My New Shop

[pierhogunn]

sweet haul... very sweet

[pelligrini]

Therein lies the question. Building is stick built, but I have a plan. Shingles are 4 yrs old. Roof is rafters+collar ties. Will it be possible to knock the sheathing off from the inside to save as many shingles as possible or is it easier just to do a tearoff and reroof at my house?

I think if you try to save the roofing you're just begging for problems; structural and waterproofing. The roof decking really should be fastened properly to the rafters with a good nailing pattern. Getting a proper pattern will entail putting nail penetrations through the shingles. Then you'd have to seal them. Getting all the seams patched & sealed would be difficult too.

Getting the roof pieces back togeather and watertight wouldn't be easy either. Even a 4x8 section with the existing shingles would be pretty darn heavy. Not exactly something you could slide around either as the roofing nails are usually penetrating the sheathing. Then there's the longer decking/rafter fasteners too. Do they get backed out through the decking, paper & shingles or flattened?

I'm guessing the roofing is headed for a dumpster.

[cgallery]

Too bad there is a fence and it is so far. I once saw one of those giant flat-bed tow trucks drop its rear-end and pull an entire building not much smaller than up and onto its bed. It actually went really fast.

I spoke to the operator of the truck and he said when they got it to the new location that the owner of the building was going to use some large trees and a winch to pull it back off the bed.

In any event, that is a neat gloat and I can't wait to hear/see more.

[chopnhack]

um....crockett, what exactly did you commit yourself to here?
if its stick built and the rafters are collar tied, you bought a load of lumber (essentially). The roof is pretty much nixed as Pellegrini mentioned, there is a way to do it, but IDK that it would be worth the heavy machinery to do it and the labor involved to patch all the seams. You will have to reroof. While the roof is still attached you could removed the shingle though, that should save you some time and weight. Is there wiring in the walls? If you take the walls apart in sections, you will have to plan on adding outlets were you cut the walls/wiring so that you have a means of tieing together the electrical system. Are the walls finished or open stud? Are the roof/walls insulated? Yikes, buddy...you got alot of variables going on there...or i dont understand your situation clearly. For comparison, you might want to do a price list for what is required to rebuild what you would receive in this deal and what it would take from scratch to build it. Factor in time and labor. Good luck!

[crokett]

The price for materials alone is worth it. Labor is the same for the reroof whether I buy this shop or the pieces at Lowes. Actually it is less since all the lumber is precut. Price includes the service panel in the shop + the lights, cabinets and the assembly table/work bench + the 80' or so of wire from the house to the service panel. I

the walls inside are finished with ply. Ceiling is sheetrocked. We will remove the ply enough to get access to the wiring, then disconnet it and roll it back so I ccan rewire and then hang the ply again.

He also has 2 guys to help with the dismantling and wil haul off the shingles and sheetrock and whatever other debris there is. I couldn't ask for a better setup.

[dmo]

Congrats on the find! I hope you have the time or have someone who is willing to take pictures of the process for us.

[Ed62]

Congrats, David. I know you'll have a good time getting everything set up the way you want it.

Ed

[chopnhack]

Cool then! Expect to spend a lot of time with the dismantle so that nothing is damaged. Take lots of photos!

[SARGE..g-47]

Congratulations.. good luck and have fun moving that boy.. It was a nice acquisition.

[crokett]

Oh, one other thing that affected the decision making process... I was at work Tuesday and my wife emails me a link. It was to the shop listing on Craigslist. Then she calls and says I should go look at it. I tell her no, because I have the guest bath to finish then I have to do our bedroom and bath and I don't want to get it home and have it rotting in the yard or something. She says that I've been working hard on the house the last few years, the bathrooms can wait and to go look at it and buy it if I want it. I wasn't gonna argue.

I will try to take pics, at least of putting it back together.

[chopnhack]

****.....i wish..she's a keeper Dave!
i'm sweating to death in my attic doing a hurricane retrofit u think i could get some slack? send some down my way bro!