Well I haven't been on in over a year. We had a baby, 18 months old now and needed a bigger house. After just building a shop at the old house, when we first bought this one, I was pretty exhausted in the savings account. Then buying this house, I put my woodworking and construction skills to the test. Then after spending probably 20k on this house because it was built in 69 and hasn't been updated yet, I sure needed to get my machines out of storage. So this is what $2000 got me. I tore down the old shed that was rotted out and was 12 x 14. We then added to the slab to make it a 16 x 20. I had a friend down the road that had a 16x20 carport that he didn't want anymore. So I got a free roof basically.
Two friends of mine that are contractors helped me do the slab and then we all set forth to framing it in. Concrete cured for 3 days over a weekend then Monday we took the old carport down, brought it down the road, and had it back up in the same day. Next 3 days were framing and siding with Hardie Board panels. Next day was doors and trim. That finished out a 5 day week. Then the following Monday we wired it up and installed the lights. That's it, 7 days of work and I got my new shop. I plan to add onto it in the future, The pics are backwards, from finish to start. Well, not finished yet, still gotta finish insulation and gotta paint it this weekend and all my stuff is crammed in it at the moment until I build my shelves, etc...
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