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I am back on the site of what I'm hoping to be one of the most unnecessary one-man woodworking shops in the entire world. And you can see it looks like it's almost done. It's not, but depending on who you ask at the
Exploring the cost, construction details, and durability of a $528,000 one-man woodworking shop build.
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Key Takeaways
- Investing in a standing seam metal roof is worthwhile for long-term durability and leak prevention.
- The building is structurally sound for local weather conditions including wind, snow, and earthquakes.
- Metal construction offers better fire resistance compared to traditional roofing materials.
- Construction timelines can be fluid and subject to change based on contractor schedules.
- Thoughtful design and material choices balance aesthetics with practical needs for a woodworking shop.
What the video covers
- The video visits a nearly completed one-man woodworking shop and discusses the construction timeline and costs.
- Breakdown of expenses includes the building shell costing about $118,000 and assembled shell around $240,000.
- The standing seam metal roof upgrade cost approximately $60,000, chosen for durability and leak prevention.
- The building is rated to withstand 91 mph winds and snow loads of about 16 lb per square foot.
- Discussion on the building’s earthquake resilience, rated for a class D earthquake related to the Cascadia fault.
- Fire resistance is addressed, noting metal is not fireproof but offers better protection than standard roofs.
- The video includes informal and humorous exchanges about construction details and personal anecdotes.
- The host reflects on the practical and aesthetic choices made for the building, including color and materials.
- Natural disaster risks specific to Oregon, such as rain, wind, fire, and earthquakes, are considered.
- The video ends with anticipation for the next episode focusing on the interior and finishing touches.
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construction company, this is going to be done in April, then May, then June, then it was July, and now we're in August, and it will be done in August, according to these people. Last time I was here with Gavin, the job site
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dictator, we went over all the dirt work and concrete and heated floor and everything that basically made this ready to put a structure on it. This is the fun one because this time we're going to unpack exactly what went into
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the building you see behind me. All right, I apologize last time for asking you some fairly obscure questions. So, just kind of a layup off the right off the start, what does the building weigh?
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>> Wow, that one's a hard one. I don't think that one's anywhere in the design calculations.
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I would have to guess, uh, 37 million pounds. >> 37 million pounds, okay. Last time we ended with the slab. We have the dirt, the slab, and I I can't remember how much that cost. Maybe I'll put it on the
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screen if I can find that number. How much did it cost to get to this point with just the shell on the building, not the slab?
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>> So, just the shell on the building, the building package was from what I've looked into was about 118,000. If you're just talking the shell >> Yeah, just the parts, nothing like change orders, nothing extra, about $240,000.
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>> For for assembled? >> For assembled, yeah. >> Okay, $240,000. Standing seam roof, do you know how much more that cost than the screw-down that was the part of the original package?
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>> Yeah, so it it depends on the square footage, who you shop around and get it from, but if you were to just buy that roof alone, you're redoing it 100 years down the road, at today's prices, it could go up
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to about $160,000. Um a regular roof >> Like do you know the upgrade cost then?
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Like if not doing the other one and doing this one? >> Yeah, it's it's around $60,000. So at the high end, a regular roof can go 60 grand.
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>> If you're wondering why I would spend an extra $60,000 on a standing seam roof versus a screw-down roof like the one I'm under here in the arena, it's not just because the standing seam looks better. Although it does look
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significantly better than these roofs, the reason is it's basically the way the standing seam roof is designed. It overlaps on each other. It has no exposed fasteners. It's essentially leak-proof forever. Where the one I'm in here, they intentionally put a hole in
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it every 24 in and it works okay for a couple months, even a year, but this one's maybe 10 years old and if this if this was wintertime, be about a 10% chance there'd be a little drip on me
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right now. And it's fine for an arena, but for a shop with a bunch of fancy expensive cast iron tools, it's just not a good idea.
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>> If this was your building, would you have spent that 60 grand on the roof or would you have kind of just like went >> Definitely. Being in Oregon, um for especially for a open field like this, wind rating, the amount of water
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that you'll get on a size of a building like that, uh metal's the great idea.
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>> Uh standing seam metal versus the screw-down. What happens What's the problem with screw-down ones?
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>> Uh penetration points. Um >> Is that going to make you giggle? >> Which fortunately we only have one with the erection uh company.
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>> What if I >> Yeah, I'm giggling internally for sure. I trying to stay away from the inappropriate wording last time.
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>> Uh >> We're fully erect here. >> Um so anyway, you think 60 grand well spent on the standing seam?
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>> Yes. >> And this isn't just a salesman telling me I did a good job.
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>> I didn't sell you. I have no skin in this game. Um great roof. Uh you know, they last on average 60 years plus.
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>> Mhm. >> Um it'll be here after Do >> Is that a threat? >> Uh, no.
