On May 25, 7:32*am, bob haller wrote:
On May 24, 10:10*pm, "hr(bob) "
wrote:





On May 23, 3:09*pm, leza wang wrote:

i have detached garage (my backyard separated my house from the
garage). the condition of the garage is really bad. It is falling down
and the roof which is flat has big hole.. One contractor told me it is
going to cost me 20k-3-k to build a garage. I was shocked! I thought
it will be around 5k!! (I live in Toronto, Canada. Now i am thinking
to demolish my garage and just use the space to park my car and then
build fence around my current garage with a gate.

What do you think about this idea? if it is good then what type of
fence I should ask the contractor to build? Something can last long
and simple. I am thinking about chain link type of fence!

Any advice would be very much appreciating it.
Take care.

Do you have 3 or more friends to help you? *That might make it
possible to straighten the walls and rebuild the roof as a regular
peaked roof, and then you could remove the old roof from the inside.
That way you are just "repairing the garage" and my be able to avoid
getting any permits.

why remove the old flat roof? its leaking wouldnt matter when its
covered by a brand new pitched roof...

I'm guessing that it would a lot easier to attach the rafters and
gable ends if the old roof wasn't in the way.

The old roof must extend at least to the top of or even beyond the top
of the walls, so adding rafters and gable end walls would be pretty
difficult with the old roof left in place.

Just a guess...


I wonder how long this garage has been detoriating? and why it wasnt
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