:





Doing a lot of stripping on this garage, plus some
new siding:





Stipped the old carriage doors:





Walk-in door after stripping and painting:





I lessened the weight of the garage door by 91 lb by
removing the panels someone had installed to cover up
the hockey puck damage.

These two pictures give an overview of the damage to 
the original panels:







Power-sanded to remove protrusions:





A good demonstration of the effectiveness of my patching
compound -- a combination of Durabond and Dynaflex 230.

A small section of new panel material got installed in
the area where the large holes were:





Here is the garage after doing a lot of carpentry,
stripping and coating:





Another favorite jobsite for Bucky:





Bucky spends his days at the next-door-neighbor's house and
yard.  They take him for walks and snuggle with him in their
house.  The garage I'm restoring is in the background; and
I've just re-installed the neighbor's fence.  Bucky comes 
over to check in with me once in a while -- using his secret
passageway:





Bucky is home after another very active day:






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