The Silver Buick wants a garage.

[88 Dippy]

i still like the bat cave option lol


i want to build a shop in my back yard but my parents say no lol :D

[SpiderGearsMan]

STAY THERE ANOTHER 20 YEARS ..they may say yes

[TheSilverBuick]

Haha.

[rightpedal]

What about a partial bat cave? What I gather is the shop is wants to be 40 by 60 but the grade is keeping you from a full pad. So how are placing the shop on the property? As example: Why not pour a 40 by 44 pad and set framing on level for the last sixteen feet over a block basement at what ever depth would make up the grade distance (8,12,14 feet). It would one hell of a storage area below. At sixteen feet span you could beam it in the middle with columns reducing the span to 8 ft. Set 3 by 14 I beams 12" OC with double 1 1/4 TnG ply. You could park a tank on it! I will bug the engineer at my lumber co about some load # when I get off vacation (James hates when I walk in with a grin!).

Steve

[IRONHEAD]

What about a partial bat cave? What I gather is the shop is wants to be 40 by 60 but the grade is keeping you from a full pad. So how are placing the shop on the property? As example: Why not pour a 40 by 44 pad and set framing on level for the last sixteen feet over a block basement at what ever depth would make up the grade distance (8,12,14 feet). It would one hell of a storage area below. At sixteen feet span you could beam it in the middle with columns reducing the span to 8 ft. Set 3 by 14 I beams 12" OC with double 1 1/4 TnG ply. You could park a tank on it! I will bug the engineer at my lumber co about some load # when I get off vacation (James hates when I walk in with a grin!).

Steve

well you said it better than I did

[Aircooled]

Make at least 20' of it 2-story with double doors on the 2nd floor facing the house. Then use a couple of 4 post lifts as elevators to move the cars up and down. Place 3 double doors on the back at grade for bat cave getaways.

[TheSilverBuick]

I can see doing the block basement over fill for the last 8-16ft, since I intended to make the far end of the shop a clean room/storage space, so it doesn't necessarily need a level drive in front of it. Clearly since I haven't scoped the building yet I don't know what I'll be doing for door arraignments, but ideally I'd like to have as much flat driveway in front of the building as possible, and putting on stilts or raising it up so the enclosed work area is on the second floor limits access to the width of the building and I want access on the length of it. Basically I don't want any large percentage of the building on stilts or raised up.

Thanks for the block idea as a partial basement, it's how my house is done.

Make at least 20' of it 2-story with double doors on the 2nd floor facing the house. Then use a couple of 4 post lifts as elevators to move the cars up and down. Place 3 double doors on the back at grade for bat cave getaways.

That's too James Bond'ish :P Besides, my upper yard I want to have grass and making the tight turn over it to pull into an upper level would tear that up pretty quickly I think.

[KeithTurk]

Randal.... I need to get you some pictures of my lay out... it's about like your talking about...

hmmmm I have a drive that was dug into the ground up on the hill and leveled down to my shop in back that's 10' plus below my house....

K

[TheSilverBuick]

Yeah I'd like to see that.


Got the laser and data collector all set up, but I guess I didn't give the data collector enough time on the charger and by the time I remembered how to use the dang thing properly (the settings, setting the base point and back sight, etc) the battery was wanting to give up. So I got it plugged back in, all the settings are now programmed in, so all I should have to do tomorrow is set up in the same spot and start clicking away. I'm going to double my work, I'm going to do one survey of the tops of the lath's and a second survey of shots directly of the ground where visible. I drove all the lath I intend on shooting in the same depth into the ground. I just have to re-upright the ones starting to blow over :P

[TheSilverBuick]

Well got it done today. Between surveying in the tops of the lath and directly on the dirt I got 285 points. That should give me a good set of data to contour with. Unfortunately I don't have any software on my personal computer to work with it I may have to bring the work laptop home tomorrow