I'm pecking away at my wood shed/chicken coop build located behind my garage.
The basics: 22'x44' and monoslope metal roof.
Running costs:
1.5 pallets of quikrete (works out to be $175 per yard - see location)
20 stick rebar $152
$200 of misc angle
24 1/2" anchors
2 tubes Simpson AT adhesive $42
metal roofing $75 (contractor ordered wrong color)
3 tubes Simpson adhesive $$$free
6 W8x18 columns $$$free
15 metal bar joists 22' long $$$free
stick welder/generator $$$free (traded out services to rent it)
college kid labor $75 so far
child labor $25 so far (son of one of my employees)
Backstory:
We built our house out in the sticks in 2009 and I built a 32'x40' pole barn/garage at the same time. The last couple of years, I've been wanting somewhere dry to store wood, tractor, and a few other things. We heat with an outdoor woodstove, so I go through 10 -14 cords of wood a year.
Readymix or quikrete? - do to the small batch and the fact that we are located 45 minutes from the batch plant, I decided to just mix it. I have a concrete mixer and it can mix (3) 60 pound bags of quikrete at a time. It actually costs more to mix the bags yourself, but it also avoids some headaches as I figured we needed a little less than two yards for the footings.
Free 99? the purpose was to gain materials over a few years that had minimal cost. I own a structural engineering firm and keep my eyes open for building materials.
-The bar joists came from a children's museum that wanted to remove the second floor in an old department store.
-The columns came from a fabricator that we do quite a bit of work with and he had some out in his yard from an industrial client that he did some demo work for.
-Simpson adhesive to set the anchor rods came from the local simpson rep during a demo that he did.
pictures to follow...
The basics: 22'x44' and monoslope metal roof.
Running costs:
1.5 pallets of quikrete (works out to be $175 per yard - see location)
20 stick rebar $152
$200 of misc angle
24 1/2" anchors
2 tubes Simpson AT adhesive $42
metal roofing $75 (contractor ordered wrong color)
3 tubes Simpson adhesive $$$free
6 W8x18 columns $$$free
15 metal bar joists 22' long $$$free
stick welder/generator $$$free (traded out services to rent it)
college kid labor $75 so far
child labor $25 so far (son of one of my employees)
Backstory:
We built our house out in the sticks in 2009 and I built a 32'x40' pole barn/garage at the same time. The last couple of years, I've been wanting somewhere dry to store wood, tractor, and a few other things. We heat with an outdoor woodstove, so I go through 10 -14 cords of wood a year.
Readymix or quikrete? - do to the small batch and the fact that we are located 45 minutes from the batch plant, I decided to just mix it. I have a concrete mixer and it can mix (3) 60 pound bags of quikrete at a time. It actually costs more to mix the bags yourself, but it also avoids some headaches as I figured we needed a little less than two yards for the footings.
Free 99? the purpose was to gain materials over a few years that had minimal cost. I own a structural engineering firm and keep my eyes open for building materials.
-The bar joists came from a children's museum that wanted to remove the second floor in an old department store.
-The columns came from a fabricator that we do quite a bit of work with and he had some out in his yard from an industrial client that he did some demo work for.
-Simpson adhesive to set the anchor rods came from the local simpson rep during a demo that he did.
pictures to follow...
