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I got the garage doors ordered, but they will be about 10 weeks before they get here.
I'm digging the trench for electric this weekend so the electrician can run power to the shop.
No work will be done on the building this weekend, my crew is unavailable. Hopefully they will start full force on Monday.
Decided to park the truck up there. can't wait for a roof and walls.
I swear I see a smile coming from your truck Joe😊 I know there's one coming from you! Looks good. It's always fun to get to this point. Hope they can get the roof on soon! They say cool/wet weather coming next week🥴
I got the garage doors ordered, but they will be about 10 weeks before they get here.
I'm digging the trench for electric this weekend so the electrician can run power to the shop.
No work will be done on the building this weekend, my crew is unavailable. Hopefully they will start full force on Monday.
Decided to park the truck up there. can't wait for a roof and walls.
I would run an extra conduit for future use. Something for phone, internet, cable tv, security system, etc. Who knows what kind of cool toys will come around someday? Better to have an extra pipe in the ground today than to dig another ditch tomorrow.
I am 26x40 feet, very similar to your plans. I am happy with that size, but I I had a "do over" I'd add a few feet to the depth. So your 30 x 40 is spot on in my book. The 26 foot depth is a tight squeeze if try to pull my F250 Crew Cab Short bed in for work. It can be done , but its tight.
12 foot ceilings if you can (what I have). 10 will do in a pinch but then you need one of those lifts with the cable tray across the floor.
Doors, I have 2 doors, each 9 wide by 8 tall. Don't go less than this. The 9 wide matches the lift opening and I need 8 tall to fit the F250 or my tractor with a sun shade on the roll bar.
Layout: The two doors are set off to one side and arranged to line up with the lift posts. The space between the doors is wide enough to "mask" the post and I was able to put a compressed air manifold there.
Keep us posted!!!
Here are some photos I took just now.
What year is the Mercedes SL? I have a silver 1976 450SL....I like the hard top hanging from the ceiling....I just built a hoist and now mine is also up above me.
I got the garage doors ordered, but they will be about 10 weeks before they get here.
I'm digging the trench for electric this weekend so the electrician can run power to the shop.
No work will be done on the building this weekend, my crew is unavailable. Hopefully they will start full force on Monday.
Decided to park the truck up there. can't wait for a roof and walls.
What size conduit are you planning on using? Also what size service are you suppling to the shop? Are you installing a Sub-Panel (What Size)? Instaalling one or two spare conduit is insurance at this time also if your using a trencher it's a goo time to run at leased a water spigot to the new shop. Just an FYI
I received a materials list on Friday. They say the delivery date will be Tuesday Sept 7th. I had a couple of questions. Hopefully they will respond Monday. I haven't seen the final engineering drawings. Although, the only change I needed from the last set was to indicate it was residential and not commercial.
Now I need to measure my pad and start planning out the build. Another company (Great Western Buildings) has some great videos on putting up a building. So I have been watching lots of those. One video has a list of tools needed. Here are my notes from that:Tools Need for building install
· 100 ft Tape measure
· Rotary Impact Drill
· Spirit Level
· Magnetic level (5ft, couple of smaller levels)
· Standard crowbar
· Two Part Epoxy (door jambs, non load bearing bolts)
· Reciprocating Saw
· Pop rivet gun – electric if there are lots of rivets to do
· Spud wrenches
· Tool bags that you can take up the ladder
· Standard Drill
o 9/16 bit
o Step bit
o ¼ bit
o 3/16 bit
o 9/64 bit (for pop rivets)
· Box wrenches
Crescent wrench
· Impact drill
· Tek Screw Gun – so you don’t overtighten panels with insulation
· Angle Grinder with cutoff disc (cross cuts)
· Electric Shear
· Hand shears (left, right, straight)
To unload truck
· Rough terrain Telehandler
o 5000 lb Genie 5519
o Do not use bobcat or backhoe
For construction. My first though was a teleboom for lifting things. Then I saw a video where people were using a vertical mast boom lift (Had to dig to find out what it was called.) If I pair that with a scissor lift I wonder if that would work better for me.?
Will a vertical mast boom lift work?
Should I get a scissor lift?
Hi Harrier
It's great to hear you're intending to construct a shop. As previously stated, extra tools are required throughout the installation procedure. Are you going to build the shop on your own or with the aid of professionals?
When hiring a lift for aerial work, we must be cautious about the job to be done and ensure that the lift is capable of bearing weight, especially during the lifting process. A highly laden boom lift machine, in my opinion, is considerably safer and more user-friendly than scissor lifts since it can reach the rooftop much faster than other forms of lifts.
Hi Harrier
It's great to hear you're intending to construct a shop. As previously stated, extra tools are required throughout the installation procedure. Are you going to build the shop on your own or with the aid of professionals?
When hiring a lift for aerial work, we must be cautious about the job to be done and ensure that the lift is capable of bearing weight, especially during the lifting process. A highly laden boom lift machine, in my opinion, is considerably safer and more user-friendly than scissor lifts since it can reach the rooftop much faster than other forms of lifts.
Maybe you should go back and read the thread.. Just saying..
Not much progress lately. Since there is rain in the forecast, they most likely won't do anything more until Saturday. Although, we haven't gotten rain during the times they would work.
I now have three walls us and most of the garage door trim. Saturday they will put up the front wall and start on the roof.
I dug the trench for electrical over the weekend. That was brutal. The electrician should be out Friday or Saturday. I have insulation on the schedule. He said he won't be able to get to me until mod to late November.
For outlets, since my girt is over 7 feet off the ground, I'm looking at putting 2X4 studs up to have something to attach electrical boxes to. In time, they will be covered so I can have walls to hang stuff on.
I'm thinking 5 outlet boxes on the back 40' wall and 4 on the one 30 foot wall. The 30 foot wall with the door will probably just have three. The front wall 2 or 3. Will that be enough? I could always do what my dad did, drop some conduit from the ceiling and have a few outlets hanging in the middle of the shop.
My wife would also like a cupola on the roof with a weather vane as well.
For outside lights, I think she wants something like this. One over each garage door and the man door.
We will see when the time comes.
Where the window is in Bob's rendering, we will have our barn quilt.
Here is the 6X6 one we have on a barn on the family farm in north Missouri. I had a 4X4 replica made for our anniversary (not sure where that picture is)
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Just saying..
