Finally.............my new shop
 

Recently, my wife and I have started a new chapter (adventure). I sold my parts business and semi retired. We picked up root and are in the process of moving to our home in northern Wisconsin (love to snowmobile).

So, our old house is sold (6 days). That mean time to get going on the new shop. 40x56 steel building............radiant heat floors.............high ceilings.............a hoist....... and more room for all of our stuff. I now can keep it call in one place!

The push is on the get the site cleared and prepped, in order to pour concrete this year

Off we go! I suspect the fill is going to be a killer.

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Looks great, keep the pics coming!

Great job brother!!! Hopefully I’m not to far behind!!

Oh yeah! That building site is KILLER!. Best of luck with the process.

Looks like a beautiful part of the world. Keep up the updates!

Nice size shop, keep us in pictures :biggthumpup:

Living The Dream!

VERY EXCITING :)

Dan

Great looking piece of land!!! Can’t wait! :biggthumpup:

Awesome Tim! No more laying on the ground to work under the cars! :) :worship:

I just built the exact same thing. Steel building, in-floor heat, 12 foot ceilings, got a lift. I went 60x72 and I still think I should have gone bigger!! :D

I though about bigger. Like a fish bowl, this will "contain" my habits................maybe

looking good!!!

Nice Tim! Congratulations on everything!

This boy and girls, is what 700 yards of fill looks like!

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It really is IMO. I've wanted to live here for 30 years. Here is a pic I took off of my deck on Tuesday afternoon. Too bad the sun was not out.

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Awesome, trees are turning already! Soon snow...and Packer Football!

Gorgeous scenery!!!!:biggthumpup:

Looks like you could build it out of logs.:beers:

Jeezum....I don't think I'd get anything done with a view like that! Awesome! Congrats!

Cheers
Dave

They got back on things here this week. I believe we got about 5" of rain, so the excavator had to pull off for a week. Looks like site prep will be done this week and should be ready for concrete towards the end of next week.

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I'm right there with you rowing the same oar in the same boat:laugh: Waiting on concrete and for it to stop the heck raining so we can get foundations poured too!!

Looking forward to updates! :3gears:

Cheers

Dave

Congrats! Can’t wait to see the new shop!

So jealous. Congrats on the build!

What part of northern Wisconsin? My grandparents are in Arbor Vitae, such an awesome area

Way, way up nort ... almost Youpper land ... LOL

We are about 15 min north of that yet in Presque Isle

Spoiled Brat !!!!!

Yep.............................kinda. I got boned by the mason who went and took on a basement ahead of me, and then the winter set in. No shop til next year. Tracey already shut me down on chasing her around the house. So.................I sit and wait for the snowmobile trails to open up!

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After a winter slumber, the road weight limits have finally come off. Now, we can get back to work. This past week.............

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The building should get delivered the week of the 27th!

Wow Tim. nice!!:biggthumpup:

You’ve got to be excited! Keep the pix coming!!!

Holy crap that is going to be awesome!

6" or 8 " over and above the top of the PEX?

6 with the PEX included

I am very happy for any good car guy that gets to Build his very own Dream Garage.

Love it! Keep the pics coming.

Dan

Excellent! To quote a famous man..."Let the wurd go fouth from this day fourwahd...progress pics are needed!!" You gotta be so psyched!

Cheers
Dave

Ain't I the DB for dropping the mic on this one. Here are a bunch of progress pics from back in 2019. I'll update later on what is looks like today.......

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Isn't it amazing how fast those buildings go up ? We moved in Sept of '19 and had a 30X48 contracted for October. We had a month of rain then too and it got delayed until November. When the material got here, it took 2 guys 3 DAYS and it was done, except for the overhead door. CRAZY what they did in 3 days.

Thanks for posting the pictures of your shop build. Did you go with a 6" slab throughout or only where you planned to have lifts? What side wall height did you go with? Also, do you plan to treat the concrete floors with epoxy or some other coating?

Any lessons learned from the shop build that you would do differently today if starting over?

It took about 4 months quite honestly. As luck would have it, my contractor was not the best by far......

Happy with the building for the most part, but the process left an awful lot to be desired.