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By sjoemie himself
Besides working in my workshop I sometimes have, or want, to make improvements to it and I figured in this topic I would take you along for the ride.
First off today was installing a new door and doorframe. The old one was rotted and starting to fall to pieces, literally.
My dad made a sweet doorframe out of stainless steel and I repurposed a hardwood door that came out of our home when we renovated the place. Still needs paint but should be good for a few decades I'd say.
Old door with flaky paint and rotten underside.
New stainless steel doorframe and repurposed hardwood door.
Next up was lighting. Few years ago I got some freebie fluorescent lamps but they were old and dying one by one. Having to replace the tubes and/or starters regurarly got kinda lame.
Since Black Friday is now also a thing around here I snatched a good deal one some LED units which can be daisy chained up to 20 units.
I ordered six of these lamps for about $80,-
As a test I installed one.. can you spot it?
What can I say? Bright as day!
Greetings from the Netherlands, Mark
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By mmmmmdonuts
I have approximately an 10x12 lean to shed attached to my house on the side of my side loading garage. I currently have a double door that is 6' wide by 6x10" high. The problem I am having is the door starting to fall apart. It is also framed very heavily with 2x6s. So I am currently looking to either do another double door or a garage door. Part of the reason the door is getting damaged in the first place is because water pools at the bottom of the door in the winter and freezes and I have to basically heat and or chisel the ice away. It is where I store my snowblower.
My wife ruled out a sliding barn door and a roll up door mainly for appearance purposes.
I was starting to lean to a 8w x7h regular garage door but see a few cons.
1) It would block the light when up.
2) I would lose quite of bit overhead storage and about 2 feet of wall space.
3) There would be much more work reframing parts of the wall to fit the door.
Pros.
1) I could fit my wheel horse plow and snowblower side by side.
2) Shouldn't freeze to the concrete as easily with a rubber seal.
3) Don't have to shovel out the doors to get the snowblower out.
I was wondering what thoughts you guys had on and if I am missing something.
Thanks.
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By leeave96
Need some recommendations on a new shed. I'm looking at putting up one of these metal buildings - I might have posted this link sometime back to the manufacturer's website, but here it is again:
http://www.carolinacarportsinc.com/configurator/index
What I'd like to do is put up a building with two garage doors. There would be space equal to the width of the garage doors between the garage doors and the opposite sides of them. This would be on the long side of the building and descriptively is like this:
wall-space-door-space-door-space-wall
The idea is to put tractors, junk, pop-up camper, firewood, etc, to the extent possible out of the garage door lanes and that would be to either side of the two garage doors and the space between them.
So I have some questions:
- How tall should the building be? Nothing bigger than a 1/2 or 3/4 ton truck would in it.
- How deep (as you drive into it) is desirable? 20ft, 24ft - looking for some reasonable depth such that I can pull in a vehicle and yet not be so crowded that I can't work around it or even move a tractor around the end of it?
- how wide should be garage doors be? I'd like to get a full size truck through them without being so narrow that I'd smash a mirror.
- If you look at the website, they offer vertical or horizontal siding. I'm thinking vertical. Don't know if this is better for looks or strength or both. What you do think?
- I'd like to put this building on a concrete pad. Question is - how thick and what type - rebar or concrete with fiber or both.
This is just in the planning stage - not sure I'll do it, but I want to figure out what experience others have with their garages, and lessons learned from theirs you can share.
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By bgh5469
Hey guys wanted to get some opinions on my upcoming detatched dream garage build. I am planning to have 24x28 garage built for my hobbie shop(wheel horses and cars). My question is what kind of foundation should i do. I am in northern indiana and have been told i can build on a monolithic slab(thickened structural slab on grade) or traditional footings with a floating slab. My local building code allows both types for detached structures. I prefer footings since they get below the frost line but they are significantlying more expensive. Does anyone have any past experience with a monolithic slab foundations. I don't want to cheap out on my foundation, but if i go with footings I will have give up some other features I wanted.
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By Docwheelhorse
Hello All,
I ordered an Amish built 20x20 garage/workshop combo back in October and it was delivered and setup today. I can't officially move in with heat and power until AFTER its inspected... but my Nova needed a warm spot for the winter and snuck in. The Wheel Horse Acres sign was made by my father and I thought it looked cool on the front for a photo op. It won't stand up to the weather so it will be hung inside. I can't wait to start turning wrenches on some of the projects that have been honestly neglected around here!
Happy New Year to All!!
Tony
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