The new Farrington Garage/Shop build

[tommycomfort]

Alright, this has been a long time coming! Let me try to give a quick run down of the history that leads up to this thread. Basically, my wife and I decided to get back into the car hobby in 2002 after a 15 year absence (since high school). So, while I was in Northern California doing a National Guard communication school we decided to buy our current 66 Chevelle. Well, one thing led to another and we wanted a spot to store it and some parts cars so we bought a rental house with a two car detached garage on a one acre lot less than a mile from the subdivision where we lived. In 2003ish we built (myself, Deb and the kiddos) a new 28x44' two story shop on the back of the lot and have been working out of there ever since. The only real problem with that arrangement came when we bought a house and property 30 minutes away and moved into that in 2006. A lot has happened with the rental property over the years, but all that is important is that we finally sold it on contract back in April and that is allowing us to build our shop here at our house. Whew! lots of history in a reasonably short paragraph.

OK, so this will be the build thread of building the shop. Deb and I have some building experience and will be doing most of the work ourselves with the exception of the foundation and maybe a few other things that will just save time and headaches in the long run. Obviously family and friends will be helping too as we move forward.

We're doing a build thread on lateral-g.net, pro-touring.com and chevelles.com since we have good friends on all of them. Although I frequent lateral-g and have a ton of friends on here, this will really be our first "build" thread...

We would love to hear your questions and comments on what you would do to make it a better shop, but remember, we are regular people with regular jobs (a couple each) and at the end of the day, we want this thing to be under roof and usable inside of our budget. Just like everything else we do, we will make improvements as we go.

Here are the basics:
40x76'
stick framed 2x6" walls 12' ceilings in the main work area
40x26 area that will be sectioned off for machine and wood shop, storage and a paint area
40x26 upstairs that will be used for storage and possible future living area
two lifts, one two post and one four post
one 16x9' overhead door and one 36" service door
electric and wood heat (A/C is part of my dream plan)

The hand drawn plans
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Just breaking ground
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Sam walking the dug footer
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[Rick D]

Very nice Tom, great size as well! Good luck with the new project. One thing that I would consider is either another overhead door or increasing the height of the door, you never know when you want drive in a monster truck to work on??

[tommycomfort]

Very nice Tom, great size as well! Good luck with the new project. One thing that I would consider is either another overhead door or increasing the height of the door, you never know when you want drive in a monster truck to work on??

Thanks Rick! I know the print shows a 16x8' but we are upping that to 9'. Any vehicle taller than that we'll have to just take the wheels off of... :idea: Right now with our 8' doors at the current shop we can back the trailer in with a car on it so that was our goal again with a little more room for something taller.

[65_LS1_T56]

Very cool to see you posting it here Tom. First I had tire envy and then motor envy after driving the 66, now shop envy :king:

Looking forward to seeing it in a few weeks :thumbsup:

[coolwelder62]

Congrat's,Tom to you and the rest of amazing Farrington Clan.I hope the weather is holding out for you guy's.I wish you guy's were closer I would love to come put my hammer swinging skill's to use.:thumbsup:Kevin and I may come to Indy GoodGuy's if so see you then.:gitrdun:

[Vince@Meanstreets]

thats awesome, all that property must be nice to play on. Good luck to you.

[Flash68]

Wow, beautiful property and land. Gonna be a great space. :thumbsup:

[IMPALA MAN]

Rock on Tommy! Great to see a new shop being constructed!

[JMitch19]

Congrats, that's a big shop. I convinced Darcy we need a 30x40 to work out of. The next day she told me she thinks we'll out grow a 30x40 to fast and we should do at least a 60x40. This stuff is a lot more fun and easier to make happen when the wife is on board.

Sounds like myself and a group of buddies are going to make a guys trip down to Indy for Good Guys. Hopefully we'll have some time to catch up. Thanks for grabbing that cowl panel btw.

[waynieZ]

Congratulation's That's going to be sweet.

[tommycomfort]

Very cool to see you posting it here Tom. First I had tire envy and then motor envy after driving the 66, now shop envy :king:

Looking forward to seeing it in a few weeks :thumbsup:

Yeah yeah, I dig your shop too! And, I think Jill is willing to pull the trigger on a shop expansion for you too.

[tommycomfort]

[QUOTE=JMitch19;502737]Congrats, that's a big shop. I convinced Darcy we need a 30x40 to work out of. The next day she told me she thinks we'll out grow a 30x40 to fast and we should do at least a 60x40. This stuff is a lot more fun and easier to make happen when the wife is on board.

We're lucky to have our wives involved for sure. Our shop plan grew and shrank more times than I can count over the last five years but we finally decided on 40x70' a few months ago but after moving it around a bit to minimize the effects of the property slope Deb suggested going up to 76'. Has anyone ever said "I wish I built a smaller shop"?

