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drzura
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Pic of completed garage
Well... After one year, the garage is finally complete (sort of). I initially was looking at cargo containers, but after the ridiculous price quotes,
we decided to have a cinder block garage built and we are very happy with it. The old wooden shed was all rotted out and broken into multiple times.
This should be more secure.
Damion
[Edited on 6-14-2013 by drzura]
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drzura
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Pic of side door..
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Barry A.
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Are those steel doors?
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msteve1014
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Nice, I gotta get me one too. I won't ask the price.
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drzura
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Are those steel doors?
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Hello Barry. Yep.. them are steel doors. We had them made in Santa Rosalia.
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See what happens when you ask Nomads their opinions?!! Very nice and solid. Make sure those welds are tight w/multiple latches on interior. New
post re "cabin" is relative. This will get ya started and help you sleep at nite. The Palapa House is next, verdad?!  Tio
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bajadogs
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That looks pretty secure, and not ugly either. I like the blue. Does the small door open from the inside if locked?
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drzura
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajadogs
That looks pretty secure, and not ugly either. I like the blue. Does the small door open from the inside if locked? [/quote
Yep. If the side door is locked, it can be opened from the inside as well. The light blue is pretty nice. Right now there is no power going to the
garage, we may work on that next year depending on the finances. |
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Very nice. I think we had some conversations in the past via U2U regards shipping containers, and getting them to central Baja. I too found them
prohibitively expensive. Buying materials locally and using local labor is also an upside to building. It would be great if you would share the
dimensions and approx. costs of materials and labor. I'm assuming the roof is framed with lumber, and covered with metal laminas?
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drzura
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ElCap
Very nice. I think we had some conversations in the past via U2U regards shipping containers, and getting them to central Baja. I too found them
prohibitively expensive. Buying materials locally and using local labor is also an upside to building. It would be great if you would share the
dimensions and approx. costs of materials and labor. I'm assuming the roof is framed with lumber, and covered with metal laminas?
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I will post some more details on the prices etc. tomorrow.. but below are a couple of pics of the inside of the garage as it was being built... you
can see the roof construction.
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drzura
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Another inside pic.... the inside of the garage is roughly 600 sq feet.
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msteve1014
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Looks really nice, and secure. I won't ask the cost, I swear I won't.
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same kind of door I had...the thief drilled the lock out, of course after unbolting the hurricane shutters
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| Quote: | Originally posted by volcano
same kind of door I had...the thief drilled the lock out, of course after unbolting the hurricane shutters |
Probably used a cordless drill that he stole from someone else's bodega.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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Barry A.
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Electrify the steel doors???
IED's??
hot boiling oil dispensers over doors?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Electrify the steel doors???
IED's??
hot boiling oil dispensers over doors? |
....nahhh,,just have a big snake-pit inside--that'll stop 'em!!
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Bob H
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That is one good look'n garage you built there.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by drzura
Another inside pic.... the inside of the garage is roughly 600 sq feet. |
Looks to me the easiest way to break into that thing would be to fall through the roof . 
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| Quote: | | Looks to me the easiest way to break into that thing would be to fall through the roof . |
But then you have to climb back out, carrying an outboard motor.
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| Quote: | | Quote: | Originally posted by msteve1014
Looks to me the easiest way to break into that thing would be to fall through the roof . |
But then you have to climb back out, carrying an outboard motor.
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The sad thing is we have to go to such elaborate means to try and protect our belonging's.
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