How I lifted my double garage up 21 inches

This is a video on how I got my two car

garage

built. The first step, as you can see here, is to remove as much weight as possible so you can see on the outside removing the shingles, write it down. I also removed the windows because when you lift up you will probably break them so I took them out and ordered a couple of new skylights for future upgrades and you can also see that I reinforced the windows once I removed them just to make them stronger because they are going to lift a lot. pressure on the back of the wall, you can see how to reinforce the door.

In fact, I'm going to leave the door in the lifting process, so I decided to reinforce it here, obviously this side is stronger for the beam. the top, but we don't want the walls to shift so they're basically reinforced there with a two-by-six and these are some pretty substantial legs from there, but with grk fasteners that are about five

inches

and about a pure rating about seven hundred pounds they're pretty strong also use the smaller faster one here to see more of them these are four

inches

it's called r4 also made by well let's go inside now that we're inside the structure So a lot of things happened here first, in particular, there is no drywall, there is no insulation, there is nothing on the ceiling.

I removed all the weight I could locate below. I pinned it from the ground so you can look down here. Every graduate is a little different. mine had bolts and nuts. I actually put lemons full of salt, I cut the lemons in half, I put salt on half of the lemon and then that dissolved a lot of the rust and they came out, some of them came out with fingers in there, so after it came off the soil, I had to reinforce it so that you notice that there are many different beans. This is where I reinforce the windows.

There are only two-by-six Millia. You also want to make all the corners true, so I put two. four by four to the beams in each corner, these are just two by six, let's just remove what I had lying around in the corners to fill that in each of the four corners. Now, next, let's do the actual lifting. I use these two at a time on the walls. so I have 16 feet at the bottom and you notice it looks like it's bent and that's because it was actually bent. I placed a jack right here and raised it and pushed it down to predeflect the beam so it actually starts to rise it won't start the deflection it will already deflect so I'm not sure if that will be enough it should close because the wall obviously has more 16 feet later to go with another board, so I put another one right along the top on each end about in the center of the lift point so you can see the lift points are down here, each lift point elevation is rising.

These are 22 foot wide custom LDL beams and you can see I have a little bottle jacks 12 ton bottle jacks under each one right on the concrete floor and to block the shots, these are just four by six by which four by six are relatively cheap and plentiful and they are flat and they are also thick enough so I didn't want them to be too tall so that when you lift them you don't have to live too far away so those jacks have a lifting range about five and a half inches, these are about a little over 4 inches. so it seemed like a reasonable number.

I'm lifting 21 inches, a little more breathing room for 24 inches, which gives me a little extra room. 6 wooden blocks so you can see on each side of the floor the level beams and of course there are the ones in the front, I mean the same thing, the studs. I tried to choose studs that were straight and firm and based on the fact that they have to raise the outside wall a little more, our walls are just up. With it I decided to buy a little towards the outside edges, particularly in the front, because there is a whole wall at the back door of the

garage

, so a little math told me that these are the best places and they had to line them up too. from side to side here is another example in the corner reinforcing it as well and then there are the beams on the outside of the door that make the pony walls that will allow them to meet the wall, so in my case I'm looking at twenty one inches. which brings me to a nine foot 10 inch ceiling, so I built these little pony walls that are 21 inches high.

You'll notice that on the pony walls, the pre-marked marks are drilled where those footer bolts go, so you basically lift it up gradually and slide the pony walls underneath from the outside onto the little bolts, screw them on using the same nuts I grabbed on. I missed this, this is what I did on the roof, on the rafters, so this is a 2 by 10 it's actually lagged on each of these rafters and then lagged on the gable end and then up to the header. . Now the goal here is when this whole garage starts to rise. You can imagine that this wall on the side here is actually going to start. falling down because there's actually nothing that lifts up, it's just

lifted

up by the side walls, so my concern is that it might start to fall down and might even fall off prematurely, obviously I wanted to take it off but I don't want to take it down in the middle of the lifting process, so I put these 2 by ten here and again with those heavy duty RSS lag bolts and hopefully that should give it the extra strength that it needs.

I'm sure they will deviate a little, but I hope it distributes the weight. through these last few armors which, of course, lined up almost perfectly with where I'm lifting, so it shouldn't be a problem for that confidence lifting alone at the conference. Oh, these trusses have very little extra weight and yes, that should be it for Now, well, here it will actually be removed completely, the sightings will be reused, but you will notice the new concrete slab, so it will extend about seven feet . It's a fantastic little workshop. It's not just the tallest who graduates. it's going to get longer and here we can see my other point as it's sitting here waiting to sink when it happens tomorrow, so once we have the graduate, Aral, take some more videos.

I'll show you the rest. here Larry so you're probably high enough so here we are we're about 21 inches tall we're almost there. We've been using a pyramid scheme for the elevator, you can see it there, so right now it's probably supported. This side for Jackie at the same time seems to be more effective, otherwise he tends to want to dance a little, so there are big problems so far, so here we are, about two days later and you have the opportunity to finish the video so far , the graduate has survived a pretty nasty wind storm, as you can see, the pony walls are underneath and secured, so we slide each of them over the bolt, so I enlarge the bolt a little, we slide them in from the outside . and then clip them here, so I used that.

I actually used it and saw that there is a lock washer in there as a spring, so it will count to compensate for the shrinkage of the wood, so I put one on the top and one on the bottom, just giving it a little more Getting it back into position was a bit tricky. What we ended up doing, unfortunately, we still configured the settings. This was the corner that was outside, it's this way about two inches further than it should have been and so. actually the whole structure was twisted probably a fraction of a degree because this meant that the exits obviously the far front corner actually came back this way also to correct we put some sort of jack in the middle under that beam and

lifted

it up with a jack at a little bit of an angle, so the jack was actually mounted on a pole that was moving at an angle, so in effect, we lifted it up a little bit and then pushed it from the outside, just sledded it and everything jumped. and we also put a little fat.

I don't think you can see more here, but we also greased the top of the blocks so they could slide, there was less resistance and that moved it pretty easily and then when we brought it back in this corner as well, not in inches and now I'm just in the process of running vertically, so you can see this is not going to be strong enough, so in some places I'm going to run vertically just to strengthen it. well and then of course on the other end we're going to expand seven feet so that also adds some rigidity to the structure and that's it just go out and capture a little video of the outside here's the end. view from the outside just to conclude as you can see that the pony walls have already been installed.

I've actually already framed the door here to add a little vertical strength, pony wall mechanism way of doing things, is that right? it creates a hinge point of course right here which can be a little bit dangerous so if you can extend the studs all the way to the end I really recommend it like I've done here obviously and there will be a number more because actually There are garage posts here, but on the other side you can see where I've attached several foam posts and a couple more down there and that helped keep everything from coming together, so I would recommend that, but anyway that's it .

How I lifted my

double

garage and look here, we're going to make it longer so that'll be another video, thanks.