How fast did your shop go up?

[e-tek]

Couple of threads got me thinking and I don't think this has ever been asked - especially not with a poll!

This will serve as how to calculate time to completion:

- concrete is generally 2 days minimum, unless you had it graded, formed, poured and troweled all in 24 hours....

- days to lock up is framing, sheathing, siding, shingles, ALL doors and windows.

- we can't really count interior in the poll as it's too varied, but you can discuss it. I insulated, VB and drywalled mine myself in 3 days.

So, mine was 6.5 days to lock up. 2 days for concrete and 4.5 days to lock up. I haven't heard of too many that went up faster than mine, but we'll see!

 

[ADSR]

Depends on size of shop and size of crew. Me and the guy i work with can bang one up pretty damn fast.

Another crew i know with 14 guys can have all the cribbing done by coffee time and pour around 11 am.

 

[canuckian]

6 days including concrete and power iirc. Would have finished on the 5th day but the overhead door was late getting delivered.

 

[e-tek]

Look at us Canucks go! With short seasons, ya gotta know how to haul ***.

 

[HOTFR8]

Mine when it was built went up in 7 days. Was a week later when we did the floor so 14 days.
I had to wait some time before the power went on after that.
The extensions only took about 4 days and then much longer time to dig out and build the pit and interior walls etc. and finaly wire it all.

 

[ADSR]

Look at us Canucks go! With short seasons, ya gotta know how to haul ***.

Hell yeah, buddy. We don't play around!

 

[Jay W]

6 months. Did 80% of it myself. 30x48x14 pole building.

 

[ptgb]

Started on my 24x32 on a Monday and building was completed on Wednesday. Then they prepared for concrete on Friday and poured on Saturday. 5 days....Done.

Me, finishing the interior took 5 months.

 

[mbatarga]

About 2 months for me - but I was held up waiting for the garage door I ordered from Clopay. Ends up it was sitting here in Atlanta for 3 weeks - and the company didn't notify me about it being ready for delivery. Good thing I called Clopay asking why it was taking so long!

 

[ddawg16]

I did 90% of the work....was out of town almost 50% of the time on business....

About 6-9 months

But as we all know.....it's never finished

 

[AMCguy]

Mine took me working alone almost three years. I did it with available money and time. I did all the site prep and built the foundation in the summer of 2006. I had to wait for my off season (November to April) to get started on the framing. I had the shingles on by spring. I chipped away with electrical and interior finishing over the summer. It took another two years before the last of the siding and exterior trim was completed. I have to admit I got busy inside with other projects and the outside sat for almost a year.

You have to give me a break though. I hammered every nail and sawed every board myself. A lot of the work was high off the ground too. I had to rig up a multitude of third hand type devices.

 

[ADSR]

Mine took me working alone almost three years. I did it with available money and time. I did all the site prep and built the foundation in the summer of 2006. I had to wait for my off season (November to April) to get started on the framing. I had the shingles on by spring. I chipped away with electrical and interior finishing over the summer. It took another two years before the last of the siding and exterior trim was completed. I have to admit I got busy inside with other projects and the outside sat for almost a year.

You have to give me a break though. I hammered every nail and sawed every board myself. A lot of the work was high off the ground too. I had to rig up a multitude of third hand type devices.

Well done, sir! As you know, doing it all yourself takes a lot of time and hard work!

 

[Pat Brady]

Mine? A couple months. There are still a few things left to do.

 

[Jeff May]

I had a contractor do my 24 x 24 addition. Started out good. After almost 3 months I had to threaten with legal action if it wasn't finished within a week. It was nothing more than a concrete slab, stick built walls 8' high and pre made trusses for the roof. Should have been done in 2 weeks. Amazing, it was done in 3 days. He would pull his guy off to go do other jobs and let me hang.
Wish I had done it myself.
My dad and I built the first section in 96, a 24 x 26 We had it done in a month and a half mostly working on weekends. Sad thing is, my new additions floor already has cracks in it where as the one dad and I did is still crack free.
Good help is hard to find nowadays....

 

[bazzateer]

Mine was done in three stages, the base from start to finish took about 9.5 days and the actual building was up in 2 hours plus another half day for the carriage doors and window. So, all in about 10 working days.

