Very nice!
Congratulations!!
Very nice!
Congratulations!!
Looks great, but am I missing something regarding the covered porch supports? Is there a reason why there are two so close together and simply not equally spaced? Future enclosure and door perhaps?
In reply to golfduke :
Those look temporary to me. They are probably intentionally installed in the wrong place so the permanent ones can be added in the correct place.
In reply to golfduke :
The punchline is the other posts are centered between the door openings, and if there had only been one post there in the southwest corner, the span would have been something like 20 feet. The designer/archi didn't like that, and I didn't argue with him.
Not optimal, but also not sacrificing a boatload of real estate.
Looks fantastic!
Not sure how I missed all this before, but Congrats all around, especially Miss Harriet. Good year so far, I'd say! Fire is fun, I'm sure they appreciated a training opportunity.
Is this still 40 x 60? Mine has the same color scheme, mostly. Must be a KS thing. Let me know if you need help or want to meet up, I'm only about an hour away.
In reply to llysgennad :
Thanks, on all fronts. Very good year, although a lot for one year.
Still 40x60. Kansas thing may be accurate, though if it is, its subconscious. Just seemed like the right scheme. Matches the 100 year old timber frame barn on the property.
An hour away is close in midwest units... Have we talked before? I'll send you a message.
Also, having a heyday with your username. My dad used to do "regular sentences/idioms as acronyms" for his account passwords. Edit: Google ruined that perfectly good wild goose chase, although that's an interesting development.
Some fairly uninteresting photos of a ditch:
And a tape measure in the dark:
(of which there are several more, but once you've seen one...)
And then:
followed fairly shortly by:
Oh snap, heated floor!
I grew up near Seneca, so not that far from you either, though I live in Wichita. Saw your pictures and wondered how close you were to there as it didn't look like the western half of the state. Lot of cool stuff going on in this thread.
In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :
Seneca is about an hour northwest of us. Not quite close enough to be stomping grounds, but not far.
Heated floor, because its getting nice concrete and I'm only going to get one of these this lifetime.
And the outcome of the morning of inside concrete work:
I failed to get any pictures of the next day of outside concrete under the lean-to; brushed finish, maybe just wasn't interesting enough to take photos of? Can't remember. Did stick kiddo's feet in it and scratched her name and date in the corner next to the walk-in door, so there's that.
I'm putting a bathroom/washroom in the northeast corner, straight back from the double doors. At this point, I was about halfway through framing:
Also at this point, I'd been remarking for several weeks, half-joking, half-overwhelmed, that it seemed a lot smaller on paper.
The project manager kinda screwed the pooch here; as I gathered much later, once concrete is in, they typically schedule the overhead doors for 7-10 days later and hand the keys over. Apparently, the concrete crew didn't let project manager know they had poured, so he didn't start scheduling doors until I called him at nearly 2 weeks after the pour. At that point he said the doors were scheduled for two weeks out, and the installer would be in touch to finalize the scheduling. Great. Two weeks roll around, no call, no doors, project manager still unaware that his project isn't being managed. Installer did, then, promptly call and set up installation for a week out (which will be this coming Monday, fingers crossed).
So in the meantime, we got insulation done.
Foam King out of north central Missouri. Lance is a good dude, showed up when he said, did the job in a day, and at a reasonable price. One man operation.
4" of open cell spray foam on all of the interior surfaces. I don't want to "finish" the entirety of the interior walls/ceiling at this point, so that ruled out blown-in or fiberglass insulation. Lance offered than he could do open cell on the ceiling and closed cell on the walls, but it would have been about 30% more money, and would only have provided slightly more impact resistance. Instead, I think I'm going to work toward "paneling" the walls to 8' with plywood to protect the foam where it is most susceptible to damage and to give me a surface I can use to hang tools and the like. We'll see how that line of decisions play out as hindsight gets longer.
In tangentially related news, helped Mom finish moving out of her house around the corner (she had already relocated, she just needed to do a final triage on the remaining contents of the old house and empty it out), and called dibs on my late father's stereo stack. Confirmed that the speakers weren't, in fact, bad but just needed new speaker wire, cleaned the speed adjustment potentiometers on the turntable, and we're fully in business.
So that's plugged in to the extension cord running from the building next door. Kiddo and I have been working our way through the albums to decide which ones will live in the shop, which will live in the house, and which can find a new home with someone else.
And that brings us pretty much up to date.
Aside from installing the exhaust fan, which I got no pictures of because 18' up an extension ladder wrangling an ~80 pound, 2'x2' box into a close-fit hole wasn't conducive to pictures. Its in, and nobody got hurt.
You just jumped on in there and built a SHOP didn't you!? That's really nice. How are you going to heat the water for the floor?
In reply to Snert :
To be fair, I am very much aware that I haven't built much of anything. I just paid to have someone else do it. Its an unfamiliar feeling and I don't know if I like it.
Heat will be via a Navien propane boiler that I hope gets installed in the next couple weeks.
In reply to JohnInKansas :
Sometimes it's more practical to let someone else swing the hammer.
Garage door guy got started today. He'll be back tomorrow.
He got tracks started for the two small doors, and half of the panels for the small doors installed. Should leave tracks for the big door, the high-lift tracks for all three, openers, and something like 12 door panels.
In other news, the lift company called. My lift is finished, and will be shipped either tomorrow or the morning after. Sounds to me like some time off work may be in order.
Looks like maybe one more day of work on the doors. High-lift tracks on the two short doors, last two panels, and lift hardware.
Boiler will be installed in the morning.
Lift ships tomorrow morning.
I may be on a back-paid holiday starting tomorrow. We shall see.
In unrelated news, 4 cups of persimmon pulp from our persimmon tree this evening. Preserves tomorrow.
Some progress today:
Door project appears to be down to openers and weatherstripping.
Boiler is installed. Need propane to proceed. Electric and water service would make life simpler, but propane at a bare minimum. Was hoping they would mount the boiler and plumbing in such a way to allow me to finish the bathroom walls with drywall behind the boiler, but thats not going to be the case. Will have to build or retrofit a cabinet/closet to enclose the boiler. Probably a cleaner look anyway, and will get the condensate drain much closer to the floor drain without being a trip hazard.
Not today progress, but here's a photo of the dastardly exhaust fan I wrangled into position by myself, like a dumbass.
And a gratuitous shot of the girlies who are staying with us while their kennel gets concrete work done:
Lift *is* here.
Looking very nice, i am sure you will enjoy it for years to come, especially the lift and heated floor. Are you planning on drywalling the exterior walls or some other thermal barrier material to separate the spray foam from the work space? The spray foam formulation may have an ignition barrier component, but I would hate for you to have a fire from welding sparks or other sources.
In reply to David_H :
Haven't fully decided. For the sake of durability, I would be inclined to use plywood instead of drywall to avoid the eventuality of clonking into a wall with an errant long/awkward object. I think with framing, I could do 1/2" ply around the perimeter to 8' high for under $1k. That's where I'm leaning at the moment, but going to live with it a little while and see how the chips fall.
Mohawk 10k 2 post. Was all the 8k pound skidsteer with forklift tines could do to get it off the truck lifting from the end.
Josh from Yutzy came out for the final walk-through this morning. Really took him back to talk Challenge-prepped RX7s. Good chat.
I have the electric company coming next week to upgrade the service at the pole, and then the electrician shortly thereafter to run 100 amp service to the building. Going to be a busy couple of weeks.
I love fhe shop!
Did you run the numbers on that fan and your building volume? Seems like the shop is so big that one or two more would he helpful, but one is better than none!
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