Broke ground on my 40x80

[SkipsShop]

Broke ground on my 40x100 shop with 16ft side shed.All steel weld together and insulated.

Its an 80x100 square right now, planning on build a apartment in the back of it, and puting a two post lift with floor drains in the floor.

Im going to have my living room, bathroom/washroom, and kitchen downstairs and my bedroom upstairs and a full bath. Will post more info when can think of some and as more progress is made.

Heres the 80x100 pad

Heres chert going down for the drive way

Puting a pipe in the drive way

Drive way and pad done waiting for the chert to pack and gravel for pad and then start diging pipe lines for water line ,drains, and all

 

[raildawg]

looks like a great project.good luck.lots of good info here.keep posting.Iwas looking at a all metal building,but went with a stick on slab.looking foward to seeing yours as it progresses.

 

[bigsteve1969]

i'm gonna be graduating in about 6 months and get into mechanic'n im hoping to build one of these in a few years or so. maybe not 80x80 but a shop with a small apartment/house attatched or added off to the back.

 

[macdabs]

I am looking forward to your post also. I purchased a 40x80 all steel in October.Winter and other work related projects along with snow in the east has caused me to start construction when the weather breakes in the spring.

I looked at stick, all block ,pole barn , Sips and every other type of construction for two years prior. I own a 3200 sq ft old block building that is tough to heat ,I liked Sips construction for the low loss of heat but the cost and limitions for changes and fire issue concerned me. I ended up going with all steel for the ease of construction with no worry about insects, mice damage or fire. We have a 140000 sq ft steel building at work that was built in 2001 , 3/4 of it is finished office space with showroom and it has been affordable to heat and maintain. I did decide to go with a 4 ft curb wall that will be a a heat loss.I figured concrete block is easy to hose down and will take a beating with shop equipment and work benches against it not to mention grinding and welding.

Good luck and I look forward to watching your project.

Macdab

 

[SkipsShop]

Ok well the ground has been frozen here so sorry but havent had anything going on. Hopefully going to get started again this week its going to be warmer...

 

[SkipsShop]

Ok well its been a long time since i posted, sorry and here we go. I went with a 40x100 all welded steel building, with 6in floor, with a 40x16 apartment, 640sq ft upstairs and 640 sq ft downstairs, living area came to be 1280sq ft.

Heres some pics of the pouring of the floor sorry didnt get any pictures of them boarding it up

 

[SkipsShop]

And heres some of the building going up, sorry i lost a lot of my picture so alot of the builds a little skipped

This is the main beams and you can tell where the doors are going one 14x14 and two 10x8.

 

[SkipsShop]

insulation and tin going up

heres the finished building

 

[mws444]

Great build! Post up some pics of the interior, I am doing one pretty similar.
I love the building in a build thing.

 

[SkipsShop]

Wow mines no where near as nice as yours, heres some inside pics.

lights

framing up the rooms,bottom left living room which runs into the kitchen,bottom right half bath/wash room, top left big closet,top middle bedroom,top right full bath.

down stairs half bath/wash room

In living room looking at kitchen

standing in kitchen looking at living room

and thats the down stairs and i insulated the walls again.

 

[SkipsShop]

And heres the upstairs, its bigger then the pictures look

upstairs full bath room

standing in closet looking at master bedroom with bathroom and stairs in back ground

And dont have a picture of upstairs closet framed up sorry, but its almost just as big as bathroom

 

[SkipsShop]

got the paneling up and few other things

downstair bath/wash room

Kitchen

living room

upstairs closet

upstair full bath

and bedroom

 

[bigfredtn]

Nice building, but there is not any natural light in the living section. I would suggest adding some type of back up lights in the building in case you lose power.

 

[SkipsShop]

Yeah i should have put windows in when it was built but now am going back and puting one upstairs and one down, but i have a 10kw gen that runs everything if power go's out

 

[Justanoldguy]

Looks good alright.
You would never get away with no windows around this area.
There has to be so many sq/in of natural light and ventilation per sq/ft of floor space.

 

[Nighttrain]

What did you put on the floor for a sealer? Looks good. I also like the idea of a building within a building.

 

[SkipsShop]

not sure what kind but, got it where the concert came from.

 

[bigfredtn]

I would have also put insulation between the studs, and on the upper ceiling. That would make the space really energy efficient.

 

[SkipsShop]

I would have also put insulation between the studs, and on the upper ceiling. That would make the space really energy efficient.

i insulated everything again in the living area

 

[Twiggss]

My dream home...

 

[SkipsShop]

My dream home...

Thanks i love it so far.

 

[hemibee69]

16' walls?

 

[ejm1961Tbird]

That place is huge. I like the big covered area on the side.

 

[ArkOma]

Looks like Oklahoma?

What are your costs so far? Rough Ballpark?

 

[SkipsShop]

yes 16 foot walls, nope in alabama, the building including cement was around 12 dollar a sq foot.

 

[wagnon89]

yes 16 foot walls, nope in alabama, the building including cement was around 12 dollar a sq foot.

Hey there fellow Alabamian
What part of the state you live in? Where'd you get those trusses from? I'm about to start my build and looking at a similar design.
Nice shop and War Damn Eagle!

 

[SkipsShop]

north alabama where about you? And yes war eagle !!!!!!

 

[wagnon89]

north alabama where about you? And yes war eagle !!!!!!

I'm just outside Hartselle, out in the middle of nowhere. Nice shop!

 

[SkipsShop]

oh cool im just outside cullman, if you go though with it and need a idea u can come take a look at mine. And the guy that built the building made the trusses everthings welded.

 

[wagnon89]

oh cool im just outside cullman, if you go though with it and need a idea u can come take a look at mine. And the guy that built the building made the trusses everthings welded.

Sweet. I'll PM you soon when I get some free time. I might come check it out or at least get the guy's name.

 

[SkipsShop]

sounds good

 

[silentyr25]

It may be way too late for this question because of the date the posting was. But I'm just curious what the post size, is it 6x6 wood at 10' o.c.. Please let me know, I'm thinking of building a 40x100x18, 6x6 @10' o.c. steel truss with perma wet-set anchor brackets to hold the 6x6 on a thickened slab edge or grade beam.