Matt's New Shop
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:59 am
Santa came early!
Yesterday a semi arrived with my 40'x60' shop kit. Yee ha! Looks like it will be mostly standing by Christmas.
My new pole building will have one 10'x12' door for the motorhome and three 10'x10' doors for trucks and toys. And there will be one walk-through as well. The basic building, including the concrete floor, is $41K. The county extorted just under $1700 for a building permit. Excavation was estimated at $1600. Will still need power, as well as driveway work leading to the building. Don't know when or how much that stuff will cost.
Here is what the building site looked like 'before'.
Here's the truck delivering.
Unloading the rafters.
And here are all the presents!
I helped (mostly by staying out of the way) the driver unload and it took about an hour and a half. The driver knows how to set the parts out so the builders don't have to move the materials very far during assembly. The driver did have to take into account the excavation that hadn't yet occurred; we'll see how well he did!
As he is unloading the roofing and siding, I'm seeing blue and thinking about what color I'd ordered. I was pretty sure it wasn't blue. So I mention it to the driver and he laughs and says the blue are scrap pieces to protect the good stuff underneath. He said everyone asks the same thing. Doh!
So, how does this affect my Safair build? In theory, it should help. One of the stumbling blocks has always been the location of my van. It's less than half a mile away in my dad's shop, but it isn't convenient to pack up my tools to go over there to work on it. Forget about tinkering whenever I have a spare hour or two. Once it is moved to my shop, it has a better chance. Besides, maybe seeing it parked in there every day will get me feeling guilty, and cause me to act. (I do feel guilty every time I see it parked in dad's shop.)
As I type this, the excavation is happening! Woo hoo!
Stay tuned!
Yesterday a semi arrived with my 40'x60' shop kit. Yee ha! Looks like it will be mostly standing by Christmas.
My new pole building will have one 10'x12' door for the motorhome and three 10'x10' doors for trucks and toys. And there will be one walk-through as well. The basic building, including the concrete floor, is $41K. The county extorted just under $1700 for a building permit. Excavation was estimated at $1600. Will still need power, as well as driveway work leading to the building. Don't know when or how much that stuff will cost.
Here is what the building site looked like 'before'.
Here's the truck delivering.
Unloading the rafters.
And here are all the presents!
I helped (mostly by staying out of the way) the driver unload and it took about an hour and a half. The driver knows how to set the parts out so the builders don't have to move the materials very far during assembly. The driver did have to take into account the excavation that hadn't yet occurred; we'll see how well he did!
As he is unloading the roofing and siding, I'm seeing blue and thinking about what color I'd ordered. I was pretty sure it wasn't blue. So I mention it to the driver and he laughs and says the blue are scrap pieces to protect the good stuff underneath. He said everyone asks the same thing. Doh!
So, how does this affect my Safair build? In theory, it should help. One of the stumbling blocks has always been the location of my van. It's less than half a mile away in my dad's shop, but it isn't convenient to pack up my tools to go over there to work on it. Forget about tinkering whenever I have a spare hour or two. Once it is moved to my shop, it has a better chance. Besides, maybe seeing it parked in there every day will get me feeling guilty, and cause me to act. (I do feel guilty every time I see it parked in dad's shop.)
As I type this, the excavation is happening! Woo hoo!
Stay tuned!
