Building detached garage? (2025 Update)

I'd farm out the concrete work, but I've done the rest. Really is not all that hard with a helper. Easier than a house as you don't have the plumbing to contend with but you do want some electric.

ROFLMAO!

My husband and I built a garage in 2006. We hired the concrete and roofing. A buddy came over and helped raise the roof trusses.

It was a lot of work, but nothing was very complicated.

A lot could go wrong, but my husband's a mechanical genius, so nothing did.

Cindy Hamilton

I designed and built my entire quite fancy quite large passive solar house. I did it with concrete blocks, not timber framed and its got a flat metal decking roof and uses galvanised sheet metal inverted J beams with variable height timber rafters bolted to the inverted J beams.

Quite a bit of work but very doable by anyone with any real mechanical ability.

Even the plumbing is not that hard to deal with. Cold water goes on the right and s*it don't flow up hill. The only thing you really have to think about is venting but my gray water from the garage goes out on the banana trees so there is no methane to worry about. I did do 2 bathrooms and a kitchen in 3 remodels. The garage I built in Md was 2 story.

Not ICF?