What did you scrimp on for your shop and later wished you wouldnt have?

[pritch]

Originally Posted by davischevy

The corner of our property out back has a corner that slopes toward the south, so I think I will build underground, sort of. I will pour concrete walls with truss roof. With foam insulation overhead it should be easy to heat and cool.

We built a nice, big shop for this rich dude over to Park City-underground like that. He had the money to just have us remove the hillside, build the garage, then put the hillside back. He had an on-going battle with the city over him having a helo-port on the roof, so we did a pan deck, like a parking structure. In the end, the city refused to let him land his helicopters in town, so that's when he decided to bury the whole thing. Only thing you can see from the road now are the overhead doors. Fun job. As soon as we started digging we ran into a vein of those quartz crystals. You could pick up a bucketful in 5 minutes. I still have a few of the really nice ones around here somewhere. I haven't thought about that job in a while, thanks for the reminder!

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by pritch

We built a nice, big shop for this rich dude over to Park City-underground like that. He had the money to just have us remove the hillside, build the garage, then put the hillside back. He had an on-going battle with the city over him having a helo-port on the roof, so we did a pan deck, like a parking structure. In the end, the city refused to let him land his helicopters in town, so that's when he decided to bury the whole thing. Only thing you can see from the road now are the overhead doors. Fun job. As soon as we started digging we ran into a vein of those quartz crystals. You could pick up a bucketful in 5 minutes. I still have a few of the really nice ones around here somewhere. I haven't thought about that job in a while, thanks for the reminder!

So he "had the money" but clearly didn't realize living in a city might limit what he could do with his own property.

I'll bet if he had built outside city limits, he could have had two heli-pads on his garage roof. (I'd like to have one on my dream garage roof also).

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by In The Ten Ring

So he "had the money" but clearly didn't realize living in a city might limit what he could do with his own property.

I'll bet if he had built outside city limits, he could have had two heli-pads on his garage roof. (I'd like to have one on my dream garage roof also).

My back yard fence is the city limits. The land I will put my shop on is not in the city limits. I will bet I still have trouble with the city.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by pritch

We built a nice, big shop for this rich dude over to Park City-underground like that. He had the money to just have us remove the hillside, build the garage, then put the hillside back. He had an on-going battle with the city over him having a helo-port on the roof, so we did a pan deck, like a parking structure. In the end, the city refused to let him land his helicopters in town, so that's when he decided to bury the whole thing. Only thing you can see from the road now are the overhead doors. Fun job. As soon as we started digging we ran into a vein of those quartz crystals. You could pick up a bucketful in 5 minutes. I still have a few of the really nice ones around here somewhere. I haven't thought about that job in a while, thanks for the reminder!

Careful, those crystals are what they power UFO space craft with. You just made yourself a big target.

If you disappear from the site, we will know what happened to you.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by davischevy

Careful, those crystals are what they power UFO space craft with. You just made yourself a big target.

If you disappear from the site, we will know what happened to you.

Come to think of it, I did give a few to Spaceship Rick not to long before he left. Spaceship Rick worked with us for a few years in the back '90's. The Aliens told him how to build a spaceship when they abducted him. They didn't give any plans or anything. They imprinted the design directly to his brain. He could see it, and build it, but they also put in some kind of block so he couldn't really say too much about it. Last we heard, he had it all built and as soon as he could get 300,000 RPM out of the drive system, he was outta here. Sure enough, one day he quit showing up to work so we figured he managed to get the 300K. Musta only been room for one though, 'cause not too long after his preggo girlfriend came around looking for him. I guess it was a secret from her, too.

[davischevy]

[QUOTE=pritch;8006993 Musta only been room for one though, 'cause not too long after his preggo girlfriend came around looking for him. I guess it was a secret from her, too.[/QUOTE]

I wonder if she had a little alien? Spaceship Jr..

I think Spaceship Rick was here too. In 1995 we had a guy that didn't show up for several days. After a few days he showed up at the office and said the job superintendent had fired him. I told him I guess he was fired then.

The super told me later that he showed up at the job and told quite a tale about being abducted by space travelers. We didn't drug test back then.

I hope CG don't mind us sending his thread into space.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by davischevy

I hope CG don't mind us sending his thread into space.

True dat. Sorry, CG

If I woulda had more money at the time, I would have liked to do actual footing and foundation for mine, but all I could afford was a thickend-edge slab. Risky in my climate, but I used enough gravel under it and enough rebar in it so that if it ever does heave (which it hasn't yet in 15 winters) it will all move as one. It hasn't really cracked, either, except at the control joints where I wanted it to.

Still, speaking as someone closing in on 40 years in concrete construction, I wouldn't recommend doing how I did in a freeze & thaw climate.