Just for "interest" in shop building and wild spaces and the kinds of things we like to do (all of us).... The plan for the new house here had about 4500 square feet of shop space UNDER the house... tall enough to take in the "rig" etc.
Well --- as it turns out -- to do that we'd have to haul off 20,000 cubic yards of dirt... that's 2,000 dump truck loads -- and where they'd have to haul it and then make that a round trip -- would equal 46,000 "truck miles". There's even more too it - but that gets complicated to explain. So that "shop" is O U T.....
We're now designing a more normal shop what will be a separate building on the property. A lot less dirt to be moved... and a lot less concrete... The other one just became an OMG...
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