I'll post more later, but we're planning to have folks over for a BBQ on Friday evening of GG's Indy. You and your buddies are of course welcome along with all the other Lat-G, P-T and Team Chevelle guys that are around that weekend.

[tommycomfort]

Here's what was going on when Deb, Sam and I were thrashing on the cars at the Ohio Musclecar Challenge.

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Lots of pea gravel fill while I was out of town last week.

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And this brings us up to date. I should be meeting with the flat work guy today and if all goes well, we will be pouring tomorrow. Having been in the building industry for a while, I won't be surprised if that gets bumped to the right a little.

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[coolwelder62]

Wow!!!!!! Tom,Look's Outstanding.It's going to be a 1st.Class Building.:thumbsup:

[tommycomfort]

Wow!!!!!! Tom,Look's Outstanding.It's going to be a 1st.Class Building.:thumbsup:

Thanks Scott, hope you get to see it in person!

[flashlight holder]

I can't wait to see more pictures as the building goes up.

[tommycomfort]

Just as promised, the flat work guy came out and checked the grade of the pea gravel and spread the visqueen. They will be back at 6 am and start pouring at 7:30. Pretty exciting!

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[dunnjun]

Congrats Tom on the new Farrington family car cave! Can't wait to see it finished!!:hapdance: :hapdance: :hapdance:

[waynieZ]

That's a great feeling seeing them placing the concrete. That's going to be awesome.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

oh nice....is it too late for a arsenal vault and a secret underground tunnel to the house? just sayin.

[tommycomfort]

No surprise, I fell behind on updating pictures.

Just as promised the pouring started early on the morning of 9-04.
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Here's the less than cautious clown that drove too close to the foundation and broke out some of the blocks. A few years ago I may have lost my cool, but in the end it would have solved nothing. The flat work guy came up with a solution for the repair and we agreed it was the best option.
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Concrete poured and relief cuts done by the end of the day. Also had the engineered floor joists delivered for the floor and also the rafters for the same area.
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Here are a couple of pictures that give a better perspective of the grade we had to deal with.
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Our trip to LS Fest was cut short mid day on Friday due to my part time job. Once that obligation was met we took advantage of the situation to pick up lumber and start to lay walls out.
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Hopefully more updates tonight!

[MarkM66]

I'm clueless on this stuff, but why did you go with blocks instead of poured?

[coolwelder62]

Look's great Tom.Congrat's.:gitrdun:

[tommycomfort]

I'm clueless on this stuff, but why did you go with blocks instead of poured?

Great question. We definitely would have preferred to have poured foundation walls but only found a couple of places in our area that would do it. Oddly enough for this horrible economy they were too busy to get back with us. One of them I sat down with and reviewed our prints and expected to hear from within a few days for the estimate and eventually after calling for a couple of weeks with no response we gave up. So, the block guy was a friend of a co-worker and it worked out fine using him..

[waynieZ]

It looks great. I wish I put a storage area upstairs in mine.

[tommycomfort]

My framing skills are a little rusty, we had off and on showers until about 2 and my whole family dropped by (I'll never complain about that) so we didn't get as much done as we had hoped, but any progress is good progress!

Sam taking a break to sweep off the water while Deb talks to my dad. Oh yeah, first wall up!!!
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Dark enough to call it a night.
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[1965_SS]

Great progress:thumbsup:

[waynieZ]

Great progress:thumbsup:

X2 Nice.

[flashlight holder]

I can't wait to see more walls going up.

[Code510]

Looks awesome Tom! One of these days I want a garage about 4 times that big. :thumbsup:

[tommycomfort]

I always think we should be making more progress than we do, but a couple of jobs, two cars to maintain and a buddies to work on and there are still only 24 hours in a day just limits us...

Deb and Sam getting it done. Don't bother with your safety comments on our work crew, I can't control everything! We're doing well with safety glasses, but Deb in flip flops is beyond my control.
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Progress at the end of the day yesterday.
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Clueless dogs found this to be the coolest piece of concrete because it had been shaded all day. They don't seem to mind the sawdust landing on them.
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[coolwelder62]

Tom,Look's good. You have an Amazing Family.:hail: :thumbsup:

[tommycomfort]

Tom,Look's good. You have an Amazing Family.:hail: :thumbsup:

Thanks Scott, I am pretty thrilled with the family also. I couldn't do what I do without them.

[groovyjay]

I like what you are doing. I'm going to start building a new shop next spring and have it finished by the end of summer.

This has been a huge inspiration for me:

http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/showthread.php/146566-Build-to-Fail-Fail-to-Build.-What-is-this-I-don-t-even.....
:D

[DOOM]

Looks awesome! I just in Mooresville going to JONES auto salvage!

