Steve@Reliance
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- Jan 27, 2009
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Since I have been lurking here for quite awile it may be time to contribute to the forum and post some pics of my turf and various places to keep my stuff. There is so many great garages on here it's a full time job just to keep up with it! Whenever I feel like getting jealous I crusie through the gallery to check out everyones projects.
We purchased our home in sept 09' after living in town for 13 years, I had been doing increasing amounts of work on our suburan home and was getting it to the point I was really enjoying the place. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time and I had spent the past 9 years building my small machine shop in an industrial unit 5 min away, which I also enjoyed. Between working in the shop, working on my hobby(late model stock cars) and maybe enjoying a cold one after all that with the mechanics from the garage at the end of the building, I was never home. I had grown up on the outskirts of town and loved where I lived, so that's where I had always wanted to be. My dad was also never around after I was about 14 and it had a pretty negative impact. By the time my kids came along I decided I didn't want them to go through that, although the shop was doing well enough and I had started looking at industrial condo's to purchase.
I passed by this place regularly on the way to see a client and it was only 3 miles from where I lived. Vacant at the time and cluttered with junk on the outside, It offered me the oppurtunity to not rent a shop anymore and also be around my family. I thought the barn would make a nice shop and I could work from home.
So after some wheeling and dealing we ended up here, and reality struck! The plan to finish the barn into a workable shop went out the window for several reasons, A) it was a much bigger job than I thought, B) I kept thinking up bigger and better plans,(read more expensive) C) in late 09' a couple clients went belly up and I never got paid. (that hurts) and D) the house turned into a MONSTORUS money pit. I knew the house needed work but I thought I would put it off a couple years to get the shop done. I couldn't do it. After living in a pretty fresh house for a while I couldn't live in this place in the state it was in, and had to start working on it.
So plan "B" was to temporaily move into the garage that was supposed to house my toys
So I wired the place up, got a buddy to put in a furnace, and here we are!
These are pics of the house and from before I moved the machies in.
And after,
Now that the house is at least liveable, I can restart the barn/shop project again. The floor is in, and most of the interior framing is up. Elec service is run, but no wiring in the place yet.
We purchased our home in sept 09' after living in town for 13 years, I had been doing increasing amounts of work on our suburan home and was getting it to the point I was really enjoying the place. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time and I had spent the past 9 years building my small machine shop in an industrial unit 5 min away, which I also enjoyed. Between working in the shop, working on my hobby(late model stock cars) and maybe enjoying a cold one after all that with the mechanics from the garage at the end of the building, I was never home. I had grown up on the outskirts of town and loved where I lived, so that's where I had always wanted to be. My dad was also never around after I was about 14 and it had a pretty negative impact. By the time my kids came along I decided I didn't want them to go through that, although the shop was doing well enough and I had started looking at industrial condo's to purchase.
I passed by this place regularly on the way to see a client and it was only 3 miles from where I lived. Vacant at the time and cluttered with junk on the outside, It offered me the oppurtunity to not rent a shop anymore and also be around my family. I thought the barn would make a nice shop and I could work from home.
So after some wheeling and dealing we ended up here, and reality struck! The plan to finish the barn into a workable shop went out the window for several reasons, A) it was a much bigger job than I thought, B) I kept thinking up bigger and better plans,(read more expensive) C) in late 09' a couple clients went belly up and I never got paid. (that hurts) and D) the house turned into a MONSTORUS money pit. I knew the house needed work but I thought I would put it off a couple years to get the shop done. I couldn't do it. After living in a pretty fresh house for a while I couldn't live in this place in the state it was in, and had to start working on it.
So plan "B" was to temporaily move into the garage that was supposed to house my toys
So I wired the place up, got a buddy to put in a furnace, and here we are!These are pics of the house and from before I moved the machies in.
And after,
Now that the house is at least liveable, I can restart the barn/shop project again. The floor is in, and most of the interior framing is up. Elec service is run, but no wiring in the place yet.
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