Nightmaremoon
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I have always wanted a decent sized workshop/lab/place to tinker, without filling the house full of "projects"... After the city got on me when my brother parked his semi in my driveway over Christmas last year, The wheels started turning..."how much garage could I get away with??" and that started my project.
I wanted to build as much garage on a budget that I could possibility fit on my property. I figured I would need to do the work myself to come anywhere near where I needed to be price wise. The goal was a 30 x 40 insulated garage for $20k or less.
so started the project. Permitting was a bear... I did my research, and jumped in on a 30X37 building (due to sq footage/easement limits) The Building supplier had their deposit, and provided me stamped plans for the building, including (150MPH wind load) but I had to get a slab plan done up... thats when I learned the hard way just how much concrete one can fit in a 30'x37' hole... after I got the go ahead came the small issue of removing the garage that happened to be in my perfect garage spot.
Podzilla!!! I needed a place to put my junk... also a good shot of the old garage.
next up, demo work!!! It was a blast for the first 4 hours.... "Two days max we said"
It Quickly got old when I made it to the "Concrete parts" I suckered errr recruited a friend to help...
a week later we were almost done
while all this was going on I Took a side trip to Orlando to trade guns for this "Project"
Learned real quickly how heavy fork lifts are... Also a fork lift would make working on a fork lift sooo much easier... also also don't try to multi project... after some busted knuckles, some golf cart batteries, and about 800 lbs of concrete errr "ballast" the lift lives!!
Which was good, because the building was delivered shortly after, which the lift performed perfectly for.
While this was going on, I was also digging a hole, and starting the process of building my form..
I wanted to build as much garage on a budget that I could possibility fit on my property. I figured I would need to do the work myself to come anywhere near where I needed to be price wise. The goal was a 30 x 40 insulated garage for $20k or less.
so started the project. Permitting was a bear... I did my research, and jumped in on a 30X37 building (due to sq footage/easement limits) The Building supplier had their deposit, and provided me stamped plans for the building, including (150MPH wind load) but I had to get a slab plan done up... thats when I learned the hard way just how much concrete one can fit in a 30'x37' hole... after I got the go ahead came the small issue of removing the garage that happened to be in my perfect garage spot.
Podzilla!!! I needed a place to put my junk... also a good shot of the old garage.
next up, demo work!!! It was a blast for the first 4 hours.... "Two days max we said"
It Quickly got old when I made it to the "Concrete parts" I suckered errr recruited a friend to help...
a week later we were almost done
while all this was going on I Took a side trip to Orlando to trade guns for this "Project"
Learned real quickly how heavy fork lifts are... Also a fork lift would make working on a fork lift sooo much easier... also also don't try to multi project... after some busted knuckles, some golf cart batteries, and about 800 lbs of concrete errr "ballast" the lift lives!!
Which was good, because the building was delivered shortly after, which the lift performed perfectly for.
While this was going on, I was also digging a hole, and starting the process of building my form..
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