Breakin Ground

[StinkerBell]

We are actually putting up a building.....
We decided to have a two story metal building put up.
The shell will be built by a builder. We will do all the other work, including the inner up stairs framing.
It is a 36 x 36 building.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

cool beans, stink.  Is it to live in, a barn, or what?

My dad built his house... he's a steel construction worker and built a three bay garage and a 26' by 36' addition to their house out of random scraps from his last several jobs.  I thought building it on the house was a little nuts at first, but it is a really cool addition, and turned out to look really nice, too. (That is, after someone helped him match the paint on the roof... he is color blind and had painted half of it green and about half of it red.)

[StinkerBell]

We plan to make the whole upstairs our living area. Also have a large laundry/bathroom downstairs and a office. The rest of the downstairs will be the garage. its costing about 20.00 a sq foot for them to build. But we will need to do all the insulation, electrical, plumbing and any inner walls we want to divide the upstairs. Oh yes and we will need to put a slab in too. Cool thing is, we do not have to do any out side painting...whoo hoo!

[MountainDon]

No outside painting... VERY NICE. I don't like painting, especially second stories.

[StinkerBell]

MtDon,

It is not the fall that scares me, its the hitting the ground that terrifies me.

[peternap]

MtDon,

It is not the fall that scares me, its the hitting the ground that terrifies me.

No one lives forever!

[StinkerBell]

**chuckle***

[Redoverfarm]

Yeah but Don you do such a fine job at it.

[glenn kangiser]

Sounds great, Stink.  When do we start?  Photos of the complete process, please.

[StinkerBell]

indeed!

I forgot to implement my rule....

I have in the pass implemented the rule that butt crack is not allowed.

This one guy who did our concrete was so entertained by my demand he decided to have some fun. He wore a pair of painters bib pants/farmers pants. Of course with those straps going up and over the shoulder you can see anything....he wore no shirt under it and informed me he had no undies on. He pointed out that I can't see his crack but now I know he ain't wearing anything under his pants. The he laughed most of the afternoon at me. Gotta admit that was funny and very cheeky.

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

"cheeky" indeed.

[Redoverfarm]

Get some duct tape.

[ScottA]

I always wondered this...is it duct tape or duck tape? 

[MountainDon]

The tape is officially called DUCT tape.

There is a company called DUCK Products and even they call their tape DUCT tape.
http://www.duckproducts.com/

[StinkerBell]

That pic is my worse fear!

[BiggKidd]

Get some duct tape.

  I wonder wether they used duck tape or duct tape. Duct tape is much higher quality than duck tape.

Larry

[MountainDon]

I feel the real question should be, "Why?".

[glenn kangiser]

I have seen real "Duck" tape also -- even called "Duck" tape.

Hey Stink -- remember Fred? hmm

[StinkerBell]

Fred, name sounds familiar......

[glenn kangiser]

Need a reminder?

https://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d184/glennkangiser/P1000344.jpg

[muldoon]

We are actually putting up a building.....
We decided to have a two story metal building put up.
The shell will be built by a builder. We will do all the other work, including the inner up stairs framing.
It is a 36 x 36 building.

congratulations strinkerbell, that's awesome.  We are looking at doing a similar thing and still trying to decide what makes the most sense as well.  Are you planning any roof extensions?  Not to distract from the crack discussion but I am curious, what is your plan for plumbing/septic/drains? 

For context, we are looking at 24'x24' metal building with a 24'x30' extension all under a single gable.  That gives a 24x54 slab with only half of it "boxed" in but all of it under a single roof.  We plan to do all interior and finish work as well.  I am still trying to work out some of the planning and details and would like to hear how you guys are thinking of approaching it. 

[glenn kangiser]

We used to take a building and move the endwall to the inside then put the rigid frame outside to have the open area.  Endwalls are only made to support half a span so for snow load you would need to double up the support columns to make it strong enough for the center in place of the rigid frame - from an engineering stand point.

You would need some extra framing, calculating and probably field welding but we did do it.

[StinkerBell]

I will try to get NetHog in here to explain it in a clear vocabulary. I tend to call thing doohickies and thingofmcbobers. NetHog has this wonderful husband ability to interpret my language. Plus he has his engineer background and speaks like 7 different geek languages.

[NetHog]

:confused

Stink said to come in here and "explain"

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to explain?

Stink's fear of buttcrack?

[glenn kangiser]

That would do for a start.