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What did it cost roughly? Did you contract any parts out? How big was it?

-Holiday wrote:What did it cost roughly? Did you contract any parts out? How big was it?

Check out these babies...

http://www.futuresteel.com/garages.html

dr_bar wrote:

-Holiday wrote:What did it cost roughly? Did you contract any parts out? How big was it?

Check out these babies...

http://www.futuresteel.com/garages.html

functional...... horrific, but... well functional ...... I guess

A few builds have been documented on pirate4x4. I remember reading through them. They weren't cheap, but man I'd love to put one up.

Hmmm? Do you consider a 25x50 insulated metal building a garage? I suppose it could be, considering there are insulated roll-up doors on each end. Slab is 6 inches of steel-reinforced 5000psi concrete. Electric included four double strip 8-foot flourescent lights and an electrical outlet on each end of the building. Plumbing included a tie in to the existing meter on the property and a single 1-inch PVC pipe to a utility sink, then a 4-inch drain back to the existing sewer tap, and fire sprinklers. Maybe $13,500 up front. Friends and I did all the labor.

The city charged $475 for permit fees and inspections, along with $800 just to turn the water on, which was kind of a ripoff because the land had a house that burned down, so I didn't have to pay for the tie-ins for water or sewer. The electric company has a "formula" for determining deposits for service and it came out to $625. That is on top of the $1000 fee to have their electrician drop a wire in a ditch and plug in a meter. I had to dig the ditch. Kind of sucks since my highest electric bill ever has been $60. $720 worth of road base was required to run a drive from the road to the front of the building, where it expands to 50 feet wide for parking. A curved drive extends off each end of the building to connect the overhead doors to the parking area.

Once the building inspections were completed, I went back and added full hook-ups for my RV, 240V circuits for screenprinting equipment, air compressor, welder, and hot water heater, washer and dryer, and 20amp outlets for power tools all around the perimeter. If I remember right, those materials came to about $700.

I want your "garage"! Or whatever you've designed to name it.

qwerty wrote:Hmmm? Do you consider a 25x50 insulated metal building a garage?

Is there any other kind?

Weird enough there is an entire forum dedicated to people's garages and the stuff they fill it with. They document the building of everything and have creative ideas for building and installing things. garagejournal.com