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I have a 40x60x12 with 4/12 pitch. Steel frame building. White liner panels, white insulation above the liner panels, white ceiling insulation. Medium gray epoxy floor. I have 3 20' bays between the columns. I think I'm going to do 4 rows of 3 4' lights in each bay. So a total of 36 fixtures...

Oh I am well aware I should have gone bigger. But what I have it better than what I had before. I had a walk out basement home with a two car garage. A 8' ceiling unfinished room in the basement that was about 16' x 20' for my RC stuff. Now I have a house with a 3 car garage plus my 40' x...

I know I should have built bigger but I already stretched it from a 30x30 to this. My wife wasn't going to agree to much more. I'm aware I'll fill it up. But in another year when my BMW lease is up the Suburban will go in the house garage. Then when my step son moves out in about two years the...

We live on a paved farm road (we have 10 acres) and our 320' driveway is concrete to the house. But from the house to the shop is gravel. I'm thinking the burb and the Vette will be parked next to each other right inside the garage door. That way they can easily be backed out to allow me to get...

Is that a ham radio antenna Sberry? My nickname in high school was Cberry. For Cranberry, since I have red hair. Somehow they came up with that.

Here is a quick picture. That back right corner has a sink and toilet and the walk door. Back wall is the two windows. I have to keep everything away from the walls for the inspector to come back and I'm installing my liner panels next week.

Yes. I'm thinking anything semi permanent will be against the walls like non rollable equipment, cabinets, etc. I want to build work benches with retractable wheels so they can be moved out of the way if need be. Should I put my cabinets in a corner furthest away from the garage door?

My 60x40x12 (or 14, can't remember, need to measure) all steel building is finally done. Just have to have electrical re-inspected but can put stuff inside. I'm overwhelmed at the thought of the layout. I build and fly large RC airplanes, will work on the occasional vehicle, and will have to...

The building, it's materials, and the construction were great. It was the shady contractors that screwed up the experience. But I'll continue the story again soon. The shop is almost done and ready for my final inspection with the county. Then the real fun begins (HVAC, lighting, more outlets...

I finally have time to sit down and type up more of the backstory with my shop. After we completed the framing I had to get back to work. My wife and I sell toys among other things online and it was around late October that the framing was complete. So you can imagine our busy season was...

And if any of the local places that build a wood frame building would have called me back I would have gone that way. At one point I just said screw it, I'll do it myself.

All Steel presents it's own set of challenges. But my insurance was less. But I like the look of the steel inside more than wood. But with the all steel I had to have a much more expensive slab. It had to have big footers, a lot more rebar, and engineered foundation plans. At one point I...

My step son, previous neighbor, a few of my step son's friends, and I did the framing of the shop ourselves over the period of a few days. We began with a manual material handler one weekend and got all of the vertical steel as well as the girts put up. The next weekend I rented a scissor lift...

So here is the back story to the shop. In August my wife and I purchased 10 acres to have a house built on. We immediately put our house on the market and within 3 days of the listing going live we had a contract for less than 1% off list price. So we packed up and moved out before we...

It was a kit. Came with everything needed minus the garage door and opener. You can get roll up doors from them but I wanted something motorized and insulated. My county required engineered foundation plans so I had to have a structural engineer draw those up, about $900. The slab wasn't cheap...