Okie dream man cave!

[greenbeast]

Looking like a house now

Getting close, I put in 50 amp rv plug so the wife and I can park older 5th wheel the parents have inside. Office will be the living room, we have bathroom and we will use bedroom of trailer to snooze.

Cold air coming this week, low of zero Thursday. All the water lines from slab gonna get heat tape with a thermostat.

 

[PAToyota]

Definitely satisfying when you can flip a light switch on and plug tools in to continue the work!

 

[greenbeast]

Yeah my good friend wired an outlet up stairs and another downstairs along with the single light.

We discussed how we would put each wall in circuits and weather permitting I’ll knock that out this week work permitting.

Gonna be super cold this Thursday night (neg 3) with strong winds making wind chill inside kinda work environment. Thankfully now in Oklahoma a couple days later it will be warm again.

 

[greenbeast]

Anyone have input on a small water heater or one of the smaller instant water appliances to use on a single bathroom sink in the shop?

Seems like a point of use electric water heater seems like good way to go? Anyone have pros or cons?

 

[knuckle47]

I know the technology has vastly improved but….(and I was impressed) I took my son to pick up his car at the service Shop and in their bathroom they had an electric on-demand water heater. I turnEd on the hot water and in less than 5 seconds it was hot. I heard the relays click on and off as the flow of water started and shut down when I turned off the flow. It made an impression as to how well it worked. If I had a need for a sink only..it would be ideal and was mounted under the sink in a box a touch smaller than a shoebox.

‘’I wish I had more expertise but I would look into the option ..it’s better then using even a small water heater to store hot water for minimal use

 

[Waorani]

I've got an AO Smith 2.5 gal water heater under shop bathroom sink. Only use in winter but does what it's supposed to do for a short heated hand washing. Lowes has them but think I scrounged mine off ebay.

 

[Ol Yeller]

Anyone have input on a small water heater or one of the smaller instant water appliances to use on a single bathroom sink in the shop?

Seems like a point of use electric water heater seems like good way to go? Anyone have pros or cons?

I have not researched this yet for my shop sink so will be interested in what you pick or get recommended here.

 

[Michael B]

If you go tankless be sure you know the wiring specs before you purchase it. They require a larger breaker and wiring than you might initial think. I went with a 19 gallon unit that I will only plug in when I'm working in the shop. The 19 gallon was only $50.00 more than a 6 gallon unit. None of them are inexpensive.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

I have penciled in a 10 gal, under sink, 220 unit in my plans but haven’t bought anything yet.

 

[greenbeast]

I have penciled in a 10 gal, under sink, 220 unit in my plans but haven’t bought anything yet.

Well 10 gallon seems better then the 0.9 fpm the little instant heat I was looking at has.

Michael, we’re still open and box just about 10’ away so power not a problem. I’m planning on gunsafe in closet where the hot water tank was going to go it would impede being able to get the safe in there and truly no need for the bigger tank.

I’ve also opted to put heated floor (electric) in my office which should be nice in the winter.

 

[greenbeast]

Half day wasted today picking up trencher for skid steer only to realize after driving an hour home it had different high flow fittings.

Rental company cool about it and I rented mini excavator for $280 for the day and I still got few hours in it today and have it most of the day tomorrow. What a nice machine, wish I had the coin to own something like this!

Used it to dig around the stumps from tree’s I took down a couple weeks ago. Then started making a trench for the water line.

Used the part time half ass contractors map after I dug for an hour on wrong side of building 2 weeks ago. With plumbers on way to get line in the building I told em I would have conduit dug out.

Using the map I started digging and found sewer line but no conduit for water. Once plumber arrived he proceed to tell me exactly where it was, opposite where the map showed. Good work out for nothing for the fat guy today!

Shovel is where map showed it should be, you can see the nice ditch I dug from where we put in the electric going north, I should have gone south!!

 

[knuckle47]

Depressing to spend so much time standing in the same place, so to speak. No consolation but we have most likely all been there. That machine in my neck of the woods is over $475 for a day.

 

[greenbeast]

Out of town dropping daughter off at college but roofer was kind enough to send me the invoice than some pics.

I had to add extensions to the floor drains and sewer pipe under stem wall so I can have sidewalks poured. The mini excavator was big help but for first time in years I got opportunity to swing a pick axe for awhile. Despite being January I swear it was summer the way I felt…

Coming around!

 

[Michael B]

So what’s up with the photo shopped shed? The shop looks terrific BTW. I like the black and white color combination.

 

[greenbeast]

So what’s up with the photo shopped shed? The shop looks terrific BTW. I like the black and white color combination.

Thats the well house the previous owner who only hunted on the property built several years ago when he had aspirations of staying for awhile. Not sure what or if any plans were used to build it cause the large slab isn't square either. Super nice guy owned place and he purchased it shortly after we bought our farm first time in 2007. He parked a very well worn 5th wheel by it, had homemade septic system which he never used. WE always enjoyed him but looking out the front window from our trailer all we would see was the trailer. It's reminiscent of Clark Griswold looking out his window at cousin Eddies RV in Christmas Vacation.

My intentions are to knock it down, build small well house with leftovers from this build with matching roof. I will need to get concrete saw and do away with majority of the slab.

Michael, If I knew how to photo shop pics it would have looked a heckuva lot nicer!

 

[Michael B]

I just didn't remember seeing it in your other pictures.

 

[greenbeast]

Concrete day around here, filling in around the posts inside then the rest.

 

[greenbeast]

North side has what I’m using as a wash bay. Electric and water are immediately inside door to use a power sprayer.

 

[greenbeast]

57 yards of concrete today. Will be nice to have this done. Garage doors came in and installer trying to get in to install. Timing never works the way we want it to.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Nice time of the year to pour concrete assuming temps stay above freezing, more or less.