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Oh, small world. I'm up in Liberty Hill so probably not that far away. Prices and availability have been a continuing thorn in my side on every aspect, but patience and persistence are starting to pay off. I would have been better served waiting a year or two but my wife and I are talking about...

Look forward to seeing how this turns out. I like the intrepid explorer approach to already making the shop a usable workspace. We have a lemons series in South Texas and it's tempting to get into.

Ha! If Wilbur knew there was a town named after him he would have insisted we move there instead. And he will be a good shop dog if a bit unhelpful. I love him, but he has two brain cells to his name and they are fighting over third place. I fully anticipate the shop to take a good bit of time...

Trying to figure out the same problem for my soon to be TX garage. I am 100% committed to a 3" layer of spray foam for first layer and vapor barrier. I'm still deciding on how to retrofit in batts on top of it for additional and sound insulation. One idea I'm playing with is finding a way to...

Next day, on came the forms for the pool. Equally quick and now it's just a waiting game for rebar and plumbing. Shop shell officially has a down payment and signed off on the engineering drawings. Should see that delivered within the next 3 months. I have yet to narrow down an official...

As a bonus, my wife's friend from college lives just down the road from us and has a little one obsessed with excavators. We of course invited her over to see things in action. The crew was no stranger to seeing this, so actually let her run operate it and dig out some dirt. I don't think she...

The pool company finally got back to us and said our wait was over. We started breaking ground last week. The excavator crew came by the day before and mapped everything out. The only minor detail is the plans had the pool backwards (whoops). Thankfully I'm a stickler and caught it before they...

It's been a little bit, but things for the most part have been a waiting game for crews to get started. First up was I got the power company to install a separate pole and transformer for power to the shop and pool equipment. The agreement is that I have to trench from pole to meter base...

going ridgid frame bolt up. It should time out well that it will be ready when the rest of the work is done. Lead time is about 4 months so gives me time to find a contractor to do it, or if worst comes to worst I can rent a crane to help set it up.

General status update. Finally got a concrete contractor worked out and break ground sometime in the next 30 days. Going to place the order for the shop shell this week. Should time up when the concrete and pool is done the shop will be ready to be erected. Now only to figure out plumbing...

Good luck on contractors. It's unfortunately the wrong time to be building if you want it all to go smoothly and cheaply. Speaking from four months of trying to wrangle people to take my money from me.

Yeah, This company handled pretty large scale build outs so I might have been small fry to them anyway. Either way, what's done is done and on to the next one. Yeah, The regional distributors are all saying the same thing. At this point I'm just getting the power company to run 320 lines to a...

Minor update. Got one quote last week from a shop assembler that to me seemed high ($16/foot on slab, shop assembly was even more). Didn't go into details that would seem important to put down in a quote. Asked for line items for clarity and they followed up saying they were too busy to take my...

Immediately, this gives you a good idea on where most of the openings will be. 2 10x12 doors West facing 1 walk door on the north side one 10wx8h center door on the porch side on the south. You aren't the only person to suggest a door on the back side. With the long term goal of adding a...

Thank you for the kind words. I have been thinking about a shop for years, so hopefully it will pay off sooner than later. Yeah, there is some person hoarding them in New Jersey on Ebay from what I can tell. They all seem to be overhead and I need underground per deed restrictions. I hadn't...

Hi All, Been a loyal fan since I was living in an apartment and borrowing space in a friends garage to weld. About 3 years ago I bought a house with the intention of building a shop long term. After putting 3 years of work on the inside of the house (and finding a wife in the meantime) it...