1978 Morton Question

[WWIIFAN]

My father had a new Morton 30x40x10 built in 1978. 4" cement floor. One 16x8 door, a 10x8 door and a walk in door. It has the pink foam board insulation with white foil covering installed under the tin by Morton during construction. It is wired and has an LP furnace.
Question I have...??? I'm needing more room. I thought about building another 30x40x14 right beside it and tie them together? The killer here is the floor in the current building has broke in several spots very badly. As in the cracks are over an inch wide in places.
So do you remove the floor and pour a new slab? Or do you tear down the current building and start from scratch?
This is the older 6" treated square pole construction Morton by the way.

Thanks...

 

[Tennessee Cattleman]

A lot of factors come into play, might be a hard decision. You could build a new building and use the old building like it is for storage and projects on the back burner. I never cared to much for connecting a old building with a new one, especially one 40 years old. Some pictures might help with getting some comments.
Just a few factors about the old building:
1- Are the posts and framing still good?
2- Is the building still straight and square?
3- Are the doors, steel siding and roof still good?
4- If you replace the concrete what will it cost vs building a bigger new building?
5- How much longer do you think the old Morton will last vs your age?

 

[tjdux]

We have a morton from around that time frame thats 60x80 and it has similar concrete floor issues due to poor dirt work when built.

If it were me i would not tear down the exhisting building. That seems like a waste if all that needs fixed is the floor.

You could remove and repour the whole floor for a fraction of replacing the whole building along with the floor. Or possibly the floor could be removed only where the cracks are the worst and replace a small percentage of the current floor.

I dont know what you're hoping to use the new building/addition but it may be easier to build if you have a different height roofline. If your currently at 10' hight maybe go 12 or 14 and then you have some height for lift, tractor, small storage mezzanine.

Tl;dr i think replacing a whole finished building will be much more expensive than just fixing the floor.

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[WWIIFAN]

I need the extra height as you were saying for a two post lift. Also for larger things to go in and out of the shop.
The tin on the old building is in very good shape. The roof tin needs cleaned and painted. My thoughts were to attach the new taller building to the existing one. Then open up the wall between them as much as I can to have one large shop.
I would like to paint the old shop to match the new one. Don't think this will be that bad? The current shop is that dang ugly yellow and white. I want the shop to all be two tone gray when finished.
The plans are for auto body/restoration as well as wood working...Hobby shop

 

[Tennessee Cattleman]

Wood dust will likely make its way into the body shop if the walls are opened up between the buildings.

 

[WWIIFAN]

Wood dust will likely make its way into the body shop if the walls are opened up between the buildings.

Very good point...Thank you sir...Be better served with something like a French door set up in the adjoining wall. Big enough to move larger items through if needed. Small enough to tightly seal them off from each other.