Retirement Shop (2 Viewers)

[Blastservices]

Super proper! Great work!

 

[Ol Yeller]

Funny how they are NEVER big enough!

 

[Michael B]

The slab looks great Greg. Will you remove the existing wall or leave the two areas separate?

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Super proper! Great work!

Thanks Todd. Wife, Son-in-law, and two BILs are all Civil Engineers so I get a lot of free advice when it comes to concrete and steel. Weather forecast over the next two weeks looks ideal for curing concrete.

Funny how they are NEVER big enough!

No kidding. I really struggled whether or not to enclose this space but ultimately decided that a lean-to addition would work best for my storage needs.

The slab looks great Greg. Will you remove the existing wall or leave the two areas separate?

Thanks Michael. The wall will stay as this addition will just be a roof with siding down to the 12' wall girts. I do plan on cutting in a man door just past the center column line.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Finished all the interior walls except for the right side. I need to finish the expansion on that side first. Starting to run out of excuses and will have to start working on Land Cruisers.

 

[greenbeast]

Greg, I’m very impressed with your willingness to use my alma maters colors with that orange and black. It’s shunned by many less fortunate here in Oklahoma…

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Greg, I’m very impressed with your willingness to use my alma maters colors with that orange and black. It’s shunned by many less fortunate here in Oklahoma…

Ha. It's a very dark navy blue. If you want some Jon the Benjamin Moore color designations are Auburn Orange and Auburn Blue.

 

[Waorani]

Looks good in person too! I finally stopped by and met Greg this morning.

If your pickup goes missing - it wasn't me!

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Looks good in person too! I finally stopped by and met Greg this morning.

If your pickup goes missing - it wasn't me!

Great visiting with you today Ed. Please; anything but the pickup!

 

[Michael B]

Great visiting with you today Ed. Please; anything but the pickup!

Hmmmm really?! I drove a nice Troopy on my visit. I would have preferred to have rolled back to northern Alabama in it, rather than the vehicle I arrived in. If I had only known that was an option

For all who haven’t had the pleasure, Greg and Mrs. WDE are very gracious hosts.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Pulled the plastic yesterday after more than 3 weeks of water curing. Took a couple of pics after it dried. Very happy with the results. Not a single visible surface crack. Should be in the clear from shrinkage cracks at this point.

Building delivery delayed until at least May after I made a few changes.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Got a pleasant surprise on Friday in the form of an email from the building company. Building is being delivered on April 12th. Now I have to get my ducks in a row with an erection contractor. I had procrastinated a bit on that subject as I thought this was a late May/early June problem.

I also found out that I am responsible for unloading the truck. No worries, that was a good excuse to buy a set of forks for the Kubota. I had meant to buy a set when I purchased the tractor and other implements but somehow forgot about forks.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Steel showed up this morning. Having trouble posting photos with my new phone.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Well we went out of the country a week or so after the steel arrived and just got back last week. Needless to say I was a little motivated to make some progress once we returned. Anchor bolts were the first order of business as we didn't imbed the anchor bolts when the concrete was poured. We were still moving columns around at that time as I was trying to get the maximum space between the columns. Contractor aside, I wanted to install the anchor bolts myself as I'm a little particular about chemical anchors. Hilti would be my first choice but they aren't particularly user friendly for someone that only needs to install 24 anchors (3/4" threaded rod anchors, 12" long with 10" imbedded). Simpson makes a very good product and their Set 3G anchor adhesive has incredible strength (when installed correctly) and a nice long work time. The key to anchor bolts is the pattern. You can be off a smidge directionally but it's imperative that you are dead on the pattern and in the XY orientation. I used wood templates for drilling and for holding the anchors in place while the adhesive cured.

Decided my Milwaukee hammer drill wasn't going to cut it so I rented something a tad larger.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Of the three erection bids I got, two were higher than the building cost and the one reasonable priced contractor was months out. Decided to play around with setting a column or two with my tractor on Friday. One of my sons helped me and in just a couple of hours we had the 3 columns beside the existing shop set. Given how well that went, I talked my son-in-law (Masters in structural engineering and quite fit) into helping over the weekend and one other son also came home for the weekend (chemical engineer but also very fit). Long story short, in a few hours yesterday and today we had all the steel up. Now I just need to decide if I'm going to tackle the sheet metal myself.

 

[greenbeast]

Greg, that looks great. Good thing neither were doctors, you would be waiting months....to pay that other contractor

 

[WarDamnEagle]

One last photo which gives a bit more perspective of the expansion. Again, original shop is 40x40 and the lean-to expansion is an additional 20' (20x40). Also, just for reference, the long columns are 254 lbs and the shorter ones 241. The rafters are the heaviest steel at 306 lbs. Even the eave struts (4 @ ~20') are 98 lbs each.

 

[Blastservices]

Very nice! Sheet that yourself! It’s the easiest part. You all did the heavy lifting.

 

[Michael B]

It’s coming along nicely Greg! I think I would want a warranty on the roof

 

[WarDamnEagle]

It’s coming along nicely Greg! I think I would want a warranty on the roof

Thanks Michael. FWIW, all the metal has a warranty as long as it's installed correctly. This expansion was never going to be a turn key project since I bought the building as materials only. In theory you could get an installation warranty from the erection contractor but that would probably increase the price by 50%. If I get a contractor to do the sheeting, it will be installed per the drawings and that's all I really need.