32'x32' - Lake Garage & Loft Workshop - New Build

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Nice, love the design and colors green/white always a great combination

Fantastic loft !!

Thanks very much!

The main colour is 'Iron Gray', I'm very happy with it. It looks a bit different depending on the light. It's a combination of Hardie Plank Select Cedarmill and Hardie Shingle Straight Edge Panels. If you are interested the details are here.

 

[Gentle_Ben]

On a side note I've taken a look through your build thread, your garage is amazing! I especially love the ceiling, interior and exterior lighting. Good work

Thanks, appreciate the kind words.

 

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Been working away inside the garage, electrical for the most part. I've also done a few other non-garage projects over the past few weeks. Let me tell you, having a roof over your head is very nice sometimes, means you can keep going regardless of the weather!

Two new photos, I asked the excavator to dig me a trench for the services (water, electric, sewer, gas, comms, phone..) When I arrived he had dug a new subway line. Was thinking I would be able to fill it in myself, that's not going to happen, will rent a loader backhoe or something.

 

[msgross]

Nice! I've been on the lake since I was a kid. What area of the lake are your friends on?

Sorry for the late response, for some reason it didn't subscribe when I posted last.

They are down near the east end, not sure of the road name. Beautiful and quiet there, too bad the real estate costs aren't lower.

We camp out once a year in their backyard, good times for everyone.

 

[BeachBoy]

ahaha call it overkill for a service trench!

Iguess he was sure he would get the contract to fill it back...

 

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ahaha call it overkill for a service trench!

I guess he was sure he would get the contract to fill it back...

Well... I ended up renting a tractor, so I'll fill it in and use it for some other jobs I had on this list while I'm at it. That said he is supplying the fill, so that is a bit of a win for him

 

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So... A whole lot of work later and the electrical, gas, water, sewer, phone, communications, and yard lighting is/are installed. Took a week off work and got it done with a few days of help from a buddy.

It took 120 yards of fill plus about 20 yards of top soil. Plus I probably moved about another 30 yards of crushed stone and dug 100 feet of trench (over and above what the excavator did in the previous pictures). Had to bring the sewer and water to the back right hand corner of the garage and bring the gas line to the back for a future propane tank.

The Kubota B26 I rented and my mighty MUTS ATV dump trailer where a huge help, I would have been toast without them.

 

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Have not updated in a bit!

Some progress.. Electricity, lights and radiant heat are in!

Went with 6 x 6 bulb T5 fixtures, 5/8 PEX as per HVAC design and a 200 AMP generator panel for future standby generator (will use my 8000 running watt portable for the time being).. Sub fed the cottage from the new service in the garage.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Sorry for a very late comment.

Do you think drilling and blasting that rock where the foundation is and where the utility line are run would have been any cheaper ? (For those who don't know, modern blasting is very controlled. The neighbors might have had a few tea cups rattle.) You certainly could have gone deeper and probably saved a couple of days of the excavator.

 

[dfiler2]

Very Nice!

So I have a question that a lot of people could probably answer. I grew up on the west coast but have lived in MN since a week after I graduated from high school. So all my plumbing experience is here. Here a 4" drain line would have 1/4 to 1/2" slope per foot or would need to be at least a 45 degree slope. How does a person control the slope in terrain like that?

 

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Sorry for a very late comment.

Do you think drilling and blasting that rock where the foundation is and where the utility line are run would have been any cheaper ? (For those who don't know, modern blasting is very controlled. The neighbors might have had a few tea cups rattle.) You certainly could have gone deeper and probably saved a couple of days of the excavator.

Sorry for my late response, have not been around in a bit!

Blasting might have been an option but honestly I don't know of anyone local that would have done it, and even then I would have needed a rock drill and an excavator to remove the blasted rock. If it would have been cheaper I'm not sure how much less it would have been.

Thankfully the local excavator is very fair and helpful, and for that I'm thankful.

 

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Very Nice!

So I have a question that a lot of people could probably answer. I grew up on the west coast but have lived in MN since a week after I graduated from high school. So all my plumbing experience is here. Here a 4" drain line would have 1/4 to 1/2" slope per foot or would need to be at least a 45 degree slope. How does a person control the slope in terrain like that?

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with it!

The drain is definitely sloped a min a 1/2" per foot, but as you can see sometimes much greater. My plumber suggested that the long run might be an issue with the new low flush toilets (insufficient water to ensure all solids make it to the tank). He recommended installing a sewage pit with grinder pump to ensure everything was ground and would make it to the tank.

Unfortunately I've not installed a bathroom so the concept is currently untested.

 

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Adding some heat (boiler and associated components for the radiant was just a little to expensive for the time being) and a new (well used, 40 hours) workhorse to store in the garage (I liked the rental I last used just that much it seems)!

 

[jwhcars]

Fantastic build, nice colors....keep up the outstanding work.

 

[msgross]

those effinity heaters aren't cheap... neither is a Kubota...My buddy has an older B model like that we used building my shop... nice toys.