Building My New Shop, FINALLY!

Good deal! Mine was free shipping too but the markup in Northern for the 18 gallon tells me I need to shop around more.

I got 20 off when I ordered the 8 gallon with the lift so it evened out a little.

 

Because the garage was right next to the house I had to be carefull not to build the garage too much taller as it would look funny.

If I remember correctly the walls are 9 feet tall and the garage doors measure out to 7' 9" high X 8' wide.

Roof pitch outer is 5/12 to match the pitch on the house and 2/12 inside.

I assume you mean shipping for the lift? I'll have to look at the break down. The lifts were on sale recently for 1995.00 plus shipping which I think is around 2 or 300.00. The three drip pans were included also. The casters, and extra wide jacking beams were extra.

 

Second blood. A little check before the Newcastle drive tomorrow.
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Correction;
Inside roof pitch is 3/12. Just for the record.

 

PAINT!
Two heavy coats. Primed trim and topped with semi gloss.
Base color started as Bold Terra Cotta then top coated three hours later with 'City Bistro', a dark red/purple/brown. All of this in attempt to match the mottled coloring of the clinker bricks on the house.
Trim is mortar grey but shows white.

The side door will get some Stradale stripes later.
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It's a pretty unique color. The light does strange things to it. It will be hard to touch up.

 

Prepping the area in front of the shop for the concrete apron. I ran the backhoe along the fence and dug out about 3 yards of roots and sod. Replaced it all with the gravel I scraped off of the pad area to begin with.

I roughed in the pad with the 'hoe' last Sunday and have spent the last 3 nights after work leveling the thing by hand with my very own 14 foot, two dimensional transit.

The next step will be a drainage ditch between the house and pad to catch the run off from the higher portions of the front yard.

Lastly will be a couple of yards of sand on top of the gravel and a good soaking to settle it all in . Final size will be the width of the garage, 28' and 24' out. Plenty big to park a full size truck (or Top Fuel Dragster) and still get around it without stepping off.

After it's done I can roll the lift out and pressure wash cars and trucks without messing up the shop. I can hardly wait..................
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Time to do the 300k service on the furnace.

1. 52 year old low pressure boiler
2. Descale heat exchanger and chip out the old firebox
3. Clean up the burner and install new tip
4. Over due for a filter change, Baldwin of course.
5. New 'Wetpack' blanket liner around burner.
6. 'Wetpack' packed in the firebox.

After burn-in the wetpack takes a set and hardens.
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We can't forget the most important part, a trick paint job to increase efficiency.

This probably adds 10,000 BTU to the furnace alone.
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I am within 2 miles of the Big Giant Coffee Pot!
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Waiting for parts............................

 

Monkey behaving badly?

 

Something to break up the monotony

 

Good coffee and nice scenery. Two good reasons to live out where I do.

A third and best reason is the great roads around the Cascade foothills.

 

Thanks Peter,
Let me know if you need flames on anything............................