40x60x14 Shop

[ultrarunner]

^^^All I can say is wow!

Nothing like the feeling when a plan comes together.

 

[wmonroe]

You’ll love having the lift. It makes even the simple tasks easier.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

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Hoist installed!

I'll be over to change my oil, the day after tomorrow.

 

[JHurt]

I'll be over to change my oil, the day after tomorrow.

Better wait until the get electricity ran to it!

 

[JHurt]

Parked in the shop today! It won’t fit where I normally put it with the blade on it, so I thought I might as well use the shop. Guess we’ll see how well the floor drains work.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You will look at this picture in 5 years and wonder where did all your shop's floor space go.....

 

[JHurt]

You will look at this picture in 5 years and wonder where did all your shop's floor space go.....

We have so much stuff already! We have two older buildings that we store the lawnmower, 2 side by sides, a 4 wheeler, numerous wheels and tires that we are going to tear down after the shop is done. The shop is going to be FULL from the get go! I don’t park my truck, or my company truck inside now, but I’m hoping to both of those as well. Oh, and I have a Jeep project that needs finished too!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We have so much stuff already! We have two older buildings that we store the lawnmower, 2 side by sides, a 4 wheeler, numerous wheels and tires that we are going to tear down after the shop is done. The shop is going to be FULL from the get go! I don’t park my truck, or my company truck inside now, but I’m hoping to both of those as well. Oh, and I have a Jeep project that needs finished too!

My buddy has a lift like you, and he has a renegade jeep on it, virtually rebuilding the axles and putting frame supports on. It's been on the lift for months....

 

[JHurt]

My buddy has a lift like you, and he has a renegade jeep on it, virtually rebuilding the axles and putting frame supports on. It's been on the lift for months....

I have a YJ that I tore the front end out of it several years ago to 4 link. A divorce, a move, and a remarry and it still hasn’t been 4 linked. Sitting on jack stands outside right now. The wife and the girls are all over me about it, so it’s going to be the BIG project when the shop gets done. I already told one of the girls that we are going to have a whiteboard with projects wrote on it, because my normal response to anything needing done is “as soon as the shop is done”!

 

[ovrszd]

Would that be an erasable white board??

 

[JHurt]

Would that be an erasable white board??

Absolutely!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Would that be an erasable white board??

Absolutely!

Ha ha...

 

[JHurt]

Few things done today!

Lines for the hot water heater above the bathroom. I’m still not for sure how he’s going to set up the floor heat with it up there. I guess that’s what I’m paying him for though!

Couple of the windows trimmed in white metal. Oddly, he trimmed the doors in brown. You can see the color that we are going to paint the plywood in this pic too.

A better pic of the plywood paint.

Bathroom plumbing!

Bathroom entry.

Wiring for the hoist. It’s funny too, I asked him to put me a four receptacle box on the hoist so I had power close. If it was me (and I’m **** sure no electrician) I would have just come off of the hoist wiring and added it. Hoist and electrical box would never have been used at the same time. But he added another wire/circuit to it.

Last of the wall panels. Insulated and ready for plywood and tin.

 

[EddieWalker]

I remodel homes for a living and one of my big pet peeves is water valves that are not solid. Older homes will usually have a nail or two bent over the copper pipe to hold it in place that works itself loose over time. Nowadays with PEX being so common, Brass Drop Ear Elbows are used all the time. Three screws into some blocking and you can stand on the valves and not worry about them.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/SharkBite-Brass-PEX-Drop-ear-elbow-Crimp-Fitting/1000683673

In your picture, it shows the PEX sticking straight out. I'm guessing that they are going to use slide on valves and just leave them flopping around.

 

[ovrszd]

Eddie, we're not positive what's going on with the water lines on top of the bathroom. Pretty certain there will be a tank type water heater up there providing hot water for the two sinks below. I can't say for sure whether that is the floor heat source? I don't recall seeing any water lines going from the bathroom to the floor heat manifold area. I don't recall any water lines at that area but Jarid can confirm that, maybe take a pic for future reference.

I haven't looked at this progress in person, just viewing Jarid's pics like the rest of us. I think there's a main shutoff valve on the main line coming out of the floor viewed in the right side of pic #4 "bathroom plumbing". Can't tell how it's secured.

In the center of same pic is the plumbing for two sinks. One inside the bathroom. One outside. As you stated, it appears these will be free hanging. We'll see as the builder progresses.

I totally agree with your feelings about that. As valves age they become difficult to close/open. Nothing more aggravating than trying to hang onto a valve that's hanging while trying to turn it while wadded up under a sink.....

 

[aczlan]

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Wiring for the hoist. It’s funny too, I asked him to put me a four receptacle box on the hoist so I had power close. If it was me (and I’m **** sure no electrician) I would have just come off of the hoist wiring and added it. Hoist and electrical box would never have been used at the same time. But he added another wire/circuit to it.

It appears the hoist has a 30 amp circuit (orange wire) and the convenience outlet has a 20 amp circuit (yellow wire), its probably cheaper (in both time and materials) to run a piece of 12 gauge wire for the convenience outlet than to add a small breaker panel on the hoist to have a 30 amp circuit for the hoist and a 20 amp circuit for the convenience outlet (especially if its a 30 amp 240V circuit and a 20 amp 120V circuit).

Aaron Z

 

[countrybumpkin]

Also the orange 240 line appears to be 10-2 W Ground, you can’t pull 120 off it with out a neutral.

 

[JHurt]

Also the orange 240 line appears to be 10-2 W Ground, you can’t pull 120 off it with out a neutral.

And that's why someone else is wiring it!

 

[countrybumpkin]

I completely understand. Looking great by the way. You’ll love the lift and don’t be surprised once you get the shop set up and using it, that a second lift idea comes to mind, specially if you have long term projects that tie a lift up and do a lot of work and maintenance on other vehicles.

 

[JHurt]

The only issue with another lift is the tubes in the concrete! If I would have thought ahead I definitely would have had them build pads the next bay over just in case I wanted to add it later.