Stnbrgn
Member
Hello everyone. I've been lurking on this forum for a few years admiring members shops and garages and learning about them at the same time. I was doing some dreaming when I first came to this forum about building my own shop some day.
Well the dream has become a reality.
My brother-law had built himself a garage in the city of Windsor and offered me the plans he had as an example for what I might want. Luckily my youngest son is an Architectural Technologist who helped me design my own building using those plans and did some drawings for me. We had designed a building using stick framing with a foundation which was something he had never designed (he works with steel buildings i.e arenas, factories, fire stations etc. which I think are more complex). It took some time for him to get them finished as he has a young family which keeps him busy. When he finished the drawings I took them to a person I've known for years that's in the building trade who has built many shops, garages and barns over the years. He suggested using the design we had but change it to a pole barn style building. He explained that going this route rather than stick frame with a foundation would save enough money to pay for the concrete floor in the pole barn style building. He then got a quote for building materials for the pole barn and we agreed he would build it. I submitted the request for a building permit a week later and after waiting for 10 days was issued the permit.
This our home. To the right and behind our house is an open area where we decided was the best location to build. We had talked about adding on to our existing garage but our well is located about 8 feet away from it which meant we would have to try and build around it. We also talked about adding on to the back of the garage but there are two maple trees directly behind which we didn't want to lose.
P.S. This is why it's called "Chevelle Shop".
Well the dream has become a reality.
My brother-law had built himself a garage in the city of Windsor and offered me the plans he had as an example for what I might want. Luckily my youngest son is an Architectural Technologist who helped me design my own building using those plans and did some drawings for me. We had designed a building using stick framing with a foundation which was something he had never designed (he works with steel buildings i.e arenas, factories, fire stations etc. which I think are more complex). It took some time for him to get them finished as he has a young family which keeps him busy. When he finished the drawings I took them to a person I've known for years that's in the building trade who has built many shops, garages and barns over the years. He suggested using the design we had but change it to a pole barn style building. He explained that going this route rather than stick frame with a foundation would save enough money to pay for the concrete floor in the pole barn style building. He then got a quote for building materials for the pole barn and we agreed he would build it. I submitted the request for a building permit a week later and after waiting for 10 days was issued the permit.
This our home. To the right and behind our house is an open area where we decided was the best location to build. We had talked about adding on to our existing garage but our well is located about 8 feet away from it which meant we would have to try and build around it. We also talked about adding on to the back of the garage but there are two maple trees directly behind which we didn't want to lose.
P.S. This is why it's called "Chevelle Shop".
Looks like some top notch craftsmanship...I'm subscribing so I can follow along. Looks like it will be a good one...
