Alaskan 40x50 shop build
- Thread starter Midge907
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Well waiting for one more 10 yard load to show up to finish, as I need a little more to finish sculpting the footers. Did some compacting tonight, and ordering form board material, insulation, vapor barrier, rebar, etc. tomorrow so hopefully can do the poor next weekend. Need to build my floor drains this weekend.
akdiesel
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Midge907
Looking good. This is defiantly the year to build something.
Looking good. This is defiantly the year to build something.
Bib Overalls
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Ready-Mix concrete on Sunday? Is that normal in your short building season location or an extra?
I know when I stopped in yesterday the dispatcher had said they had been working 7-days a week for awhile, I will let you know tomorrow if it comes with a Sunday premium. We do have a short building season. Road restrictions were in effect up to my house all the way into mid-june. I'll update after finding out more.
R.Anderson
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Nice green house, are you worried about condensation over time rotting the untreated wood on the inside?
Not really to worried about it, I put Thompson water seal all over the place before sheeting it, and after. Plan on doing the same thing every season after dumping the plants for the winter. Has been a good green house so far, lots of veggies this summer.
R.Anderson
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Ah, you sealed, I wouldn't be worried about ether then
good to hear you had a good growing year.
Looking might fine !! 
Other than the sprinkler hose watering in your gravel, and the highline electric in back, it might look like you're shop is in middle of Alaska tundra !
How far from "civilization" is your shop??
Any last minute heating plan changes to go with radiant in-floor heat??
Good luck on the pour. Don't forget those slump tests !
Other than the sprinkler hose watering in your gravel, and the highline electric in back, it might look like you're shop is in middle of Alaska tundra !
How far from "civilization" is your shop??
Any last minute heating plan changes to go with radiant in-floor heat??
Good luck on the pour. Don't forget those slump tests !
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softailgarage
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Sorry to back peddle a little, but why does Fannie Mae have a problem with an out building being larger that the main house? Do farmers with barns have this problem also?
Typically they can't find comparable sales to reflect the cost of the outbuildings. Fannie makes loans for residential properties in the context of a residential appraisal a 50k outbuildings probably getting a 5k $ adjustment up in value. Commercial property like a farm would be treated different as its generating money.
Yep, like ovs said. I was told that even with building it myself, I would never be able to recoup even the price of materials if the next owner would have to get a traditional loan. Doesn't mean that the right buyer wouldn't pay the difference, just that Fannie Mae would not. Its working out a lot better this way anyway, and so glad I didn't get a construction loan as interest rates are only going up. Everything happens for a reason.
pattenp
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I was in Fairbanks about a month ago. One thing, you have plenty of daylight to get things done during the summer. And the mosquitoes are just lovely.
Zeke
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I might have missed it, but what are the long boxed out sections?
Those full-length floor drains ??
bfarroo
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Where did you get the drains and if you don't mind me asking what did they cost?
Midge907 said:
Nice. You've got "rural" codes then to allow "potentially oil mixed water" running out the floor drain (ie would not be allowed in most cities).
Do the floor drains go into a dry well /gravel pit ?? Or surface runoff??
eborcim
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nice shop!Wish me luck, gonna start doing some layout and framing today. Weather here was terrible the last couple days with lots of rain. Best part is next weekend is a 4 day weekend, so lots can happen then, even though I plan on taking a day off sometime to go do some diving.
bcbsox
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Midge, let me know if you're going to be doing any work on this on Monday. I'd love to come check out the progress and lend a hand if you need it.
Will do, hope the rain holds back some. Hopefully we will be building and stacking trusses, and I have to go to the shop at sometime and start making my base flashing.
Be awhile since I've posted. As you can see we have been slowly plugging away at the project. Goal is to be most of the way done with shingles by end of this Sunday.
