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Goose

Goose

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This is the new shop building I've mentioned before on this site.

Still needs the overhead doors installed.

The easy part was letting Cleary put the shell up. Now comes the work. I'll pay someone to pour the floor, but I'll do the wiring, insulating, etc myself. Plus add a few windows when I get the interior laid out.

It's 30'x48'. It looked kinda small when just the frame was up, but now with the steel on and standing inside it looks just about the size I wanted. Big enough for a decent shop, but not so big that it would be prohibitive to heat to a comfortable temp in the winter.
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Any shop is a good shop! But they never seem to stay big enough...Looks real good ...Doing those things yourself is the only way to get things just like you want them for a reasonable price...Even if I could afford to pay some one to do those things, there is always those little details that only you can do to your own satisfaction...and it will always be there working for you.Good luck with it.
 
In the photo, the galvanized building to the right (You can just see the corner) in the background behind my tractors is my current shop. It's 22x36 and showing its age.

It will become storage.
 
Nice building.
I wish I could afford one.

I see that someone here also has the name of Wile E. I thought that the names were registered or something. (maybe it is cause I have a space in the name and the other guy does not)
 
Hey Goose, looks nice. On size, I lived for 25+ years out of a "garage" type building, 23 x 36 with 8' doors and ceiling, more or less.

When I retired I built a building that size, 30x50 with 12' doors. It is my shop and I store things in there like my boat and fertilizer, and feed and a few other things, like tools, welders, presses, etc. besides rolling my farm equip in there for whatever servicing/repair reason.

I put the high ceiling in to clear my JD 4230 tractor with cab and didn't realize the the added height makes room for projects with long parts not interfering with the rafters.

I did include a "shed" down the 50' dimension which is 15' wide and compliments the shop.

That size building has been perfect for me and I am happy with it. I had a crew come in and pour a 5" reinforced slab. I wired it myself. Slab was about $6k P+L and the wiring was $1k worth of parts. I wired for a 100A service since I felt it wasn't frugal to insulate and heat and AC the whole building. Down here in N. TX. it isn's necessary.

Hope you enjoy it.

Mark
 
I understand balancing the size with the cost and heating, so nice building.

I run a real small farm. I outgrew my shed with 17 foot doors, put up a 48x81 with 24 doors.

4 years later, I'm looking at machinery that doesn't clear the 24 foot doors......

Couldn't imagine getting use out of 12 foot doors, when I open only 1/2 of my 24 foot doors, real tight getting a tractor in.

Paul
 
That sounded negative, only meant how things change.

Looks like a nice shed, and you will be happy with it! I woulda put a bigger door in it. But that's for my needs, this will serve you well.

Enjoy it. :)

Paul
 
Goose,
Congrats. Looks really nice. Would be very nice to have one of those.

Husband started out in our one car garage (I had to park outside when he had a project). Now our shop is in what used to be a little old fashioned hog house - little, but no doubt that is where the shop will remain.
 
I don't want to be the Joker here, BUT. as a contractor I learned quickly, here in Central NY., that eveless pole and structural steel buildings will have some real problems if you live in moderate to heavy snow country. First off, snow and ice will "creep" down the roof. As it does, it curles under the lip of the eve and when it freezes hard at night it will buckel the exterior steel under the eve. Also the water that dripps off the eaves lands and spatters agains the exterior wall, and penetrates down into the ground and migrates under the floor of the building. If there is a build up of snow and dripping water on the ground, at the base of the building,it will freeze buckling the outer steel about 2' up, and in conditions where there was no vertical frost barier below ground level the concrete floors buckeled from the frost, if not heated.
My best advise to you, if you have moderate winter weather is to try to install perimiter drainage, (all #2 stone or equivilent to ground level over perfed 4" pipe) and vertical insulation (2" styro sheets), at least 2' deep. If you are planning on heating the shop, by all means put radiant tubing in the floor, That will moderate the ground level damage to the building in severe winter weather. If you think that I am BSing you, I can post some pics., of a steel building that we did not build, because we came in with a price about a grand more, for the eves and trims.
Loren, the Acg.
 
I can remember the days when we lived in town and a stock car occupied our single stall attached garage, while my wife's car sat in the driveway and my pickup sat on the street.

And I didn't get any flack for it. In those days, she was as enthused about racing as I was.
 
nice building. Im thinking of building a 40x60 this summer. How high is yours? Are you going to pour a concrete floor?
 
Very nice! Like you said, the right size toheat in the winter. You shouldn't have to worry about storage space with another building to use. Now to set up a "help Goose insulate and finish his shop day". Get together a few YTers and have a good day, like a barn raising.
 
My second shop is actually smaller than the first. I found All I needed for a shop was 18 X 36 free floor space with 9 X 36 for shop equipment. Any bigger and I just filled it with spare parts and etc. Building is 36 X 90 but Just use 24 X 36 for shop. I can heat and COOL this much. It does have a 18 X 13.8 high door. I know you will enjoy it! Vic
 
You are going to have to install the large 6 inch gutters on there or your building and slab are doomed. Can you get them under that roof?
Get your steel (white) ceiling installed after you run the wires for lights.
Then hang the tin and use blown in insulation on that. Then the wall insulation, vapor barrier and 5/8 OSB hung sideways. That's how I did mine.
zif you are going to insulate and heat you also need to install cold barrier around the outside perimeter. 4 inch foam 4 feet deep.
What area is this in?
 
Great looking building,don't add windows,spend that money on good lights,windows get dirty and almost impossible to keep clean + makes easier for theives to get in.
 
Looks Great! Hope you get good use of it and thoroughly enjoy it. One problem I see is that it's not at my place! :)
 
Nice but where is the big door. My IH 1066 won't fit in those little door. Also my 10 yard dump.
Walt
PS Did I say NICE.
 
I was surprised on size for my new one back in '05. I too expected my 30x50 dimension to be too small, but as it turned out, maybe it was my retiring at the same time, it is satisfactory and I have things stored in there for convenience that don't have to be there and still I don't feel cramped for space. Additionally walking across the building or sweeping the floor is reduced.

I like your door arrangement Goose. As others, don't know what you are going to use it for, and surely when you sized the doors you knew what you were going to get in there.

If, in the future you find that you have a width problem, pour a slab in front of the door the width and length you need and cover it like a car port. You can have your protection from some weather and also have the availability of your tools.

Mark
 
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