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And wishful thinking. Long life. >> Got you. Got you. Oregon is famous for a handful of things. And the first thing you probably think of is the rain. And yeah, it does rain a lot here, but that rain is what enables us to grow some of
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the most amazing forests on the entire planet. And we're also known for shoes. We make some amazing shoes.
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I think the shoes are actually made in Bangladesh or China or something, but we make all the money from it in Oregon.
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So, we're doing pretty well there. But in the summertime, what we are best known for is we have the best wildfires on the entire planet. Which got me thinking, is this building even fireproof? And what other natural disasters might I be subject to?
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As far as durability of the building, we're not in a tornado zone here, but kind of wind speeds could this theoretically take? Maybe somebody that's building this in Oklahoma or something.
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>> So, just pulling off of the specs of the building from the manufacturer, it's rated for a 91 mph wind speed.
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Um that's a cat one hurricane. So, >> So, a tornado could peel the skins off.
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>> Sure. >> But any anything short of that, probably going to be okay. >> Yeah.
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>> Uh, same thing with snow. We don't get a ton of snow here, but how much snow could this take?
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>> Uh, the roof in the structure is rated for around 16 lb per square foot. So, that's like 127,000 lb of snow.
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>> On your roof? Foot or 6 ft or >> Depends on the snow type. A dry snow, maybe about 3 ft.
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>> Okay. And then freezing rain layered type of deal, like what >> Yeah, you're adding a a lot more weight onto that.
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>> Given that we don't get tornadoes, we don't get a ton of snow, what would the natural disaster be here that this building would be most susceptible to?
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>> Um, in this area, the one that's always talked about with Geotech that we work with, something that they include is our Cascadia subduction event. You know, an earthquake.
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>> Yeah, you don't you don't need to impress these people. Just say, just say, just say earthquake.
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>> Cascadia subduction. >> It's it's, you know, you have the San Andreas Fault, we have the Cascadia fault line here.
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Um so, we're we're due for a big earthquake. >> I thought Cascadia was just a town that you don't drive through.
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It's also a fault, huh? >> Or it's a proposed state region from Vancouver to here. Uh yeah.
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>> Fair enough. >> But, um looking into it, uh it's rated for what's called a class D earthquake.
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Um and from my very limited knowledge, that looks like anywhere from a six magnitude up to an eight.
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>> Oh, really? >> Um and what you're going to experience in here is obviously there could be damage to the building at that that point. Um but the structure should still stand.
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>> Would I be safer in there or in my house for an earthquake? >> Uh ideally outside of any structure would be my recommendation.
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Um >> It's not >> The age of the house, I would probably choose the shop if I had my choice.
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>> Betting on one of them making it through the earthquake, you'd bet on the shop.
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>> I would bet on the shop. >> Also bet on the shop. I've I've been I've been behind those walls. The state is on fire right now. Uh how is this I mean, it's all metal. Am I fireproof?
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>> Uh never fireproof. Um metal can burn. Um it when >> What kind of metal did you give me?
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>> Uh 26-gauge uh >> Flammable flammable metal? >> No, but you know, the paint could catch on fire. There'3
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metal roof has survived a fire event where standard roof is something that catches on fire. You also don't have a lot of vegetation around the building.
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Um close by, you know, you do have the forest right there, but that distance gives you a good buffer zone as well.
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>> Almost a year ago exactly, my wife and I decided to get divorced one day, and it was pretty sudden, but for some reason the first thing I thought of was I thought of a lot of things. So, okay,
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maybe like the fourth thing I thought of, but something that came up that day was that my insurance was through her company, and I had a lump on my back that I'd been procrastinating getting checked out. I try to go get regular
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checkups, but every year that I go, I'm kind of figuring it out. I don't have like a go-to doctor, and I have to find out where I'm going, where's my insurance card, all of that information.
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So, the same day we decided to split, I scrambled to find a doctor that was hopefully in network and could hopefully see me that day. I wish back then I would have known about the sponsor of this video, Zocdoc, because I could have
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As it turns out, the lump was nothing to be concerned about, but I can tell you from experience it is best not to wait until the day you decide to get divorced to get a potentially cancerous lump examined. So, do yourself a favor and
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head to zocdoc.com/blacktailranch, so you can spend your divorce the right way shopping attorneys and I don't know, maybe Corvettes. Basically, anything but in-network providers.
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>> I'd say looking pretty awesome in here, and I want to we'll have another video if your boss will let you do this again on some of the interior finishes and things like that and what's behind the walls. There's pretty cool stuff. Uh,
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but we'll limit this to mostly just the structure. So, how tall is the peak in here?
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>> Uh, peak in here, you know, you have your structural members, so 24 ft on the exterior, you know, at these uh, members, you're looking right around 22 ft.