 

[junkman104]

The building itself....2 days

 

[Daniel Dudley]

It took me three days to form and pour the pad by myself. It took about two weeks to build the main structure and roof it, Mostly with one other guy. That two weeks was spread out over more than six months, and the building is small, but two story with some real timber frame trusses for a cathedral ceiling in the second floor. It was hard getting time away from work to do the construction. I built the pole barn type shed extension a few years later in a weekend...

I have framed other garages and sheathed them in two to three days, and built whole houses, windows, siding and roof in two to three weeks.

It's all relative...

 

[sberry]

A week just to roof it.

 

[lotsoftools]

The concrete was a 2 day job. The guys building the shop itself took about 5 days. So it was 7 days of work but actually over a 3 week period.

 

[Flatland Dave]

Roughly two months to get it closed in. I did the dirt work, contractor did the rest of the exterior. Just him and his brother. Not the fatest, but a very well thought out process. The interior is a work in progress. I'm doing everything but the ceiling, slowly.

 

[Gary S]

6 months. Did 80% of it myself. 30x48x14 pole building.

About the same here. I built mine myself 100% of the way with help on 3 days for the heavy work like the concrete and putting the roof on. My Brothers helped me those days. It took me 2 1/2 months from the day I surveyed the ground until the day I finished up the outside and pulled my cars inside.

But, I was working a full time job at the same time, and the garage (24x48x10) was my hobby.

 

[Spareparts]

In 82 I dug my footings, mixed my concrete in an old antique mixer( this mixer is so old it has the water pot on top of the motor to cool it. Mod Z Fairbanks) for the footings.

Cleaned out several commercial buildings and saved everything that I could use for my shop, even got a almost new 10'X10' door. Everything gathered together and on site I had to pick up the green wood for the plates and nails, screws and anchors and we were ready to pour. All this had taken about 6 months of after work time and weekends.

7 am fri. morning in late March of 83 concrete was poured and had a friend there to help strike it off and I powered troweled it, done by noon. The next morn I layed the walls out on the floor, nailed them up and sheeted them, stood them up Sunday morn and then started framing the trusses and getting them in place and sheeted. Had to go to work Monday to rest, but a friend came over to roof the shop and had it done when I got home. The rest of the week went good and at about 7pm thursday night I put the lockset on the door and locked it up, not bad for 7 days with just a little help, but all together from starting to gather stuff to pouring concrete 6 months, and out of pocket expences$1,300.00.

 

[tcianci]

Oh thank goodness! I thought you were asking about a FIRE!

 

[dbricco]

1 month. August of 2010. Had my shop as a line item in a home construction loan. Absolutely had to have it done by the first of September or my home appraisal would not be valid. That included county inspections and 19 yards of concrete. All work performed by a core of 4 family members after work and weekends with friends helping out when they had time. We call the shop August for obvious reasons. Its 36x36. 16 feet to the eves. 21 feet at the peak.

 

[SchuLace]

When my dad I and built his 32x48x12 shop a few years ago he had the concrete done during the week and the walls were built, trusses up and everything sheeted in 2 days. This work was done by a couple different contractors with my dad's help. Everything else was done by my dad and I over a few months after work and on weekends. It took a long time but it was a lot better than hiring it out and I learned a ton working on it. It ***** that I don't get to use it very often but it was still a good time working with my dad.

 

[e-tek]

The building itself....2 days

That's not a shop, it's a Hagar!

 

[andgott]

ALOMST 2 months for my 24 x 48... But, there were really only 4-5 good 'work' days that the builder was on site all day with a full crew. He put the posts in the ground, then about a 2 week delay for concrete work, came back one more day and got the roof done, Then skipped a few weeks, came back and framed, came back and put on the siding, then finally got the door on. He was a bit of a procrastinator.

 

[NHBandit]

If we are not talking site prep or concrete and are just discussing the building itself then mine went from the pic on the left to the pic on the right in a day & a half, in a snowstorm for at least part of it. They didn't get started until a little after noon on day 1. Middle pic is the crew finishing up at 10pm on the second day. Another day for the overhead door guy to do his thing. Turn key, a bit longer because I did my own wiring & lights.

 

[jam0o0]

30 days just like they said. would have been 2 weeks with no down time. but you can't schedule jobs like that.

 

[e-tek]

Oh thank goodness! I thought you were asking about a FIRE!

Accck - NO!