Lets see your garage/shop or any dream garages! - Page 3

JackOlsen · #21 11-30-2012, 04:48 AM

Thanks, guys!

No fridge. No room for it, I'm afraid. And the house fridge is only a few steps away. And a bathroom is right around the corner, too -- the garage and my office are the same detached structure.

I do have an opener, though.

**iluv69s** · #22 11-30-2012, 05:39 AM

Matt....unless you have another garage somewhere that I did not see when I pcked up that rollbar, you just have toooooo much stuff!!! But, heck, I have the same problem here !! ... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

Postsedan · #23 11-30-2012, 10:45 AM

Jack,

Welcome aboard. I too visit...... http://www.garagejournal.com/ on a daily basis.

As soon as I saw the green color, I said...oh Jack must have joined the site.

Garage Journal has inspired me to give my own garage a make over..... story and pics to follow soon.

Cumby, show off that nice new Garage of yours [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/Can-I-Have-It.gif[/img]

Dan

**TDW** · #24 11-30-2012, 12:07 PM

Any of you guys have a "Morton" pole barn type building? I'm working with a rep in Florida on having them build a 60 x 70 x 12 building for me down there.

**rubbinisracing** · #25 12-01-2012, 03:25 PM

Tony,

I considereed Morton before I built my building but decided to another way. Morton offered nice touches to customize the building and let it fit more with the architecture of other structures and appear less of a light industrial look. They are a large nationwide company with a good reputation and stand behind their work. The reason I went elsewhere was 2 fold: (1)cost, they where 50% higher (2)my main building is 100' x 200', morton typically uses trusses to support the roof and this prevented me from having a mezzanine for open storage. The only things I would have done different is built bigger and changed my eave height from 16' to 20/24'.

**TDW** · #26 12-01-2012, 03:53 PM

Howard, now THAT'S a building! I went out this morning and looked a 2 different Morton buildings. They do some nice work. Like you said, they are quite a bit more expensive than a standard building, but the quality sure seems to be there.

**Xplantdad** · #27 12-01-2012, 05:12 PM

Looks good Howard!

Tony...get a place in AZ....so we can cruise together! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

ORIGLS6 · #28 12-01-2012, 10:14 PM

Tony, Contact Thomas Payne. He can give you some first-hand info on his Morton building he had done a couple of years ago. I was at Tom's place yesterday and the new building is NICE!
You can get some detailed information on his entire build here if you have a couple of free months to read it. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

I'll surf through it and try to find the page (or post number) where he begins to chronicle the new building.

Thomas is a great guy and I can assure you he will do his best to answer any questions you might have. He's also a member here (bb767) so you can check his profile for contact info, or PM me and I'll put you in touch with him.

EDIT: The saga of Tom's Shop restoration takes a number of twists 'n turns, but one of the early shots of the "Barn" is on page 39 (depending on your settings), post number 765.

ORIGLS6 · #29 12-01-2012, 10:46 PM

Another thing you may consider: Morton has a economy model building marketed under the Country Craft name. My son lost a metal building to an ice storm a few years ago and replaced it with the Country Craft branding. Although his was more of a utility type structure, I thought it was a good value for the money. 60' x 120' with 14' sidewalls and 12' x 16' sliding doors on two sides; total cost less a concrete floor, ..... $38k.

**TDW** · #30 12-01-2012, 11:05 PM

Thanks Bill. I did follow that thread! Fantastic job. I will shoot him a PM. The 2 buildings that I looked at today are very nice. The worksmanship looks very good too.

Bruce, I spent some time in AZ back in the late 70's. I was in Glendale and Sun City for a while. I remember "Indian School Road and the "Camelback Mountains". What cracked me up was I would be going through a town and in between the commercial buildings, there would be an old run down shack that had goats and donkeys in the yard!