Our Ingersoll Rand compressor has a 100% duty cycle if you run their synthetic oil, which we do. Every 12 years or 2000 hours the synthetic oil and the air filter should be changed. We did it just because. When she moves 40 miles north to the forever house I'll service it again.
You’d be surprised even when ,not using grinders and air impacts, how much not having to holler over it when it cycles is nice. My old shop had one of the OLD compressors with the coffee can size pistons and was noisy as all getout.
Option 1) they haven't done much.
Save, Save, Save. Ask yourself, "if not now, when"? Marvel at the cost of everything. $13.48 for a quart of Castrol GTX 5W30 at Napa, and the guy was surprised when I put it back on the oil rack. Almost $5 for a gallon of windshield washer fluid at Advance. Save, Save, Save, which is much harder to do these past few years than it was before 2021. Marvel at how this place you grew up in doesn't even come close to resembling what it was when you were a kid. Feel sad and nostalgic. Save some more.
When it comes to the shop, are any of the trees you plotted to remove saw-grade? In these parts guys will bring their Wood Mizer to your site and mill your trees to specs, pre negotiated fee per board ft. If building a structure requiring permits, rules followed here says that lumber milled from trees on the building site doesn't have to be graded and will be exempt from code reqs. Depending on if any of it was to be framed for lofts inside and whatnot, could add up.
Based on my current building project, I can confirm prices are down from a year+ ago. Lumber quality locally is vastly improved too. Windows and door prices are steady but lead times are way out.
So we met with the homebuilder back in mid March. He put together a quote for us and the answer was, we weren't financially prepared to make the move. We could have cut some things and put ourselves out on the ragged edge and done it but we decided not to. We're here for another year. We hope to pull the trigger in March. Some fruitful things came from the meeting. For one, we realized that "flipping" or mirroring the floor plan of the house will make it fit the existing topography of the lot much better, putting the garage and driveway on the high side, whereas we were originally proposing it on the low side. This will look better, cut down on fill and save money. A win all around.
