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In this video, he hammers a piece of dowel the size of the hole onto a forstner bit and re-drills a larger hole. You could do something similar but don't go all the way thru. HF has inexpensive bits $9.99...

The home inside is not attached to the metal structure. I had to have a PE engineer and stamp the plans. It's actually permitted as a residence. the walls are 2 inches in from the girts or 10 inches from edge of slab with footings that ended up being 16" where the bearing walls are. Even the...

I have an old Hilti nailer, but will probably use a red head at each end of a wall.

OK. Thought it should be fine, just wanted to check with someone smarter than me.

I would want to use the upper floor for storage, but only things I could carry up stairs or ladder. Probably a 9' ceiling to utilize rim joist.

I built my home in a 60x100x20 steel building, red iron. I want to add an assembly room for my cars in my garage portion (3000sqft). It would be nice to have storage above the 20x24 room I want to build. I was thinking 2x6 walls and tji joists. The slab is 4". would this be ok? I would tie...

The floor is doing great. It's not really in a garage but do have two cars on it. Easy to clean and may get a robot vacuum or mop for the room.

I've seen the units hung on outside walls or mounted on a small pad. No where near the size of a conventional unit. Google this: mini split condensing unit wall mount bracket kit and look at some images

I too would look at a mini split or at least figure out where I might put it and run the lines and cap them at both ends. They have cassette units that fit into ceiling joists.

Craig is on the right track. I built my 36 x 80 shop with hand drawn plans. For the foundation I had a soils test and the county actually had pre- approved drawings for the foundation that I used. On my house I had an engineer design the foundation. As for a stick built, I used trusses and...

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Looks like the Essential Craftsman is doing a shop build on his YouTube channel. He's building it for his daughter. He thinks 10-12 videos. May answer a few questions members may have.

All of my costs were pre-covid. Would be double or more now. Building would prob be $150k vs $60k. You need to get away from shop and go with garage. I did all the home building with only drywall paid. Will prob require a PE engineering plan. The guy that did mine now knows some of the changes...

The one thing I noticed early on is the steel ceiling. Generally you need a fire break with 5/8 fire rated drywall when there is living area over the garage. Looks nice though and great DIY work.

I would just start talking with the lift manufacturer and see what other options there are. Here's my best idea. Charge him for 200 sqft and make him buy both lifts

As for price, I paid $9/sqft. I broke ground Jan 2020 just before covid hit. All my prices were pre-covid. I think we used 150 yards if I remember right. He calculated 136 but footings got bigger due to base soil which is mainly gravel. What kind of use will your building be?

It looks like I'm in zone D 2. This was for a residence. I'll try to take a pic of plans for you. Here what it looked like when ready for pour. Footings inside were for house walls

I put up a 60 x 100 x 20 building in 2020. i had to have a soil analysis and then he engineered the slab. I had 4' x4' x4' piers with a re-bar pre-built structure placed in the holes under each of the main frames and 3' x3' x3' under the end wall frames. I had 12" x 12" footings all around...

Since you're in Baton Rouge, you may want to keep the 80 and have an open 20 foot area between the two sides. It would allow a "carport/outdoor cooking, gathering area" for crawfish boils and eliminate the need for a fire break between your garage and house. I just finished a 60x100 and after...

Get a couple of pieces of unistrut and place them sideways and use some unistrut trolleys bolted under the shelf or weld them an angle iron frame with wood in it.