No surprise, I fell behind on updating pictures.

Just as promised the pouring started early on the morning of 9-04.
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Here's the less than cautious clown that drove too close to the foundation and broke out some of the blocks. A few years ago I may have lost my cool, but in the end it would have solved nothing. The flat work guy came up with a solution for the repair and we agreed it was the best option.
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Concrete poured and relief cuts done by the end of the day. Also had the engineered floor joists delivered for the floor and also the rafters for the same area.
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Here are a couple of pictures that give a better perspective of the grade we had to deal with.
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Our trip to LS Fest was cut short mid day on Friday due to my part time job. Once that obligation was met we took advantage of the situation to pick up lumber and start to lay walls out.
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Hopefully more updates tonight!

I'm clueless on this stuff, but why did you go with blocks instead of poured?

Look's great Tom.Congrat's.:gitrdun:

Great question. We definitely would have preferred to have poured foundation walls but only found a couple of places in our area that would do it. Oddly enough for this horrible economy they were too busy to get back with us. One of them I sat down with and reviewed our prints and expected to hear from within a few days for the estimate and eventually after calling for a couple of weeks with no response we gave up. So, the block guy was a friend of a co-worker and it worked out fine using him..

It looks great. I wish I put a storage area upstairs in mine.

My framing skills are a little rusty, we had off and on showers until about 2 and my whole family dropped by (I'll never complain about that) so we didn't get as much done as we had hoped, but any progress is good progress!

Sam taking a break to sweep off the water while Deb talks to my dad. Oh yeah, first wall up!!!
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Dark enough to call it a night.
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Great progress:thumbsup:

X2 Nice.

I can't wait to see more walls going up.

Looks awesome Tom! One of these days I want a garage about 4 times that big. :thumbsup: