Tj-gord
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finally getting around to posting our shop build. Its a 30x40 with 13 foot ceilings. Almost all the work has been done by myself, wife, family and friends. Shop isn't totally finished yet, but it is pretty close. Ill can only throw in a few pics.. flickr is being stubborn, or its just me and the pics arnt showing up in the links, so ill host a few here.
We poured the foundations first, it allowed us to get going on the framing a lot faster, as we didn't have to wait on contractors. The floor is one of the items we did farm out to a contractor. We also had to frame in sections. Most days it was just the 2 of us or a buddy helping. full walls were just to heavy to land by ourselves. Took a little longer and a bit extra lumber but worked out all the same.
We had to build a little bit out of order, we sheeted and home wrapped before having the trusses landed (40 foot trusses) We live in northern alberta so getting a picker truck to show up when there is oil field work out there was challenging. Framing is 2x6, the garage door openings are 16x8 and 10x8.
3/4 crush was used and tamped for our foundations and floor. Our land is a sand gravel base (very little top soil of any kind) so it was fairly easy to remove the top layer and pack the base. 10mm rebar 24 on centers, pinned to the foundation also.
Floor pour came out really well, the guys we hired did a really good job with it. Floor is 7 to 8 inches thick, thicker on the lift side. Lift is a used bendpak xl-9c i picked up. Installations wasn't too back and im really happy with it so far. Insulation in the walls is r20, r40 in the roof. Have a standard liftmaster opener on the 16x8 door, which is mostly used for parking. A chain crank on the other so that if i have a vehicle on the lift, there are no accidents by pushing the wrong open button or wall switch. Plus the lift side is my work side, not used for in and out parking.
Installed a big maxx 80000 btu unit to heat the shop, plus a 56 inch industrial style fan to push the heat down from the ceiling. We tried it without the fan, but the blower on the heating unit isn't powerfull enough to evenly heat the shop. Ran a 60 amp service to the shop. And thats were we are at.. heading out to put a second coat of mud on the drywall after im done this. lol. Have 10 florecent lights up for lighting in the shop. Ceiling will be done next year (budget..) not sure if we will drywall or go with a metal roofing. Pretty happy with the size and how it turned out. There are always, things you wish u did or didn't after the fact. But all in all it shoud do us just fine.
We poured the foundations first, it allowed us to get going on the framing a lot faster, as we didn't have to wait on contractors. The floor is one of the items we did farm out to a contractor. We also had to frame in sections. Most days it was just the 2 of us or a buddy helping. full walls were just to heavy to land by ourselves. Took a little longer and a bit extra lumber but worked out all the same.
We had to build a little bit out of order, we sheeted and home wrapped before having the trusses landed (40 foot trusses) We live in northern alberta so getting a picker truck to show up when there is oil field work out there was challenging. Framing is 2x6, the garage door openings are 16x8 and 10x8.
3/4 crush was used and tamped for our foundations and floor. Our land is a sand gravel base (very little top soil of any kind) so it was fairly easy to remove the top layer and pack the base. 10mm rebar 24 on centers, pinned to the foundation also.
Floor pour came out really well, the guys we hired did a really good job with it. Floor is 7 to 8 inches thick, thicker on the lift side. Lift is a used bendpak xl-9c i picked up. Installations wasn't too back and im really happy with it so far. Insulation in the walls is r20, r40 in the roof. Have a standard liftmaster opener on the 16x8 door, which is mostly used for parking. A chain crank on the other so that if i have a vehicle on the lift, there are no accidents by pushing the wrong open button or wall switch. Plus the lift side is my work side, not used for in and out parking.
Installed a big maxx 80000 btu unit to heat the shop, plus a 56 inch industrial style fan to push the heat down from the ceiling. We tried it without the fan, but the blower on the heating unit isn't powerfull enough to evenly heat the shop. Ran a 60 amp service to the shop. And thats were we are at.. heading out to put a second coat of mud on the drywall after im done this. lol. Have 10 florecent lights up for lighting in the shop. Ceiling will be done next year (budget..) not sure if we will drywall or go with a metal roofing. Pretty happy with the size and how it turned out. There are always, things you wish u did or didn't after the fact. But all in all it shoud do us just fine.