I will start this thread with a bit of background. I've been a car guy all my life, and a licensed car and truck mechanic for 45 years now. In 1988, my wife and I moved out of our apartment in Toronto Ontario, and moved into a house on a large property about an hours driving time northeast of Toronto. We started our family and raised our kids there, but between work and looking after the property, I didn't have much time to spare. Plus, the property taxes on our home were expensive. By the late 1990s, we were thinking of moving, and I started to tell my wife that when we moved, we were going to downsize, and that I wanted a shop building of my own, so I could work on my cars in a proper heated building, with decent equipment.
Well, in 2021 we moved to smaller property. After we were somewhat settled, I started looking into finding a local builder. I have a friend, who used to own the storage facility where I kept my Monte Carlo for the past few winters. He had sold his home and the storage business (which is located on the same property as his home), and moved closer to where I live. He was in the process of having a storage building put up on his new property during the winter of 2021/2022. I went to look at his building, and was impressed with the quality of the work, so I contacted his builder. We talked about the size of building that I wanted, and what features that I wanted. I was looking for a building that is 30FT square, with 12FT high interior walls, as I'm going to be installing a 2 post electric hoist. I want to have a good electrical setup in the building, with several 220V outlets for various equipment. I want the building to be insulated, as I want to be able to work out there during the winter, and I'm going to be going with in-floor heating. The builder was good with my requirements. I arranged for a building permit.
After waiting for almost a year, due to the backlog of other customers that the builder has, he came and started on the foundation on February 14 of this year (best Valentine present I've ever had!). To this point, the outer concrete frost wall of the foundation has been completed and backfilled. In the great white north here, there are weight restrictions on the roads, to try to stop excessive damage to the pavement during the spring, when the frost is coming out of the ground. Those restrictions start at the beginning of March, so the builder was trying to get all of the work requiring heavy equipment and cement mixers, dump trucks, etc done before March first, which he did. There is a pause on the construction right now, until later this month, when the framing and roof will start. The building won't be completely finished until probably early in the fall. The builder has backfilled inside the foundation wall with sand, and he wants the sand to settle for a few months before he installs the insulation, then the plumbing and steel reinforcement for the floor, and finally pours the concrete for the floor. He wants to minimize any possible issues with the concrete of the floor cracking from be poured before the sand has settled as much as possible.
This past week, I had an opportunity to pick up a good used 10,000lb 2 post electric hoist. One more item off the "to do" list.
Here are some photos of the progress so far.
Well, in 2021 we moved to smaller property. After we were somewhat settled, I started looking into finding a local builder. I have a friend, who used to own the storage facility where I kept my Monte Carlo for the past few winters. He had sold his home and the storage business (which is located on the same property as his home), and moved closer to where I live. He was in the process of having a storage building put up on his new property during the winter of 2021/2022. I went to look at his building, and was impressed with the quality of the work, so I contacted his builder. We talked about the size of building that I wanted, and what features that I wanted. I was looking for a building that is 30FT square, with 12FT high interior walls, as I'm going to be installing a 2 post electric hoist. I want to have a good electrical setup in the building, with several 220V outlets for various equipment. I want the building to be insulated, as I want to be able to work out there during the winter, and I'm going to be going with in-floor heating. The builder was good with my requirements. I arranged for a building permit.
After waiting for almost a year, due to the backlog of other customers that the builder has, he came and started on the foundation on February 14 of this year (best Valentine present I've ever had!). To this point, the outer concrete frost wall of the foundation has been completed and backfilled. In the great white north here, there are weight restrictions on the roads, to try to stop excessive damage to the pavement during the spring, when the frost is coming out of the ground. Those restrictions start at the beginning of March, so the builder was trying to get all of the work requiring heavy equipment and cement mixers, dump trucks, etc done before March first, which he did. There is a pause on the construction right now, until later this month, when the framing and roof will start. The building won't be completely finished until probably early in the fall. The builder has backfilled inside the foundation wall with sand, and he wants the sand to settle for a few months before he installs the insulation, then the plumbing and steel reinforcement for the floor, and finally pours the concrete for the floor. He wants to minimize any possible issues with the concrete of the floor cracking from be poured before the sand has settled as much as possible.
This past week, I had an opportunity to pick up a good used 10,000lb 2 post electric hoist. One more item off the "to do" list.
Here are some photos of the progress so far.
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