The Shop Build

[Pearce]

:smt041 Finally time to get my shop build going! After moving back down to Orlando FL I wanted to live more of an urban lifestyle and not way out in the burbs. To much going on here in town and lots of places to easily get to. I found a great little house with a long one car garage, and a HUGE backyard. Unfortunately the Orlando area is full of 1950's homes without the big garage. I couldn't even find a house with a 2 car that was worth buying. Next best thing find a place where I can add one. I was pretty pumped to build a nice big garage in the back yard. I made a plan on Google sketch-up. The final version was 30' deep 20' wide inside wall to wall.

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Well.....turns out that was not going to work. Local codes and ordinances limited my auxiliary structure to 500sf. Damn it! So shrink it I did. 25x20 outside wall dimension. I had hopes of creating a space that could one day house a boat. Hey, it's Florida, got to have a boat space. Oh well.

So the plan is to have an 11'x10' pad off to the side. I'm going to build this pad to be a future enclosed room one day. It would be sweet to have a little workshop room off of the garage. The door will be 9' tall and 16' wide. I wanted 18' but wouldn't fit when it got smaller. It will be an insulated roll up door. Walls are CMU, roof wood trusses. The attic space will not be all that tall. Low slope roofs in FL due to the hurricanes and good ole ordinances. I'll run power out to it myself from the house. But the permit I pulled is for just the structure right now. I just want the building done so I can put my truck back in a garage again. I can install the power at my own pace once the structure is done.

I laid it out this week.

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Then today, rented a skid steer to begin prep work on the pad.

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A few hours later and it's all set for my concrete guy. I pulled the permit to self preform the work as a homeowner/GC. But, I have a buddy that does concrete and block work. I'll set the trusses, install windows and doors, painting, the grading, install the gravel driveway and electrical. I'd do roofing too but I got a good deal and again with it being FL the are really particular on how it's done with the high winds.

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I'll add more as it progresses!

[Kraqa]

looking good!

[ATL ZJ]

But are you sure you can handle building for a customer who can be a real a-hole?

:mrgreen:


















:smt081

Looks good! Keep the pics flowing...

[Pearce]

And you know it!!


Few minor updates. Footings dug out for the main structure, soil has been poisoned then vapor barrier and rebar started. My buddy doing the concrete work also does epoxy flooring, He talked me into moving forward with that as well. Once that starts I will discuss it in more detail. But epoxy flooring is one of those things that has to be done really right or it doesn't last or looks like crap.
Also got the trusses delivered today. Even though I knew what it looked like on paper actually seeing the trusses reminded me how little attic storage I will have. Typical of a FL house though. Lower sloped roofs. But I did have the trusses engineered for hoisting. Should come in handy.

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First footing inspection is set up for Tuesday, then pour the slab Wed.

[ATL ZJ]

Looking good. Planning to moist cure the slab after it's poured?

[Pearce]

Moist cure..... it's wet cure. Moist cure sounds like some sort of personal problem, haha.

It will probably receive a curing compound. Wet curing is great when it's done right and looked after for a few days. Since I'm going with an epoxy flooring the moisture content of the concrete will have an impact. But I trust my concrete guy to use the right products/process since he is also doing the epoxy work.

[Pearce]

There is a concrete truck in my backyard!! :smt041

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[Pearce]

And now, I have a slab! Yay!

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[ATL ZJ]

Looks good. Any plans to remove your old fence now that your neighbors built a taller one?

[jsteves]

Built a taller fence as soon as you moved in? Welcome to the neighborhood!

[Pearce]

LOL, that was the neighbor behind me that put the fence up. They are trying to flip that house.

[zjeepin]

Built a taller fence as soon as you moved in? Welcome to the neighborhood!

I'd do the same thing if Pearce moved next door to me...

[Pearce]

Finally going vertical, about half way. This is one of the most exciting parts. But unfortunately also weather sensitive. I should be getting inspections on my vertical wall reinforcing Thursday and pouring the tie beam and down cells Friday along with the patio and apron. I then would be setting trusses Saturday. Instead we have a bunch of rain coming. So we'll see what happens.

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[Kraqa]

whoa. is that building code to use brick?

thats crazy.

[Pearce]

You can do wood frame if you want, but most homes are concrete block. They hold up a lot better to hurricanes :cool: Got a lot to protect in there. My house is also concrete block.

[Pearce]

Well, it didn't rain but half a day during the block work. That was enough to not finish up last week, and not set trusses over the weekend. So, finished up today, inspection passed. Tomorrow, tie beam, down cells, apron and patio pour. Trusses this weekend.

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[ATL ZJ]

Can't wait to see the second story and the turrets you were telling me about

[Pearce]

Don't sneak up on my shop!

Last concrete pour today. We built that slab edge at the patio area to support a future wall for an extra room one day.

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[jsteves]

Roof top patio!!

