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These guys are doing absolutely incredible work! They only have a few downspouts to secure and trimming the doors and I think they are done and ready for us to install the doors. Concrete guy has a pour scheduled for Wednesday to pour the walkway from the person door on the left to the end...

Went out to the shop today with a buddy and we finished installing the mezzanine joists. Because I opted to upgrade the PSF static load rating of the mezzanine those joists are kind of substantial relative to the girts and purlins so they are kind of 'fun' to install over a 15' wide span. And...

Just a quick update. Since they are waiting on me to finish the mezzanine they couldn't do the opposite wall so they started working on the trim and gutters. Looking good!

Went up there after work to check the progress (it's been raining like hell) and they finished the roof!! It's kind of weird though that the building somehow looks bigger now that it has walls and a roof but it feels freaking enormous and a little disorienting. Those 18' walls really are...

Some morning musings on some of the lessons learned and just helpful hints for anybody putting up their own cold formed steel building (CFS). In no particular order. Drill bits. You will go through a LOT of drill bits. We have tried basically every variant on the market and I think the...

@mdim We have made just about every mistake possible I think when putting this thing up after reading the documentation a dozen times and watching the videos enough times I can start to quote them like I wrote the scripts for them. I am more than happy to dive deep into any of the parts that we...

We went out there on Thursday and finished the door frames for the front person doors and the end wall roll up door so they were able to sheet over those. We had made a mistake with the center purlins that run the length of the building which made the roof panels not fit so the contractor had...

They made more great progress yesterday. I hadn't finished framing in the person doors on the front of the building yet so they put up some temporary panels to keep the spacing. Went out there last night and installed those as well as finished framing in the roll up door on the right side...

My guess that those guys were going to make hellacious progress might have not been giving them enough credit. Holy **** these dudes work FAST and with great skill. They got the entire back wall done in a single day and that was even them getting started a little later because I had to...

We are back in business! Took last week off from work and we spent some quality time back out at the shop. Took us about a day to fix the column screw up and the get the roof level again. Added the end wall, installed all the purlins and girts, started framing in the doors etc...

Well @LXCam it looks like we had some serious delays caused by f-dupidness after all...

We screwed up big time and it's going to take some real time and effort to fix. I'm back at my actual job today so this will probably be the last shop build update for a few weeks. When we did the almost obsessively precise amount of layout of the pad with a transit everything was as square as...

Morning update time! We have one more double column/rafter set to fly then we're at the endwall (so we're 29' from the end). When I was cutting one of the apex braces I made a mistake and cut it on the wrong side and ruined it. We're going to end up robbing one of the pieces used to put in...

Still trucking along. We discovered after getting the girts installed on the first portal that we were using the wrong screws and had to go back and correct those. We have a small army of people coming out today to help which should get us pretty far. We have 2 more column/rafter sets to go...

I am stealing that 'f-dupidness' :) Might not look like a lot of progress (it's literally 2 of us most days) but we got a bunch done yesterday. After pulling a fresh chalk line between the columns, measuring the center and verifying them all to be square we dropped a laser plumb and the...

I think we might have cursed ourselves by getting the pad done in record time (our GC for the first part made a joke that going from 'untouched forest to a poured slab in 5 weeks is absolutely unheard of'. When the building was delivered the driver wouldn't back into our driveway so we had to...

We are building an enclosure around the air compressor(s) and we wanted it mostly in the center of the building for plumbing purposes and to get it closer to the power panel (although now we're not sure where the power is going to land - it was originally in the middle of the building coming in...

Our current shop is actually in Winder, new shop is 18 miles away. I guess 'technically' it's in Bogart but who is counting? :) This probably sounds dumb but I was legit worried that I wouldn't have any DoorDash options being that far out but when I pulled up the app with the new address...

If you like wholesale destruction and the process of taking a wooded lot and getting ready for our mondo slab pour then this video is the one you want to watch!

So this is just the time lapse of the concrete getting poured yesterday (minus the last 4.5 yards that was poured directly in that corner later). I’m working on a video of the process up to this point but this was cool enough to stand on its own. Fun fact: There were a total of 103.5 yards of...