As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’m reworking my detached garage, from the studs up. The garage itself has a steel frame already, along with sheet metal walls, so I’m really just adding in materials to allow me to make a finished garage out of it.

As of today, I’ve finally completed the back left corner. The entire back wall has been reframed, and the back half of the left wall has as well. I’m going to spend this week cleaning up, pushing as much as I can into this area, allowing me to have the rest of the garage for tools, materials, and a work space to finish the remaining reframing.

Once I’ve gotten the cleaning done, I’ll order up all the remaining wood I need to allow me to complete putting up the rest of the framing, and then take a week off to actually do it.

Right now, one half of one wall takes me about a day (since this is a nearly 30ft wall, it’s more than it sounds like), including tearing down the old studs, putting in the new ones, and securing it all together.

All in all, I’m pretty pleased with current progress, and can’t wait until I can get the electrical work re-run in the building. The one thing I have an issue with right now (and I will fix to the best of my ability this week) is visible in the last photo. The runner that supports the metal roof was never set square (the framing I’ve done is pretty square, I’ve checked by pulling diagonals), so I’ve got a piece that is not supported all the way, as it should be. I need to do some more with this, but I’m tired enough for today that I’m going to run without the fix.