Garage Ideas

[MikeH686]

So I went to versatubes website sorry I kept calling it versamax lol I designed this it's a 36x40x12 they only offer 8' wide doors I'm gonna try to email them and ask if they have larger ones available. You can get the idea of how I want to lay mine out @John Dirks Jr i do have a 200 amp panel and two spares both double pole one is 20 and one is 30 could I swap one of those out for a 60 or 70?

 

[JD1964]

You can swap the smaller breakers for larger ones, sure. Talk to an electrician about the load you'll need for the garage based on how you plan to use it. They can set you up for what you need. Welding can take some juice so if thats on the horizon, be sure to let the electrician know.

 

[JD1964]

I agree that 8x7 doors are dinky. My doors are 9x9. 9 is narrow enough for my comfort.

 

[MikeH686]

Yes the salesman emailed me back and swapped them out for 9' openings now

 

[JD1964]

What is that building gonna run you?

 

[MustangIIMatt]

Some of us build our cars with little more than a shed.... I hate all of you.

I work on mine in the driveway in the Texas sun.

Pffft, rich guys with their high-falutin' sheds!

All kidding aside, when I get past the "clearing all the crap off of it" stage with my land and get to the "building a shop so nice that I'll be stuck living in a travel trailer next to it because I won't have money for a house" stage, I'm planning on 20' ceilings so that I can put one drive-on and one 2-post lift in, and lift a pickup truck on either one, as well as having enough room to build a loft in the shop for storage in the future.

 

[MikeH686]

If I go with exactly what I posted up with the 9' doors and all it will be able 10 grand delivered and offloaded from the truck for me then you gotta put in the pad which my uncle will do for just the price of concrete

 

[FoxMustangLvr]

If I go with exactly what I posted up with the 9' doors and all it will be able 10 grand delivered and offloaded from the truck for me then you gotta put in the pad which my uncle will do for just the price of concrete

Does that price include garage doors, man doors, and windows? Or is that separate?

 

[Noobz347]

I want the house next to me to burn down so that I can get the plot cheap and build my garage.

Oh... and I hate you all.

Hey, Congrats Mike! I'll hate you more when you have your garage.

 

[FoxMustangLvr]

I want the house next to me to burn down so that I can get the plot cheap and build my garage.

Oh... and I hate you all.

Hey, Congrats Mike! I'll hate you more when you have your garage.

I wouldn't want to be your neighbor, geez

 

[Noobz347]

I wouldn't want to be your neighbor, geez

That's just it. There is no neighbor. House has been boarded up for more than a year.

 

[MustangIIMatt]

That's just it. There is no neighbor. House has been boarded up for more than a year.

Then wait until it goes into foreclosure, buy it cheap, demo it, selling the salvagable pieces, build shop.

So short-sighted, that one, keeps posting things to the interwebs that get him on gubmint watch lists...

 

[Black1987]

I didn't see a thing officer, idk how it caught fire. Owner must of swapped an LS into a Mustang

 

[Noobz347]

Then wait until it goes into foreclosure, buy it cheap, demo it, selling the salvagable pieces, build shop.

So short-sighted, that one, keeps posting things to the interwebs that get him on gubmint watch lists...

LOL... If I were they type to burn down buildings, I wouldn't post about it.




...or would I?



My luck, one of you butt-clowns would be on the news:

"I seen da whole thing on the interwebz! I dialed 411 an tode em what he done!"

 

[MustangIIMatt]

"I seen da whole thing on the interwebz! I dialed 411 an tode em what he done!"

I knew dat dar sumbich was upta no good! I thinkee dun it like he dun Darrell! Darrell's tray-lor dun 'sploded las weekind, an I thinkee dunnit! Him's allwayz burnin chit up!
(An I doenoe dis fer shure, but I thinkee's onedem dar Jehovah's Witnessesses!)


All kidding aside and back to the subject at hand, I wasn't kidding about the buying it out of foreclosure, tearing it down, and building what you want plan.

Here's my truck parked in front of my half acre I spend my weekends off working on (when it ain't raining or I ain't injured, couldn't work on it for six weeks when I broke my foot), that's a $50 load of scrap metal from the mobile home and barn on the trailer. Tons of work, but I got the land for almost nothing (less than $2000), and while it ain't much, the scrap metal puts gas in the tank of the truck and buys me a decent lunch most Saturdays, and eventually the land will be cleared and I can start building, with almost no investment. What's left of that Capri parts car will get hauled off next (easy $100 bill there) and I've put a set of junkyard wheels and tires on that redneck utility trailer that was sitting on the property and put it to use since this picture was taken.

 

[JD1964]

Looks like those VersaTube frames bolt down to the slab. I recommend more than just a floating slab because frost heave can mess that up and if the frame is bolted to it, things can get messed up over time. So, some support for the slab would be nice. Either a turn down footer monolithic slab or a block perimeter wall. Either set at the frost line or below which I believe is 30" deep in your area. My wood framed pole barn garage has the posts bearing on footers that are 36" under the grade.

Point being, a floating slab on the surface can move with frost heave or settle too. If the slab moves, the building will too and things can buckle.

If you factor in proper support for the slab, you'll see how the cost of wood frame pole barns become more inviting.

 

[MikeH686]

Yeah I had every intention of pouring a monolithic slab

 

[JD1964]

Yeah I had every intention of pouring a monolithic slab

Good deal!! Get rebar in the footer to turn up into the slab edges. Lay some ground rods for electrical in the pour while your at it. And a conduit for the service feed. Maybe a second conduit for an ethernet cable from the router.

One of the biggest challenges with monolithic pour is getting lots of material on site in a relatively short period. But you have a family member in the business you I'm sure you all all the bases covered. Good luck with everything!

 

[MikeH686]

Thanks it'll be at least two months before I get started have to wait on the bank for my home equity

 

[RaggedGT]

Floor drains too.. Lol