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    5/19/2013 8:56 PM  #1

    HenryJ
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    update on my new shop

    Passed my final inspection and now I'm waiting on the foam insulation for the ceiling. This next weekend I plan to start putting all my stuff in and setting up my layout/work area's.

     

    5/19/2013 9:27 PM  #2

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    Nice place !  Are you going to insulate walls also?  Take lots of pics now so you can remember what it looked like clean!

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    5/20/2013 3:39 AM  #3

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    Re: update on my new shop

    Very nice, looks alot like my new shop. Just hope I get to build mine some day.

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    5/20/2013 5:27 AM  #4

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    Thats toooooo nice,I want one...jj

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    5/20/2013 5:34 AM  #5

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    It sure looks good when it is clean and almost empty.  
    Nice job.

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    5/20/2013 8:49 AM  #6

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    Re: update on my new shop

    Really nice...  after the last couple of week ends of tornados, down here in the tx ok area.  Got me to wondering if it's possible to make a garage /steel building tornado proof ??   I was thinking extra steel ribs and thicker steel siding..  ???   I guess cost would be really high.      Just have to figure out a way to squeeze my car into my naighbors two man underground bunker  

     

    5/20/2013 10:02 AM  #7

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    Re: update on my new shop

    One of my machinists is a retired mechanical engineer.  He is kind of paranoid about high winds and tornados.  He moved way out in the country (no paved roads) and started his new house with a safe room right in the center of it, structural concrete walls and roof, and a door like a bank vault.  That room is disguised as a laundry room, so it gets use regularly.  He then designed the house around it with a steel frame, filled in with 2x6 wood framing, and everything is bolted.  He designed for 100 MPH wind load.  Unfortunately, if he had gone through last week's tornado in that thing, probably the only thing left standing would be the safe room...

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    5/20/2013 11:23 AM  #8

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    That's what I call. A shop ,looks great concongratulations jimmy O
     

     

    5/20/2013 3:18 PM  #9

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    Re: update on my new shop

    Thanks Guy's.
    Steve, I probably won't insulate the walls for awhile... my shop funds have dried up. Hopefully doing just the ceiling will make a big enough difference. I think I'll put in a lift before I insulate the walls... I say that now, but I might change my mind once the temps start getting into the triple digits again.

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    5/20/2013 3:50 PM  #10

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    Looks amazing. Congrats!

     

    5/20/2013 4:12 PM  #11

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    Very nice!  

    I will probably never have a shop that big.   However, my goal is to have the best equiped home garage ever!  

    If multiple things can go wrong, the one that will go wrong will be the one that causes the most damage.
     

    5/20/2013 7:22 PM  #12

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    Gee whizz that is nice!!

    I see you moved the Frig in right away, good move! Now the tripple digits won't be so bad. I agree the lift should be next! Best thing I ever bought!

     

    5/20/2013 7:36 PM  #13

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    HenryJ wrote:

    Thanks Guy's.
    Steve, I probably won't insulate the walls for awhile... my shop funds have dried up. Hopefully doing just the ceiling will make a big enough difference. I think I'll put in a lift before I insulate the walls... I say that now, but I might change my mind once the temps start getting into the triple digits again.

     I would do whatever it takes to get the wall insulation in first.  You are going to be running electric, mounting stuff to walls, etc, etc and it will be ever-increasingly more difficult to go back and retrofit the insulation.  It is going to be just like an OVEN in there in July and August.  I know...I had uninsulated sheetmetal doors on my garage and when the sun hit them, it was like standing in front of an 8' wide x 7' high radiant heater.

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    5/20/2013 8:16 PM  #14

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    Words fail me. I Sooo want a place just like that.

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