Well some of you know through talks of work on your cars etc that I havent really been able to do much lately since selling my shop.. but I will be back next year... I will have my house built and a workshop with a lift installed etc.. thinking through what other stuff I will be doing out of it... but here are some pics of our plans so far... the workshop is almost the same footing size as our house.. woot View attachment 7563 View attachment 7564 View attachment 7565 View attachment 7566 View attachment 7567 My plan for my garage... within the end closest to the house I plan to build a deck/2nd floor and install my couch and tv that is currently in our house... if I can swing it I would love to get my in-laws pool table that is NEVER used and fit that up there too.... i will be having my MAN room for sure... my wife is flabbergasted at my ideas and is constantly shaking her head.. more because she knows she will never see me once this house is built... ha ha I also want to try to get a fridge up there but either way there will be one in there somewhere seeing as we have 2 (extras) in our garage right now pics of said tv and couch... View attachment 7568 View attachment 7569
love the interior decoration the green, red, blue, and yellow, just a combination that can't be beat.
Nate that looks really really nice, you going put a Wagner product in front of your tv in the Man room? I know you want too.
actually I have talked to Mike about it... i was gonna make a seat setup and run it through that screen... he said he has some old frame-work laying around maybe... so yeah I will be talking to him a little more about the setup... but I dont expect 1. Mike to give me a lot of stuff (its not his playpen ha hah ) 2. to be spending a lot of money on fun stuff.. more on the workshop side... ha ha
well we are going to be putting a corn stove in it.. also going to be looking at in-floor heating too... weighing up upfront costs as opposed to long term savings etc... so yeah either way it will be heated.. wouldn't be putting my tv etc into it just to not use it in winter.... ah a
Congrats dude. If you need any help let me know, beth and I will make a trip down to help you out for a weekend. It might cost you some meals though. Looks awesome. Is it going to be a business or is it going to be your garage you help people out of?? P.S. your tv sure could use a cleaning!!
I have many parts etc... just waiting for you to get your butt over here. Nice House!!! I thought you were going to add on. This looks much nicer, where are you building?
Floor heat is the only way to go, the heat is much more even which allows you to run lower temps. I think you might even get some price breaks by making "off peak".
I agree with Mike, Radiant floor heat is the only way to go! My buddy even did part of his driveway. The first 8' out of his garage never needs to be shoveled. Plus, your heating from the bottom up, heat rises...you get the picture.haha His floors are heated by a corn or wood furnace.
looks great. that workshop is HUGE! whenever you finish let me know. I have lotsa people i can send you way for exhuast work. (ok its mainly me)
you need to hurry this project up so I can buy a new car and have you come put some exhaust on it for me..
thanks... I will start a business out of it maybe.. but not so much an official repair shop... looking into other stuff... but I will have a lift and my bender and welder etc... Mike I will try to get over.. not just to score stuff, but to hang out... just haven't had time... working this saturday and last saturday was a loss.... originally it was gonna be on 40 acres... but we have scaled back to a 10 acre lot (mainly cause of Karen's siblings getting pissed about it) but that allows us to focus more of the budget towards the workshop.. yippeeee..... The house is about 2400 square feet... excluding the garage.. it was bigger but we changed some things.. we had a whole room above the normal garage.... but we took taht out and change some other stuff... the thing I like most (besides teh garage) is our bathroom has a 5ft x 5ft shower... gotta like room to play..
I'm sure you've made sure that whatever local zoning codes (if any) will allow you to operate a manufacturing or automotive business out of your residence? If not, you might want to verify that before you build that monster of a shop. Of course, I'd love to have it strictly for my own uses, but it might be hard to justify the extra cost.
technically by zoning its not even a garage but an attached storage facility... my wife has looked into it all for building permits etc... Scott county are pricks... we built an actual business in Scott County so we know what they are like... probably the worst county in the state for zoning issues...
Sweet Nathan. I guess you and I can race to see who gets their lift in first . We will be braking ground on our house and my shop space this spring too. Mine is just personal though not for business. Good luck with everything.
mine is personal... just may make some $$$ out of it thats all... seeing as I have a lot of other equipment to use... will be looking at a brake lathe, tire machine and balancer too... depends on $$$$$
no alignment rack.. but if I need too I can run whatever car I work on to my workplace and use theirs after hours... hush hush I don't have $20G to spend on a rack and aligner...
Sweet. man if you had 40 acres..... :cough: rally-x course :cough: mlgez: where are you building your place?
is that for like in ceiling speakers etc?? I would love to have a decent setup for movies and listening around the house...
We do everything from the basic low voltage (all of the cable/sattellite and phone jacks) to $250,000 home automation systems. But yeah, in ceiling speakers, video and audio distribution. Another huge thing we do are RTI Remotes. All custom programmed for the customer, so that everything can work off single button presses. We were the low voltage company who did the Extreme Home Makeover house earlier this year in Minnetonka.
Not to far from where I am now. We have 4+ acres we have been sitting on for a few years now till I finally got a job. Nathan we should exchange stories as we build and see if we can keep each other out of trouble. Techy you and I might need to talk.
I have an uncle who has an RTI remote, that was never correctly configured by the installer (not you guys) - is there an easy way to get this thing working with some newer components, or does it require some fancy software to update? Logitech Harmony4Life yo
RTI remotes require a custom installer to program. When properly configured, they're darn near as good as an AMX or Crestron (but like $5000 cheaper). The remote programming is 90% custom for every customer. The touchscreens start out blank, and the whole interface is created to meet the needs of the customer. As for harmony, I'm sick to death of mine. Going to get myself a T2C. The harmony's are ok for simple systems, but the build quality is not that great, they've got very poor memory management, and the programming options are so limited it's not even funny. BUT, that does allow people with no training to program them. (no dealing with HEX codes, interface creation, etc...) So for the simple answer, yes it requires someone to configure it, and as long as you have the codes for the equipment you can make almost anything work. He could give us a call. I don't know what the cost of programming is, but he could talk to a salesman about it.
ok so they finally started... and I am just gonna brag, show off or whatever you haters call it.. I dont care... View attachment 11060 View attachment 11061 View attachment 11062 View attachment 11063 ^^^^standing in the middle of the future workshop View attachment 11064 View attachment 11065 View attachment 11066 View attachment 11067 View attachment 11068 View attachment 11069
CMU walls? Haven't seen those in new construction for a while. Everything I've seen in the last several years has been poured in forms or done using ICF. CMU is so much more labor intensive that most builders don't dot it for anything of significant size anymore.
10' finished basement ceilings? Mandatory for proper amateur porn lighting. No envy, I've had 3 co-workers build custom mega homes in the last year...each one of said they'd never do it again... That being said, GL, I think building is fun and look forward to the final product. RallyX course?
that's the point of why we are doing it this way.. we dont plan on doing it again.. this is our home for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX as far as whatever style of block they are using.. we are also in a field with different soil then other counties.. the foundations and things that are built with it are different then how they build 10 miles away too... other then that.. hey they won the bid.. they werent the cheapest they werent the most expensive.. but they also did most of what we needed through the one company
That's huge. The endless list of subs can be annoying. I look forward to seeing the finished product.
keep us updated! as a drafter i love seeing this stuff and seeing this stuff go up in person instead of CAD! so updates would be awseom!
