WAY OVER BUDGET - Dream Shop Cost Breakdown

What a journey its been building my dream shop/ hangar. If you want to see more in depth of the build check out my FULL hangar build playlist here:

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[pilotmarco]

AD In Beginning
3:00 - Hanger 🛩
3:12 - Rough Grading $200
3:25 - Base Rock $4, 140
3:44 - Pex & Insulation $7, 083.95
4:41 - R&M Steel Building $114, 334
5:05 - Diamond Doors Wide-span BIFOLD Hanger Door $18, 217.50
5:29 - Garage Door $8, 902
5:46 - 200 Watt Electrical $4, 514
5:55 - Hex Lights $2, 495
6:11 - Polished Concrete $8, 700
6:25 - Equipment Rentals $7, 926
6:52 - Help & Labor $24, 390
PLUS MORE $$
7:22 - GRAND TOTAL $277, 458.30

[chuckinwyoming]

On the other end of the spectrum I built a 22x38' hanger last year on my grass strip. Wood beam construction, local logs milled on my saw mill. Metal panels for roof and doors are new steel, wall steel were reused panels and free. Four section vertical hinged manual doors. No insulation. Used carpet over the dirt floor. NO building codes or permits here. Used my backhoe for site prep and with a pallet fork attachment and a pallet as work platform. Total cost ~$3600. BUT your hanger/shop is very cool !!

[charlesmartin]

You should deduct the costs of keeping your aircraft at Reno-Stead Airport and the associated transport costs from the build total. It might make you feel a little better about the whole thing.

[stevet]

Still probably cheaper than one of Mike Patey's engineered bathrooms.😄

[lawrencem]

Thank you Trent. Genuinely appreciate your honesty and openness. Content like this inspires other aviators to follow their dreams, too.

[goatflieg]

I know the pain far too well. We built our NorCal Compound; really loved it; way over budget; eventually unsustainable; sold it. Moved to Michigan; built a shop to build my RV-8; built the RV-8; flew the RV-8; WAY over budget; not sustainable long-term; just sold it. I hope you guys can enjoy your lives on your dream property for far longer than we were able to enjoy our dreams. But the bottom line for all of is that WE DID IT! And that, my friend, is what life is about.

[psheep]

Thanks for your transparency on this! I had been wondering through the whole build process how much approximately each step cost. And you told a bunch of strangers on the internet! Thank you again your a pretty rad dude.

[paramotortheory]

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[dialac]

Bro, thanks so much for the numbers. A lot of channels on youtube show us building process for a lot of things but they never drop the numbers. This was a helpful and informative video. I was also thinking it would cost $200k and not $277k. If you hired an electrician for the wiring, it would have been close to or over $300k total

[storytimedavidcollins]

Trent
Permits are very important.
Thank you very much again for everything.
I purchased a pre made storage barn 30’ x 16’ and 14’ tall, and I completely permitted it, it took a year and half from ordering it to getting completely signed off which took a year to get the county inspectors to finally sign it off.
And the last County inspector told me that he had no less than a thousand complaints from people that would call several times a day about it, saying that I was putting in an unpermitted building, business, grow or drug laboratory and so on, lots of jealous haters out there.
I’m very happy for you and your family that you don’t have to rent a hanger anymore, with the best part being that you can fly right from your house and back to make your ability to put out the excellent great quality videos that you do that we all appreciate so much.

[golfbravowhiskey]

Super nice, Mine is 60' x 60'. The backside has a full lean to off of it like yours. Also mine we used round pipe in the ceiling for a structural load, I have a friend of mine that will land his R44 on the roof.
I have enough room in there to park my highlander along with two cab tractors and my small dozer.
They hang her door is I believe 38 feet wide I pretty much made it myself it has two large hydraulic cylinders on each end that actually came off of a huge 644 John Deere industrial loader attached to a 35 gallon per minute electric hydraulic pump, that's ran remote control off of a key fob, the concrete slab is 80 x 120, but there is no asphalt in the front just grass.
Built in 2012, and it was all custom built by me and a local contractor there was no kit to it Total cost for the building and everything pretty much as you said although we don't have any permit processes here to waste money on a built it for a little under $42, 000. Which most of that cost was just the steel and the concrete

[Vlodek]

Damn!!! I knew it would be expensive but... DAMN!!! I too thought it would be in the area of $120~$150 but... DAMN!! So yeah, as I followed your videos on this I already anticipated that my dream workshop is not obtainable, at least on a scale like yours. Few weeks/months ago, I decided that instead of a "hanger" type workshop, I will settle on a 4 car garage (wide with regular garage doors) but 2 cars deep. And honestly, after hearing your price tag, I'm now doubting if I will be able to afford that. Can anyone make sense of these prices?? It is literally a box with a hollow inside. Yet it cost more than an actual house. Well, at least you are done and you are happy. Good for you!!!! Congratulations!!! I'm jellin.

[dannyfowler]

Thank you for your honesty! I know that stings for any of us, but let’s everyone know exactly how expensive these projects can be.

Beautiful Job!!!

[stevesilsby]

Sure, it was expensive, but wow, what an amazing and beautiful result. It's clear that you feel the same. Thanks for bringing us along and giving us the full, if painful, cost reundown. Keep up the great work with your videos!

[mikie]

Seen the commercial you are apart of great work. I love how your whole estate has evolved, since you and your wife started living there. Great Job to the both of you for making such a beautiful ranch.

[limaxray]

“Life is like a box of chocolates”. Sooo worth it…Don’t look back. Just enjoy. Your honesty took courage, thank you!

[josiatokirina]

Thank you so much for sharing the cost break down with us. Very informative and useful! My guess was around $300, 000.
Beautiful build, enjoy every luxury and fly fly fly!

[DCS]

There is a saying, "Buy once, cry once." You would have always regretted not doing it the way you wanted. It looks fantastic by the way!

[blueman]

lol ! That 1973 movie reference. That was my first thought ! 😂 Such an awesome hanger ! Beauty build. 😍👍

[GarrettMcCarthy]

Hey thanks for the candor Trent! Cool to see what you did and how it relates to dollars and cents.