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Wow Wes great progress. Should make for the ultimate retirement shop!

It is coming along very nice! How much weight can you put in the over head storage? I'm sure the no snow helps raise the limit?

The attic storage is rated at 125 psf. I can store engine blocks up there if I need to. Im glad I went to the higher rating, as I'm now researching the possibility of installing a gantry crane system.

My first inspection went well. Only a couple of corrections needed. Add a few brackets to the shear walls and blocking. And add one concrete anchor. Inspector said he'd sign those off at the next inspection and gave the go ahead to install the roof and rough electrical.

Took this pic this morning.

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With the roof and gutters installed, I'll be mounting electrical boxes and running wire soon. And I have a guy lined up to do all the stucco to match the house.

Looks great Wes. Are they putting a roof vent on it? I did that with my current attached garage and dropped the temp drastically in there!

I’ve installed two gable vents at the peaks and there are six eave vents. That gives me almost twice the minimum ventilation that is required by the engineer. It’s been close to or over 100 degrees at our place for weeks and it seems to stay relatively cool ... but of course there aren’t any doors to interfere with air flow right now.

That is looking very nice!

That should be a very nice shop, Wes! It looks kind of dry in your neighborhood, wish I knew how to send you some of our rain!

Great looking building a crane is great I have a 14" steel beam in mine and it is real handy, and Dave when you figure out how to send him rain let me know It won't stop here.

Originally Posted by cffisher

Great looking building a crane is great I have a 14" steel beam in mine and it is real handy, and Dave when you figure out how to send him rain let me know It won't stop here.

We have had 2 or 3 weeks with one or 2 days where we have a rain come through. I saw on the news where they are saying half of our state is still in a drought. Those places must not have been getting all the monsoon rains we were getting....

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Please don't send the rain now!! Don't get me wrong, I love the rain, but I can wait a few months before it shows up here. I'll be digging my trench soon for the electrical and the clay soil here is bad enough to deal with when it's dry. The reality is, there are only a few days per year when the ground is soft enough to dig through easily. It's either hard as concrete (and full of 4" stones), or so saturated that it sticks to everything like sculptors modeling clay. The joke around here is to find the 15 minutes every year that its workable. I'd settle for a few days with temperatures in the 80's.

I understand the digging part. My last shop is to far from house to dig ditch so just had them run a new service to it. Much better than overloading home service. So I get two electric bills.

i love my electric company . they will run up to 1k foot to install a new pole. when i built it was 940 ft to my place. i ran underground to house and shop . but i aint digging a trench by hand . i'll rent a trencher .

Wes when I moved to my new house 2 years ago the Petaluma Adobe soil is exactly as you describe minus the rocks. I litteraly waited until late April to run a 50 foot gutter trench for drainage pipe. Every single spadeful had to be cut off the shovel with a garden knife, the adobe might as well be supper glue! This summer I waited too long to dig two post holes 24 inches deep each. The soil was close to hard pan for the first 18 inches until I hit moisture. Timing is exactly how you describe!

you can dig a trench pretty quick with a pressure washer . cuts a trench and leaves it full of water so digging is much easier. my soil is sandy clay. wet it's too slick to walk on , dry it is like concrete .

Originally Posted by stovens

... Every single spadefull had to be cut off the shovel with a garden knife, the adobe might as well be supper glue! ...

Used the backhoe on my little Kubota to dig out a raised area in our front yard. Had to do the same with each each bucket full. We’re moving a few plants around the property and each hole has to be at least twice the size of a normal transplant and filled with amendments. It’s like planting everything in clay pots.