New Barn/Shop/Pool house build

[Juiced06GTO]

Getting ready to start this build after years of saving. The plan is to utilize what I can of the old building and build a deck between it and the pool area. Right now I have it drawn out at 40x30 with the doors on the 40' side. I may stretch that side to 50' as I am thinking about framing in a small area near the deck to act as a pool supply storage room and maybe a small bar/grill to go near the pool?? That is one of the ways I am selling the wife on the whole thing! I already have one cold water line out to the building that is there. I need to re-run the power out there as I only have 30a currently. I am going to put a 100-150a sub panel in the garage. I'll try to keep this updated with pictures, I am going to start clearing the area between the pool and current building this weekend. Progress will come in chunks over the summer since I currently have a 3mo old and 2.5yr old that take up most of my time. Let me know what you guys think and any tips you may have!e

 

[EddieWalker]

Nice 3D design. It looks very inviting. How tall and wide are your garage doors? I went ten feet wide on my current shop and I wont do that again. 12 feet should be the bare minimum in width. My walls are 12 feet tall and I think that's about perfect. It allows me to have a ten foot tall garage door, which seems to be a good size.

Are you taking out all those trees close to the green building behind the pool? From your picture, that looks like where you are going to be building this. I like trees, but nowhere near a house. I've also found that even when I take out the best looking tree, I never miss it once it's gone.

 

[Creamer]

I have always heard that if you build a building for resale value you should make sure an RV can get inside. It adds to the value. Consequently when I built my building I put in a 14' x 14' door. I believe I only needed 12' wide but I added 2 more just to be safe - it goes in a lot easier than it gets expanded. the other side is the size of some of my future toys may require it.

 

[idaho2]

Agree on the door size for an RV. Regarding doors on the long side, consider snow sliding off and landing in front of your doors or worse on the top of a vehicle or someone walking by.

idaho2

 

[EddieWalker]

Around here, barns and workshops are lucky to return you 25 cents on the dollar. While there is nothing wrong with an RV door, or a door big enough to get an RV into the building, I don't believe there is any resale advantage to it if you don't need it. From the look of the design, it would take some effort to create enough room to get an RV into there and still have a usable building. What type of roof will it have? Gable with wood trusses or is this a metal building with an open beam ceiling?

 

[Juiced06GTO]

Unfortunately getting an RV back there would be a pain, I am going to have to navigate around the septic leach field to get cars back there. I like the idea of bumping the walls up to 12' and going with a 12x10h door, I will just have to see how that affects the height of the building. I don't want it to start over shadowing the house as the footprint will already be bigger! The two oaks should come down the more that I think about it and looking at where they are in relation to what I am building. They do provide some nice shade, but they also dump a ton of leaves in the pool. The only other spot I could put the door would be on the gable end opposite the pool, and then I would have to drive all the way around my property to enter the building. This building won't be used for anything other than my workshop/storage in the winter so I am not terribly worried about people/cars being parked where snow would fall. Thanks for the advise guys!

 

[Juiced06GTO]

Forgot to add, I am going with a gable roof with engineered trusses most likely.

 

[Juiced06GTO]

Got some of the trees cleared yesterday high temp was only 19 and 20+mph winds so it made it not fun to be outside working! The B2601 worked well for scooping up all the brush and pulling one of the stumps. I had to call it quits after getting one out as I was frozen to the core. One thing that is killing me is I have used nothing but CAT controls on equipment and these are completely backwards from what I am used to! I need to figure out which hoses to swap around so I can actually operate this thing. I made do yesterday, but looked like an amateur for a good hour!

 

[rustyshakelford]

This is what we built last year. The shop is great for hanging out or when people want to get out of the sun for a bit. Get your tunes going and have a blast. We plumbed for a toilet in the shop and sink so you wouldn't have people running inside to go to the bathroom or change. Looking forward to more progress pics

Brett