Mark,
Starting about 2000 I built a 30'x40' (1200 sq.ft.) shop with a 22'x40'
(900 sq.ft.) apartment on top of it for about $50k.
The shop has 10' ceilings, a 12'x7' office and bathroom with shower.
The walls are 2x6's. I covered the walls with white pegboard and the
ceiling with corrugated metal for reflectivity.
The apartment is 2x4 construction, 2 bedroom, 1 bath.
Granted that was 10 years ago, but I think you should be able to do your
shop for less. My wife and I built about 90% of it ourselves, with some
help framing by friends and grandkids. The stairs up to the apartment
took much longer to build than I thought they would, 22 days!
I'd attach some pictures, but they won't go through. The apartment is
documented at http://www/silentvalleytx.com. If anyone is interested in
exterior pictures I can put them up on line also.
Peace,
Pat
Thusly spake Mark Andy, On 5/13/2009 4:15 PM:
> Howdy,
>
> Ok, so per my previous messages, I started with this plan:
>
> http://justgarageplans.com/63/plan-detail/2303.php
>
> Various $$/sq. foot estimates later, I decide that $40/ft^2 is
> probably what I should use for the shell construction. A little math
> gets me $70k, using 40x44.
>
> That's too much.
>
> So my next thought is to build it in stages... That design really
> seems to be a 26x33 building married to a 17x39 building, so my
> thinking is to build the "regular height" garage first, use it for my
> immediate needs, and expand it later when I get around to actually
> buying a lift...
>
> So now what I'm looking for is an inexpensive way to generate some
> drawings & a bill of materials for a 32' wide, 30' long stick built
> garage. I want to do things like have 2x6 walls, locate windows where
> I want them, have overhead storage, etc. But the resulting building
> really would be quite basic.
>
> Is there any building designer software that would let me dictate
> basic things like this and would then generate drawings / list of
> materials? In an ideal world it would even let me do stuff like
> calculate header sizes for openings, etc.
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> Mark
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