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its been awhile since i posted any updates..... I have since added some barndoors to divide the workshop and the car stall - easier to keep warm in the Winter. After 25 years in storage, the '59 "Lowlight" Karmann Ghia is alive! In search of 12 sec ET for 2015 season.....

(Architect here) you can frame a vaulted ceiling with 12" (+) deep 2x engineered joists @ 24" o.c. ..... Here's a photo of my "drive-thru" garage 23 feet deep.... you can increase that span with deep joists... I have a Danmar 7000XP 4-post lift (7+ feet clear underneath).... I put a 4foot wide...

here's my shop and a toy

drive-thru garage

Making progress on the two 8 foot wide sliding barn doors to separate the work shop side from the 4-post lift garage....

I'm doing squares ... best of both worlds.... permeable surface.... durable...

How about corrugated metal in the living room?

Work bench coming along....

Progress on the work bench.... Sept 2013

the floor area is about 660 s.f..... as you can see from the section drawing, I vaulted the ceiling based on VWs on the 4-post lift..... IT WORKS!

It appears to be a "partial second floor" but it's just attic space.... I wanted to continue the roof line across... I installed "return air filter" hinged louver panels in the ceiling, to allow the evap cooler to vent up through that attic space, and out the wall vents you can see in some of...

Pigmented acid stain on the concrete + sealer + 4 coats of liquid industrial wax. The high gloss diminishes after a few weeks of traffic... Super nice to use a dust mop and a push broom glides over it very efficiently. As soon as I finish building the benches, shelves etc... I clean and hit it...

Sectional doors have springs that provide a counterweight effect.... They are "pre-loaded" so they stay up. In fact, I have one with the jack shaft mounted operator, and one without. The door installers know how to set them up - it is not recommended that a homeowner try to set these up, as...

A funnel plumbed to a 5-gal bucket with kitty litter and a removable lid would almost be "up-town" compared to some of these solutions.... LOL

I am the proud owner of a 4-post Lift.... I look it kind of like the web, email and cell phones - how did we ever get along without it? LOL I'm shopping for a source for an accessory rolling bridge jack to really make this set-up the ultimate solution.... But the cost of these units are...

My 2 cents or so.... I'm an architect; and added a 600sf shop to my house using subcontractor labor - it was built 6 weeks start-to-finish, last summer here in So. Nevada (I called in all my favors so I really can't speak to costs)... Other than materials which i bought out myself. Though I...

I'm a licensed architect (NV/UT/CO) Raising the beam looks very "do-able"... and quite probably you could re-use the existing beam. Hire a local engineer to help you. Often times these 70's homes were "stick-framed". It appears the eave is boxed/soffited, which explains the higher ceiling...

The Bug engine: 2276cc dual 48 IDA Webers (Original Italians); MSD 2-step; ****-Trak tall manifolds; CB Street Eliminator Heads 44x37.5; A-1 Tiger 1-3/4" exhaust; Berg Mid-mount; Tracy Grimm chassis brace..... Runs Mid-13's all day long - easy launch at 1500rpm on radials (really difficult to...

This is my first Ghia project... A "Low Light '59". The shop was built for that project. I had the Ghia in a $100/month storage facility for 20 years; one day my wife did the math and realized how much I had already invested in the car.... D-OH! She said, "build the shop!" LOL GOOD IDEA HONEY...