Two years ago, my 5-bay shed (one bay, roller doored workshop) with pad and assembled was A$32k.
looking at the internal picture you sent, that looks like a full metal building, no wood. No termites there for sure.
My spec is 1800 sf, concrete floor and aprons, two entrance doors, two big rollup doors, everything insulated seriously and fully hvac'd. One interior "office" using up a door and window left over from my house remodel. 200 amp wiring (rethought that), very high lumen interior lighting, hopefully dimmable (led?) and that's it. No water, no bathroom, not going to put a new septic system in my home. Happy to wizz in woods thirty feet away.
Ok, here's my guesstimate and we'll see how it pans out. 40K for a pole barn, 55k for a full steel building.
Plus another 10K for internal outfitting, gantry crane, air compressor, etc etc. I don't need a wall of fancy toolboxes; we've all seen those high end garages. So maybe one more toolbox, and for sure a large steel welded worktable. Maybe I'll build that to teach myself how to weld. Still lots of projects left...do we ever run out?
now let's consider the most important factor...which type of barn construction would a new stereo sound best in?
Would the wood help to dampen the bright sound from all that metal? How many subwoofers would be needed and where?
And perhaps a small sound stage for small bands...and....and...
huh? yup,
just kidding.
However, unlikely I'm working in silence, though my tastes are softer and more vocal and instrumental than loud R&R.
mac you crack me up. Growing up with 70 acres of woods directly behind our 1720 stone house, and fields in front, my father always told us we had to "beat the woods back" because for sure it would try to come out and take over the property. And it did. Same now with my place, invading species of cabbagey like weeds are working their way across my lawn, directly from the woods, like an invading army. Weed and feed did nothing to them, need to dig them out by hand I suppose. And those briars, the foot a day vines with the huge ripping teeth on them, they bloody me constantly, so you are sure right. But despite all that, I have another fifty sideline trees to plant and plant I will. Lot of weedwacking and watering though.
The trees in question are an old pear tree and that large pine. Both are healthy but the pine of course makes a mess all around it. The pine is going to get heavily pruned on that one side anyway since it has a branch over the power line that needs trimming. technically the City of Washington should send a truck out here to prune it; they have to maintain the line to the barn, since it has a transformer on it. I have two pole transformers on my farm, strange...and they burn and blow up from experience as a fireman. Now that I have a new gate that allows trucks through the property going the long way around behind the orchard and not through my lawn, I might just call them. I put the gate in for many reasons, including getting concrete trucks through the property back to the barn area without destroying the lawn. That only occurred two weeks ago and was the starting impetus for me to get moving on this new storage garage now that construction vehicles could actually get to it.
oh, as far as sectioning it off, no. Will have a big floor fan to move the air around but other than using a set back thermostat, no. Once I get a few electrical bills, my settings on the thermostat will be well guided.
