Hello from Skagit county Washington

[Blackthumb]

I'm about to have a pole building built on my property. I want to do this right the first time and joined Garagejournal to research building options, sizes and lessons learned from fellow gearheads. I requested quotes from several local builders last week and I'm in the preliminary planning stage.

 

[airbosss]

This is a suggestion for later in the build. Put in a good concrete floor. I did and I painted it with white epoxy. It's not very hard to keep clean and it sure got lighter inside without installing more lights. It's also much less dirty. Bare concrete seems to be filthy no matter how long it cures.

 

[drivesitfar]

BT: welcome to the group and you should have plenty of member's pole building builds to learn from and a few local guys might have some good words to say too.

what size are you building and is anything special needed to get your permit that might hold things up?

also since you are almost a neighbor I started a thread that some of the local members have been posting on and we talk about almost anything on that thread except *** and politics. here's the link so you can read and maybe post up some of your information and questions or let us know about you as you wish.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5712915#post5712915

 

[Blackthumb]

This is a suggestion for later in the build. Put in a good concrete floor. I did and I painted it with white epoxy. It's not very hard to keep clean and it sure got lighter inside without installing more lights. It's also much less dirty. Bare concrete seems to be filthy no matter how long it cures.

Thanks for the advice, I can definitely use it.

 

[Blackthumb]

BT: welcome to the group and you should have plenty of member's pole building builds to learn from and a few local guys might have some good words to say too.

what size are you building and is anything special needed to get your permit that might hold things up?

also since you are almost a neighbor I started a thread that some of the local members have been posting on and we talk about almost anything on that thread except *** and politics. here's the link so you can read and maybe post up some of your information and questions or let us know about you as you wish.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5712915#post5712915

Thanks for the link, that's helpful. My plan is a turn-key 30x60 or a 40x60 if I can swing it financially. I've received about four quotes for pole barns and I'm waiting for a few more for steel framed buildings. Next, I need some quotes for concrete contractors for the steel buildings. Then my wife and I can sit down and make a decision.

We recently converted an older barn into a MIL and I worked all the permits for that. The plan will likely be the same for the shop.

The county was pretty good to deal with on our last project but I sent my wife to the planning department several weeks ago, along with a preliminary site plan and some section views of a standard 40x60 building. Most of the permit techs are women and sending my wife turned out to be a good plan.

The permit will cost us around $800, not including the electrical. Unfortunately we would need to remove a small section of our property from the Timberland designation. We barely fell under the 7,000sq ft impermeable surface restriction and I may need to tear down an old shed to stay under the restriction if the shop gets any bigger.

The removal of a .33 ACRE section of our property from the timberland designation sounded expensive. My wife was apprehensive to inquire about the timberland redesignation at the assessors office. Turns out the back taxes for this .33 ACRE section are under $500 which is fantastic. My wife did good!

Thanks for the warm welcome.

 

[drivesitfar]

BT: post up some pictures of your barn or some of your stuff if you want to practice making posts with pictures. I use the paperclip just above where we write our posts that attaches pictures off my laptop sort of like an email.

if I could get my wife to leave the city i'd be up in your end of the state or down by Vancouver in a heartbeat, but Montana might be my favorite spot and i'll have to get divorced or live there in the next life.

cheers and again ask questions if you have any over on the PNW thread I gave you the link for because I don't check here as often. the other guys are pretty helpful too if you need a quick answer.

good luck with the build and i'm sure you'll find plenty of cool STUFF to put inside it.

Pictures are from Alki in West Seattle that is about 15 minutes from my house near SeaTac airport.