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>> And at the edges, at the shortest point? >> 18 ft around the perimeter.
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>> In the first interview with Gavin, I was fairly amused at how rattled he got when I hit him with some unconventional units. You know, those really complicated ones like kilometer, 2 mi, over 2 mi.
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Uh, how many kilometers is that for Europeans? >> Oh, man. Uh, and after I saw how well he did with metric, I threw some even less conventional units at him and went with the blue whale units.
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>> Uh, so we moved roughly 7,777 yd of earth when we cleared this job site.
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>> Can you Can you make that like how many blue whales is that? >> Uh, well, just for our >> Uh, we have viewers all over the world.
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How many blue whales could fit in here then? >> Uh, so if we're talking whole blue whales, uh, southern ocean bulls, um, you're looking stacked on each other, um, seven approximately in here. Uh, if you were to blend them in some kind of
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industrial blender, uh, volume-wise, you're about 147,000 cubic feet, 4,300 cubic feet per blue whale, around 34 to 35 blue whales.
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And that's excluding your exterior and >> a maybe a quarter of blue whale back there?
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>> Yeah, approximately. A baby blue whale back there. >> Okay, he did pretty good with the blue whale units this time, but decided to hit him with one more curveball. So, how many kangaroo mice could fit in that
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volume? >> The kangaroo mice. So, uh, I was prepared for blue whales. >> Okay, simple one then. Gobi Walnut has a similar building and they wanted to hang a 5,000 lb root from the center, but they were afraid. I told them that they
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were they'd be they'd be fine. So, can you confirm for me that I can hang a 5,000 lb root from the center of my building?
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>> That I cannot confirm. Um, the >> you get paid for? >> Just building. Engineering questions are above my pay grade.
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>> Oh my god. Okay. How about a How about a 100 lb fan? >> 100 lb fan, I would definitely say that that's doable. We had that.
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>> Let's say a 200 lb fan. >> Uh, 200 lb fan, I I would say that that's probably okay.
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>> 205-lb fan. >> You're crossing the line there. >> Now we go to Now I got to get an engineer?
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>> Yeah. Yeah, you you you saw through my trap. >> 6-in slab, pretty heavy duty, right?
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>> Yes. >> Would you ever do a 4-in in a place like this, or is 4-in just like only residential?
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>> Uh, I would try to stick to 4-in on a residential. Um, something like you're doing in here, bringing in big machinery, you know, we try to make it as robust as possible, so >> Is a would a would a like my lighter,
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smaller tractors that okay on a 4-in, or would that I'm actually kind of asking for a different project.
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>> Yeah. Um >> Or would you still go 6-in? >> I I would I would personally go 6-in, especially since, you know, something like this, um when you don't have a specifically engineered floor, where you're paying a structural engineer to come through and
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say, "Hey, this is exactly what you can do on this floor. This is what it's rated for." Which this did not get that treatment, so we threw extra on there, too.
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>> You You threw my money at the problem. >> Yes, definitely. >> Okay, good. Uh, speaking of throwing money at problems, uh is there any animosity with the construction crew when they saw my new forklift?
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>> Uh >> Is it like they like me showing up in a brand new Corvette, and everybody's like, "Oh, must be nice." >> It's It's beautiful.
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>> Toyota. I mean, I'm doing okay. >> No, and Toyotas are a great brand, so definitely.
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>> Uh, is there So, you can't say how big a forklift I could put on here?
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>> Yeah. Um, that I would not be able to answer. Um, you know, there's different factors. Tire size is definitely a a huge factor. Um, how your displacement of that forklift, what you're carrying.
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>> My 5,000-lb capacity one that one is should be fine, anyway. >> Um >> Mike, you don't want to >> Yeah, I don't want to answer.
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>> Good. Since this project's been going on for more than a year now, including the planning phases, I've gotten pretty friendly with the guys from INE, but the downside of that for them is they are now subject to the same prank that I
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pull on my actual friends. >> Which practical joke was best that we played on each other through the building process?
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>> Um So with the advent of AI, you know, it's definitely something that I've incorporated into my tool bag practical jokes.
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Um So I I enjoyed the ones that you posted to Trophy Man text thread about whether it be a crack in the slab or a gauge that was >> Yeah, so >> off.
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>> There people are hypersensitive to AI in YouTube videos right now and I don't use them.
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However, when I needed a prank, I knew we had this concrete pour and we have all the sealed tubes in there and there's a pressure reading that needed to stay at full pressure to make sure there's no cracks or leaks in any of
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them. And I AI'd that to zero and sent it to his boss and everybody freaked out. It was great.
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>> kept me up uh at night because that was something I was checking. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I knew I had checked the gauge right after work and to get that text message at 7:30 after a beer was not a fun text.
