ANATOMY OF A GARAGE
= D & J CONSTRUCTION =
                           Below you will see the process of building a two car garage from the demo of the existing garage to moving the cars in.                                We were contracted to demo an existing two car garage and build a bigger ( 24' x 30' ) block, two car garage in Middlesex, by owner Anna Belica (one really nice lady...who kept trying to feed us). Below the pictures will walk you through the process.                                
The pieces are held to the wall by drilling into the stone and screwing a "L" bracket to the stone and into a stud.
We're finished setting the stones and filling the joints, after it dries we will remove the form and clean it with an acid wash.
Dominick, (one of my star employees) seems happy with the job.
Side view, the side stones are 8" wide and weigh 200lbs. each.
Great care needs to be taken because the pieces are very fragile and heavy !
That's me making sure the sides are plumb.
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This is the view of the old garage from the street.
The backhoe really did a nice job of taking down the old garage.
We were able to take down the old garage, load the dumpster, and dig the footings for the new garage in one day!
After taking a week and a half to get the block delivered, we finally got started. The footing was two foot thick, and we buried three courses of block.
Here you can see that the block work is completely finished, and the floor was poured this day. I also started to set the Anderson windows today.
We also set the Stanley door. The garage floor is pitched four inches. And the front of the garage floor is 8 inches higher than the old garage floor.
Just another view of the floor, because it came out so nice.
Looking at it from the front left corner. The trench for the electric is in and waiting for the electrician to hook it all up.
Here the framing is just about finished and the electric is going in.
Framing is done, siding is on, electric is finished, garage door and opener are hooked up, and Anna gave us a beautiful lunch. The sauce was really out of this world. Thanks Anna!!!
The stone under this Anderson window was my gift to Anna for being such a nice lady. It was cut from a giant piece of limestone and the front was "dressed" to give it that rough stone look.