30x30 2 story garage and connector

Motown 454 · Oct 9, 2009

Very nice build ,you'll have plenty of room.

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

Took a ride down to a warehouse surplus place to check out some pallet racking.. holy cow, if anyone needs heavy duty shelving for a garage, there is nothing better.. its reasonably priced and readily available and super heavy duty. After talking to the guy, I'm going to end up getting 4 10ft uprights (they cut down if needed), 24 108" crossbeams, and 24 sections of wire decking. In the end, it should end up being a 10ft high 28ft long run 42" deep with 3 shelving sections with 4 shelves each. Going to use one section as a workbench.. should be plenty rugged as each shelf will hold like 4000lbs

The place I went to is www.aasurplusinc.com, they have some stuff shown on their site, but they have tons more actually in stock

Frank Elson · Oct 10, 2009

Pallet racking is well made stuff, but then, when you get a shelf four foot wide and eight foot up, putting stuff up there, and getting it down again, can be a bit of a pain...

Sometimes 12 inch wide shelving can be more user friendly.

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

yeah, you do have a point.. but I'm probably going to install a cheap electric hoist on a rail so that I can get things up and down more easily

hondad · Oct 10, 2009

This is my favourite build so far. :thumbup:

I`m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

jocool1585 · Oct 10, 2009

Good call on the pallet racking use in the garage! The great thing is that you can always reconfigure it in the future if your needs change. Great looking build! What are you going to heat the space with?

posaune · Oct 10, 2009

Cryptic1911 said:
I'm in CT, and the side faces my old garage and the side of someone elses house. I didn't want any windows in the garage downstairs (things grow legs around here), and since its going to be a big open loft upstairs, I needed one wall without windows. The one on the connector side is going to have a bathroom and a small kitchen

I just found this thread and *thought* it looked like a CT house. Nice build! What is going in the new space? I see a bunch of VWs in those pics...

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

going to heat it with a hot dawg gas heater like my other garage. as far as whats going in it, the new gti and jetta and a lift after i'm not so broke.. LOL

M-technik-3 · Oct 10, 2009

Very nice build you have there, where in CT is that? I live in Mass, wish I could build that close to road without zoning issues.

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

its in willimantic

M-technik-3 · Oct 10, 2009

Buddy of mine lives in Willimantic

Love the golf V on the OZ futura's.

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

actually they are copies of OZ Mito's.. but close

M-technik-3 · Oct 10, 2009

Darn those are nice got a link to them? They would look killer on my M.

OUNATE · Oct 10, 2009

AWesome E30!

Cryptic1911 · Oct 10, 2009

yeah they would look killer on there.. they are miro stp-3's in 19x8.5 5x112 bolt pattern, but I have seen them in 5x120 and real low offsets like down into the 20's for BMW fitments. I got mine at www.ngpracing.com, but I've seen them on a few other sites and ebay as well. Just google it and look for a place that offers them in BMW fitments

if you get some, link me to a pic.. I think they look incredible on anything

Cryptic1911 · Oct 16, 2009

Here's some new updates:

They put in some temporary stairs:

Framed in a bathroom upstairs:

Roof is completely done, all the tyvek is up, they put up a short roof over the garage doors, an entrance roof, and the people doors are in:

darkzschneider · Oct 17, 2009

looken great!

Cryptic1911 · Oct 24, 2009

Got us some garage lighting this morning.. had a manager at Walmart order us 30 of their 4' dual t8 fixtures ($9.82 ea item#1164918). Its gonna be daylight in there :laugh:

Loadre · Oct 24, 2009

No such thing as too much light.

Can't wait to see it all lit up.

Motofixxer · Oct 24, 2009

Light is good but just make sure to use multiple switches for different areas or every other light kind of thing. That way you turn on what you need and you don't cause brown outs in Venezuela cuz you walked in to grab the mower.

I also put 2 switched outlets in the ceiling so I can just flip on any kind of task light or whatever I want to mount.

autoist · Oct 24, 2009

I'm waiting to see the whole thing, house & new addition...bet it isn't going to look like a tall garage; but, just a garage under the housee's 2nd floor.

Cryptic1911 · Oct 24, 2009

Motofixxer said:
Light is good but just make sure to use multiple switches for different areas or every other light kind of thing. That way you turn on what you need and you don't cause brown outs in Venezuela cuz you walked in to grab the mower. I also put 2 switched outlets in the ceiling so I can just flip on any kind of task light or whatever I want to mount.

yeah, putting in 3 switches, one for each bay and one for the workarea lights over the bench / shelving at the back

JBAUTO · Oct 28, 2009

Wow i realy liked this a big 30x30 garage with a addition to the house.

