Build a new one. You have to build new pad anyway and put on a new roof. A couple of years ago I remodeled about 2/3 of my 40X48 pole constructed cattle shed into a shop. The building is strong but I did have to replace the steel roof. Inside, I put in a double sided insulated divider wall, a ceiling and I had to stud the outside wall with 2x8's to match the thickness of the poles. Half the floor was cemented so I had to cement the other half. I did all of the labor except the cement. I had some other 'shared' labor helping me with the roof sheets and the ceiling sheets. I wired the whole works myself using conduit and I plumbed it for water. In the end the only people I paid to do work was the cement and the trenching and in the end I still had $35,000 in a 32X40 shop with a 16' ceiling that slopes down to 10'. There is a 18'wX14'h overhead door in one end and a 9'X9' overhead door in the other end. I was working with an existing building so I was forced to have the tall door on the north side and the floor slopes from north to south so a little bit of rain comes in under the big door and runs in a little stream across the floor.
All the time I was doing this project I kept thinking for maybe $25,000 more I could have built a new one with a floor that slopes the right way and a big door on the south where the cold north wind can't blow on it. The $5000 I have in the water and gas trenching and the boring in of electricity would have been spent on a new one anyway along with the roof I wouldn't have put on the cattle shed if I wasn't turning it into an insulated shop. Come to think of it, the roof was in the $2500 range, so in the end around $7500 of what I spent on this project would have gone into the new building anyway. Just my .02 worth. Jim
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