GiantKiller
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- Sep 2, 2011
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We had an issue, we live inner city and had a crumbling single that was build in 1956. The roof was shot, it was infested with bees, hornets, mice (the mice would winter feed off the bees), it was dark and damp and the floor was buckling. The walls were 7 ft and the roof and eves were rotten. There was a bodged greenhouse attached to the side as well.
It was not a nice place to work and then this spring I came out to 1000's of mouse droppings on everything. That was it....I made the call to tear the M-f@@&&er down.
I had plans to expand beyond the 14x25 footprint, went through a bunch of iterative designs and landed on one I liked. In the consultation phase with the concrete guy he advised that I would likely loose a 130FT blue spruce in the back yard as a result of the expanding footprint of the garage. That became a deal breaker and I was now out $800 in engineer fees for the foundation (required by our city)( and $600 for the architects plans).
So the plan was hatched to rebuild a single car shop and garage on the existing foundation, replace the floor etc.
I am pretty happy with the result. I have 9.6 walls and vaulted ceilings (6/12 exterior and 4/12 interior). All lights are t8 LEDs and there is lots of storage and electric. I am relocating my 60 gal compressor to the shed and piping air back to the garage.
The garage allowed me to relocate to the overhead service to the garage and do away with some overhead lines into our backyard, the garage is not the main and the house is the sub.
I now have a very functional single car shop, with lots of storage and floor room. More pics to come
It was not a nice place to work and then this spring I came out to 1000's of mouse droppings on everything. That was it....I made the call to tear the M-f@@&&er down.
I had plans to expand beyond the 14x25 footprint, went through a bunch of iterative designs and landed on one I liked. In the consultation phase with the concrete guy he advised that I would likely loose a 130FT blue spruce in the back yard as a result of the expanding footprint of the garage. That became a deal breaker and I was now out $800 in engineer fees for the foundation (required by our city)( and $600 for the architects plans).
So the plan was hatched to rebuild a single car shop and garage on the existing foundation, replace the floor etc.
I am pretty happy with the result. I have 9.6 walls and vaulted ceilings (6/12 exterior and 4/12 interior). All lights are t8 LEDs and there is lots of storage and electric. I am relocating my 60 gal compressor to the shed and piping air back to the garage.
The garage allowed me to relocate to the overhead service to the garage and do away with some overhead lines into our backyard, the garage is not the main and the house is the sub.
I now have a very functional single car shop, with lots of storage and floor room. More pics to come
