Detached double garage · Evergreen, southwest Calgary · June 2026

A double garage with the door off centre and its own sub panel

A detached double garage off the lane in Evergreen, southwest Calgary, 26 ft wide by 22 ft deep. The 16 ft overhead door sits off centre in the 26 ft front wall, so one side has a long clear run of wall and the other does not. Inside it is framed, sheathed and wired to its own sub panel, with the walls left open for the owner to finish.

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Footprint: 26 ft wide × 22 ft deep (572 sq ft)
Wall height: 9 ft 6 in to the top plate
Overhead door: 16 ft × 8 ft, set off centre in the 26 ft front wall
Opener: LiftMaster ceiling mount, on a chain rail
Power: Its own sub panel on a plywood backer, fed in flexible conduit · exterior lantern and receptacle
Inside: Framed and sheathed, walls and trusses left open
Doors and window: 36 in man door, 36 × 40 in window
Exterior: Blue vinyl lap siding, white trimmed door and window, aluminium soffit, fascia and eavestrough
Roof: Engineered trusses at 24 in on centre, 4/12 pitch, asphalt shingles
Structure: 2 × 4 studs at 24 in on centre, 3/8 in OSB sheathing, 2-2 × 10 header over the door
Concrete: 4 in slab, 32 MPa

More of the build

Around the garage

The garage seen along the gravel back lane, blue siding and white overhead door, with bins and fences either side — From the lane

The gable end of the garage straight on: blue lap siding, white man door, a sliding window and an exterior receptacle low on the wall — The gable end: man door, window, exterior receptacle

The side of the garage from the yard with the white man door, a wall light above it and the concrete foundation showing below the siding — Man door and wall light from the yard

The garage from the back corner of the yard, showing the long side wall, the window and the roof line against the evening sky — The long wall from the yard

The garage sub panel, a blue-covered load centre mounted on a plywood backer between studs, with flexible conduit running down into the wall — The sub panel on its plywood backer

The inside of the sub panel cover with one breaker in place and the unused twistouts still closed — Room left in the panel for whatever goes in next

A LiftMaster ceiling-mount opener hanging from the trusses on its chain rail, with the wiring run along the bare OSB sheathing — Ceiling-mount opener on the chain rail

Looking up from inside at the overhead door open flat on its ceiling tracks, with the trusses and sheathing above it — The door up on its tracks

Close view of the black coach lantern on the blue lap siding, lit at dusk, mounted on a white trim block — The lantern on the wide side of the front wall

What you cannot see

What the City checked

The photos show the finish. The inspection cared about these.

The slab and the header

The pad is a 4 in slab at 32 MPa. Over the 16 ft opening sits a built-up 2-2 × 10 header, and the roof is engineered trusses at 24 in on centre. None of it shows once the door is hung, and all of it is what the building inspection looks at.

A sub panel, not an extension cord

The garage has its own panel on a plywood backer inside the wall, fed from the house in flexible conduit. That is what lets a garage run a door opener, lights, receptacles and later a heater or a welder without borrowing a circuit from the house. The wiring carries its own electrical permit.

Left open on purpose

The walls and trusses are bare sheathing, not drywall. The building, the slab and the wiring are all inspected and closed; insulating and boarding it is a separate job the owner can do later, or we can come back and do.

Next step

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01A call backA short call about what you want to build, what your lot allows, and what it usually costs to be wrong about.
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03A written quoteItemized line by line, with the spec attached, so you can see what moves the number.

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