The Silver Buick wants a garage.

[Stich496]

Its evasion, though, steal, and competition.



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it's sick, meds, cough'n blood, hospital and no sleep for 72 hours and counting.. mr english major

[BBR]

I was thinking a similar idea, but have level 1 with a normal 8 foot rafter height, and maintain that roof line over the lower level so the lower level has a much higher overhead height. A tall side and a short side.

[milner351]

Tall side being the heated insulated workshop side, short side being for cold storage.

BRILLIANT

[TheSilverBuick]

My 30x40 is big enough - barely. It's all the lot they would let me cover. But you have a SERIOUS amount of land there - I say "go for it". Cool to see you're making some headway. Don't forget to meet hurricane standards - um - never mind.......

Dan

You laugh, but according to these people, http://www.city-data.com/city/Ely-Nevada.html , Ely has been hit by one hurricane

I'll have to give some thought to the dual or stepped shop idea. I'm going to price a double wide "portable" tin carport. They are popular here in Ely since most places like mine have had the carport converted into another room of the house and then the tin carport out in the driveway for snow, etc.

[SuperBuickGuy]

why not one of those do-it-yourself quonset huts (they're like 5k).... use it for a bit, sell it when the "real" shop is built....

fyi - I seriously thought about storage/one bay - but by the time you excavate, gravel, and buy the materials you're halfway to the cost of a real building. (filling the structure doubles the cost, but just building the shell isn't that expensive).

[TheSilverBuick]

why not one of those do-it-yourself quonset huts (they're like 5k).... use it for a bit, sell it when the "real" shop is built.....

That's what I'm thinking about. About two car's wide.

[milner351]

I'm considering one of those for cold storage out behind my shop - it may be a better idea than adding on lean to space and enclosing it.

One of the most interesting Ideas I've ever seen as far as "re use" of materials was at my friends excavating shop. They were doing several jobs taking out old in ground steel fuel tanks from gas stations.

They were getting paid to haul them away.

They had a big hillside on one area of the property - so they took a big excavator - dug slots in the hillside - compacted some sand/gravel, then set the tanks on that - cutting one end open with a torch - filled the bottom of the tanks to create flat floor with sand/gravel - then put the dirt back over the top with pipes running up to open air for ventillation..... they had a bunch of cold storage space for the price of machine time and sand/gravel. They were big enough for full size pick ups to park inside, smaller tractors, all sorts of attachments for the heavy equipment, etc.

[Beagle]

who needs a house with a shop that big

my new shop is 30x50 - you need a house of at least 597 feet to give momma something to nest in. Easier to heat and cool the small house when you want to spend time with the nestor.

Not all girls are okay with the smell of grease and used motor oil, or kerosene heaters... and even the best of them might question "Marvel Mystery Oil" as a viable substitute for potpourri. Candles in your shop environment is a generic issue.

Then again, if you've gotten over the need for women, knock yourself out.

[milner351]

Aint that a coincidence - my pole barn is 30x50 as well, they're never big enough no matter how big they are, but at the same time I know a lot of folks that have built a lot of cars in a 24x24.

[Beagle]

I would have killed for a 24x24 for many years. None of the houses built here since the 80's are much deeper than 22... I can't park in most of them and be able to walk around the car.

[Stich496]

mine is 24 by 14 not big enough to really work in.. with the tools in there

[70chevyC-10]

You need this Randal -

http://www.wimp.com/concretetents/

[Stich496]

You need this Randal -
http://www.wimp.com/concretetents/

thats kool..

[TheSilverBuick]

That is neat, and probably heats well. Did anyone watch the new Mythbuster's yesterday? They used spray on bedliner on a variety of things to see how tough it was. The coolest one was they sprayed it on plywood and it practically became bomb proof (the explosive blew right through untreated plywood) and they did the same for a cinderblock wall, where the explosives blew apart the untreated wall and the bedlined wall came out pretty much unscathed. It was pretty neat, that stuff is tough!

I'm looking at these. We have a dealer in Ely. A 30x36 with the sides closed is a shade under $5,000. Or something like 22x36 with the sides closed for a shade under $3,000. The guy behind the counter said the price includes them setting it up. Seems like a pretty decent price, no wonder they got popular around here a couple years ago.

http://www.getcarports.com/carports/metal-steel-double-two-car-carports

[milner351]

I think the carport a great solution for your unheated storage only space. I didn't look at the "buildings" but all steel is a great way to go if they are local and available. Be careful with the roofing design, I have aluminum corrugated screw down panels - built in the 80's sometime - and I have several hard to find leaks. Of course if it was shingled, I'd undoubtedly be looking at a re - roof by now - at this point, I may end up replacing all the washer head screws with new, longer, stainless screws, since I can't seem to find aluminum screws anywhere and I don't want the steel/aluminum galvanic corrosion to go crazy on my roof which has over a grand in expanding foam insulation sprayed on it from underneath.