After a decade of lurking and dreaming, we finally broke ground YESTERDAY!!!
I'm in the north Fort Worth Texas area in a gate community with an HOA. Save the "I hate HOA's". We actually have a good one but they have rules that I agreed to so I will abide. The general attitude in the neighborhood is NO METAL BUILDINGS. So the HOA designed the building materials matrix to model that sentiment. They didn't expect people to BRICK a metal building like I am about to do
This would have been erected last year during covid but foundation issues on the house soaked up my garage money. I overcame that this year and even accounted for the increase in building costs, so we are underway.
Building is a Red Iron welded in 35'x50'x12' with a 4:12, single 16'x10' and a 8'x8' insulated residential garage door, a french door for the future patio and a single man door with windows. We are doing spray foam, coated floors and a subwalls, full brick exterior, tying into our septic, etc, etc, etc. I negotiated with my wife and we put the building in the back of our lot with an 88' driveway; new build also.
Garage is a primarily for our racecar and another street car, 4 post lift, shop area, a gym area, a full bath with a URINAL, and a bar area.
We are stoked. I had a final meeting with the builder on Friday last week, we built up the pad with 6 truck loads on Monday, started forms on Tuesday, located electrical (that runs UNDER THE DAMN shop site) on Thursday, and dropped the plumbing in on Friday. Hopefully we are in concrete by Wednesday!! Builder says we will be dried in by mid December!!!
Pics to follow. Might be slow though, I am working 9hrs away in New Mexico. So all my management is being done remotely and with my Father-in-law and neighbor checking on their work.
I'm in the north Fort Worth Texas area in a gate community with an HOA. Save the "I hate HOA's". We actually have a good one but they have rules that I agreed to so I will abide. The general attitude in the neighborhood is NO METAL BUILDINGS. So the HOA designed the building materials matrix to model that sentiment. They didn't expect people to BRICK a metal building like I am about to do
This would have been erected last year during covid but foundation issues on the house soaked up my garage money. I overcame that this year and even accounted for the increase in building costs, so we are underway.
Building is a Red Iron welded in 35'x50'x12' with a 4:12, single 16'x10' and a 8'x8' insulated residential garage door, a french door for the future patio and a single man door with windows. We are doing spray foam, coated floors and a subwalls, full brick exterior, tying into our septic, etc, etc, etc. I negotiated with my wife and we put the building in the back of our lot with an 88' driveway; new build also.
Garage is a primarily for our racecar and another street car, 4 post lift, shop area, a gym area, a full bath with a URINAL, and a bar area.
We are stoked. I had a final meeting with the builder on Friday last week, we built up the pad with 6 truck loads on Monday, started forms on Tuesday, located electrical (that runs UNDER THE DAMN shop site) on Thursday, and dropped the plumbing in on Friday. Hopefully we are in concrete by Wednesday!! Builder says we will be dried in by mid December!!!
Pics to follow. Might be slow though, I am working 9hrs away in New Mexico. So all my management is being done remotely and with my Father-in-law and neighbor checking on their work.
