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I have started building my first home and it will have a 20' wide by 44' long drive through garage. Of course, I'll never have a clean enough garage to actually drive through but since it is on a steep slope, I have to limit my garage width since I'm terracing the hill side. It will have a...

I have been designing my new shop and want a clear span area between the bays so it will require 2 beams to support the second floor and roof lines. I went to the local lumber company and they sized a gluelam beam that is 5-1/2" wide and 27" deep for the 28' span I'm looking for. Holy cow! I...

Does anyone have a 2nd floor shop? I have been thinking about putting my wood shop on the 2nd floor of my monitor barn since it will be a smaller space to heat/cool plus working on a wood floor is much better than concrete. I believe homes have about a 40 PSF uniform load rating and I'm...

I am considering several building options in steel, pole barn and stick built and after much thought (and some feedback from this forum), I have decided to build my shop in the style of a monitor barn which is my favorite style of barn. It would give me a full height loft around 800 sq ft and...

I'm planning on building a shop this fall and need to figure out the power run to it. The problem is, the shop is 525' from the existing meter panel and running a new meter panel (and new in ground transformer) is going to cost me over $10K (Entergy quote) due to the terrain and difficulty...

my shop should be nice. I've been planning on building a shop for several years and have just started planning, for real this time :). I found this forum last week and have found a lot of information and inspiration in the posts I've read. Some of the shops are fantastic and belong in "Better...