Can YOU build a shop, garage or building YOURSELF? We built this 5000 sq. ft shop OURSELVES!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This video covers our journey of building a 5000 sq. ft. steel building by ourselves. We use it as a workshop, storage and we also enclosed 900 sq. ft. that is climate controlled for a nice workspace for my wife. It has a full bathroom, complete with a shower, toilet and sink to be able to wash up after working for the day.
We unfortunately were in a time crunch so we didn't take a ton of video but I put together this video using clips of videos and photos of I am hoping it helps someone who may be wondering "Can I build a building myself?" The answer is YES, we did it and I am sure you can too if you have the desire.
I cover the process we went through from finding a building manufacturer, getting the concrete done and the full construction process of erecting the building from start to finish. I didn’t go into detailed instructions on each of the steps in this video because there are tons of other resources out there for that and I’ll be adding some below. I will also be posting a follow up video with the mistakes we made, things we learned, what I would have done different and what tools were the most helpful during the build. This video is meant to just be an overview of what we accomplished so be sure to subscribe and I will be posting follow up videos that are more in-depth of specific areas of the construction process.
Here is a great PDF guide from another building manufacturer that I found to be very helpful. www.bucksteel....
Opps, I somehow traveled back in time 20 years when I was in the truck driving to do the concrete pour and said it was 2001. It was actually 2021. I'm thinking that the pain meds must have been the issue because I wasn't going 88mph 🙂
i was literally going to say, "Did you travel back in time? "..lol
great video. i hope you enjoy that awesome building you have !
god bless
2001 lol sorry. still gets me.
Amazing. This was extremely helpful.
Getting ready to build my metal building. This was and is a great help. I appreciate the effort and extra time it must take to produce a video like this. Thanks for doing that! Owe you a beer...or a few.
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the compliments. I'm learning this video editing stuff and how UA-cam works. Planned to take more video but we were under a time crunch to get it complete so that took a backseat to getting it complete.
Great video y’all, cool seeing your daughter working too. My brothers and I are building our own buildings here in Texas. We’re building almost 35,000 sqft between three shops, and are done with our automotive paint shop and car showroom to house our collection, and are working on the cnc metal fabrication building now. We also tried UA-cam, but quit after a year when we failed to grow much. Our channel was called Coyote Ranch if your interested, it was a fun experiment while it lasted. Best of luck on y’all’s future endeavors!
Sounds awesome! My two daughters and son were regulars in the evenings and weekends and we couldn’t have done it without them. It was a good life lesson to them that A. You can accomplish anything you set your mind too and B. Hard work and dedication will produce positive results.
I’ll check the channel out for sure. Maybe when things settle down, you can try posting again.
Very informative . Thank you
You're welcome
Great vid. Guess you won't need to worry about termites or snow loading 😉
Nope! I did treat for termites though since we did build out one area of the inside. As far as snow, we don’t get any down here in the florida panhandle. Hurricanes are what we have to worry about though. This building is 155mph rates and we did the foundation similar to one that the concrete guys did on the beach. The concrete where the posts go is 3’ deep and the posts where the lean to is are 3x3x3. Hopefully that helps WHEN the next one hits.
hi there great job well done john
Thank you for the compliment.
46000?!?!? thats a steel!
Thanks for the video! What year did you build this? I'm pricing options for an identical shop and they seem to be double what your quote was. Thanks!
Built one myself 40x72 two of Us. And at times one extra person.
What bis the LxWxH and size of this column?
? It doesn't appear that you removed the grass before adding backfill for slab. If so Why?
Trust me, I thought the same thing and brought it up. The concrete company I used said it wouldn’t really matter since we brought in several inches of dirt and packed it on the top. They have been doing concrete for over 25 years so I trusted their advice and it’s been fine so far.
@@fnitup is your soil sandy?
Organic rebar..
@@chadz2143not really. It’s farm land that hasn’t been farmed on about 15 years. It’s more clay based. The fill dirt we used was a sand and clay mix that packs very well and we had some rain between putting it down and repacking it again. It was very hard. As mentioned earlier, we haven’t had any issues and hope we don’t. We’ve got expansion joints every 12.5 feet as well.
Now that you got the 5K sq ft shop built attach a 10K storage shed off the back, so the shop will remain a shop and not become a storage shed..
Ain't that the truth! My wife said "5000 sq. ft? That's way too big for what you need". I told her, I'm getting what I want and that's final. We did built one area that is two story with good storage on top and I built tons of shelves for it. Hope to have the video for the inside done in a few weeks, got a few other projects in the works that are making it a mess and hard to shoot right now.
Why did you not take the grass out from underneath your building?
I asked the concrete company if we should and he said it didn’t need to be removed for what we were doing. He’s been doing concrete for 30 years so I took his word. I’ve known him for several years as well so didn’t question it. We haven’t had any issues with cracking or shifting.
@@fnitup
Give it time to rot. Organic needs to go. I am sure if you just took out about 6 inches or less would been much better.
Same with compacting, no such thing as too much.
Great video
Thanks for sharing
I was kinda grimacing as you narrated all the prep work you did for the slab concrete floor imagining the damage you were doing to your back. My sister had a similar surgery, went back to work not long after rehab and 3 years later was in pain again with the same aggravated back injury. You should take it easy for a couple of years or you'll be having the exact same back issues.
Thanks for the suggestion. The surgeon that did the surgery is a good friend and I asked him how it happened and what I could go to prevent it in the future from happening again. He is actually the head of the orthopedics department so I trust his suggestions which were, that working smart won’t cause issues but it’s important to keep back strength up through exercise to help. I had some spurs along the spine and that is what was the main cause of my issue.
Unfortunately, I do have numbness in my left foot now and probably never will return to normal and it causes some foot fatigue when it is numb for a while. Honestly, sitting does more harm that working and that kind of sucks because my day job as an IT manager and programmer has me sitting in a chair a bunch. I did get a motorized desk and try to stand as often as possible.
I’m with you though, I’m not getting any younger and can’t bounce back like I did when I was a spring chicken.
@@fnitup May I suggest an exercise that helped me stay pain free at 65. Our spine has a natural curvature. Find a sturdy wall, lean on the wall facing it, back up and spread your hands and legs like you're getting arrested and do push ups on the wall while stretching your back as far a you can. I also do hip rotations while in that position. Avoid bending to lift heavy objects. Bend your knees keep your back straight before lifting anything. Always be mindful of your posture. Don't slouch specially at our age. Lifting heavy things and working long hours inflicts compression strain on your vertebrae and the disc that was operated on. The only way to recover is to avoid manual labor for at least a year. Limit your exercise to stretching and brisk walking. Have a back decompression therapy once a week or two. It will help with the numbness on your foot. I had a bad fall from 35 feet in my twenties. I should be dead or paralyzed but something caught me and I survived liked nothing happened. From then on, I am never careless with anything I do. Take care Sir.
$200k, or more?
That's what it would have been had I had someone do it. I'm about to post a video that covers all costs. Not sure what today's prices would be, but it was $110K for everything you saw in the video.
Great, so some contractors were used..
We hired the concrete guys to pour and finish the concrete. No way I wanted to tackle that. Everything else we did ourselves.
So your video says you built this yourself but actually you didn’t build it yourself. You hired everything out and paid to have it built and bought framing put together. You should have said you semi played a contractor role.
ok. thanks for the comment.