We Have Concrete In The New Shop ...

Livin the dream , wow that's gona be very nice for your shop. Good luck with all the work your doing it's realign looking great. Till I saw the picture with the concrete truck inside I didn't realize how big it is. I worked in machine shops where we had to build little houses on the roof to fit our boring mill and it only had a 48" table , I think it built the titanic it had overhead flat belt drive. What a trip for me back then to learn on one so old. Keep the pics coming ,I bet your anxious to get to where you can get set up and start using all your equipment.
 
that is looking like a dream to me, I do not have that much space to do something like that.
 
Livin the dream , wow that's gona be very nice for your shop. Good luck with all the work your doing it's realign looking great. Till I saw the picture with the concrete truck inside I didn't realize how big it is. I worked in machine shops where we had to build little houses on the roof to fit our boring mill and it only had a 48" table , I think it built the titanic it had overhead flat belt drive. What a trip for me back then to learn on one so old. Keep the pics coming ,I bet your anxious to get to where you can get set up and start using all your equipment.

Thanks guys, and yes I am looking forward to it being done and set up, but for awhile I need to try and stay focused and get it finished. At my age I'm still doing what I did 20 yrs ago, but the body is paying a somewhat high price. Cheers, Mike
 
Strange way of doing it ! Out here we dig and pour the foundation and steel around the perimeter then lay the concrete floor over the foundation then damp proof course and timber on top don't need to take the concrete truck inside the builders have a good surface to work on laying out the walls before standing them up I notice you don't use nogs/dwangs in your building just those big sheets of particle board very interesting
 
Strange way of doing it ! Out here we dig and pour the foundation and steel around the perimeter then lay the concrete floor over the foundation then damp proof course and timber on top don't need to take the concrete truck inside the builders have a good surface to work on laying out the walls before standing them up I notice you don't use nogs/dwangs in your building just those big sheets of particle board very interesting

O.K., What are nogs/dwangs ?
 
Yes, that is one common construction method used here also, but the original half of the building was built using 6x6 posts set 4' in the ground as at the time there was no money for a concrete floor and the building was just used for storage. I might have been able to get away with slab on grade (our name for your method) as I graded everything around the building to drain away from it, but the ground it's situated on is expansive clay and I didn't want any issues with the building moving and cracking sheetrock etc.. Also standing sheathed 15' walls of any length is a whole different ballgame than standing a standard 8' wall. I generally work alone or with one other person at most so it just seemed safer to do it as I did. If the whole thing had been a clean sheet build I would have probably gone another route. For a more comprehensive look at the build you can check it out here. I haven't updated it to the point I was at before I left for the winter yet, but it will give you a better feel for the details. I would also be interested in a description of nogs/dwangs. Cheers, Mike
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Thanks for clearing that up for me. There is one row of blocking half way up the perimeter walls. No permit on this one but anything over 8' requires what is termed fire blocking. Floor joists are blocked for rigidity also. Hope to get over to Australia/New Zealand in the next few years. Always interesting to see how things are done in different parts of the world. Cheers, Mike
 
Thanks for clearing that up for me. There is one row of blocking half way up the perimeter walls. No permit on this one but anything over 8' requires what is termed fire blocking. Floor joists are blocked for rigidity also. Hope to get over to Australia/New Zealand in the next few years. Always interesting to see how things are done in different parts of the world. Cheers, Mike
Blocking, smlocking…that’s one sweet space/shop. Hope it ALL works out for you. Any interest in putting solar panels on that roof?...Dave.
 
Finally back to work on the new shop. Took a bad fall in early April which wasn't properly diagnosed until a few weeks ago(was out of the country until April 20th). Cracked rib and a 60% compression fracture on t-7. They put me in a thoracic back/neck brace two weeks ago, five wks to go, then pt, and a less restrictive brace for a while until I have my posture where I want it. Not much fun, but it could have been much worse, and I'm very grateful to be upright and breathing. A little observation here, If that ladder doesn't look right, stop and change it, and be especially careful working on someone Else's site, with there equipment. Don't be afraid to hurt someones feelings, or be in such a rush, that you forgo basic safety. I don't blame anyone else for my misfortune, because in the end we are always totally responsible for are own actions. This will be my wake up call to be ever vigilante in regards to safety issues, and hopefully my poor example may save someone else a bunch of pain and frustration. So to rap up this little segment, Please, be careful out there.
Started back to work two weeks ago with a helper doing most of the heavy lifting and climbing. Thirty years ago when I put up the first half of this building money and time were in short supply so the cedar siding went up right over the studs and posts. Now that the space will be heated it's time for some improvements. We covered any spots where light was coming through with snow & ice shield, and then covered that with 15# felt, followed by 1/2" OSB ripped to fit between the 2x6 studs, and held in place with 3/4" strips of OSB. All of the studs had to be furred out 1/2" to be flush with thew 6x6 posts for sheetrock, so I still have a marginal 5 1/2" space for my R-19 batts. Did about 100 l.f. of that operation and then moved on to removing 30yrs of accumulated building materials and miscellany that had been stored overhead in the trusses. Hired an additional helper for that as I'm not supposed to lift anything over 10#. Pretty amazing how much pack rat sh*t and nest material came down with it. Relocated about half of this stuff to a 14' box van I picked up for just this purpose. The other half will be utilized in the building. Should be updating this again on a regular basis, and hopefully barring any major disasters, finishing up and moving everything from the old shop to the new this fall. Cheers, Mike
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