The Western Garage Building Process

Western Garage Builders Follow A Time Tested Step-By-Step Process To Deliver The Finest Garage available in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.

The Western Garage building process starts long before we ever show up to your site to start building.

Western Garage Builders has several meetings between sales and production to get all of your specific paperwork done. We then go to your local City building department with all plans, licensing and insurance information for them to review. Once your job is approved we can get your garage project scheduled and start work.

The next step is the preparation of your site. We carefully remove your old garage and slab. Then we excavate all sod, bushes or bad ground that’s in the way.

Western Garage Builders Garage Slab Construction

Garage Slab ConstructionThe best built MN Garage in the industry starts with the best garage slab, all Western garages start with the best engineered slab in the business (after more than 60 years we should know!). Western Garage Builders starts with a bed of compacted granular fill under a 4” thick slab with a thickened edge perimeter footing, 4,000 lb psi concrete, re-enforced with both 6×6x10 gauge wire mesh and ½ steel rebar. To keep the wood off the slab we install a minimum one course of 6×8x16 concrete block. We then tie the wood portion of the garage thru the block and into the slab by use of ½” anchor bolts with the block cores filled with concrete.

Western Garage Builders Garage Wall Construction

The wall framing consist of Kiln dried spf (spruce fir pine) 2×4’ - 16” on center on top of specially treated 2×6 bottom plates. These bottom plates need to be treated to prevent rot because they come in contact with the concrete blocks.

The wall studs are covered with either plywood or OSB wall sheathing. The State of Minnesota requires any wall of a garage that comes within 5’ of the property line need’s to be fire rated. This fire protection consist of 5/8 fire rated gypsum wall sheathing on both sides of the wall studs, under the siding to give it a full one hour rating.

Western Garage Builders Roof Truss Construction

After the walls are up the standard 2×4 engineered factory truss rafters are put in place. Western offers 3 different style of truss. The basic 4/12, the storage truss and the room in attic truss.

Since 1949 Western Garage Builders has seen roofing and sidings Manufactures come and go so we only partner with manufactures that have the same level of commitment to the quality of the finished product that we have.

Some of these manufactures include,
Alside siding and windows, Kaycan Vinyl Siding, GAF/ELK roofing products, Owens Corning roofing products, CertainTeed roofing and siding products, JamesHardi Siding, Royal Siding to name a few.

After the garage is built the next and final step is the electrical wiring. A new underground line from your home to the new garage is buried and wired to Minnesota code.

For your protection Western calls for 5 inspections by your local City inspector.
These are,
Footing Inspection
Framing Inspection
Electric Underground Inspection
Electric Final Inspection
Garage Final Inspection.

Now its time to enjoy your new Western Garage!