Penny the Bugeye in her new home

[drooartz]

Very cool new shop, Ill have to come down and see it sometime.
Not much progress on mine this year, I'm spending a lot of my time with the girls.

As you should be. You do need to swing over for a beverage and some shop talk. I also have a box of misc carb parts that you loaned me some time ago that I need to get back to you.

That's awesome. I'd love to have that kind of shop space. As it is, anytime I work on anything bigger than the Sprite in my garage, I barely have room to work.

This was my life in my previous house. Pull a project out, work on it, put it away. I built my little shop there too small (12x20). This time I didn't make that mistake.

It still really doesn't feel like it's actually mine yet. I still go out there and just stare... :grin:

 

[SD Bugeye]

That's a Daniel Boone garage elbow room
very nice

 

[Rut]

Reviving an old thread because I’m excited! I hope to have the house and shop finished by the end of June and the shop is almost framed in. Dealing with the HOA and city have been so much fun, but I’m finally making progress.
Rut

 

[AngliaGT]

Just reread that & noticed that you'd moved.
How far from the old place?

 

[Jim_Gruber]

And room for a lift. Nice going Rut!

 

[Rut]

And room for a lift. Nice going Rut!

Jim,
That was the goal and I had to go with scissor trusses to get it done...I also had them pour footings for the lift when they poured the slab. There’s been a lot of discussions regarding sealing/painting/coating the floor and I’ve decided to go with a densifier which helps reduce staining, but it’s in the concrete instead of a coating.
Rut

 

[hcallaway]

New Garage is 10X’s more fun than building a new car especially if a contractor is doing most of the work. It is beautiful!

 

[Rut]

New Garage is 10X’s more fun than building a new car especially if a contractor is doing most of the work. It is beautiful!

I love restoring and working on LBCs, but watching the guys framing a house is something else. I worked construction when I was much younger and did everything from digging footings in limerock to framing, plumbing, and wiring houses and I really enjoyed it, but not at 68! This garage will replace my shop that burned and it will be everything that shop wasn’t...roomy, organized, well lit, and have a clean and dirty area. This is my last opportunity to do it the way I wanted it and I hope I get it right.
Rut

 

[nomad]

Looks nice Rut!

 

[Bayless]

Sure looks to me like you are "do[ing] it right."

 

[drooartz]

Fantasic progress Rut. You'll love the space. Fills up quickly, but so nice to be able to stretch out.

 

[hcallaway]

I love restoring and working on LBCs, but watching the guys framing a house is something else. I worked construction when I was much younger and did everything from digging footings in limerock to framing, plumbing, and wiring houses and I really enjoyed it, but not at 68! This garage will replace my shop that burned and it will be everything that shop wasn’t...roomy, organized, well lit, and have a clean and dirty area. This is my last opportunity to do it the way I wanted it and I hope I get it right.
Rut

This is my last opportunity to do it the way I wanted it and I hope I get it right.

I am not sure you ever get it a 100% right and you never know if it is indeed your last opportunity.
I know that I have built more than my fair share of garages in different sizes and layouts. Each one has gotten better.
Door placement tends to be the thing that if you don't get it right the rest of the garage suffers. If you can go to 12' ceilings, you can always add lifts to create space.
One thing that always hold true for a garage.
It is never big enough.

 

[SaxMan]

Not quite a garage, but I widened my driveway and extended it down the side of the house to make room for the '53 Plymouth. I will eventually enclose it, but for now, I'm just happy it's here instead of 35 miles away in Emmitsburg. The one thing about owning a Sprite is that the "stuff" in the garage doesn't interfere with working on the car. Anytime I put a car other than the Sprite in the garage - it's jammed in there. There's no way I could easily work on the Plymouth in there.

 

[Rut]

Moving along on the shop! Second picture shows the breezeway which is required by the city since you can’t have a free standing garage unless it’s 60’ from the minimum build line which would put it in the back yard!
Rut

 

[hcallaway]

Breezeway’s look cool. Will it be open or closed?

 

[Rut]

Breezeway’s look cool. Will it be open or closed?

Breezeway will be open...they used lam beams which will require no posts, but it will need some to make it look right. City code says that it needs to be insulated and conditioned although it goes from a deck to a ‘garage’ and is open. When asked what R value they kinda got a funny look on their face.
Rut

 

[hcallaway]

I aways thought that hanging baskets on a breezeway always had a classic southern look.

 

[Bayless]

Yeah I'm wondering how you insulate a breezeway :confusion:

 

[JPSmit]

Yeah I'm wondering how you insulate a breezeway :confusion:

the answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.

 

[Bayless]

It's interesting. A few years ago I wanted to build a shop in my back yard and local rules required it to also be attached to the house. A breezeway was my solution to. After getting approval from the local building inspector, another restriction ultimately killed the deal so no shop.