Featured Projects LET THERE BE SHOP! At last!

For all of you that offered suggestions and encouragement on my post about the big move to middle 10-UH-C, THANK YOU!
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...s-success-or-not.1337144/page-4#post-15793502

I’m pleased to report that progress is finally being made on the addition to the existing shop building. After two months of bad weather, snow and ice, frozen clay pits, and weeks of set back for the building company, not to mention an additional outlay for tons of extra gravel, we have begun construction.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve done excavation (12” grade)., foundation fill, and today the concrete got poured and finished! I’m so relieved, after all the delays. We did find the existing slab out of level front to back (3”) so that took more work and material to get the new foundation level. Good grief!!

It’s 24 x 32, like the existing one, but with a 12’ ceiling for the lift.

 

Looks like a great finish on that shop floor as well! Congrats!

 

Congratulations! At the tender age of 61 I also built my first shop this year and it’s great to have a place to putter around.

 

Nice! Will the two share a wall, or will the existing shop get opened up to make them one space?

 

Where’s the dog tracks ? There’s always dog tracks in the cement. Looks great . One of the barns here on the farm has Turkey tracks . GreatGrandpa had chicken and turkeys . Never could keep the turkeys in Dad told me lol

 

There will be two walls ****ed together, with an 8x10 opening in them. Where that cutout is now, but higher.

 

@Okie Pete HA! No tracks! thank goodness. Dogs are next door and fenced in!

 

Thanks! I told them slick and they comprende’d. They know their stuff.
Probably did it four times with the power trowel.

 

Congratulations!

They poured my cement a year and a half ago. I feel your pain. Going from the initial planning stages to the final product was a long and painful process. But it was oh so worth it in the end.

 

I also told my cement guy slick. I guess he did not comprehend.

 

Congratulations!
That floor looks nice and smooth. Will there be water? 220v? Heat?

BTW, we could be neighbors in a few years. My beloved bride wants to move to a Nashville 'burb after we retire. We met there and she's a TN native.

 

Congratulations on the progress! Looks great and the high ceiling was a good call.

I’m still working on mine after 14 years but I’ve been working IN it for that long as well. If I could do it all over I probably wouldn’t lol.

 

Great job on your workshop/garage.
I love the fact that you have a quite tall ceiling ..... can I suggest that, if possible, you build a mezzanine.
It's a great way of storing stuff that's not being used regularly and provides more useable floor space on the ground level.
BUT ..... there is a downside, you inherently collect more ****, don't ask me how I know.

 

Murfreesboro is OK. Lots of car life all around N’ville. Haven’t had time to plug into it yet. Have NO desire to get into N’ville and all of its traffic!
Moving from the mountains takes some adjusting. But the wife is happy!
She’s close to the daughter, grands and new greatgrand. The reasons for the move.

 

Glad to hear it all came together,I know the past year or so has been a major PITA but everything is starting to fall in place, happy for you my friend. HRP

 

Thanks Danny! It’s been quite a PITA! No country for old men!

 

That looks like some good progress for a nice shop.

 

Lol.
Yep, building a mezzanine is in my future plans.

 

Use it in good health

 

I think mezzanine in TN is called a dog trot but I could be wrong

 

Well done and congratulations.

 

Congratulations Bill!

Glad you finally got through all the issues, it will be great the 1st day you can pull you hot rod inside.

By the way....I closed in my Mezzanine, so now it is just "The Upstairs"

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

WOW ..... you're movin on up .... what in the world will do with all that extra space?

seriously... very happy for you brother.

 

Zipping right along. Too bad this didn’t happen last year.

Forms down. All cured, ready to go vertical.


Materials delivered today. Everything but scissor trusses . Coming Monday.
Forklift would run sideways, so it was easy getting long stuff to the back.



Might be closed in a week from now! WOOHOO!

 

I bet you are excited!!!! I remember how excited I was when I built my shop in 1976. Only thing better will be move in day.

 

My family and I Built mine twenty years ago, skylights were an important addition. you're going to love it.
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It’s very strange having to move, leave a perfectly good shop, and virtually start over.
At least I won’t be doing that again. Just hope to live long enough to enjoy it .

 

well done and congratulations. My new shop is 30' x 80' steel, had them put in two mezzanines. Guys supposed to deck over the mezzanines never called back, decided to do it myself. Fell ten feet to the concrete one year ago, busted up my right foot, walk with a limp now but back to work. Love just getting up in the morning, grab coffee, walk out to the shop, get things done.

 

Very nice addition!!