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Can you discuss maintenance of the HD6600? In other words, in a few years after oil spills, transmission fluid spills, scuffs, wear, etc., what is the process to renew the coating? Can it be touched up? My home garage has epoxy that is peeling in high wear areas after a few years, touching up...

The trusses will be supplied and engineered by the truss co. It just seems like a lot of weight on only perimeter walls.

I'm building a 45 x 65 shop on footings and turn down slab, conventional framing. I designed the simple rectangular building myself. It will have 12 ft walls and scissor trusses. I'm hiring a local father/son construction co (basically pole barn builders) to build it. Will 2x6's 16 in on...

Why is the designer limited to a 32 ft span?

Thanks KK, Adjusting my planning is why I'm here! Not sure what exactly you mean, though, I went from 40x60 to 45x65 precisely for a little more walk-around room. Expound on what you mean, including the "empty" comment. Now is the time for me to recognize where I can make improvements. Fred

I could swap the location of the bathroom sink to the inside wall, but I'm not sure it's necessary in Tulsa. I did move the bathroom location to the front of the finished space, I had originally planned it toward the back of that space. However, after thinking about it I decided that I wanted...

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permit is ready. will start in next few weeks, but I'm nervous about forgetting some planning detail or design feature, etc. I want it to look good, so I'm going to have a 12 in overhang/soffits on gables and eaves. Not sure of the color scheme, but leaning toward light color or white roof...

water heater and compressor will go next to slop sink on dirty shop wall opposite the bathroom. I'm toying with the idea of 14 ft walls and an 78 ft high by 6-8 ft wide mezzanine along the 45 ft side of the dirty shop vs. 12 ft walls with attic trusses for a full "upstairs". This would require...

Here's a floor plan I designed for my 45x65 ft shop. The right side of the building is a "dirty shop" measuring 25x45 ft for doing body work, welding, and other restoration. It is deep enough to have a body off of a frame and have plenty of room around both for workbenches, engine test stands...

Yeah, I'm planning a roll up door probably 8 ft wide between the two shops I think I'll post this over on the general discussion board too. fred

Here's a floor plan I designed for my 45x65 ft shop. The right side of the building is a "dirty shop" measuring 25x45 ft for doing body work, welding, and other restoration. It is deep enough to have a body off of a frame and have plenty of room around both for workbenches, engine test stands...

bczygan is right, this is exactly the design issues I've thought through. If I built a small house with an accessory building I could not build a large shop. The zoning allows an accessory building of 750 sq ft, or 40 percent of the square footage of the primary building , whichever is larger...

Excellent and intelligent comments, Thanks! The simple issue is that I have a vacant lot and I want to build a metal building on it to house my car restoration hobby. It is in an area where what I plan to build will markedly improve the value of adjacent lots, many of which have ancient falling...

This is the process I've been going through. Talking mostly to National Barn Company. As far as reasoning, the engineers were a little vague. I contacted them and stated I wanted to build a post frame shop, but it needed to qualify as a residence based on zoning. The permit office gave me...

Thanks for the replies. The building permit office said I had two options, either go with a footing and they'd give me a permit, or get an engineer to stamp plans. I asked two local structural engineers. Both gave negative opinions on post frame construction, and neither would agree to approve...

I'm about to start my 45x65x12 shop. Unfortunately it will be built on a residential zoned lot, and they wont give me a permit for a post frame construction style. The residential building code (IRC 2009) requires a "full perimeter footing". In my area the requirement is 18 x 18 in. So my...