Took a major step today...we signed with our building contractor today...if all goes well with the building permits we should be standing inside or not quite finished building by the end of December...a lot depends on how the weather holds.
Progress at last!
Posted by R T Thomas (Member # 355) on :
Cooool man........ I can't wait to see it. I'm sure it's gonna be a great shop. Hopefully you'll be in there by the time Fred's meet rolls around!! I guess the pre-meet wine and cheese will be held there this year? See ya, R.T.
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
Hey R.T. If everything goes like it should (and it hasn't yet) we will have a shop warming the nite before Fred's meet(thursday) for all the early comers.
Hope anyone reading this can make it...Fred's meet will as always be a real "hands on" meet and well worth the trip (no matter where you are).
And our parties aint bad either!
Posted by Bill Dirkes (Member # 1000) on :
Congrats Monte. Ya wanna race? I broke ground on 1250sq. ft. of shop on the side of the house in October....2000! All that's left now is the 12x14 garage door, soffits & gutters, insulation, heat& air. Built it with help from my friends ( boy do I owe some favors ). We did every thing but the excavating, I subbed the G-door, & the HVAC. I didn't intend to do so much myself, but had a real hard time gettin subs in to do the work. 8 yrs in the buildin' biz gave me the experience to handle the work. Time was such a huge factor! I needed the space so badly that as soon as the roof was done, I began using the space. Gotta get it buttoned up now, gettin a bit cool out there without the G-door/ insullation.
I'm wonderin if you've found you're gonna save a little $$ from the expected cost due to the droppin cost of money? We had set aside $16G and we'd hoped to get it done for near that amount. When it became apparent that wasn't gonna happen, the trip to the building & loan will wind up saving us almost $200/month!!
I assume you are locked into a construction loan for now, converting when complete? Hope you're as surprised as I was! This is where we were in Feb. 2000 Nah, I don't really want to race...
Good luck.
[ December 02, 2001: Message edited by: Bill Dirkes ]
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
Neat Bill...nah the way things happen around here I wouldn't stick my neck out to "race" either.
But as soon as the construction loan is converted we will be looking for some "better money" (hope the rate is still down by then).
If you started in 2000...you must have some prety good patience your self.
Posted by Arvil Shep' Shepherd (Member # 2030) on :
Hey Guys, I guess you could say that I have patience also............ I started my new shop in Dec 1999, and I have done all the construction myself. It is at this stage now.........I hope to have it finished in summer 2002......The shop also includes a studio/apartment... Oh did I mention the Shop is 300 miles away from where I live now ?????????
