12 Garage/Miscellaneous Area 12.1 Construction 12.1.1 Foundation 12.1.1.1. Construction. The foundation shall be a concrete slab on grade of 6-inch thickness with footings extending to a depth of 18 inches below grade; the footings may be either integral (monolithic slab) or separate stem walls. The foundation outer dimensions shall be 39'8" by the same 32'1" as for the house proper. 12.1.1.2. Siting. The garage/miscellaneous shall lie west of the house with its north and south faces collinear with the corresponding faces of the house. The gap between the west house foundation outer edge and the garage foundation east edge shall be 4 inches, to accomodate the house-slab perimeter insulation. The two slabs shall be tied together by rebar as described at 3.1.5.3 above. 12.1.2. Exterior Framing. The garage/miscellaneous area shall be framed with 2"x4" studs of the same height and spacing used for the main house and sheathed with the same sizes and kinds of plywood and cedar siding. 12.1.3. Continuity. The garage/miscellaneous area and the main house shall form a unit as shown on the design drawings. The main-house roofing shall be continuous from the house west wall to the garage west wall, as shall the siding material and pattern. 12.1.4. Insulation. No insulation need be supplied in any exterior garage/miscellaneous wall except the south wall of the tank room, which shall be insulated like a house wall as described at 4.5 above. (The interior walls defining the Tank Room, as described at 13.3 below, are to be insulated.) 12.1.5. Roofing. The garage roof shall be of trusses of the same kind used on the main house and the roof of the same metal. The roofing shall be continuous from the house east wall to the garage west wall. 12.1.6 Exterior Doors 12.1.6.1. West Exit. You shall provide a door of 36 inches' width and at least 80 inches' height in the west wall of the garage. The door shall be placed exactly facing the door opposite described at 12.2.0.0 below. The door shall be suitable for outdoor use and shall be of a material and appearance commensurate with the house and garage siding. Flashing shall be provided over the door. 12.1.6.2. Car Door. You shall provide in the south garage wall a roll-up car door of 10 feet in width and 8 feet in height, operated by an automatic opener as described at 11.1 above. The door shall be a Clopay white-woodgrain panelled steel door, model 4400. The door shall be placed with its west edge as near to 30 inches in from the garage west wall outer surface as framing considerations make practical. 12.2 The Garage Proper 12.2.1. Interior Walls. No surfacing material need be applied over any interior wall surface except the required gypsum board on the east wall (which is the insulated west wall of the Tank Room). 12.1.2. Interior Door. You shall provide a door of 36 inches' width and at least 80 inches' height in the east wall of the garage proper, providing acess to the walkway described at 12.3 below. The door shall be placed exactly facing the house door opposite, as shown on the design drawings. The door may be of the same kind as the house internal doors or as may be required for fire safety. 12.1.3 Firewood-Storage Area. 12.1.3.1. Definition. The south 16 feet of the east wall of the garage proper will be used for storage of firewood approximately 4 feet deep stacked approximately 4 feet high. You shall provide two retainers, placed as shown on the design drawings, of sufficient strength and solidity of anchoring to retain full loads of such firewood in the two areas indicated. A framework of metal pipes anchored in the foundation or any similar arrangement may be used. 12.1.3.2. Insect Protection. The garage walls behind and around the firewood-storage area shall be protected against incursion by insects lodged in any stored firewood by a suitable barrier. That barrier shall be polycarbonate or other similar insect-impervious material well secured to the walls and with meticulous sealing of the gaps between sheets of the material, and between each sheet bottom and the concrete slab, using caulk as specified at 4.1.5 above. The area requiring such sealing coverage is north from the garage southeast corner 18 feet minimum and west from that same corner 6 feet minimum; in all cases, the height of coverage shall be at least 6 feet above the slab surface. 12.3 Walkway 12.3.1. Location. The Walkway shall run from the house entrance door to the garage door directly facing it. It shall be approximately 6 feet wide north-south. 12.3.2 Construction 12.3.2.1. Walls. The south Walkway wall shall be constructed as an interior partition wall as described at 6.1 above. The inside walls of the Walkway, plus the garage and house walls exposed therein, shall be finished with shiplap pine as with the house, but shall have no gypsum board applied under the finish pine boards. 12.3.2.2. Ceiling. The Walkway ceiling shall be the same pine nailed directly to the truss members. Edge and corner trim shall be 1"x1" stock as for the house. 12.3.3 Doors 12.3.3.1. External. The walkway shall contain a door to the outside in its north wall, situated as shown on the design drawings; that door shall be identical to the garage west exit door described at 12.1.6.1 above. Flashing shall be provided over the door. 12.3.3.2. Internal. The walkway shall also contain a door in its south wall, situated as shown on the design drawings, of the same kind as used inside the house, as described at 6.4 above. 12.4 The Tank Room 12.4.1. Location. The water-storage tank shall be located in a room at the south of the area between the house and the garage proper. That Tank Room shall be approximately 16 feet wide and shall run approximately 14 feet north-south. 12.4.2. Construction. 12.4.2.1. Insulation. All walls defining the Tank Room proper shall be insulated as if they were external walls; that includes the south (windowed) wall and the west and north walls, the east wall being the already insulated west wall of the house. 12.4.2.2. Wall Covering. The two insulated interior walls shall be covered with gypsum board on both sides, the insulated exterior south wall on the inside. The gypsum covering shall be as described at 4.6.5 above. All interior surfaces shall be covered with the same pine board as used in the house proper, as described at 6.1.2 above. 12.4.2.3. Windows. The south wall shall be constructed as if it were a part of the south wall of the living-room area of the house, including the windows as shown on the design drawings. 12.4.2.4. Door. An insulated door shall be provided in the north wall; that door shall be identical to the house entry door described at 4.8 above. 12.4.3. Tank Siting. The tank shall be placed with its northernmost edge 2 feet in from the inner face of the north wall of the tank room and its easternmost edge 2 feet in from the inner face of the east wall. The tank shall be placed with its outlet so located as to be convenient for placing the pump described at 13.2.4 below. 12.4.4. Water Plumbing. The tank outlet shall run to the pump described at 7.1.4 above. That pump shall be so placed as to allow convenient plumbing from the tank outlet to its inlet and from its outlet to a run along the west wall of the house to the entry point described at 2.7.3 above, including placement near the tank and pump of the pressure tank described at 7.1.5 above. 12.4.5 Extra Thermal Storage 12.4.5.1. Type. The sunroom extra thermal mass shall be 2-foot-diameter stopperable 55-gallon drums (which need not be new), metal or plastic, each painted with flat black "barbeque" heat-resistant paint, filled with water and some safe freeze-protection substance, and stoppered. 12.4.5.2. Quantity. There shall be 7 drums. 12.4.5.3. Placement. The drums shall be placed along the south wall, with their south edges approximately 3 inches in therefrom. They shall be spaced approximately equidistant each from the other east-west. 12.4.6. Shelving. As shown on the design drawings, there shall be built-in shelving at the south end of the west Tank-Room wall. 12.5 Storage Area 12.5.1. Location. The Storage Area shall be that space defined by the south wall of the Walkway described at 12.3 above and the north wall of the Tank Room described at 12.4 above. 12.5.2. Construction. The insulated south interior wall shall be covered with gypsum board on both sides. The gypsum covering shall be as described at 4.6.5 above. All interior surfaces shall be covered with the same pine board as used in the house proper, as described at 6.1.2 above. =========================================================== {end}