[tommycomfort]

Somehow I keep thinking that I am doing pretty good with updates, but apparently I fell behind again. Work has been demanding but we're still making pretty decent progress. All our car projects need attention, but the buyer of our former shop indicated that he will soon have the remainder of the money and want it sooner than later so it's thrash time to get this place under roof.


We left Goodguys Indy early on Sunday so we could get home and get some work done. The last of the wall construction was building the two 4' walls on each side of the garage door and install the header. We used our John Deere to lift the header to 8' (max lift of the bucket) while Sam and I lifted each end the remaining foot. All was well until we shoved the last side in. Even though I had never done it before, I used construction adhesive in the pockets and that made things very slippery. Well... As we were shoving the second side in, the first side slid out and bounced out of the tractor bucket and smashed the hood of the poor John Deere. Also glanced off Sam's head, but he's fine. After we all settled down we were able to install it with a few more safety measures in place.

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[coolwelder62]

Tom,comming along nicely.Sorry I missed your Bar-B-Q last week(We really wanted come hang out).Work and famliy thing's have me staying close to home for awhile.:thumbsup:

[Sieg]

Looking good Tom. It's pretty exciting when they start to actually look like a structure. :thumbsup:

[tommycomfort]

Floor is complete upstairs and trusses have been delivered for the open area.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09395_zps4ff99a76.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09395_zps4ff99a76.jpg.html)

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[Rick D]

Nice work Tom! So where's the guest room at??? :headscratch:

[groovyjay]

I'm getting shop envy creeping up on me... :hail:

[GregWeld]

Don't know how I missed this!!


AWESOME JOB!!


Now! Post up some more pics!!

[GMTILT]

years ago i had a shop similar to yours, it was a tad bigger, but i dont remeber the size, it had the paint booth on one side and bodywork booth on the other and the wide open up front, your really going to like it the way you set it all up, looks awesome !!!! you did an great job !!

[tommycomfort]

Don't know how I missed this!!


AWESOME JOB!!


Now! Post up some more pics!!

Thanks Greg!

We're working as fast as we can. If all goes well I will have some pictures of Sam and I building the stairs (in the rain) by tonight.

[tommycomfort]

Nice work Tom! So where's the guest room at??? :headscratch:

We were just talking about how nice the upstairs would be as an "apartment" when Deb gets tired of me... I'm sure the upstairs will be used for part storage for years, but eventually...

[coolwelder62]

Shop's lookin great Tom.Sorry I missed your cookout last fri night really wanted to come to Indy.Just too many things going on.

[tommycomfort]

Shop's lookin great Tom.Sorry I missed your cookout last fri night really wanted to come to Indy.Just too many things going on.

Definitely missed having you here Scott!

[tommycomfort]

Rained all day, but Deb, Sam and I were able to get the stairs completed today. Normally we build stairs at the completion of a project, but I figured with all the work that needs to be done upstairs this would save us time in the long run. The guy I worked for framing houses many years ago never taught me to build stairs, but I watched him more times than I can count and luckily I picked up a few things.

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[coolwelder62]

Tom,they look awesome.I wish you were closer.Love rough framing/would to be there just helping out.I kinda miss that work.But I don't miss the cold winter's working outside.I'm a master @ stair's & Rafter's.

[waynieZ]

You guys are doing great. Not only do you build the cars, you build the place to build them in too! :thumbsup:

[Boostable]

Been following along, you guys are doing a great job. Keep up the great work!

[tommycomfort]

Thought these pictures might give a better perspective of the height of the trusses. They are two pieces and we will attach the top once they are stood. Because we are going with a metal roof the truss engineers talked us into using pole barn trusses at 6' on center. Definitely not what I like, but they really wanted us to go 9' on center but I just couldn't agree to that. Of course the two story section will be a rafter system.

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It took a little work, but we were able to shove two trusses up to the second floor. Luckily Kaytlin's new father-in-law pulled up as we were doing the first one. Great guy and incredibly hard worker!

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Deb can't do anything without getting dirty. This was the ink from the back of the OSB that we are using for sheeting the sides. To me she looks as good in her work clothes as she does dressed up!

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Starting to take shape. We still need to add tails to the trusses for overhangs and soffits.

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[Jay Hilliard]

Awesome job Tommy! It is looking great.

[Al Moreno]

Wow, great progress! At this rate, it wont be long.

[tommycomfort]

Thanks guys! My summer part time/full time gig with the National Guard just came to an end so it is back to the normal firehouse schedule that should allow some more time for shop work. Also have some maintenance to do to our 66 and wagon before next weekend (Bowler Transmissions "A day at the strip")...

