Chevy & GMC Vans

Ok, here are the plans I spoke of last week. Let me know what you think. You can see all of them on my website. My boy did the computer ones in ACAD in school. The hand drawn ones came out light so they might be hard to see.











Let me know if anyone is available to help build Phase I this spring...

Looks Good. I would add that, You might want to rethink your lift placement in phase two. Give yourself room for two lifts. How thick is your pad going to be in phase two? Jim

Edit: Oh, almost forgot, how tall is your ceiling in phase two?

Nice shop, god I miss my shop.
I'm down to a single garage with an attached workshop at the moment. It serves it's purpose but it looks like your planning a real man-cave.
When I did my exstention on my old garage I too had future plans for a hoist. I had 16' from the floors to the bottom of the rafters and 4' concrete colunms under the slab where the 2 post hoist was to bolted to the floor. If your going to go with a 4 post hoist you could get away with 4-2' colunms. Just make sure your on good bearing ground and the proper frost coverage before you start banging nails.
Hire a geo-tech during and after excavation is complete to guarantee you have no settlement issues in the future. Make sure he has an Eng. at the end of his name, then you have no worries.

Happy hammering.

I,ve been operating heavy equipment for 31 years.
Peter

astroturf wrote:Looks Good. I would add that, You might want to rethink your lift placement in phase two. Give yourself room for two lifts. How thick is your pad going to be in phase two? Jim

Edit: Oh, almost forgot, how tall is your ceiling in phase two?

5" floor with 6" where the lift will be. 10' foot side walls and the ceiling will be raftered. where the lift will start (with a 8/12 pitch) it will be 15' at the front and gradually higher as you go inward. Not sure i would ever use two lifts??? There is just one me...

Jesus, 5-6" of concrete!!! What are you going to be building, tanks.

2nd lift would double your parking/storage of project vehicles. They also make rollaround 4 posts lifts. Just a thought.

All the photo's are ready now on my website. I had to "share" them.

I second the idea of a second lift. You never know when you'll need it. Perhaps, for example you're in the middle of a project on your van and your other vehicle needs some attention. Or maybe a friend wants to borrow it and you can help him out. The more the merrier I say.

Yeah really...what's another $3k for the second lift?

That is gonna be one hell of a nice shop! I like the TV...errr...I mean how-to video watching room. Is that a bathroom in the other corner? What are you doing for heat?

LiftedAWDAstro wrote:Yeah really...what's another $3k for the second lift?

That is gonna be one hell of a nice shop! I like the TV...errr...I mean how-to video watching room. Is that a bathroom in the other corner? What are you doing for heat?

The plan is a Shower and toilet bath. I have a wood stove that will be installed along with a used central air (propane) and heat 3.5 ton unit. I will have in floor zoned heat for the shop area. This will be a small homemade system. That way the floor is nice and comfortable should you decide to take a nap during a tranny removal.

I really limited on room so I might end up making phase II longer and a little wider space permitting. This year will be Phase I and I might start the utilities for phase II. Phase III might happed in three- five years if I stop buying vehicles...

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Is that a bathroom in the other corner? quote]

Phase I and II the bathroom will be the back door for #1. #2 will necessitate a walk across the driveway to the house...

Paint booth/body work/sand blast work area??.

1Gary wrote:Paint booth/body work/sand blast work area??.

Your killing me Gary!

Yes that was all in my original design but when I started to run the numbers, something had to go. Remember, I'm building this. There won't be any contractor’s involved and this build will be on a tight budget.

I also ran out of room. We have four kids at home and my plan is to build something good enough until they all leave. Then if we are all still around, cash in on my investment and build a smaller house and shop to suit my age and abilities.

Wow, great design.

Regarding the hoist placement, even if you don't add a 2nd one, consider that you may have a project up on the hoist and still need to work on something else also. My brother's hoist is often tied up while he fits in another quick project next to it. Or he has a long term project on the floor in one bay and can still hoist something for a quick in and out service.