Next Comes The Roof.
Once you’ve done all of your doors and windows, and got all of your frames secured in place then you can start on something else. My garage was actually a garage and carport all combined.
So I had to build a garage at one end of my concrete slab and I had to build a carport on the rest. For the carport I needed posts standing upright because I needed to support my rafters for the roof.
I managed to find a local person who milled timber himself and he milled some local trees into 4 inch by 4 inch posts and I use those posts for my uprights. At the bottom of each post there is a metal bracket and you need to bolt the metal bracket to the concrete using the same bolts and the same method that you used to bolt the bottom plate of your frames to the concrete.
The metal frames are made exactly right for the base of the posts if your posts are the right size so you just stand the posts in the frames and bolt the posts in place. But you have to make sure that they are all placed correctly or you will not be able to get your rafters in place the posts are not exactly upright.
My rafters ran from one side of the garage to the other, but I had to use some galvanised iron girders to hold up my rafters. I used 3 galvanised iron girders which I bolted from the top of the higher post to the lower post, and these girders were extremely strong. That’s because it’s the iron girders they are going to hold up the rafters and the roof.
Once I had made my post and girders by then laid my rafters across these. My roof was a corrugated iron roof, and I chose a nice green color to match the color of the roof of my house. You spend a long time on the roof with an electric drill screwing down all of the roof.
Once you got the roof on you I then relatively secure from the weather because if it rains you can work under the roof and that is much nicer than working in the rain.
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