[tommycomfort]

Alright, I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but getting the ridge board up today was huge. Not sure of the weight, but it's 26' of 2x12" and had to be lifted 18' to be mounted.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09455_zps17a45e41.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09455_zps17a45e41.jpg.html)

We tried last Friday with ratcheting straps but after the winds picked up and it started to rain I had to admit failure. Grrrr!

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Worked 48 hours over the weekend at the firehouse and was able to war game a better plan and pick up some pulleys and nylon rope. (Harbor Freight is in our fire district). I'm not saying it was easy, but it went much better for Deb, Sam and I.

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[turnhard]

Ive done 22' ones by myself drill a hole and tie one side up if you need add another 2x4 for more of a ledge set the other end on your shoulder walk up the ladder and raise it above where you are going and lower it in place. Looks good by the way. Kevin

[tommycomfort]

Cutting and installing the rafters is taking longer than we expected, but forward progress is always good. We're down to just 14 more to cut and install. Sadly, Sam will be gone all of next week down at DSE during his fall break. Luckily, Kaytlin's new father-in-law is a school teacher and will be available to help out for the next two weeks!

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We had been storing the wagon in the new shop while we were getting it ready for Bowler Transmission's "A day at the strip" autocross. Well, I needed to pull it out to get ready to load. The virgin concrete was just begging for some tire marks....

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[Vince@Meanstreets]

haaa nice cherry pop on the floor. shop is looking good

[coolwelder62]

Lookin good Tom.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[tommycomfort]

Just a quick update with some pictures. Finishing the rafters seemed to take forever and now putting up the purlins for the metal roof on the 16" on center rafters is crazy tedious. But, it all has to get done...

I had family help with all the rafters except the last four. I never want to try that again by myself!
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Both cars temporarily stored after returning from Bowler Transmission's Day at the Strip event.
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Another almost $1400 in lumber! Not sure where all my buddies that are into crossfit are while we're loading and unloading material..
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Just some rafter pictures
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Hours of working on purlins only got us half way up one side.
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And here is where we were as of last night. Tough to see upstairs but we started putting in the ceiling joists to tie the rafters together and give it more stability before moving on.
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[wiedemab]

I'd make whoever marked up your new floor scrub those off! :poke:

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/IMG_20131013_180952625_zps91a3c106.jpg

Sadly, I don't have anything that is even fun to do a burnout in anymore - -the 'Burb will barely spin one tire on smooth concrete!

Garage is looking AWESOME!

You probably feel like this though - - > :G-Dub:

[tommycomfort]

I'd make whoever marked up your new floor scrub those off! :poke:

You probably feel like this though - - > :G-Dub:

That's exactly how we feel! The 275's made such nice black marks on the floor I was thinking about putting a set of 335's right next to them. :D

[bonecrrusher]

Tom - shop is looking awesome.

Are you putting in garage doors where the header panels are for the part of the garage that has the roof up?

Your shop is HUGE!!!!

[tommycomfort]

Tom - shop is looking awesome.

Are you putting in garage doors where the header panels are for the part of the garage that has the roof up?

Your shop is HUGE!!!!

Thanks Craig! As of right now the plan is to put some sort of home made "barn" doors on the paint room side and we're thinking of a clear plastic strip hanging curtain deal for the machine room. We made the rough openings big just in case we changed our minds on anything. The paint room opening is wide enough to get our trailer shoved in without too much trouble.

[waynieZ]

Its coming along nice.

[tommycomfort]

Sam and I are on our way back from a Chevelle road trip to Goodguys Charlotte and he's driving so I thought I would do a quick update.

Setting trusses has been a bigger job than we had hoped. With the help of a couple of young guys from my National Guard unit, Kaytlin's new father-in-law and of course Deb and Sam it is really not hard to get them lifted up in place, but running the purlins for the metal roof takes forever!

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09475_zps16b9bcc5.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09475_zps16b9bcc5.jpg.html)

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This was a week ago at the end of the day. All our help came over after church so we got a late start.
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This is what the lazy dogs do when they are not chasing a tennis ball while we're building. Good shot of the 66 too.
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And this is what it looks like now. Actually this was at the end of the day on Wednesday. Two more trusses to go and I will build my own gable. Hopefully it will happen pretty quick this week.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09515_zpsd94f2ce0.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09515_zpsd94f2ce0.jpg.html)

[waynieZ]

Nice progress. That's going to be a great shop.

[Vegas69]

One hell of a project Tom. It's looking fantastic!

[tommycomfort]

Nice progress. That's going to be a great shop.

One hell of a project Tom. It's looking fantastic!

Thanks Wayne and Todd! It is definitely our dream shop. Just a lot of work between the dream and a functioning building...

[coolwelder62]

Tom,Lookin Great.There's nothin like the feeling of building a new Garage/Shop.I wish I could be there to help out.I hated building/Framing to pay the bill's.But love doing it for Fun!!!!!!

