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Another 12,000 steps and no actual thing for the day. The loft is a lot cleaner and organized. Almost to where I want to get it to for the start of creating a dedicated spark protected space for the plasma table. Didn't get to the leak at the compressor or put shelves in the compressor shed...

So after too many years of welding blankets hanging from the bare framing around my 4x4 Plasma table I am starting to dedicate the space a bit. My table is up in my wood framed loft on unfinished OSB subfloor. Goals are to: Waterproof the floor to catch splashing from water table. Sparkproof...

The headroom here is going to make it a challenge to get all the heavy stuff up high off. simply getting wheels off the ground is pretty basic bottle jack stuff that can be done safely. I'm assuming this is getting the full treatment so, I would be inclined to make stands that are easy to work...

Fair enough - Cooling has never been on my mind for the shop. Our hottest days are still semi-workable inside in the shade.

You have to look at that pretty carefully - things will only get more expensive with time so there is that going for you on ROI of insulation. If you are realistically in the shop 1-2 days a week and not leaving the space conditioned all the time you will have a hard time justifying insulating...

At 80x80 space a DIY kit from amazon isn't going to cut it to spray foam. Time is money. If you are trying to free span 80' Metal is going to be the answer. If you are going to have a set of columns at 40' then either wood is still semi-practical. Columns ****. I would avoid them if I could...

Plan for flexibility. Time has a funny way of shifting priorities. Wheels on things are good but watch out for losing rigidity with equipment. With a clean slate like that - I would make it clean, top to bottom. Pressure wash every inch of the place. You will want scaffolding with wheels or a...

Have both, rarely use the OA setup.

Off topic question but I see it all the time on here - why do so many people sheet the walls after standing them up? It is a lot faster to use gravity than fight it when positioning the sheets. It is also a lot easier to square your walls.

I keep saying I should sell my mixer, and then I find a project for 10+ bags and am very glad to have it. Well sort of glad, if I didn't I wouldn't take on some of the projects or I would save them for enough projects to then call out a truck and do them all at once.

Wow - I have never put the sonotube down that deep. I have always filled the hole with concrete and used the Tube for the part that will be above grade and need to look nice. More concrete in the ground is always better in my mind but I am sure there are probably cases where that isn't true. I...

I had a couple of posts break last year in a storm. Rather than do the wood in ground again I dug out the wood about 12" down and set post anchors into non shrinking grout. Mounted post to it and all is good. When others fail in the future this is my plan for all of them. Digging out the...

I live next to undeveloped land that is source of most of my leaves. I blow a lot back over there near the house yard. My back yard past the shop rarely sees any leaf blower action. I mulch a lot in place with the mower. Grass does just fine with it. None of my yard is what I would call golf...

If I was going to bury into a finished wall soldered copper would be my recommendation. Maybe crimped copper but I don't have any experience with doing it.

I thought that same thing 20yrs ago, still have the scaffolding and gets used more often than you would think. You now have a building that is 16' tall getting up to those heights is now part of life.

So many other projects recently that have left carnage everywhere. That is what I am trying to catch up on. The $500 bonfire is all the lumber and sheet goods that went onto the burn pile today. I may regret it but where I was at this morning - a lot of Sh!t had to go and since I didn't have...

15,000+ steps Fed a $500+ bon fire. Sorted Electrical Connectors. Sorted Fasteners. Got 25# of brisket in the smoker - It counts because it was kept in the shop fridge. ... and I still don't have a flat surface to work on. :mad:

If it is an open structure underneath I don't know why you would take the whole roof off. Maybe a bit right at the top plate to make it easier to make that connection but the clips I have used are accessible with the roof decking inplace. Since the OP wants to go higher yes the roof is coming...

Spanning with trusses should be fairly easy solution. If you are DIY and working alone it actually might be easiest to do as well. Depending on your location and permitting process and costs you might be way ahead to rebuild with open spans from inside.

You can use either or both. I hate the tapered lead post style but lots of stuff have cables so it makes the battery marketable to be more universal.