It's Finally Time

I just broke ground on a 30' deep x 36' wide shop in the backyard, concrete walls, footers and foundation are in. Waiting on back fill and slab work  

Finally going to have space to work on all the toys again!

I'll get some pictures up pretty soon

AWESOME!

yeah man!!!

HOLY CARP!!! THATS MADE OF AWESOME!!! (Yes its all in caps so Im yelling!

when you get some walls up give us a pic

Awesome!!!

when you get something up show it off for all of us to drool over.. Great job

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Lots of stuff to consider including during the build process.
I'll tell ya, if you like car stuff it WILL fill up!

Consider good shelving. You can store a lot more stuff.

Rod's right, good shelving makes life so much easier.

I have pallet racking on two sides of my workshop.

Holds heaps, is strong (so it doesn't collapse on your cars) and is cheap if you look for it.

Grocery store shelving is great for parts and bulky tools too. I bought 5 units for $100 last year. If you can catch the Dollar General stores when they remodel, they throw tons of it in the dumpster!!! Alot of it has pegboard attached to it.

yeah Ive got lots of stuff to work on

2x 1974 TY Trials bikes, an old honda CT-90, 65 A100, 68 Galaxy 500, 2 harleys, assorted ATV's... dang, I have too many toys

we are delayed right now waiting on the rain to dry out so we can put in about 40 loads of back fill, grrr

Ok, here come some pictures. Keep in mind I'm in North GA so its pretty hilly, I wasn't lucky enough to have a flat yard.

There was a tiered wooden tie wall wrapping the back of my house that I removed and replaced with a single concrete wall. I had to build the garage between the septic drain field and the house. The old wall came down and got moved in about 3 feet.

I have enough $ in the walls and the back fill to have built the garage already if the lot was flat.


driveway around the side:


Footers for the wall and garage, right after we tore the wooden wall down it rained for 3 days, almost had my deck collapse.



forms are up, pumping concrete.



Forms are down, walls are in:



retaining all around the other side of the house:



62 tandem loads of back fill later gets you this. I'm still short about 8 loads on one side of the driveway pad, the grader sent the trucks off right as I got home (I couldn't take the day off to supervise). I'm going to have the flat work concrete guy bring in the rest of the back fill for the driveway when he gets started.



dang chickens, always begging for feed



Look mom, "free range organic steaks" on the hoof



more pictures up in a couple weeks when the flat work guy gets done

Lookin Great so far = Careful with the chicken =POOP!! slick u know!! 

Looks great, guess that soil is red in GA

nice place.

Looks great! We have something in common. My wife always tells me I'm a few loads short of a driveway pad! Or was it that my driveway doesn't go all the way to the road...Oh well, you know what I mean!  

G-Man wrote:Looks great, guess that soil is red in GA

If you dig more than a foot anywhere not on the coast here you'll hit red clay, most of Alabama has it as well. This particular fill is "clean", no rocks or sandstone, its really common to have a lot of sandstone and sand mixed into it and if so its not good for much.

It stains everything it touches as well, they actually make cleaners designed to remove red clay stains specifically

its home though, I'll be here a long time to come.

I have been to GA once and it's a beautyful state (the little bit I saw), can't wait to see some walls going up

The flat work concrete guy was prepping yesterday, going to plan on having the building pad and patio poured next week. We had a guy come out to bore some 5'-8' deep (by 18" across) holes for concrete piers. They will tie into the slabs with rebar so they will stay in place and be load bearing.

He's got a nice logo for his boring company.

its going to be nice, i'll bet you cant wait, keep the pictures comming,,
john

Consider a nice thick slab so you can add Storage lifts for all your toys.

This is what we did at Dads

super nice cars !

Thanks! I bled all over the Convertible during the restore, so I claim it. We did a full frame-off on that one. It's a 36 Fleetwood with the V8. Only 3 of those running that we know of. The top one is also a Caddy, a 27 Touring Car. It was owned by The Hotel Del Coronado, and restored by Jim Renzouli in the late '80s and it sat parked until 2002. We rebuilt the engine, which had multiple cracks in one of the Cylinder banks that had to be welded. That took 2 years to get done. Also a V8, but a 3 piece block with an Aluminum crank case.

My dad calls my '64 Dodge a modern car...

it would sure be different than working on newer cars, love that 27 touring,

Sorry for the hijack... I don't have a dedicated shop either so looking forward to your construction.