Merry Christmas everyone! The cold weather is here today and the garage project is a work of art to be admired from a distance - like inside the house with the heat turned up!
The drywall has been hung on the ceiling and walls. Now I'm ready to tape and mud the seams and screw marks. It's another one of those jobs that is not on my list of favorite things to do (seems to be a lot of those?) Who wants to help? I hope to have everything finished under the garage door hardware before those doors are installed next month.
It looks great!

I'm now on the list to have the power line switched. We have always had Colorado Springs Utilities connected by an overhead service from the telephone pole to the house (power lines.) If you tried, you could reach the power line from the roof. Plans are to have the utility buried to the garage and buried feeder lines to the house and shop. After the switch, we'll remove the old meter box along with it's galvanized conduit lines hanging on the side of the house.
Pretty soon there will be garage doors and power! That means heat! Then I can work inside regardless of the weather. SWEET.

Yeah... Not yet. There's still plenty to do before that happens. But from the street things are looking up.
All the steel plates are where they are supposed to be, but I need more screws - since I got the wrong ones shipped to me. (About one in three broke off before the self drilling and self tapping was complete.) After a little 'anger management' and discussion with the vendor and the manufacturer, it turns out they drop shipped light duty screws. The screws I paid for are being shipped as of yesterday. So I used enough of what I had to hang the steel in place. And it looks very cool!

After the walls are fully attached, we will be putting two inch gravel at the bottom between the edge of the concrete and the panels' bottom. Then backfill up to the top. But while we're waiting for the screws to arrive, it's time for low voltage lights along the bottom edges to help out with night time navigation.

I'll be glad when these are 100%.

When I started the front walk, I thought I had enough screws left over from the back deck for this job. Nope. I ordered more screws and, like clockwork, they arrived at 8pm the day before Thanksgiving. I took the next couple of days off because it was so cold and snowy. But yesterday that got wrapped up and finished! It looks good and straight (don't confuse the dog with the snow.)

Today I changed the side door to the garage from 32" wide, to 36" wide. Why? because I changed my mind and I really should have known better than to make an exterior door less than 3 feet wide. Six inches doesn't seem like much, but it makes a big difference.

The next projects to choose from are the driveway retaining walls, hanging drywall before the garage doors are installed, and prepping the exterior for stucco with builders felt and lath. What to do? What to do?