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>> Uh yeah, I forgot I did the crack in the concrete too. >> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. >> God, those are That is >> Good times. >> Yeah, that is good.
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>> Yeah. It's good when you have a relationship with a client like that where you can >> I'm just I'm just >> I'm just worried of what the payback's going to be.
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>> Uh Yeah, we we want to be careful to not bite the hand that feeds us. So uh >> Well, I don't know. The payback might be those invoices I get every month.
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>> Yeah, yeah, definitely. >> Now technically speaking, this building that I'll be moving into will be the fourth studio in the iterations of Blacktail Studios, but the >> Weren't weren't the weren't the first two technically garages?
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>> Yeah, splitting hairs here. Blacktail Garage didn't sound that good. Anyway, this building is the fourth iteration of workshops that I have worked in as Blacktail Studio, but this lean-to section here is actually inspired from the very first garage.
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My very first workshop was in fact a garage, but it did have a really cool little lean-to shed that the previous owner had built onto the outside of it, and he held his air compressor in it cuz he was an auto mechanic, and I loved
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that because it kept the noise down. So, I actually ended up putting my dust collector out there, and it was fantastic for keeping the noise down in the shop and the dust. I even brought that same design to my second studio
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where I built the same style of lean-to to keep everything outside kind of enclosed in that building. The third studio didn't get that treatment cuz it was kind of temporary, but this one is going to be the greatest lean-to of them
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all. Never really talked about the little lean-to section as we've been referring to there.
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Uh I still think that's a good idea cuz that's going to be where my dust collector and compressor and kind of keeps everything soundproof and dustproof. I never really thought about what it cost. Do you have any idea what
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adding that on added to the total structure? >> Um so, by the time I got to it, that was already in the plans and the scope. They already had the concrete there. You know, if somebody wanted to come about and add something like that.
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>> Well over 50 dollars, I would say. >> So, you're going to have a a lot of hardwood in there.
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>> And uh I had a black eye for a week or so based on my very limited uh estimate.
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>> He rambled on like that for some time without ever really giving us an answer, but if you're curious, this lean-to structure added about 30 grand to the total build.
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Uh I've second-guessed the colors a few times. Uh what do you think? And you can you can We're just We're just a couple guys talking here. This isn't This isn't company man talk.
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>> Um I I I like simple. You've got matching buildings, blacktail, black roof. I I think it's great.
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>> Um the white and the white walls? >> Yeah. I I I really like clean looks, personally. Um you know, you may run into some dust issues, but >> Functionally, is the black too hot? Is the white too bright?
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>> Well, if you were looking for some kind of energy efficiency, a white roof is going to push back most of your heat and your UV.
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Um it would help with the interior insulation but >> If you want something kind of cool, the black's okay, but going to be a little warmer.
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>> I think it's a classic look, too. It's a It's a farmhouse classic look. Simple.
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>> Admittedly, me asking Gavin what he thought of the color was probably me searching for some validation because I've really been second-guessing my color choice because on paper, I think white and black is just a good timeless color, but out here in nature, looking
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over at it, kind of sticks out like a sore thumb against the green backdrop, whereas I really don't like the tan and green arena. If you look at that, it blends in a lot better. And there are other options though. My friend Nick
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over at Maverick did like a charcoal and black building, and it looks freaking awesome. I just don't know if that's too hot, and I don't really know the answer.
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I think right now I would still stick with the white and the black. I'm hoping to kind of salvage it by putting some trees and greenery around it, but just something to consider. Can you see me okay with these transition lenses?
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>> Uh they're coming back to normal. >> Do you get automatically put on a watch list if you get those lenses? Or Or does that have to be a mustache just accompanied with it?
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>> Uh dual factor. The mustache is its own watch list. Glasses are another. >> lenses and they're just like just lock this guy up.
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>> Yeah. >> Um all right, I appreciate you walking through the shell with me. It was definitely the most exciting to see that come up, but everything going together on the inside is probably the most exciting to me, and if you're willing or
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if the bosses will let you do this again, uh love to discuss that in another video.
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>> Yeah, I would love to. >> Okay. Um well, we'll try to put a price on screen of how much I've spent so far, and I'll try not to look at that, but thanks again, man.
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>> Yeah, definitely. Thank you for having me. >> Yeah. Next time on the most unnecessary workshop series, we're going to unpack what exactly went inside the building because I thought this is a going to be a freaking pole barn and it was going to
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be simple and cheap inside. It was neither of those things. From the big plywood walls that you see to all the wiring behind there, there is so much freaking copper in this building that if the tweakers only knew,
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I would be put on some sort of most wanted list of theirs. The plumbing, I didn't I have like two sinks in this whole building and there's a shocking amount of plumbing in here, too. Anyway, we'll go through all of that. It's
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pretty freaking cool in the next video. Do we kiss now?
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