Minnesota Classic Glastron Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Jason on October 14, 2010, 09:23:49 AM
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Well, it's been a long time and a lot of work but I pretty much got the new Glastron Cave completed. No electricity?..yet. Paint to come soon too. And a little landscaping.
I got both my boats in there and I still have room for two more. I only need to get my Montclair in there so I have room for one more boat if any of you are still looking for storage.
I should be able to fit your rig so long as it fits under an 8' door, is 9' wide or less, and less than 25' in length.
You will get a secure building in a safe neighborhood to lock your boat up in. Concrete floors and hopefully mouse proof. I don't plan on plowing the grass to the garage so if you need your boat in the winter for whatever reason it may be difficult to get it out. As far as price goes I was looking online and looks like most places charge about $250 for boats in our size range. I will offer this space for $100. My property insurance will not cover your boat if anything were to happen so you will be responsible for insuring your own boat which hope you have already anyway!
Located in Hudson WI.
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Wow .. looks great! Wish I had a boat up there to fill it up for you! ;D
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Classy looking garage jason, like all the work you do.
When we built our house in 1977, I could have and should have built the third car garage. Have spent more in boat storage fees than what it would have cost for the 3rd stall.
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My garage I built up north to store my SeaRay and Glastron was at least twice as big as I needed when it was started. Before it was even done being built my wife went out and bought her pontoon. Let my brother store his Intimidator in it one winter. Now there isn't even room for that. They fill up quick! ;D
Nice job Jason. You even got fancy with a decorative roof dormer. I also built mine with one 16' and a 8' door.
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Looks great Jason :o
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Very nice!
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Ya looks great Jason. I'd kill for a friggin' garage ...
Carry on!
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Jason,
Any chance I could ask for a ballpark as to how much a nice place like thats costs to build? How much was contracted versus blood,sweat, and tears hands-on by you? I need a man cave just like that, have the land space, but am lacking a plan and a budget. Just looking for ballpark ideas... $15k? $20k?, $40k? Let assume its empty inside, bare unfinished with gas & electrical.
My current garage it far too short, and I had to cut the trailer for a hinge to allow the 19.5ft boat to fit with only inches to spare from the bow (sterndrive removed).
Your building looks awesome!
/Chris
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Well, to have the entire thing built by contractors would have costed $30,000. The only thing I hired out was the slab and block work. That was $5000. It costed me about another $8000 for materials and I finished it off myself. I just went to Menards on there computer designer and designed it. It figures out everything for you. Drops all the materials off at your house and it's up to you figure out how to put it all together. So, by doing the work yourself you can pretty much cut the cost in half. I have never taken on a project this big and was for the most part new to me. Books, youtube, and neighbors can teach you a lot.
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SWEET Jason !
You can never have enough Glastron/Carlson storage !
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Thanks Jason.
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Jason,
How big is your garage?
BTW nice Glastron Cave!
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26' x 36' x 10'
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Very nice. I like that added "dormer" on the roof. I also noticed you put a taller door on the 8 foot slot. Good idea. My 175 windscreen barely clears a 7 foot door. You can never make it too big. I cant believe I filled mine up. If I had the funds, I'd like to and have laid out plans to add on to mine to add two more stalls and an additional 700 sq feet for my wood shop. The bid on that slab (24x50) and a course of block was 7500.00 so I quickly put that on hold!
Like what you did on the gable end with the different siding too.
You're pretty fast. Got all the soffit and facia on too! How come you didnt trench electric out? Another permit I suppose. I guess I did mine after the fact too. Ran phone too. I stuck mine in PVC conduit too, just in case.
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Seeing that my attached garage is already fully insulated I don't ever see using this new garage as a shop. More for storage. If the town would let me build a poll barn that would be what I would have gotten, but a concrete floor was required. Electrical will come later but will let some funds catch up first.
Looks like yours is a big 4 car. That's what I originally had planned but Jamie says "I don't want the entire front yard to be a garage" so this was the compromise. Plus I had to reserve a section for gardening tools!
Wrapping up the painting today!
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Jason that came out really nice. Congrats. Just curious, was that $100 per month?
I'm building a garage as we speak. They did the slab couple weeks ago. Its a steel building. The rest goes up next week.
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$100 for the season! Sounds like the spot may be taken. Can't wait to see your's when yours is done Andy. At least you don't have to worry about getting it done by the time the snow flies!
Just finished her up today. I made this slide show of the progression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQH6TvrDPY
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That was cool! Looks great Jason. Started pulling wire yet???
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The slide show made it look easy ...
Nice work Jason !
Mike Erickson would be proud of ya ... LOL
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That was cool! Looks great Jason. Started pulling wire yet???
Not yet, maybe in the spring.
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NICE LOOKING CAVE :o
COOL SLIDE SHOW / VERY COOL
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That was really a great show. $100 for the season!!!!!!! Thats a great deal! We pay $100 a month here in CA. Sometimes more depending on the size of your boat.
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I was paying $185/month at the marina at Lake Pleasant here for a while. That was stored on my trailer in a "secure" fenced dirt lot! It was nice to store it at the lake but at that rate for a year or more ... could have built a garage ... if I had room for one! ???
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I will offer this space for $100.
Jason,
Is the offer still open? - I need a place for my V174
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Looks like it's still up for grabs Jim. I think the V172 and your V174 may have some good conversation this winter!
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Sounds great - pencil me in.
I'll let you know when it's winterized.
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That was cool! Looks great Jason. Started pulling wire yet???
Not yet, maybe in the spring.
When I built my Mom's garage I in stalled the overhead lighting, 4 incandescent fixtures and a wall mounted switch by the door that I had tied to an outlet near the door as well. I wired a pigtail to the outlet that could be used to plug in the female end of an extension chord from the house. We did not need the lights out there in the winter either but having the ability to stretch a extension cord out there when we did want lights or to run a battery charger it worked great. Plug in the entire garage! Just be sure to use a good heavy extension chord and power it off a 20 amp breaker.
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Holy crap Andy, that looks huge. Looks like you'll be able to get all your toys in there and stop renting. Where did you get the realestate to put that up?
Looks great Jason. Its nice to have stuff inside, out of the elements.
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Hey Jerry .. is that an old picture of you in your Man Cave ? or can you grow chin whisers like that in 70 days ?
Shoot me an email ... OleRed@OleRed.com
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Old picture, but if you aren't using a tank you have no way of knowing if your water pump works good enough. I got that one for $20 at a garage sale. It doubles as a beer cooler.
There's mail in yer box sir.
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Looks like it's still up for grabs Jim. I think the V172 and your V174 may have some good conversation this winter!
I'm going to shoot for tomorrow 11/03 to store the V174 in the 'Glastron Cave'
I should be there by 5:30, traffic permitting.
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SOUNDS GOOD JIM!