Coming from a general contractor This is awesome Please keep the updates coning You are as Master Craftsman Gus
+1 on the floor plan. I was just showing this to my wife. She thought it was cool you can design you own layout to a point. I liked the shop space. best of both worlds. I'm jealous
In Washington state,King County,you cannot park cars in a barn.It is illegal,i have been to court twice.They want money to change it into a garage.MOVING as soon as i can sell.
I'd post some pics of the inside, but we moved out of the old shop and all my crap is strewn all over inside the new shop. Gimme a couple weeks and I'll have some pictures worth posting!
wow. what a cool place. the tenacity to stick to it is incredible. i imagine the looming winter is pretty good motivation to get the outside work done though...
WE'RE STONED!!!!! After nearly two and a half months, all the rockwork is done on our new shop. The weather held out long enough to finish. I gotta really thank my buddy Dana here because he was the guy willing to get up 30 feet in the air on scaffolds and set all that stone. He did an amazing job, and never lost his sense of humor. Here's a picture of him standing next to the silo so you can get an idea of the size of the thing Thanks, Dana--- Both literally and figuratively... YOU ROCK! Here's a picture of the whole enchilada.. Tomorrow we get to start work INSIDE the shop. It'll be a pleasant change.
Damn ......... Super nice "barn" ya got there. I'd go for 1 half that size. You have a true friend in Dana. You'd be testing your metal asking most people to assist you. I now officially hate you. Ratty 46
Beautiful!! Is it an optical illusion or does the driveway slope to the lower garage door? Just wondering what you do during a heavy rain? Just curious
The driveway does slope to get into the lower garage but it mostly slopes toward where the camera is away from the structure and there is a large dry sump in front of the door that will have a heavy grate on it.
Well, some of you have been asking for a look inside. Here's a picture of this weeks progress. We now have the shop sheetrocked. Man, those 12 foot sheets of 5/8 rock can really wear you down. The light fixtures are lithonia T5's (4 tubes per fixture, 18 fixtures) I was gonna tape and mud it myself, but I got a bid of a bit over 800 bucks to do the work. For 800 bucks, I aint touching it!. I should be able to paint the walls and get the shop organized right after Thanksgiving. I'll post more pictures then.
Looking great! I am wiring some new outlets in my place today. Your finished outside has me stoked to finish the Strawshop outside this winter/spring!
My buddy Dana did a lot of the masonry. Spent 2 and a half months on scaffolds, sometimes 30 feet in the air. Never slipped once. The second day after he finished all the high work he slipped off a low ladder and ripped his achilles tendon. 8 weeks in a cast. Damn!
Yep !! Ouch is right, one week down 5 to 7 to go depends on how much of a good boy I am LOL, Actually with the cast on it does not hurt too much, just annoying as all hell. I miss getting out and creating, it was bad enough when I was just laid off, then this shit.
Well, I said I'd post pictures of the inside of the shop. We started setting it up this week so I'll be posting as we move along. For the work we do it's important to have a perfectly level workspace that can take some abuse. Here's the framework for our bench surface. The legs are 2 inch stock, and the framework is 2 inch angle. Its lag bolted to the wall at every stud. The bottoms of each leg have a nut welded on the bottom and a bolt inserted. The frame can be adjusted for perfect level by turning the bolt in or out. The 20 foot run of cabinets above the bench look pretty snazzy, but cost less than 200 dollars for all 20 feet. They are made from particleboard shelving seconds which we got free at the manufacturer who is located in my home town. Then we skinned the doors with diamondplate aluminum that we bent on my box brake. We also made two roll around tables . Each has a two by three foot top that sits at the same height as the bench. We use the crap outa these! Finally the tops are put in place. They are two feet deep and 1/2 inch thick. (about 1600 pounds). We can weld on em , beat on em and generally abuse them and they never wimper.
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