[tommycomfort]

Tom,Lookin Great.There's nothin like the feeling of building a new Garage/Shop.I wish I could be there to help out.I hated building/Framing to pay the bill's.But love doing it for Fun!!!!!!

I feel the same way Scott. I remember even though we needed the money in the worst kind of way, I would hope for heavy rain and lightning so I could get a day off..

[tommycomfort]

Yep, I've been meaning to update the build thread for a long time now and couldn't quite get to it. I have figured out the problem though. During the summer/fall when we stopped working at 6-8 pm we still had plenty of light so I could get decent pictures and update what we had just done. So, now it gets dark at 5 pm and we work until we can't see anymore and then clean up. At that point, we can't get updated pictures so I don't feel like showing stuff that is even one day behind. Oh well, just how my short circuited brain works...

Lots of things slowing us down including jobs, weather and moving out of the old shop but we're still pushing forward even in the bad weather.

First set of pictures is moving out of the old shop. It was 28x44', two stories and we built it right at ten years ago. Minus a couple of trips overseas, we have been working in it for that long. Before we started going to P-T events and while we were building the 66 we traveled the country picking up Chevelle parts cars and of course just stored massive amounts of parts that we would probably never use. And honestly, it seems like since we put the 66 on the road in 2010 it has been one whirlwind thrash after another. I say all that to say the shop was cluttered and not easy to move. Even though I had a lot of friends offer to help, I only bugged a few when the time came. Deb's parents did come down a few days early for Thanksgiving with the purpose of helping us move. We abused that relationship to the max... Great in-laws and incredibly hard workers!

Upstairs before
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/shop%20moving/IMG_20131124_103406213_HDR_zps6159e169.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/shop%20moving/IMG_20131124_103406213_HDR_zps6159e169.jpg.html)

Upstairs after
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We moved everything out of the upstairs so we could "organize" as much as possible.
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Completely moved out. Fairly sad when I handed over the key to the buyer.
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Basically two 16 hour days and one 6 hour day. Three trips with a large U-haul and countless trips with the truck and trailer. Wow!

[tommycomfort]

On to what people really care about. When we first started building, each update showed real progress. I don't think anything will look too exciting until we get the roof on...

One of the most recent. Sam's friendly wave as we finished sheeting the gable. That would be one big ugly side if we just sided it, but our plan is to come out 22' with a lesser pitch roof that will be 22' wide. It will help break things up and be a nice place to park and work on decent days.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09627_zpsb11ff112.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09627_zpsb11ff112.jpg.html)

Now that all the trusses are up you can get a good idea of how tall the 12' ceilings will be.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09624_zpsec6834a3.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09624_zpsec6834a3.jpg.html)

Metal roofing for the complete shop. We really thought this would be a couple of two foot stacks of material, but this is enough for the whole thing. 25' 4" long and hauling it on our 20' trailer was entertaining. Negative tongue weight made for a long trip home.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09625_zpsddbb3cb2.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/DSC09625_zpsddbb3cb2.jpg.html)

[coolwelder62]

Tom,Wow!! The building is Awesome.You guys have done a ton work in a short amount of time.

[tommycomfort]

Tom,Wow!! The building is Awesome.You guys have done a ton work in a short amount of time.

Thanks Scott,
The positive reinforcement is much needed. :thankyou:

[GregWeld]

You just killed me with your "moving" pics….since I will have that coming up shortly. OMG!


The new shed is awesome Tommy. It's quite the project -- and you appear to have a good handle on it now.


I don't need to tell you -- that getting that first piece of metal roofing "square" is critical. If it's off just a bit - by the time you get to the far end -- it's a big OOPS! LOL

[coolwelder62]

When I framed my Shop a few year's ago. The concrete guy's got the slab 2 out of square on one side. Man was it tuff getting the roof metal to look good down the one gable end. I was so pissed. Lookin good man.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[b757jetdr]

Tom,
Your new shop is looking great! We are getting ready to move down to southern Indiana here in the next couple months. Will be building a new house and a shop. I would love to stop in and get a peek at your place sometime if that would be possible? I have been watching you project and really like what you have done. Would like to see it in person to get a size perspective.

Good luck on getting it finished!

[tommycomfort]

When I framed my Shop a few year's ago. The concrete guy's got the slab 2 out of square on one side. Man was it tuff getting the roof metal to look good down the one gable end. I was so pissed. Lookin good man.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yeah Scott, I'm sure we're a little out of whack but I do have a plan to split differences and make it look right... Can you caulk metal roofing? :D

[tommycomfort]

Tom,
Your new shop is looking great! We are getting ready to move down to southern Indiana here in the next couple months. Will be building a new house and a shop. I would love to stop in and get a peek at your place sometime if that would be possible? I have been watching you project and really like what you have done. Would like to see it in person to get a size perspective.

