My new shop.

[AGRIMAN]

Nice job. Money invested in a good shop is well spent. Three years ago I moved from my old home built and lightly insulated 30x30 farm shop to a new 50x50 red iron building.

A few improvements we made. More room with future expansion, 14 ft roll up doors, skylights, better insulation, a smooth finished floor, and a overhead A frame hoist. It sure makes maintaining our equipment a lot easier.

 

[3930dave]

Nice building/size.

I don't know the application temperature limits on it, but a buddy of mine has been really happy with industrial spray-on insulation for walls and ceilings. It performs well, and he says the pricing is pretty good, at least around here, with his connections.

I've even seen an enclosed skidoo race trailer done with this spray-on stuff. On that small an area, he went with a fairly thick application, as the owner sleeps at the track in it. I got the impression you didn't much more than a couple of bic lighters to keep that trailer warm.

Rgds, D.

 

[stingray1]

Nice,that's about the size I need.

 

[Gary Fowler]

About 4 years ago I had my shop built to what I thought would be plenty big, 30x30 main slab with 10x12 wing slab for a bathroom/ storage room. It has 12 foot side wings on each side for a 30x52 under roof which I though would be big enough. Initially just storing the boat on one side which has a 10 foot garage door and the other side with 16 foot door was used for my shop workspace. My house has an oversized 25x25 double garage for cars but then I bought a RTV 900 and a golf cart so they are parked in the garage along with wifes car since we use the UTV daily so my truck got relegated to my shop 16 foot side. I added a 14 foot x 30 foot leanto on to the back to put my boat and lawnmowers in and free up the one side for workshop. Then bought the wife another car but she wanted to keep the old one, so now it gets parked in the 10 foot side and only leaves me about 10 feet of work area behind it. I sure could have used a 30x60 but when I built, it was way more than I needed at the time. I can still get by but it is cramped.
MORAL: built twice as much as you think you need and maybe it will be 4 or 5 years before you run out of space.

 

[creekbend]

Nice job. I respect You for helping Your Friend.

 

[streamin]

do you have an estimate on what you have in it? not including the concrete, as I won't be doing that at first.

 

[Mace Canute]

Looks really nice!

I have been searching for someone to build a pole barn for me. Do you travel? It'd only be about a 30 hour drive to work each day. :laughing:

Oh, I'm sorry. I used a poor choice of words
when I said I built it for him. I didn't physically build it myself, I just paid for it to be built.

Nice job. I respect You for helping Your Friend.

Thank you. He's a great guy and what with a wife and kid and all he would never get enough ahead to afford this. I can afford it but it's taken me a lifetime to get there and I figured what's the difference between having my money in a bank or having it in a building. At least with the building both of us will get actual use out of it.

do you have an estimate on what you have in it? not including the concrete, as I won't be doing that at first.

Yeah, so far just bumping $43,000 for material and labour. The concrete was $40,500 for material and labour. I know it's high but there's a bit of a building boom going on here and if you want it you have to pay the going price.

 

[DT86]

Mace,

I too am currently taking donations! j/k


Sounds like you all are very close friends to do that for him. Kudos to you Sir.

 

[Budweiser John]

Well, one can never have too much shop space. Now,that being stated, S**** does expand to fill the space so a little self discipline is usually in order when it comes to saving those things ya just know you will find a need for sometime in the future. Let me add another thought on shop usefulness.

Right now, here in Michigan we're in the 'polar Vortex' and wind chills are some where around -30. About April of last year I removed all the old fiberglass mouse infested insulation and hired a contractor to apply closed cell spray foam the the shop overhead. Best investment ever. Today with sub zero temperatures, the shop is a toasty 70 degrees with a relatively small wood wood burning stove and blower. In fact, with very little effort, I can now keep the shop above freezing year around with out breaking the bank. Oh, for those interested, the shop is 32' X 80'

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The concrete was $40,500 for material and labour. I know it's high but there's a bit of a building boom going on here and if you want it you have to pay the going price.

Ouch! Are you OK after that bruising? Dig they have to dig halfway to China? What did they fill with if they did?