The shop that was...

So once upon a time Maura was snooping around in her shop and spotted something suspicious. She took an old rotisserie skewer and began poking around the walls and she found...a subterranean disappointment.

As far as I can tell the building has no foundation and the sill plates are rotten.

 

(Insert trombone wa, wa, wa, sound here) 

So what happens next?  The building must come down.  With a bad or no foundation there is no use in adding weight to what is there; between roof, insulation, drywall, wiring, etc, there is a lot of new weight and it will only drive the walls further into the ground let alone the fact that you have to raise the walls in order to replace the sill plates (bottom 2 x 4 in a wall)

My soon to be leaving spouse has offered to buy me a portable building to replace the should have been a shop.

The chosen building is 14 feet by 20 feet with a 7 foot 8 inch ceiling.  Now as mentioned in the video I do loose some floor space (exactly 155 square feet) but overall this is actually going to save time and no worry about permit issues.  I'll have to pull a permit for the wiring but that really isn't a big deal to me as I would need one anyway.

So what's the cost?  Actually less than I was going to spend on the other building; multiple thousands less actually.

Column "F" are Home Depot stock numbers. With "tools" HF is Harbor Freight, Grizzly is Grizzly industrial tools.  All numbers are given so you can see I am not hiding things.

Looks like I inadvertently cut off the total total but we can do that here.

Shop less cost of building = $4115.58 plus 10% tax so $4527.14

Now with needed tooling I don't have we get $7562.98

At the moment donations sit at $365

So yeah, considerably cheaper, but money has a ways to go.

I will be reworking my Go Fund Me to reflect the now lower needs, and to see if I can rewrite it and maybe attract more funding.

If you are new or unaware, I do every bit of this work by myself.  I hand laid out my logo using drafting tools and French curves--my daughter did digitize it for me, I film all my video, I edit my videos, I created my own intro and outro for my videos between libre office and Open shot video editor, I select my internal video music from YouTube's extensive royalty free library, I write my blog, I also write for Ordinary-Times Magazine as an opinion writer, I also am working on multiple novels.  None of this actually pays any money yet--see my last post for YouTube stats.

I try to keep this stuff in the open for several reasons, to help others to see it is NOT easy hustling this way, to be transparent on where donations are being spent, and honestly to vent a bit.

Thanks for any help you can give even if it is just copy pasting my Go Fund Me link into other social media platforms.

--Maura

 

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