Steel structure is much better for fire insurance, no termites, etc.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
Good plan, I'll add the water to the list. it might require and additional well.

I don't know the distances involved (house to well, shop to well, etc), but we are on a well share with 3 properties on it. The run to our house is about 500 feet, and it has worked just fine for 16 years. You may be able to tap into your existing well.
 

^^^^ I just ran mine from my main line under the house coming from my well. Just putting in a "T" was all it took.

It will be a long run and will have to cross a creek for water. May have to look at a location closer to the house.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
It will be a long run and will have to cross a creek for water. May have to look at a location closer to the house.

Ours crosses a wash, but of course here in AZ the washes are dry 95% of the year so it was easy to excavate, and deep enough to get below what will be any running water. Whenever a small wash like ours runs, it either leaves the base level the same as the running deposits new sand. Some bigger washes gain sand and have to be ocassionally excavated.

Doesn't do you much good. Is there any practical way to go over the stream? Wells are deep and expensive to drill here, something like $10,000++ just to get the casing and head in place.

I imagine you don’t have to worry about freezing get either. The well we have for the house is about 48 feet deep and more like an old style hand dug well.

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Originally posted by arfmel:

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Originally posted by bendable:
and , are there advantages of steel or aluminum?

You’d have to be a Saudi Prince to afford an aluminum building that size.

out here in the mid west
the pole building companies offer an aluminum sided skin or a steel sheet metal skin for the exterior.

I should have been more precise

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
I imagine you don’t have to worry about freezing get either. The well we have for the house is about 48 feet deep and more like an old style hand dug well.

Only the pipes that come up out of the ground, like for a hose bib or irrigation back flow valve. Our well is 600 ft deep, which is fairly common around here.
 
 

Last year I built a 40x60 shop with 16' ceilings. I have a 12'x14' door on each end. Monolithic 6" slab with #5 rebar. 200A service pulled from the 600A panel at the house. Stick built, wood truss. Metal roof and siding except the front which is stone and LP Smartsiding. 5/8" Type X drywall 4'to the ceiling. Corrugated Galvalume from the floor up 4'. Walls insulated with 5-1/2" of sprayfoam. One 14'ø BigAss fan, propane heat. I made a 9x12 office with electric heat that I keep warm all winter; I keep the shop at 45* unless I'm working in there. A frost free outside the office, but it's a dry building. It does have floor drains in the slab to make it easy to wash it down.

Previous poster is that a JD 110? Nice machine!

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Originally posted by dusty3030:
Previous poster is that a JD 110? Nice machine!

Good eye; yes a 110. Very handy for building the house and shop.

NICE shop, aileron! What are those multi-colored tubes next to your welding station?

Aileron, that is pretty close to what I’m looking to build.

I love the corrugated metal on the lower walls.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
NICE shop, aileron! What are those multi-colored tubes next to your welding station?

Thank you! TIG filler rod storage; different colors for different alloys.