Equipment shed.

travlitt · Dec 9, 2017

Today I trim out the overhead doors.

My shop building, 40'x50'.

Now I will start the inside work.

1. First will be the wiring.

2. Then I will build a bunch of shelves. The first shelve will be 4' deep and 50' long.

3. Then add as needed.

I started this project on 11/4/2017 and finished to this point on 12/09/2017. I had 1 man help me put the roof metal on.(30'.6") The rest of the project was done by myself with the help of my wife. Not bad for a 78 year old man and a 74 year old woman.

I hope this project has been of interest to my fellow forum members. It has been a great project for me to build.

Thanks
Travis

ultrarunner · Dec 10, 2017

Hazard a guess as to what materials cost?

plowhog · Dec 10, 2017

travlitt said:
Not bad for a 78 year old man and a 74 year old woman. Travis

That is an incredible inspiration to me, and probably legions of other visitors here. Congratulations times ten!!!!

Thank you so much for documenting your work and describing it here. It was informative and fun to watch the progress.

Gem99ultra · Dec 10, 2017

Nice looking project! Hope you didn't make the same mistake that I did once... Mounted my florescent lights above the overhead doors. That was all fine until I opened the doors and discovered that they blocked almost all of my light!

Next time I installed roll-up doors, although admittedly they were substantially more expensive.

travlitt · Dec 10, 2017

plowhog said:
That is an incredible inspiration to me, and probably legions of other visitors here. Congratulations times ten!!!!
Thank you so much for documenting your work and describing it here. It was informative and fun to watch the progress.

Thanks plowhog

WoodChuckDad · Jan 2, 2018

You have me wondering if red iron would hold up to virginia soil and weather

travlitt · Jan 2, 2018

Got the ditch dug and the electric direct burial cable installed. I put the cable in conduit for additional safety.
The cable is 8/3 stranded with a ground. Sure has been cold here the last week or so, around 5* low with around 15* high. Now that I have the cable installed I can work inside where I can have a little heat.