My new shop.

[ovrszd]

Its easy to say that cost to much. My shop is stick built, 28x30, 8' walls, wired, heated and insulated, 2 regular garage doors, 2 windows and a walk in door. I don't think I have $20,000 in it but close. That was 15 years ago I had it built, I did very little myself, just paint, hanging lights etc. You take a bigger shop, add in some inflation and I can see how it would cost that much.

Yep. I lost my previous shop by fire 4 years ago. It was a 30x50, 8' walls, wired, heated and insulated, 2 rollups, walk-in, six windows, built 18 years ago myself for $5700. I was grossly underinsured on the building at $15K.

 

[Cub 7274]

In Canada we pay and pay and then pay a little more

 

[adirondackmtnman]

In Canada we pay and pay and then pay a little more

Sounds like New York State..

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[ovrszd]

Give us Southerners a few more years and we'll be the same way.

 

[wmonroe]

Awhile back (quite awhile now) I said I was going to build a shop for my buddy and last fall it went up. I wasn't going to post a pic of it (no camera for one thing) but I changed my mind and asked my buddy to take a pic of it for me. This isn't my place btw, I live in the city, it's my buddy's acreage. It's 40' by 60' with 14' walls on a grade beam so over 15' floor to ceiling. It's going to be insulated (ceiling already is, we are going to do the walls ourself and save a few bucks) and it was built with in floor heat tubes put in before they poured the 5" thick concrete floor. It's hard to tell from the pic because it appears too dark, but it's as close to "barn red" as we could get. I let him and his wife pick the colour...they have to look at it daily, I don't! Here it is.

Very nice shop! It is great to see someone who cares more about their friendship than having a new toy or whatever. Good for you and I'm sure you and your friend will have plenty of good times and memories in that shop.

 

[econometrics]

Nice. Got to ask, what does LP run you guys that far up north?

I just paid $2.50 for 800 gallons delivered. Got a $0.20/gal discount included in that price.

When I was in MN for Christmas, most guys thought the price was $1.90 there.

 

[AGRIMAN]

Give us Southerners a few more years and we'll be the same way.

I sure hope not. Let's just let them keep it up there.

As I mentioned, my new shop is all steel 50x50 with 16 ft walls and 3 14 ft roll up doors, one walk in door and insulation. Building, concrete and wiring 60k turn key.

 

[Sigarms]

I have no idea. I'm connected to the provincial natural gas grid.

A building of that size, heating that far north, using LP as the fuel (assuming it's at least the same rate around my area), I'd suggest at least looking at doing a ROI on the efficiency of boiler used. The savings in fuel could litearlly be 4 figures a year depending how often you use it.

On the radiant tubing, did you zone it?

 

[Mace Canute]

A building of that size, heating that far north, using LP as the fuel (assuming it's at least the same rate around my area), I'd suggest at least looking at doing a ROI on the efficiency of boiler used. The savings in fuel could litearlly be 4 figures a year depending how often you use it.

On the radiant tubing, did you zone it?

Yes, ROI is definitely something we will be looking at.

The heating is in several zones. I'm not sure what will work best...heat all of it evenly or just heat the small area where most work will be done or heat it all slightly but heat the working area a little more just to stay in the comfort zone. Time will tell!

 

[Gunny]

Yes, ROI is definitely something we will be looking at.

The heating is in several zones. I'm not sure what will work best...heat all of it evenly or just heat the small area where most work will be done or heat it all slightly but heat the working area a little more just to stay in the comfort zone. Time will tell!

Mace, I'd really be interested in a follow up on this, I'm planning on doing a new garage/workshop this year and I'd like to go with radiant in floor, but I have wondered if going to the trouble of doing zones was worth the time/effort/expense.