Our new place

[LaidInk]

Hello all, I've been a member for quite a while but never have posted before. Back in December the wife and I purchased a new place. This new property has a nice bare 40 x 80 shop and a detached 16 x 34 garage. House is right around 2400 square feet with some major renovations. Its a full gut job, the original part of the house dates back to the 20's while being added onto in the later 40's then again in 81. The house in its current state has a 12 x 18 attached garage which will turn into half of it being part of the kitchen and the other a laundry room. The current plan for the house is to add a 32' deep x 36' wide 3 car garage.

This brings up my dilemma with the detached 16 x 34 garage. It's most definitely rough and not the best constructed building. Concrete is pretty rough as well. The eave walls are currently being held in place from spreading further with 4 x 4 posts in the ground. The building is out of square by a few inches as well.

I do love the idea of using this building as a wood shop and leaving the attached garage for vehicle parking only but in its condition I'm thinking I would be better off just demolishing it and starting over or increasing the size of the attached. This of course all depends on the wife but I'm curious as to what anyone else thinks of this garage?

 

[CJ7VFR]

Do a Google search for "shed of doom". Then start going thru the pictures...

Jim

 

[Squashfest81]

Slip some sills in and salvage. I like a little character and story to my structures.

 

[kirkkw]

The concrete is rough, but for a woodworking shop would that really matter?

 

[58Yeoman]

Looks like you have plenty of room to leave it up. Use it for storage, if nothing else. We had an 8x10 shed when we bought our house. When we replaced it, I dragged it to the back yard and we use it for our firewood storage. When it falls completely apart, I'll tear it down.

 

[timbitca]

Seems to me like you should lift it, pour some footings and call it a day. Looks like the bones of it are pretty good, I've seen worse floors.

 

[straps57]

Doesn't look that bad. I would probably fix it up.

 

[Tundruz]

You can add sheets of OSB plywood for walls to strengthen it up inside, after you run new electrical of course, replace/remove the windows and doors, then level the concrete with the quick fix stuff then throw a modular floor in there-RaceDeck style.

 

[Firebrick43]

With what other plans you have, if it was mine, it would have an unfortunate accident involving copious amounts of gasoline and a match. However I would peel the roof off first. Nothing worse than trying to deal with fire twisted and mangled roofing. The first old chicken shed we burned we did not remove the roof. Every one after we did, so much easier. A hammer on a skid steer would make quick work of the foundation and slab. Looking how it's broke up it may pulverize well and if under 2-3" in size would make good fill base under the new garage or in mud holes on the drive if it has no metal in it.

 

[LaidInk]

Thanks for the input I appreciate it. Only reason I questioned keeping it or not is because I'll be replacing all the siding and a new steel roof anyways to match the house and well house. When I get electricity. Surprisingly the sills are in decent shape at least the ones I can get too anyways. The original owner just didn't anchor them for some unknown reason. I'm surprised it hasn't had the same fate as the chicken coop (left side of picture 6) laying on it's top from a nice microburst.

With any luck I'll have a 400 amp service loop ran through ct's some time this week. I've been saying that since the first week of May though so we shall see!

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[Ditch]

if price is no object, just leave it alone and make a new one elsewhere
but
I'd say it's salvageable for limited funds

either way, one tornado and whatever you build is gone

 

[udderlyoffroad]

Everything can be fixed and saved....but...

YMMV of course, but I'm way quicker bolting fresh new parts/materials together to build something, than restoring structures.

On the happy wife/happy life principle, use as a storage shed during house reno, order enough siding material, build new structure when funds and more importantly time allows. It will be orders of magnitude quicker to have a new slab poured and build something afresh. 'Finishing stuff' is way more important to the fairer *** than us males, and you've presumably got plenty of 'reno' work in the house already.

Other opinions are available...