[Pearce]

LOL, yeah roof top patio would be bad ass. That has already been discussed for the roof of the house. Better view over the house on the lake across the street :)

Today was insulation day. We do it a bit different down here when building with concrete block. Foam insulation is injected into the hollow core cells of the blocks. First they drill a bunch of holes in you brand new walls.

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Then this well trained gentleman uses an injection contraption to squirt a moist foam that fills the cavity from top to bottom. It's not an expanding foam, they just fill the wall up.

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If you have your old 1950's home insulated also you get the occasional seepage through outlets or pipes while they inject from the outside.

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[Pearce]

What a weekend. Marathon work weekend to get the roof done for inspection today. Worked till about 8:00pm last night, then made a run to HD for a few more materials to tighten things up before the inspector got here today. Fortunately he's never earlier than 11:30. Today it was about 1:30 which gave me plenty of time to get all the details done. And he passed it! He did ask me to hit all the nails in the roof decking with a hammer. The nailer I was using was either putting the head in too far or just barely not enough. To far is worse than not enough so I gave all of them a smack. All in all though it was a lot of fun, and a lot of hard work!

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Had some trouble with a few sections of sub-fascia curling. So I got this big ass clamp and pulled it into position. Worked perfect!

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Next should be the roofing sometime this week. Then maybe, just maybe, epoxy flooring next week. Roll up door has been ordered and just waiting on it to be ready. Lucky for me there is a warehouse here in Orlando where I can pick it up and not have to pay shipping.

[Pearce]

Shingle roof done!

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[Ken L]

Looks good! Do you have plans to enclose the ceiling? Storage up there at all or just empty space?

[Pearce]

I knew it would be a small space up there but after seeing it in place it's really small. I'll probably just do minimal storage in the center area and close up the front and back to insulate. I'm still pondering ideas, but I may run a ceiling high between the trusses in the middle to support insulation and have storage between those trusses, like a ceiling pocket. The batt insulation for this attic is 12" thick. I'm also thinking about using pallet racks along the back wall, sort of a loft storage. Like the racks you see at Home Depot.

[Ken L]

Makes sense. A friend of mine put his air compressor in the rafters of his shop, which cut down a lot of noise. But it doesn't look like you'd have any room for even a horizontal tank up there.

[Pearce]

Made some great progress this week. I brought home the roll up door earlier this week and started installing the tracks on the wall. With block wall construction you have to use a hammer drill to drill out 32 ea 4" deep 3/8" holes for wedge bolt anchors. And of course I hit rebar in nearly all of the right side. There are rebar cutter bits but they still suck to use. I got through in a few places but might have had to cut the bolts short and epoxy some in as well.

One of the tools I got off Craigs List before starting was this Little Giant ladder. This is by far the best ladder ever. Very sturdy, multiple positions from extension, A frame, use on stairs, multiple height adjustments and all around great to use. Highly recommend them.

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track installed

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Then, you get a material lift from the rental store and a buddy to help ya hoist it into place.

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boom, roll up door installed! Actually they are pretty easy.

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[Pearce]

Looks so nice having the final components go on!

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Windows too. They also require the use of a hammer drill to install. They get fastened in with Tap Cons.

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[K2]

Looks nice. Are you insulating for A/C?

[Pearce]

Yes I will. Right now just the walls were injected with insulation. But, I'll do R-30 batts in the ceiling somehow. That will probably be down the road though. I desperately just need the building first!

[jsteves]

Looks awesome! Wish I had space for a dedicated shop :(

[Pearce]

Made some more progress the past couple weeks. Got the vinyl soffit and Hardi fascia installed. First coat of exterior paint done. Bunch of other detail work completed.

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And had to put the truck in for a test fit. It will work for me but I sure wish the county would have allowed a bigger building.

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[Pearce]

Today we started prepping the floor for the epoxy coating. First step was etching the concrete with a floor sanding machine. Well, that would have gone well except the garage is 50' behind the house. And the machine needed every bit of 15 amps to run. After multiple cord configurations we ended up back at Home Depot with a 50' 10 gauge extension cord that they assured us would work. HA, yeah it didn't. House wiring is only 12 or 14 gauge so I'm not sure why he thought a 10 gauge extension cord plugged into house wiring would work. And it didn't as I expected. Sooo, I did what you would expect. Opened up the panel and wired in a dedicated 10 gauge line. Problem solved! Though, a little sketchy LOL


My welder extension cord tied right into the panel. It's a 10 ga cord.

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Temporary socket on the end of my welder extension cord to plug in the 50' cord home depot gave us

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The mess of cords trying to make something work

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Success!!

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[ATL ZJ]

High marks for resourcefulness. Any plans to paint the interior walls to brighten up the space?

[Pearce]

Interior will be painted. Planning a two tone scheme. But I need to see how the epoxy floor looks first before making the final selection.

