SUHRsc
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I'd like to thank everyone for all that I have learned from this board and all of the advice I've been given.
I enjoy looking at the photos of everyone else's shops, so I figured it is only fair that I contribute some photos of my own.
I had been looking for a house and garage of my own as I have been working from my parents basement and drastically out of space. Earlier last year I was talking with an elderly friend and learned that he was in need of making some big changes and fast. We worked out a deal for me to buy out his property, shop, tools, etc., leaving him use of everything. This man has taught me a lot of what I know about metal shaping and antique race cars. So needless to say, this was a dream come true if I could make it work out.
Through a lot of obsticles we finally got it all worked out on paper and the deal was done in June. Since this time myself along with my dad and a few friends have been working away trying to clean up the property and clean and organize the shop. Also to finally get some of my cars inside of a building instead of under blue tarps as they have been for years.
There are 2 garages on the property along with a ranch house. The larger garage started as a 28'x40' building with a flat roof. In 1982 a 25x50 side was built on along with a peaked roof over the entire building. Inturn creating a loft above the original side. The 2nd garage is a "kit" building from the 1970's that is 24'x30'
Earlier last year before the "green" really grew in, I took this photo... if you can imagine leaves on everything... the place was a jungle!
Another showing some of the vines!
This is a photo from 1982 while building the new section on the larger shop.
And now all cleaned up with the vines removed. Those suckers sure do grab on... the roof had them growing up under the shingles... between the plywood facing on the sides... etc....
This photo is of my dad and I, you can sort of see how full the building was when we started.
After a ton of work we finally got it cleaned out, expansion foam glued to the walls and ready for concrete.
We went with 4.5-5" 4000psi concrete with a plastic vapor barier underneath. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to put the heating in the floor. Though this side of the building will likely just be for storage. You can see along the right side, the different blocks where the other half of the building stops...
In the mean time we cleared away all the vegetation from the small garage also.
Cleaned it out and reorganized with a couple of my vehicles inside.
With the large garage cured we started on the shelving that I wanted to build for storage. This was old pallett racking that was being scrapped at my work. I took the entire pile and pieced together the best 5 sections. Assembled into a deck rather then a row. They are a few inches apart each making the area 10' x 18'7". The stairs were also in the scrap pile, needing only a few rails rewelded and straightened. They are temporary untill I can build a permanent set. They're too steep for comfort coming down forwards.
One level at 7ft high. 2x4's for cross support and 3/4" tung and groove for the decking.
2nd level at 12ft, which will be getting 6ft tall 16ft wide 3ft deep shelving ontop along the center wall of the building.
The other half of the building is still completely full of stuff. Though already a concrete floor, I am planning to repour to the level of the new side as the floor slopes toward the back. This side will be my workshop area in the end.
Thats about it for now. Still a ton of work to do but the cold has set in and money is very tight.
Hope you all enjoy the photos.
Zach
I enjoy looking at the photos of everyone else's shops, so I figured it is only fair that I contribute some photos of my own.
I had been looking for a house and garage of my own as I have been working from my parents basement and drastically out of space. Earlier last year I was talking with an elderly friend and learned that he was in need of making some big changes and fast. We worked out a deal for me to buy out his property, shop, tools, etc., leaving him use of everything. This man has taught me a lot of what I know about metal shaping and antique race cars. So needless to say, this was a dream come true if I could make it work out.
Through a lot of obsticles we finally got it all worked out on paper and the deal was done in June. Since this time myself along with my dad and a few friends have been working away trying to clean up the property and clean and organize the shop. Also to finally get some of my cars inside of a building instead of under blue tarps as they have been for years.
There are 2 garages on the property along with a ranch house. The larger garage started as a 28'x40' building with a flat roof. In 1982 a 25x50 side was built on along with a peaked roof over the entire building. Inturn creating a loft above the original side. The 2nd garage is a "kit" building from the 1970's that is 24'x30'
Earlier last year before the "green" really grew in, I took this photo... if you can imagine leaves on everything... the place was a jungle!
Another showing some of the vines!
This is a photo from 1982 while building the new section on the larger shop.
And now all cleaned up with the vines removed. Those suckers sure do grab on... the roof had them growing up under the shingles... between the plywood facing on the sides... etc....
This photo is of my dad and I, you can sort of see how full the building was when we started.
After a ton of work we finally got it cleaned out, expansion foam glued to the walls and ready for concrete.
We went with 4.5-5" 4000psi concrete with a plastic vapor barier underneath. Unfortunately I couldn't afford to put the heating in the floor. Though this side of the building will likely just be for storage. You can see along the right side, the different blocks where the other half of the building stops...
In the mean time we cleared away all the vegetation from the small garage also.
Cleaned it out and reorganized with a couple of my vehicles inside.
With the large garage cured we started on the shelving that I wanted to build for storage. This was old pallett racking that was being scrapped at my work. I took the entire pile and pieced together the best 5 sections. Assembled into a deck rather then a row. They are a few inches apart each making the area 10' x 18'7". The stairs were also in the scrap pile, needing only a few rails rewelded and straightened. They are temporary untill I can build a permanent set. They're too steep for comfort coming down forwards.
One level at 7ft high. 2x4's for cross support and 3/4" tung and groove for the decking.
2nd level at 12ft, which will be getting 6ft tall 16ft wide 3ft deep shelving ontop along the center wall of the building.
The other half of the building is still completely full of stuff. Though already a concrete floor, I am planning to repour to the level of the new side as the floor slopes toward the back. This side will be my workshop area in the end.
Thats about it for now. Still a ton of work to do but the cold has set in and money is very tight.
Hope you all enjoy the photos.
Zach
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I could not have said it any better.
