Shop addition starts Monday!

[BAM55]

Man I wish I had space you are a lucky man. Good luck with your addition.

[chevynut]

Forms are all up, and walls are ready to pour! Damn government inspectors work on their own time, with no schedule, so you have to sit around and wait for them to show up.

We should be backfilling early next week and preparing for the slab. This time, I'm having the lines CUT in the slab rather than tooled. That way I can roll an engine hoist across the shop easily. I got to the concrete guys too late on the last floor and they tooled it so it's a PITA. Over $10K will be spent by the time the slab is done.

[WagonCrazy]

Cool. Someone's keepin the local construction economy going. That new addition is deeper than the existing garage....and i'm sure you have every square foot planned for something. Are you making the cieling high enough for a 4 post and double stacking cars. You'll want that space before long.

Last time I was there, it was a foot of snow. And had to be the coldest day of the year that year...

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[Geoff]

That's going to be a nice-sized and nice looking shop! Man, I don't envy your winters, but I sure envy your summers.
I'll make plans to come see you if we go to Estes Park again this summer.

BTW, What size wheels and tires is your friend using on the back of that Duramax powered '55?
They look huge!

[chevynut]

Paul, I don't plan to be here much longer, or I would have built a big-ass shop on my back pasture...something like 3000-4000 square feet. This addition is 1300 square feet, and the original shop is 1144. It will work for a while. When I get my new place....wherever that is...I plan to build a 60x80 building and block off part of it just for storage, and heat the rest.

I talked myself out of a lift...it takes up too much room.

Geoff, our past winter was really mild. We had a couple of snows in the late fall, and nothing since. It's been warm all winter...hardly a drop of moisture which isn't good.

You have to be sure to stop by next time you're here.

[WagonCrazy]

I talked myself out of a lift...it takes up too much room.

Really? Not even a 2 post lift so you dont' have to crawl on your back under the cars? All you need is about 12 foot ceiling height...
That will surely make it worth extra $ to the guy you sell the place to one day.

[chevynut]

I've got WALLS! They poured the concrete Thursday and removed the forms over the weekend while I was in Wyoming building antelope blinds. We're planning to backfill this week. I have several truckloads of structural fill coming Tuesday. Then we have to prepare for the slab.

[smooth 56]

Looks like a nice adition, Wont be long you will be moveing in.

[chevynut]

We got the end of the shop torn off late last week so we're ready to start framing the new section. I decided to pull the siding off too, just to make it not look so much like an addition.

I had 75 tons of structural fill dumped for backfilling under the slab and bought the under-slab insulation that goes around the walls (R10). We had to order some parts for my son's skid loader and now we have that fixed and running. I just unloaded it off the trailer this afternoon, and reserved a "jumping jack" tamper so we can backfill tonight and hopefully pour a slab early next week if the flatwork guys can schedule it in.

[chevynut]

My son and I got the backfilling and tamping done. I set the foam insulation in place all around the inside of the foundation walls, as required by the new "energy code". I did this on my original shop before it was required.

I spent about 3 hours getting beat up by a "jumping jack" tamping machine. Then I did a rough grade on the outside of the walls. Still need to haul in a couple of truckloads of fill dirt.