Good luck on getting it finished!

You're always welcome here, we love company! I'll PM my contact info.
Tom

[tommycomfort]

You just killed me with your "moving" pics….since I will have that coming up shortly. OMG!


The new shed is awesome Tommy. It's quite the project -- and you appear to have a good handle on it now.


I don't need to tell you -- that getting that first piece of metal roofing "square" is critical. If it's off just a bit - by the time you get to the far end -- it's a big OOPS! LOL

Thanks Greg! Working on the shop is a nice change of pace from turning wrenches and we're enjoying the build. We'll be careful with the metal roofing for sure. It's tough going from a product like wood that has some give and is never perfect to start with to product like metal that is "true". Others have done it and made it look good from the ground, so I am confident we can too.

[coolwelder62]

Yeah Scott, I'm sure we're a little out of whack but I do have a plan to split differences and make it look right... Can you caulk metal roofing? :DTom, there's a caulking product called geocell will stick and seal to any clean metal surface.I used it to help seal around my wood stove chimmey gasket.

[tommycomfort]

Here's a picture of what has been going on with the shop build all winter... I'll have some more exciting pictures to come within a day or two. I promise!

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/IMG_20140102_171327683_zps699d058a.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/IMG_20140102_171327683_zps699d058a.jpg.html)

[coolwelder62]

Tom,There's some warm weather headed your way!!!!!!!

[GregWeld]

I now have a better understanding of what builders call getting a building "wintered in". Your's has been wintered in! HAHAHAHAHA

[SSLance]

Tom,There's some warm weather headed your way!!!!!!!

Today is going to be the first day with a temperature above 32 degrees here in KC since January 30th, and I assume that weather is headed East toward Tommy...

Still gonna take a while to melt the snowpack off here...and there though.

[windycitychev]

Super Awesome I Envy You Keep The Pics Coming

[1970RSZ28]

Fire up that radiant floor heating!

[waynieZ]

Tom Where is the old shop located? Is it on your property? The new shop is going to be awesome.
How do you like that Atlas lift?

[tommycomfort]

So, the big news is that we made the decision about a month ago to pay a contractor to finish the roof. Of course the plan would be that he came right away and seal it up, but snow, high winds and sub zero weather has kept them away until yesterday. Two days and these cats are done! Sam, Deb and I had it down to 30 minutes per sheet and with 44 left, simple math told us it would take us 22 hours. Sadly, Deb and I both have a couple of jobs and Sam has school and parents with lots of projects. We hate to spend money on stuff we can do ourselves, but man it feels good to not worry about shoveling snow out of there anymore!

Yesterday's progress
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb267/tommycomfort/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/IMG_20140212_150915_zps934a3f76.jpg (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/tommycomfort/media/New%20Garage%20at%20the%20house%20in%20Mooresville/IMG_20140212_150915_zps934a3f76.jpg.html)

When I got home from work this morning it was 8 degrees and they already had their first sheet up.
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[coolwelder62]

Looks awesome.:gitrdun:

[tommycomfort]

Tom Where is the old shop located? Is it on your property? The new shop is going to be awesome.
How do you like that Atlas lift?

Wayne, our old place was about thirty minutes away where we had owned a rental home. The new place is maybe just over 100' from the front door of our house. :ohsnap:

The Atlas lift served us well and we plan to buy another one with more height and lifting capacity for the new shop.

[cozmo76]

WOW!!!! thats all i can say, i have some serious shed envy, cant wait to see some more pictures, i dream of having something like this one day, i have easily enough land but due to living in a national park with strict fire regulations makes it hard.

Best of luck and looking forward to more updates.
cheers
corrie

[fleetus macmullitz]

Big is good. :D

That is coming along very nicely. :thumbsup:

[waynieZ]

Those metal roofs make a nice looking building.

[tommycomfort]

Had a great weather day yesterday and was able to get a few things done along with drying things out inside.

South side window installed. Not sure how exciting the picture is, but progress is progress.
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North side window installed and porch roof covered in metal. The porch will get 4x4" posts once the ground thaws.
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Service door installed.
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[GregWeld]

I can't tell you how excited I was to see those windows! How awesome is that!!


LOL



Always good to see progress Tommy! It's going to be a great "shed" as my Mother in Law would call it.

[tommycomfort]

I can't tell you how excited I was to see those windows! How awesome is that!!
LOL
Always good to see progress Tommy! It's going to be a great "shed" as my Mother in Law would call it.

Thanks Greg, it sure feels good to make some progress.

[tommycomfort]

More progress. Wrapped the garage door opening in southern yellow pine 2x8" and 2x6" inside to mount the garage door tracks to. Paying a pro to install the door on Friday.