[Pearce]

The epoxy floor isn't in yet but I did get a chance to paint and add lighting. It's amazing how white walls brighten things up. The color is actually Sherwin-Williams First Star. Not quite white. Once the epoxy is down I'll pick a color for the bottom 3' of wall. It will be a little darker. We didn't get all the chalkiness off from the last pressure washing so did it again, with lights this time! My old garage in GA has like ten 4' shop lights and it isn't as bright as this one with just four. The 11' ceiling also helps.

Oh, and I got the Certificate Of Completion last week from the County. :smt041

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[Ken L]

You're really going to like working in a shop with the painted walls. Like you noted, it's way brighter in there. Just seems easier to work on stuff in a space that's bright.

Looks really nice!

[BigDaveZJ]

Can't wait to get mine painted. You started yours a couple months after me and you're almost a month ahead of me now.

[Pearce]

Dave, you're doing pretty well with yours. I've not even got power run out to it, just extension cords. I'll do that a little at a time going forward. And I currently have no life besides building the garage, or the jeep or remodeling the house, LOL. Funny thing is my buddy who is a contractor is helping me. We were at UF together in the Construction Management program. I should be a few weeks ahead of where I am and he knows it. But, his real work makes him the good money, not my little garage, ha. I push a little harder cause I manage it for a living. Been trying not to with my good friend, but I have been riding him to get the epoxy done this week.

[BigDaveZJ]

Yeah I'm hoping to get moving on it again soon. Lot of life stuff going on lately. Having a contractor come in Wednesday to do the ceiling and insulation, so I should be able to paint soon. Then its lights and floors.

[Pearce]

OK finally the epoxy floor process started this week. First they did a special urethane caulk at the corner of the floor and walls.

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Then the first coat of a sealer that is also acts like a vapor barrier.

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Then they put down another product over the sealer that is also a waterproof membrane of some kind. All urethane products. Different than the first only because this one had a different product number and is gray. LOL
And as soon as that is rolled on they spread the quarts sand. In my case I chose a blended color called Ice, E-230. I missed getting a pic of them spreading it.

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So there is a ton of the sand spread over the wet rolled on urethane. Tomorrow they will come back and blow off all the excess sand and then apply a sealer over it. This is awesome! )

[Pearce]

Also decided to hire an electrician I worked with in the past to run power from the house out to the garage. I was finally burnt out on doing a bunch of the work myself and doing all the calculations for the appropriate wire size to run out there and related BS. This way I know it's done by a licensed electrician and the important part it got DONE. I can handle the rest of the wiring from the panel at the garage once I get everything in there and decide on a layout.

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Only thing holding me back now is the random FL rain showers. I need to work on the outside till the floor is done and i can't! So I sit and relax with a beer watching the rain, hahah

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[ATL ZJ]

that's what you get for living in the tropics. looking good though

[Pearce]

The epxy guys came back Saturday morning to finish up. First step is blowing off all the excess sand.

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Looks like this before the next two coats of clear are applied.

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Then a couple coats of clear.

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As part of the process they also put down a traffic grade caulk joint at the entrance and around the perimeter of the building and exterior concrete.

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Finish the second coat of exterior paint and wait 24 hours to go inside and paint more there. ....

[Pearce]

On day two I could go on it with foot traffic only. This product takes 72 hours to fully cure.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0677_zpse70cquap.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0677_zpse70cquap.jpg.html)


After a long day of painting on the inside, this is how it looks!!

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0701_zpsrg2iqvxj.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0701_zpsrg2iqvxj.jpg.html)

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0702_zps5nk1j41m.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0702_zps5nk1j41m.jpg.html)

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There are still a few minor paint and caulk things to do and I'm going to put at least one 120v and 240v receptacle in for now. After I get everything moved in over the course of the next week I'll finalize a power layout.

One thing I didn't really consider is with the epoxy floor I'll have to be more careful about plasma cutting and weld sparks. It's still worth having the floor but there will be times when it needs to be protected while working. I'm researching weld spark mats now also.

[Pearce]

Finally some pics of it loaded up. Hate how small it quickly gets! But, I love my pallet racks!! And another plug for the Little Giant ladder, thing is just bad ass.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0711_zps6pww33g6.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0711_zps6pww33g6.jpg.html)


You can see in this one where I ran a quad box and a welder outlet. Just enough to get by for now. Need to feel out the new space before I start running power all over.


http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0715_zpsplq3ww1z.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0715_zpsplq3ww1z.jpg.html)

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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0725_zpsdg3nishl.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0725_zpsdg3nishl.jpg.html)


Helped a friend out with his chevy so took the rigs out. Just had to sit back and take this pic and be excited about my backyard. :cool: Only the beginning!! So much more to come in chassis build and continued backyard upgrades.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc86/PearceYJ/Garage%20Build/IMAG0738_zpsdtf5ywpm.jpg (http://s216.photobucket.com/user/PearceYJ/media/Garage%20Build/IMAG0738_zpsdtf5ywpm.jpg.html)