bobmcc81
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Hello everyone, I'm really enjoying getting ideas for my shop. The background: Marriage number 2 brought a relocation as we merged families and my only requirement was at least 1 acre with enough access to build a shop. All the other choices were up to my wife that has much better taste than me!. We ended up in a nice development with standard cookie cutter house, brand new though, and a three car garage. That was in 2010. Fast forward many many years and I finally saved up enough to build my dream shop. I love woodworking and I love tinkering with anything that has wheels. The 3 car attached garage got really full and working on anything became an exercise in Tetris to get what I wanted to work on out and then putting it back. Woodworking was worse as you had the whole sawdust clean up afterwards all over everything!
The plan was 2 four wall workshops under a single roof that from the front of the house looked like one building. This allowed a woodshop that could be covered in dust 7x24x365 and it really wouldn't matter. I could work out there for an hour after work and not have to worry about an hours worth of cleaning before I went in side.
The other side would be general mechanic storage stuff for 6 motorcycles, an occasional jeep and anything else I was working on currently. Being in Central Florida there is a lot of opportunity to work outside in comfortable weather so I want that designed integrated in as well.
First step had to have a permit so at least that was progress
4 loads of dirt to fill in the low ground
Here is the left corner of the backyard before we started. It backs up to 80 acres of strawberry fields.
Here are the 12" footers dug
Here I am spending my first day in the shop, it's quite breezing!
Next was the pour of 4" slab of 3500psi on a 12" footer all sitting about 6" off the main grade
A beautiful slab poured just after New Years and then it started our 6 week wait for the steel build schedule
And right on the schedule they promised, steel showed up!
Day 1 they made good progress with the shell. They originally planned 3 full days but the roll up garage doors were backordered so in 2 days they got as much done as they could and I'm starting to get really excited
Day two has everything but a missing window and the roll up doors that are expected to be installed next Tuesday.
Overall slab is 40' wide by 30'. The dedicated woodshop on the right is 15'x20'
The garage on the left is 20' x 30'
Three roll up doors and a 15' x 20' porch that will let me expand either shop into the nice weather.
Next is poly floor covering done by a professional
Vinyl wood look plank flooring for the wood shop
100 am electric run from the main house
20' wide section of Northern Hydrualics industrial shelving all across the back wall of the garage shop.
After that I'm just dreaming more stuff every day until my bank accounts loses enough blood.
Love to hear your thoughts on it, I really didn't want just another Costco warehouse big box. I think my porch design adds a little character. I'll come back here and update as soon as it's inspected and certified to occupy!
Thanks for reading
Bob
The plan was 2 four wall workshops under a single roof that from the front of the house looked like one building. This allowed a woodshop that could be covered in dust 7x24x365 and it really wouldn't matter. I could work out there for an hour after work and not have to worry about an hours worth of cleaning before I went in side.
The other side would be general mechanic storage stuff for 6 motorcycles, an occasional jeep and anything else I was working on currently. Being in Central Florida there is a lot of opportunity to work outside in comfortable weather so I want that designed integrated in as well.
First step had to have a permit so at least that was progress
4 loads of dirt to fill in the low ground
Here is the left corner of the backyard before we started. It backs up to 80 acres of strawberry fields.
Here are the 12" footers dug
Here I am spending my first day in the shop, it's quite breezing!
Next was the pour of 4" slab of 3500psi on a 12" footer all sitting about 6" off the main grade
A beautiful slab poured just after New Years and then it started our 6 week wait for the steel build schedule
And right on the schedule they promised, steel showed up!
Day 1 they made good progress with the shell. They originally planned 3 full days but the roll up garage doors were backordered so in 2 days they got as much done as they could and I'm starting to get really excited
Day two has everything but a missing window and the roll up doors that are expected to be installed next Tuesday.
Overall slab is 40' wide by 30'. The dedicated woodshop on the right is 15'x20'
The garage on the left is 20' x 30'
Three roll up doors and a 15' x 20' porch that will let me expand either shop into the nice weather.
Next is poly floor covering done by a professional
Vinyl wood look plank flooring for the wood shop
100 am electric run from the main house
20' wide section of Northern Hydrualics industrial shelving all across the back wall of the garage shop.
After that I'm just dreaming more stuff every day until my bank accounts loses enough blood.
Love to hear your thoughts on it, I really didn't want just another Costco warehouse big box. I think my porch design adds a little character. I'll come back here and update as soon as it's inspected and certified to occupy!
Thanks for reading
Bob