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And yesterday I finished the house wrap and the final two windows.

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[coolwelder62]

Lookin good.

[tommycomfort]

This actually happened about two weeks ago but things have been hectic and am just now getting around the posting the pictures. The shop is going slow, but we have started wiring and the metal siding is on order. We would really like to have the wiring done and things powered up by the first weekend in May in case anyone comes by during the Midwest Musclecar Challenge.

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[GregWeld]

I need a 16 X 14 door on that building so I can drop by and put the Toter and trailer in there....


LOL



Looks great Tommy!

[65_LS1_T56]

In case anyone stops by?:bitchslap:
Aren't you the host hotel, lol. Shop looks great Tom.

[tommycomfort]

Next shop Greg, next shop...

I need a 16 X 14 door on that building so I can drop by and put the Toter and trailer in there....
LOL
Looks great Tommy!

[tommycomfort]

In case anyone stops by?:bitchslap:
Aren't you the host hotel, lol. Shop looks great Tom.

Man I hope everyone comes by. If we could find a local spot for an autocross we could do a cookout here.

[TimeWarpF100]

Not sure how I missed this thread!

Absolutely wonderful shop Tom.

I can only dream of having that much shop space, I really like the setup.

[65_LS1_T56]

Man I hope everyone comes by. If we could find a local spot for an autocross we could do a cookout here.

^yes that would be awesome.. the cookout part :lol:

[Bad94]

Man I hope everyone comes by. If we could find a local spot for an autocross we could do a cookout here.


I thought the back 40 was getting blacktopped for the auto x.

[HectorM52]

Tom, any thought to having the garage door track raised a foot or so? That would give a little more headroom at the door as well as more room at the opener...

Just a quick observation.

Shop looks great, though. Doing the construction right from what I can tell.

[tommycomfort]

Not much going on with the shop lately. We've been busy getting the cars ready for events. I was able to get the pad formed up in front of the garage door and now just need to wait on the concrete guy. We hauled in pea gravel in the new truck. First load 4300 pounds, second load 7600 pounds. That's why we bought a one ton truck....

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[GregWeld]

That's turning out so sweet Tom! Gotta love having a nice area - dry - warm and enough space to work!

[Vince@Meanstreets]

warm being the key word here.

[Lenie]

warm being the key word here.
Ummm....shop being the key word for most of us w/o:sarcasm_smiley: :cheers: Awesome man shop!

[coolwelder62]

Tom, I wish we were neigbors,You could borrow my case 90XT uniloader.

[tommycomfort]

Tom, I wish we were neigbors,You could borrow my case 90XT uniloader.

That's how we build character Scott... :)

[57hemicuda]

Build calluses maybe, your already a character.

[1coolC2]

C'mon Hollywood, my new shop is already sided and full of crap :underchair: Looking great my friend...P.S, can I borrow your rented mule???

[tommycomfort]

C'mon Hollywood, my new shop is already sided and full of crap :underchair: Looking great my friend...P.S, can I borrow your rented mule???

Well, we may not have siding, but ours is filling up quick. I wish I had a fleet of mules (Sams) to rent out, I could retire!

[tommycomfort]

Just like all our build threads we are long overdue for an update! Funny thing, the busier you get working on things the less time it seems you have to take pictures and update stuff. I've gotten lazy and often just do a quick facebook post from my camera phone...

The building inspector came out to do a rough electrical inspection and gave me a short list of things he wanted to see done before final inspection. A step outside the door was one of them so we knocked out a small deck.
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Huge day came when electric was installed! For almost a year we used six 12-3 100' extension cords to bring three circuits into the shop.
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With the help of Sam and my father-in-law we installed our new 10K lift over Thanksgiving weekend.
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Knowing siding was coming eventually we wanted to get the "canopy" area completed.
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[GregWeld]

Wow! That's such a sweet building Tom!!


Can't remember if you had a lift in your old place or not.... if not... you'll think you're in heaven the next time you want to do something on the cars! A lift FTW!!


Siding to match the house??

[waynieZ]

It looks good Tom. Nice shade for a quick fix outside when the garage id full.

[tommycomfort]

We finally gave up on the clowns who did the leaky metal roof. Originally they were going to do the siding too, but after eleven months of trying to get them back to fix the roof leaks we gave up. A friend pointed me in the direction of a place about two hours south that builds complete pole barns but were willing to send a crew up to do the siding because they had a little time between jobs. They agreed to address the roof leaks, but not take responsibility for the roof. Fair enough. Turns out the crew was a handful of Mennonites that were hard working and honest. We really hit it off and since Sam and I were working on the roofing of the canopy the same time they were there they taught us quite a bit. Techniques mostly but the bottom line is, until you have done something for a living you just don't know the tricks of the trade.

