The new Farrington Garage/Shop build

[coolwelder62]

Lookin good Tom.

[tommycomfort]

Just a quick update with some pictures. Finishing the rafters seemed to take forever and now putting up the purlins for the metal roof on the 16" on center rafters is crazy tedious. But, it all has to get done...

I had family help with all the rafters except the last four. I never want to try that again by myself!


Both cars temporarily stored after returning from Bowler Transmission's Day at the Strip event.


Another almost $1400 in lumber! Not sure where all my buddies that are into crossfit are while we're loading and unloading material..


Just some rafter pictures



Hours of working on purlins only got us half way up one side.


And here is where we were as of last night. Tough to see upstairs but we started putting in the ceiling joists to tie the rafters together and give it more stability before moving on.

[wiedemab]

I'd make whoever marked up your new floor scrub those off!



Sadly, I don't have anything that is even fun to do a burnout in anymore - -the 'Burb will barely spin one tire on smooth concrete!

Garage is looking AWESOME!

You probably feel like this though - - >

[tommycomfort]

Originally Posted by wiedemab

I'd make whoever marked up your new floor scrub those off!

You probably feel like this though - - >

That's exactly how we feel! The 275's made such nice black marks on the floor I was thinking about putting a set of 335's right next to them.

[bonecrrusher]

Tom - shop is looking awesome.

Are you putting in garage doors where the header panels are for the part of the garage that has the roof up?

Your shop is HUGE!!!!

[tommycomfort]

Originally Posted by bonecrrusher

Tom - shop is looking awesome.

Are you putting in garage doors where the header panels are for the part of the garage that has the roof up?

Your shop is HUGE!!!!

Thanks Craig! As of right now the plan is to put some sort of home made "barn" doors on the paint room side and we're thinking of a clear plastic strip hanging curtain deal for the machine room. We made the rough openings big just in case we changed our minds on anything. The paint room opening is wide enough to get our trailer shoved in without too much trouble.

[waynieZ]

Its coming along nice.

[coolwelder62]

Tom,Lookin Great.There's nothin like the feeling of building a new Garage/Shop.I wish I could be there to help out.I hated building/Framing to pay the bill's.But love doing it for Fun!!!!!!

[tommycomfort]

Originally Posted by coolwelder62

Tom,Lookin Great.There's nothin like the feeling of building a new Garage/Shop.I wish I could be there to help out.I hated building/Framing to pay the bill's.But love doing it for Fun!!!!!!

I feel the same way Scott. I remember even though we needed the money in the worst kind of way, I would hope for heavy rain and lightning so I could get a day off..

[tommycomfort]

Yep, I've been meaning to update the build thread for a long time now and couldn't quite get to it. I have figured out the problem though. During the summer/fall when we stopped working at 6-8 pm we still had plenty of light so I could get decent pictures and update what we had just done. So, now it gets dark at 5 pm and we work until we can't see anymore and then clean up. At that point, we can't get updated pictures so I don't feel like showing stuff that is even one day behind. Oh well, just how my short circuited brain works...

Lots of things slowing us down including jobs, weather and moving out of the old shop but we're still pushing forward even in the bad weather.

First set of pictures is moving out of the old shop. It was 28x44', two stories and we built it right at ten years ago. Minus a couple of trips overseas, we have been working in it for that long. Before we started going to P-T events and while we were building the 66 we traveled the country picking up Chevelle parts cars and of course just stored massive amounts of parts that we would probably never use. And honestly, it seems like since we put the 66 on the road in 2010 it has been one whirlwind thrash after another. I say all that to say the shop was cluttered and not easy to move. Even though I had a lot of friends offer to help, I only bugged a few when the time came. Deb's parents did come down a few days early for Thanksgiving with the purpose of helping us move. We abused that relationship to the max... Great in-laws and incredibly hard workers!

Upstairs before


Upstairs after


We moved everything out of the upstairs so we could "organize" as much as possible.




Completely moved out. Fairly sad when I handed over the key to the buyer.


Basically two 16 hour days and one 6 hour day. Three trips with a large U-haul and countless trips with the truck and trailer. Wow!