Greatings from Philomath, Oregon

[Bravo64]

Hello all and thanks for this page. First off I'd like to tell a little about me. I'm 49 1/2 years old and a USAF veteran. I'm married (19yrs) with three sons. We built our current home outside of town about 12 years ago on 2.25 acres on a slope. I excavated for a shop but never built. Job was outsourced three years after the house was built and had a funny feeling so I drug my feet. Here we are after all these years and I am able to finally build the shop.
I'm leaning towards a 30'x40' on a monoslab with 12' eves, 6/12 roof, two 10' doors and one man door with three windows. Haven't started the permit process but getting some folks out to look at the site to give me an idea which type of building would work. I have a limited budget so I'll be doing everything after foundation/slab and framing is done. We have to get a variance permit to put it closer than 30' to neighbors house ($750) but it is what it is. Looking forward to starting this.

 

[Glenn M.]

Welcome to the GJ from VA!

 

[larry_g]

Welcome to the board. I have a feeling that my job left on the same boat as yours. I'm some 30 miles north of you. Sounds like Benton county is still holding its residents hostage.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Flatland Dave]

Welcome, You will learn a lot.
Spent the first 18 years of my life in Oregon. Both sides of the hill. Beautiful country, but got too crowded, too many crazies.

 

[DustyMojave]

30 x 40 is a good size of shop. I suggest you look into steel buildings. A buddy of mine bought a 30 x 50 steel building fro $1,000. He just had to go 80 miles and dismantle it and haul it home. $6K worth of slab and footings, electrical by a friend and a building permit later and he had a 30 x 40 shop. But you can buy new steel building kits for pretty reasonable prices.

 

[Bravo64]

Yeah, I'm an ex-HP tech. Too deep of roots to leave area.

 

[Bravo64]

Richard,
I built it on a mon slab. 2x6 w 14' eves, 6/12 pitch composite roof. Haven't sided w Hardi yet but with power to it, I'm in $17k. Excavation and rock cost a few pennies.

 

[drivesitfar]

Bravo: you've been a member longer than i have so maybe you'll get a little more input or help or just watchers by starting a thread in the Garage gallery. or have you already started one there?

sounds like you are almost at a point where you have a real garage shop?

congrats and i'm just north and west of you in Seattle.

good luck

 

[1/2 Cup]

Welcome aboard, all the best with your build..

 

[wrnchtwstr]

Hello from OKC,OK. Thank you for your service. That's a nice size for a shop. We'll looking forward to some pics.

 

[Bravo64]

Still getting use to this forum and how to navigate it. I did start an album started but not sure if it's viewable. Check it out and I'd appreciate the feedback. Cheers

 

[G-force]

Welcome, I'm just over in Gaston.

 

[drivesitfar]

Bravo: i just looked through a few pages on Garage Gallery and didn't see your new thread. can you put a link to that thread in your signature sort of like the way i did with the vise repair 101 thread in my signature. you can just to a one line link and that way when other members are looking to post on your thread it's only a link away if they are reading one of your posts on a different thread.

good luck

 

[Bravo64]

Let's see if this signature works.

 

[drivesitfar]

Bravo: your link worked and it sent me to a picture album you set up. i haven't used mine yet so you are ahead of me in that deal.

really nice looking garage and dog. are you the guy with the mask on cutting holes in your new garage floor?

if you can think of a name and want to go through the effort your garage is definitely worthy of it's own thread and not just a few pictures. click on garage gallery and then the button "start a new thread" and put in your title, post comments and load that thread with lots of pictures. if you want to just post questions on other's threads and answer those questions you have the answer to that works too.

In all my posts I've probably only started 10 threads and only have a couple active that i check daily or every couple days.

good luck with the garage and again welcome to our group