New life for old garage

[handirifle]

The building cost $2000.00 to move, I did not keep track of expenses for the remodel. So basically I got a 26x34 building I was able to use right away. When I first looked at it there was sheeting on the inside except for a few spots. In the places where there was no sheeting it was insulated, but when I got it home I found little or no insulation in most of the rest of the walls.
I removed all the interior and put steel on the ceiling, I also added 18inches to the side walls so I could put in 8 foot doors, glad I did that because when I bought a tractor it fit without folding the ROPs. My wife worked at a window company so I got the window for free. The siding and ceiling cost $1100.00 and my wife wanted the soffit to match the house so I had to replace that, don't remember the cost . The shingles were around $500.00, I used mostly left over scrap for the cupola. If I had known it wasn't insulated I may not have done it, but I'm happy with the way it is turning out and a lot of the materials would have been the same for a new build. The inside is not finished other than the ceiling, I put tubingin for infloor heat. I always wanted to put in an outdoor wood furnace to heat house and shop, but so far too much controversy over them.

Did they move the building in one piece? Curious cause there's a similar offering near me, they wat $2000 for the bldg, and you move it.

 

[Jimmy Joe]

Yes they moved it all in one piece. The overhead doors were even left in place, they just left them open. It was a father and son, they built their trailer from an old school that I actually went to before they closed it. They used the big steel roof I beam supports from the school to build it.