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| H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace Post Number: 456 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 70.212.243.94 Rating: N/A |
As of 3pm today Susan and I are the proud owners of our first acre and home of course. Man, what room there is to park the bus and for our "Bud" to run! Going from a cul-de-sac neighborhood with a 40 foot prevost to an acre is like Bud going from the pound to the penthouse! Well we sure have a LOT of work ahead of us but were up for it! Now if I could only find that contractor to build my workshop? Seems nobody wants to work down here anymore. They sure want the money but that's about it! Oh well... someone will want it bad enough sooner or later! Hey if any of you Florida staying busnuts want to do some odd jobs like painting, plumbing, electrical, just let me know. Oh and the kitchen needs a new ceiling if your up to that task!  Heck you can even park your bus there but it would only be a 20 amper for now until I get the electric in for the busses! Yea were excited... finally opened the door with our OWN key and no lock box and the lights work too! Ace... back to packing! | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 167 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 68.205.196.248 Rating: N/A |
Congrats Ace!! | ||
| Bob greenwood (Bob_greenwood)
Registered Member Username: Bob_greenwood Post Number: 614 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 64.136.27.227 Rating: N/A |
go to a lumberyard,ask if they know a handyman,.........shoot,anybody can put up a building,if you have the $ for lumber. how big a building & is there a slab already? think I saw lots of cement in the picture | ||
| ChuckMC9 (Chucks)
Registered Member Username: Chucks Post Number: 1085 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.105.0.2 Rating: N/A |
Yeah, but will you respect the new minimum wage or just let 'em take the H3 for a long weekend??? Congrats, Ace. | ||
| H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace Post Number: 457 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 216.9.250.6 Rating: N/A |
No wood building for me! I'm looking for a block building to be put up and not everyone can do that. Yes the slab is 50x80 but I'm looking at a 30x30 building. | ||
| Ed Jewett (Kristinsgrandpa)
Registered Member Username: Kristinsgrandpa Post Number: 289 Registered: 2-2003 Posted From: 64.24.209.76 Rating: N/A |
Ace, How are you going to get an H3-40 in a 30X30? Ed. | ||
| Bob greenwood (Bob_greenwood)
Registered Member Username: Bob_greenwood Post Number: 615 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 64.136.49.228 Rating: N/A |
why not build a 50x 30 & then you can add on to it | ||
| H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace Post Number: 458 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 75.201.129.245 Rating: N/A |
I'm building a workshop, not a building for the bus! Later on I would like to put up a pole barn next to the workshop to park the bus under, NOT IN! The view in the yard is too good to destroy it with a large building just to park a bus in and besides a large building to house the bus and other stuff comes with spending a large amount of $$$! Something I really don't want to do right now! If you were there, you would also see that there is always a breeze. Something we are not familiar with because of privacy fences where welive now. This is open and we want to keep it that way if we can! Dogs, it doesn't matter if the building is a 20x20, a 50x30, or a 10x10, they all can be added to later on. I have worked out of a 2 car garage with no place to roam so I figured I would start with a 30x30! Ace | ||
| Kyle Brandt (Kyle4501)
Registered Member Username: Kyle4501 Post Number: 277 Registered: 9-2004 Posted From: 65.23.106.193 Rating: N/A |
I built my shop 24'x40'x12'+high. No matter what you build, it won't be big enough, so leave room to add on later - I wish I had.  I couldn't find a block mason & that's why I did it myself. The best part is knowing I did it. Paying as I went was nice too. I have a 5' block wall with wood frame on top. I sort of dry stacked my blocks (used a dab of mortar at each corner to shim the block square & true). I then used a product called Quick Wall & troweled it on both sides. Nice smooth finish & water proof too. I used a row of 'bond beam' blocks & horizontal rebar & also put vertical rebar every 16" & solid filled the cells with concrete. The walls are 5' high with dirt backfilled against them & no cracks or leaks in 4 years. I just wish I had made it bigger . . . . | ||
| Bob greenwood (Bob_greenwood)
Registered Member Username: Bob_greenwood Post Number: 619 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 64.136.49.228 Rating: N/A |
yep.. I 'dry stacked' block before & then filled the holes with concrete..shove rebar down & fill ... | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 76 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 66.38.159.33 Rating: N/A |
I just wished I had made it bigger... My story: Build a 24by 30 basically for storage 30 years ago when we moved here. Two years later that was doubled to 24x60, then in '79 I sandwiched a section onto it to hold the motorhome. When the bus came along. the last section offcourse was not high nor deep enough. So down it came, poured a 20x48 slab with a pitt( thanks to the advise gleaned here) Build a frame construction building 2x6 walls and well insulated 16ft high, to be able to hold a 14ft door, and now also sandwiched a lean to onto the 16ft wall the depth of the building and 14ft wide, and high enough to hold another bus if need be. this last section is known by the family as my North Annex. To make a long story short: its never big enough!!! Joe. | ||
| niles steckbauer (Niles500)
Registered Member Username: Niles500 Post Number: 697 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 72.91.107.56 Rating: N/A |
Ace would you consider a steel building? | ||
| J.C.B. (Eagle)
Registered Member Username: Eagle Post Number: 97 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 74.130.42.250 Rating: N/A |
Ace you should have an unlimited source of labor in FL. with all of the illegals we have running around in this country. Just kidding. Good luck and enjoy the new place. | ||
| H3-40 (Ace)
Registered Member Username: Ace Post Number: 460 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 75.201.14.12 Rating: N/A |
Niles if the price was right and it would have to be really right! I DO want a block building though but if nothing else a steel building would work! What do you have up your sleeve? Ace |