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Thats awesome thank you all for your input!

I’d put stairs to get up to it.

Walls are 16’. I figure I’ll be able to put the mezzanine in the back corner at 9’ to 10’ high. That way its lowest clearance point is going to be around 5’ up there next to the wall, then opens up with the pitch of the roof. Sounding like a mezzanine is the way to go. Then shelves if needed.

Hey there! Our 40x50 shop is finally finished. Now that I am moving stuff in I’m trying to decide if I should build a mezzanine or just put up some shelves? Anyone out there who did one and wishes they’d done the other? If I go the mezzanine route it would probably be 10x20. Thanks!

We will be building in Northern Idaho. These guys set a the posts in cement and in the hole. They don’t use a bracket system on top of the cement base.

Hey there! We are planning to have a 40x50x16 with a 12’ shed roof on one side. I’d like to elevate the building site about 12-15”. The guy who came out to bid the project said we could use pit run/bank run to build up most of it and then finish it off with some 3/4” crush road base. After...