I wanna see more pics.

ckgdrums · Oct 28, 2009

What a great project! Tons of space!

viper522 · Oct 28, 2009

Wow that really looks good. I have a question which anybody can answer. Where does one get funds for such a transformation? I've just bought my first house and I can't imagine coming up with another $100k for a big add-on like this.

KMR Construction · Oct 28, 2009

Work hard, save money where and when you can, and be paitent. Also wait till you have enough equity to take a loan ot build

Winning the lottery would work to

honda-boy · Oct 28, 2009

Just read tru the entire tread, great looking addition to the house :thumbup:

cashishift · Oct 28, 2009

why didn't you just make the roof of the addition and the old house the same instead of making 2 seperate heights for the one part there before it meets up to the high roof of the garage?

Cryptic1911 · Oct 28, 2009

cashishift said:
why didn't you just make the roof of the addition and the old house the same instead of making 2 seperate heights for the one part there before it meets up to the high roof of the garage?

just to break it up a little.. the old part is at an angle compared to the addition, so it would just look weird coming to a point at the same height

Motown 454 · Oct 28, 2009

It looks great.

Cryptic1911 · Nov 6, 2009

CL&P are a bunch of retards.. We paid them to put in a new pole about 8ft past the current poles, and remove the existing ones (yes, old one and a newer one) to make room for the new driveway

They show up a week and a half ago, see the newer of the two poles currently there and go "oh, someone already swapped it" and drove back to the shop. Apparently they didn't read the work order since they were supposed to be installing a 3rd pole and taking out the two that are there.

The supervisor confirmed that the crew had a misunderstanding and they would be back out. Cool. Ok, so yesterday I get home and there's a new 3rd pole where its supposed to be.. the two old poles are STILL there, and they didn't move any of the wires to the new pole yet.. and of course, the new pole is set back about a foot from the old poles, so they can't just hook the wires and yank the old poles.. they have to let the wires dangle while removing the old poles. Gotta wonder sometimes.

One good thing is that the insulation guys showed up this morning to blow insulation into the walls on the old part of the house. Hopefully this doesnt turn into a *********** of epic proportions like the telephone pole

Cryptic1911 · Nov 7, 2009

nothing new on the "build", but we did get a bunch of FREE storage cabinets and assorted other things today:

2x 5'x2' wooden workbenches with countertops
3x 4 level storage cabinets 42 & 36"
1x 36" stand up storage cabinet
1x 2 drawer cabinet
2x stools
6x 3'x18" plastic bin hanging sheets
~30 "akrobin"plastic bins
10ft ladder
1000' box of cat6 cable
1000' box of belden rg6 cable
rackmount ups

onewaydave · Nov 8, 2009

Now, this is what I call a home improvement project!

Cryptic1911 · Nov 20, 2009

not a ton happening lately.. things are slowing down since we have to wait for other people.. CL&P FINALLY removed the two old telephone poles and moved everything to the new pole, so we were able to put in the trench and the conduit for the electrical service. Also got a bunch more bins to hang on the wall.. have a total of 19 large yellow, 28 medium blue, and 73 small reds

and here's the bins.. they are all wrapped in plastic and stuff, but there's a ton of them

Motown 454 · Nov 21, 2009

You can never have too much storage.

Cryptic1911 · Nov 24, 2009

We had some schedule 30 & 40 pipe delivered, and the guys came back out to fill in the trench for the conduit, then dig a new one over the top of that to accomodate the drainage:

floridaguy · Nov 24, 2009

Nice build, well documented can't what to see the project complete. :thumbup:

Cryptic1911 · Nov 25, 2009

Today they finished putting in the drain pipes, pulled the stump by the road, graded the front yard a bit, finished taking out the old driveway, and put down some stone so that we can drive into the garage.

Old driveway coming out:

New temp driveway- cement probably wont be til springtime or so

Drain pipe in the back going in:

Tamping down the stone in the driveway so we can drive on it:

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Sorta finished front yard and driveway from the street

From the garage:

autoist · Nov 25, 2009

'Zat gonna be the largest house in the neighborhood?

Cryptic1911 · Nov 25, 2009

it was already.. all the other houses are small single story, this one was a small two story

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