We opted not to tear down and apply for permits to build a 2 story garage, because as a "garden suite" second story, only a single family is allowed in the house, and we are already 2 familys, going for 3 suites, 3 familys in there.
The whole lifting process took a day with the garage. We used 6, 8 ton bottle jacks, and a lot of 4x4s and 2x4s. We were shooting for 36 inches, but at 32" the dunnage was getting really rickety, so we built 32" walls to go under the garage. That is where we had an epic fail, and learned the importance of lifting all the jacks at once. we were squeezing a half wall in the side, for some reason the middle was lower than the end, but only by an inch tops, more like 3/4. So just jack the middle jack up rite, squeek the wall in. Wrong! We did it and the wall kicked out and moved the whole garage a few inches out of alignment. So because of that we also needed winches, and we winched the structure back in to place chained to the van.
We just about have the garage all sheeted with new doors and windows. Then we will vinyl side it, its too rickety for stucco, and money is a bit tight too, vinyl is cheap.
I also moved the big shed from the 94 street house finally now the snow has melted. This is how the new truck is so awesome. We just winch the shed on the ground level deck, truck does the rest.
The truck has been pretty high maintenance, but it makes money. I picked up 2 basically free forklifts advertised on Kijiji for scrap, but not many trucks can pick up forklifts. We fixed one forklift and use it in the shop. The second one I really wanted to fix, but instead I scrapped the $6000 battery pack for $600. and it saddened me to let it go, but took the hunk of steel fork lift without its electric motors, forks, and hydraulics to the scrap yard and got $100 for it. Thats half the usual rate because it is so thick "its more difficult to process". But how many forklifts does a guy really need. I will have videos soon I know these pictures are kinda lame.
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