Finally building myself a garage

Chris Hansen

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For a few years I rented a small building in toledo to keep my cars in and do small work while i lived at home with my parents. That ended up getting broken into earlier in the year so I began house shopping and moved all of my stuff out. I bought my first house at 26 years old this past year and been wanting a shop for working on my hot rods in since I was a little kid. My property has a 45x132 pole building that is set up for horses so I didn't want to disturb that, and the 3 car garage with the house only has 8ft ceilings in it which don't work for me because I want a lift. So here we are! Monday evening, I cleared trees and got the site as ready as possible.

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Tuesday morning the package arrived and we drilled holes and waited for the building inspector to come sign off on them.

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Then Wednesday the post got sunk and started framing.

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Thursday and Friday were a shit show weather wise, storming most of the day so progress was slow. Today the trusses are up and by the end of today all of the perlins should be done and it should be ready for roofing and siding by tomorrow.


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I have to give a huge shout out to Charlie Robinson of pioneer pole buildings. He's been great to work with so far and his crew is really busting some ass on this project.



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Getting closer. Hopefully another day or two at most.


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Barn done for now. Concrete next week!

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Nothing too new to report. I had 60 tons of fill dirt delivered yesterday. Time to start bringing the grade up inside and in a few low spots around the outside.

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And we have concrete finally. Hoping to start wiring next week.

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Lines cut, working on stone work now. Lots of leveling left to do. Coming along though. Get to find out how much electric is going to cost me this week. Moved my horse pasture back do there's 40 ft between the barn and fence, which i plan to level off and finish stoning to park my trailers, truck, tractors, etc.

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No huge updates. It's been extremely cold here so I haven't done anything moving forward with shop progress really. I did hang my lights today and fired them up to see how they looked...man they exceeded my expectations 100% these had great reviews online so I ordered 15 of them from rural king. 12 for the shop 3 back ups to tuck away. When I got off the ladder and flipped these on it was like looking at the sun. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get a call from air traffic controls if I run these at night with my doors open. Very very happy with the light output. A buddy stopped by and we moved everything out of the building as the floor is getting epoxy coated in the morning. I also picked up one of my lifts (9k 4 post) still have to go get the 2 post. Planning on putting them up as soon as the floor cures.

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Got the epoxy floor done today, clear coat tomorrow and then I get to watch it dry for a few days. Hoping by Sunday to start assembling one of my lifts.

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Next up is wall wiring and insulation. Hopefully in the next few weeks. It's nice to have space to work!

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Badass...

I suggest running gas/electric/water yourself... Easy to do with a ditchwitch...
 
I see a young man building a garage like that and......
...... it brings a tear to my eye, a beautiful thing, simply
beautiful.
 
Thanks for the build a long... That's one thing I miss about forums... Always got to see cool shit being built...
 
Great to see that start to finish. Looks awesome! Congrats and enjoy! We built a horse barn 3yrs ago, pasture fence 2yrs ago and horse stalls & electric last year. Hoping to wrap it up this year finishing the tack room and get some animals in the barn for the wife.
 
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I think I saw some of those on YB. Look at all the colors of the cars in there. That first gen Camaro looks dripping wet, what a car that turned out to be. Nice to see you still have the Scat Pack. That green and the plum crazy cars are my favorites.
 
Just curious. What does something like that go for complete with concrete? Beautiful place to hang out for sure.
 
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