RV Garage Addition (Don't have or want an RV)

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Refused delivery, contacting JMC tomorrow morning

 

[RCP Phx]

OUCH, that's a major setback! Hopefully their claims adjuster is working hard on this!

 

[macgyvr]

Looks like it was in a demo derby...

mac 'smash and crash' gyvr

 

[lesslimited]

This one looks a lot better, so far.
It's not even dusty since I drove through a torrential sideways downpour part of the way home. Looked like it was going to pour here also so I threw a tarp on it and did some other stuff. Of course we never got any rain here.

 

[Goose_XJ88]

After stripping the forms, next step was to get ready for the slab. When I built the house, lower level was just intended for storage and my woodworking shop.

So I didn't do a bathroom, just a utility sink. Then I finished a 16x20' room at the bottom of the stairs, and was starting to think that a bathroom would be nice. So that got added to the garage.


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So Now that you have the space, walls up, been in use for a little bit; I have a few questions.

1. Would you do anything different? If your land would have allowed for it, would you have preferred building the other way with more doors?
2. Are you going to build a loft for extra storage?
3. Is the 24' x 38'-8" the total building size including the bathroom? What size is the vehicle area and does it need to be bigger? (seems tight for the rare occurrence of needing to stuff 4 cars inside)
4. What size is the roll-up door?
5. What is the layout plan for the lift? looking forward to seeing the flow of the space with the lift installed.

 

[lesslimited]

So Now that you have the space, walls up, been in use for a little bit; I have a few questions.

1. Would you do anything different? If your land would have allowed for it, would you have preferred building the other way with more doors?
2. Are you going to build a loft for extra storage?
3. Is the 24' x 38'-8" the total building size including the bathroom? What size is the vehicle area and does it need to be bigger? (seems tight for the rare occurrence of needing to stuff 4 cars inside)
4. What size is the roll-up door?
5. What is the layout plan for the lift? looking forward to seeing the flow of the space with the lift installed.

1. This was the only way I could do it. If we didn't have the wash on the side there, I definitely would have gone a little wider and put an additional door on that side.
Another door next to the existing one would have detracted from the looks of the house. Two garage doors on one side is enough.
2. No plans for a loft, don't need an excuse to collect more stuff. I do have more wall space for shelves if needed, but what I really need to do is get rid of some stuff, can't even keep track of what I already have.
3. Yes that's the total size including the bathroom. Kinda wish I had put it elsewhere in the lower level but that would have been a lot more work.
And I couldn't make it any smaller even though it does make it a little tight for two jeeps there.
4. That's a 12' wide x 14' high door. 14' wide would have made it easier to get the front two jeeps in and out.
5. The lift is going in the back, which will cut the capacity down to 3 vehicles, unless I put one up on the lift and another beneath it.
Probably one of my first uses of the the lift will be to strip the the 96 of useable parts and scrap the rest.

 

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Getting the lift off the trailer and into the garage turned into a major project. Long story, but I wound up driving an old Bobcat 2.3 miles uphill to get it done

 

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[RCP Phx]

They did a great job on turn-around time. Since you don't have a depressed/reinforced slab you need to pay particular attention to the anchors you use! Make sure you shim/grout the bases as needed.

 

[Goose_XJ88]

3. Yes that's the total size including the bathroom.
5. The lift is going in the back, which will cut the capacity down to 3 vehicles, unless I put one up on the lift and another beneath it.
Probably one of my first uses of the the lift will be to strip the the 96 of useable parts and scrap the rest.

so overall width of the front section is around 20' wide or so without the bathroom?

 

[lesslimited]

They provided Hilti anchors, six for each column, and shims. I did drill all the way through the concrete on one, but it still torqued to 150 ft/lb

 

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The setup I use to run my Floorplan Plus for Windows 3.1 won't let me take a screenshot, so here's a picture of my screen complete with XJs to scale.

 

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Got the big parts up today

 

[RCP Phx]

Looking great! I have the same home design program issue as it runs 3.1 but I don't have a tower that runs 3.1 or Zip Discs, LOL

 

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Finished assembling it this afternoon, held off on putting an XJ on it until this evening, didn't want to let too much hot air in.

 

[macgyvr]

They provided Hilti anchors, six for each column, and shims. I did drill all the way through the concrete on one, but it still torqued to 150 ft/lb

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Those are the same fasteners i used for my lift install.

mac ‘so far so good’ gyvr

 

[REWSTER]

Looking good. Like the beer for scale on the floor anchor.

 

[lesslimited]

Been most of a year, figured I'd give an update. I did add more shelves, mostly for jeep parts since I scrapped the 96. Last fall I decided to throw the winter tires on it, to guarantee that we wouldn't get snow. Checked the brakes while I had the wheels off and discovered the fronts were almost gone, rear passenger cylinder had been leaking for awhile, driver's side was also. Then I started looking at all the rust and decided that it just wasn't worth it.








I guess one good thing about the rusty floors is that I found the screwdriver that I used to pry up the carpet when I installed the power mirror wiring...

 

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Pulled the axles, engine, trans, and almost everything else usable

 

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Got $94 for it at Prescott U-Pick-It