Building a Shop on a budget...(My Shop Project Build)

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and of course my son had to play on the big pile of dirt

and they made a nice path from front of shop to back yard.. I think I may need to gravel that and give my self access going forward

 

[shawn]

Is that container #69? Pretty sure it's been at my house before. That's the sort of thing you don't forget.

 

[jeepinmatt]

Is there a height limitation for the beam? They could have used a taller, thinner beam and gotten a lot more stiffness.

 

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Is there a height limitation for the beam? They could have used a taller, thinner beam and gotten a lot more stiffness.

I need it to be as short as possible.. we do have a height issue that this is helping us fix

 

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Is that container #69? Pretty sure it's been at my house before. That's the sort of thing you don't forget.

yes it is #69

did you ever notice the HUGE rusty holes on the sides?

 

[jeepinmatt]

I need it to be as short as possible.. we do have a height issue that this is helping us fix

Cool. When I was doing the calcs on the loft for my shop, the ideal beam height was around 16" for a 34' span, but I could have gotten away with an 8" beam if it was thick enough. That one in your picture could easily hold a truck if properly constrained.

 

[trailhugger]

yes it is #69

did you ever notice the HUGE rusty holes on the sides?

You need a tetanus booster, just for looking at their dumpsters, but Capitol Container is great.

 

[shawn]

yes it is #69

did you ever notice the HUGE rusty holes on the sides?

They're all like that.

 

[mbalbritton]

Ken, are you planning to use a block sealer/primer on the brick before you paint? We're getting ready to paint ours too.

 

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Ken, are you planning to use a block sealer/primer on the brick before you paint? We're getting ready to paint ours too.

we have a painter lined up to do it for us.. so we have not had that discussion yet.. as it wont happen for a few months.. but I have heard of the sealer before you paint brick to help it look better etc..

 

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Plumber showed up and to my surprise he got everything done in one day..

He had to rip out the main water to the house, the sewer line, and the sump pump and replace it all with new..

new sump pump (we need this due to being below street level)

new pipes

 

[shawn]

Bart?

 

[BRUISER]

Bart?

if you mean plumber no it was mike thompson

 

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wife has made a small change to the pocket doors we will use in master bath area so I picked them up friday night and now need to figure out how to make them work

they are from a commercial job she is redesigning and they did not want them anymore.. with these the hope is light weight and they still let light in threw them instead of always having to have the lights on

the foundation work also was started saturday but due to a late afternoon large storm work was halted and they are trying to finish today

 

[Fabrik8]

Are those door glass, and do they have a tempered mark on them?

 

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Are those door glass, and do they have a tempered mark on them?

they are plastic/plexi

 

[Fabrik8]

Cool, you could rip them down to get rid of the extra holes and then picture frame around the outside to common door width or something like that. Turn them into a door insert is what I'm trying to say.

Or hang them without a frame, using barn door hardware. You'd have to probably cut to size and then sand and flame polish the edges.

 

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great to come home to see the foundation wall done

 

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glad to keep seeing stuff getting done when I arrive back at the house..

smoothed out garage area and put down gravel

back filled around sump pump

and plumber came and cut a hole in floor for new downstairs bathroom and has drain pipe in

 

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I forgot to add the pic of my son playing in the bobcat (he was in HEAVEN)

 

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came home to a very WET concrete floor.. they got started late in the day which also ment a very late night to finish it.. guys left at 11pm

 

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They decided to attack the inside block wall that we are taking out to make one large room in the basement and did they ever attack it

This room was originally a garage in 1955 and then they owner closed it in and made it into a work room.

this used to be just a basement room that we finished off and made into a basement TV/family room

the block wall coming down

and the concrete guy was super cool and helped us put the kids hand prints in the garage floor

lastly while he was here is water proofed the outside of the foundation walls

 

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After discussing the plan for the I Beam in the basement we agreed to make a change but that would mean that the beam needed to be cut and shortened. Good thing I have a shop full of metal tools

so we measured and marked the beam and I cut off what was not needed after work friday.. we estimate it saved us about $500 to not call in a portable metal guy

saturday morning they came back and got the beam up and supported with temporary walls

and lastly the concrete guy helped us get the kids hand prints in the floor forever

 

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came home to a bunch of wood on garage floor.. so hopefully we will have some framing going up today

 

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after they ripped down the block wall there was a recess in the floor to the foundation so we had to fill that with concrete and

we had 3 guys show up yesterday and they started framing in the garage area. the head in the center of the garage is crazy HUGE