The Birth of Monster Garage

Welcome to Monster Garage Blog!

We're Jill and Rob, a nice couple living in Saskatoon. Rob is an engineer and Jill is in communications. We dated for five years and then Jill moved in two years ago--two years of happy bliss. Home renovations are the norm, as we live in a 1929 house in the lovely funky Broadway area of the city.

Rob had always wanted to build a bigger garage, and then it morphed last year into the idea of Monster Garage....a 3-car garage, with a workshop, with the potential to add a granny suite on top (if the concept is approved by the City). When I say he wants to build a garage, that means he will do most the work himself--excavation, piles, walls, foundation, trusses, roofing, installation of garage door openers....as for me during that time, I'll be staying with friends!

You see, Rob likes to plan and plan and build things. Did I mention he is an engineer??? For example, the fence on the side of the house (we live on a corner with a deep lot) he built with meticulous perfection and detail--so much detail and thought that it took two years to finish. People driving by would always look to watch its progress. But man, it's indestructible--heck, if there was a nuclear explosion in the world, it would be the only structure still standing!

But I digress.

So Monster Garage has lived in Rob's head for two years. And now, it's about to come out (be afraid, be very afraid).

We still have yet to put pen to paper to draw plans, spreadsheets, and budgets, but who needs that when we have the cool first step ahead of us...moving the old garage.

Our neighbours two doors down, Trevor and Natalie, will buy the old garage. Great! Rob and Trevor plan to move it on metal roller bars. Scary. But Rob tells me it's easy--just cut off the garage, slide it on top of metal rollers, and simply push it down the alley. Hmmmmm. Seems a tad fraught with peril, but if if worked for the Egyptians when they built the pyramids, it should work for us!

But, you ask, if we move the old garage, what will happen with the current contents?







Ah, fear not. Rob sourced a free metal shed and spent two days reading instructions and constructing it.




Then we are still sorting and moving stuff into it.





Take a look how far we've come and keep tuned to Monster Garage Blog for the adventure of the summer!