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Sam and I working on the roof. It kept sleeting so that was a little entertaining...
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Just about every leak in the roof can be attributed to the first crew not sinking the screws. This is just an example, some were much worse than this. The siding guys took care of almost all the leaks, but the ones they missed we'll have sorted out in a week or so.
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[tommycomfort]

Wow! That's such a sweet building Tom!!


Can't remember if you had a lift in your old place or not.... if not... you'll think you're in heaven the next time you want to do something on the cars! A lift FTW!!


Siding to match the house??

Thanks Greg! Kind of matches the house, but kinda not... Remember we're hillbillies from Mooresville, Indiana, not everything has to match. :lostmarbles:

We did have a lift in the old shop, but much smaller and lower roof. It became "necessary" after hernia surgery a few years ago.

[tommycomfort]

It looks good Tom. Nice shade for a quick fix outside when the garage id full.

Thanks Wayne, we already like the outside cover the most. Going to be real nice on those spring, fall and not so hot summer days with a breeze.

[Al Moreno]

Now tha'st how you do it, great job Tom !

[Lenie]

Tom, sweet dream shop...nice lift, congrats on a great job.

[wiedemab]

Lookin' good! It has been a struggle for me to pay others to do work that I know I could probably do myself, but after having a few successful jobs done by others...... I'm becoming a fan of letting others do some of this stuff! It allows us more time to focus on working on cars!!!! ;)

[waynieZ]

That looks great Tom. The first thing I thought of were the leaks in the roof once you had someone do the siding. Glad to hear they took care of most of it.
The comment about "Remember we're hillbillies from Mooresville, Indiana, not everything has to match"
My son in law is from Indiana and my daughter is always teasing him about not matching my grandson's clothes when he dresses him for daycare.
Glad to see its all working out.

[bonecrrusher]

Looks great Tom!

Building takes forever - we signed the contract on my new house back before Thanksgiving - we are just now getting footers in!

[SSLance]

Thanks for posting the update pics, looks like it's really coming along. Soon you'll get to spend more time working in the building than on the building...

[tommycomfort]

Nothing too exciting has been going on with the shop, but my siding guys are getting ready to come out and finish up some trim work so I can finally get the city inspection completed. We are working inside on different projects constantly so here is the only real picture of anything going on.

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[waynieZ]

How's the arm Tom? I hope you coming along.

[tommycomfort]

How's the arm Tom? I hope you coming along.

Getting better everyday. Physical therapy twice a week and exercises at home three times a day seems to be helping a lot. Good as new in no time! (Rotator cuff and biceps tendon surgery on my shoulder the beginning of September for those that are wondering)

[waynieZ]

Great to hear! My wife was looking over my shoulder when I saw the picture of your garage. I said now that's a well equipped garage, She said and when are you going to finish yours :twak: Open mouth insert foot!

[wiedemab]

Nice to see the square-body Burb peeking two of its four eyes into the pic! ;)

[tommycomfort]

Nice to see the square-body Burb peeking two of its four eyes into the pic! ;)

We need to get right on that as soon as we get my buddies Chevelle done and out of the shop. Will also be starting a build thread for the Burb on all our favorite sites even though it's not really pro-touring.

[tommycomfort]

Here's the long overdue update on the shop. We've definitely kept plugging away but once the outside was sealed up and it became more usable working on projects took priority.

Back in January we hooked up the wood stove. It worked pretty well, but when the temps were in the single digits and the ceiling wasn't complete it was hard to feel the positive effects of anything from more than 10' away.

Double wall stainless chimney pipe isn't cheap!
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Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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The biggest thing that has happened is the finishing of the metal ceiling in the main shop area and the lights. We went with the T5HO six lamp fluorescent fixtures. I found a place on ebay that would sell the American made fixtures for $92 each including freight. Lots of money, but the lighting is amazing so I will say that it was money well spent. I hope it's not necessary next winter, but they function well even below 0*.
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The lights in the "machine" area are just porcelain fixtures with 100w incadecent bulbs. Now that we have "real" light in the rest of the shop these will have to go and be replaced with four 4 bulb T5HO fixtures.
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[paulk68]

looks great!, what is up with that Chevy truck? I love those!

[tommycomfort]

looks great!, what is up with that Chevy truck? I love those!

That's a 1985 Suburban 4x4 that I bought off of another Pro-Touring Chevelle guy, Herb Lumpp. It's an Arizona truck and crazy solid. It runs and drives but I'm putting a mild 350 with a Holley EFI together for it just for dependability. One of these days I'm going to start a thread on it even though it's not really Pro-Touring.

[bonecrrusher]

Looking good Tom!

I bet it will be much nicer with the heat in there!