1320stang
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I'm planning a 40x60x12 red iron (bolt-up) shop and I'm looking for layout ideas. But first I guess you need to know the limitations of the site.
I live on 1.5 acres in a rural area, no permits required. The are roads on 3 side of my lot (entrance to our neighborhood, we all have 1.5+ acres but none over 2). The streets are to the south (county road), the east and the north, all are asphalt. My house faces the north and my driveway goes north as well, in fact I just poured 47.5 yards this summer. My 2 car attached garage is on the east side of my house which sits in the middle of the remaining property. Power and water are on the east wall of the garage. So the shop will be to the southeast of my house.
The shop will run north/south and will have a 12x12 garage door centered on the north wall and a 8x7 door on the south wall (cross flow ventilation primarily), a man door will be on the west wall towards the north end. There will be a 10' to 12' deep porch the length of the west wall of the shop, this will overlook the back yard and keep the afternoon sun off the west wall.
The entrance to the neighborhood is the highest point of my property, about 4' higher than my floors in the house, I want the shop floor to be close to the same, my new driveway has 1/4" per foot slope to the street, its 40' wide at the house, 20' for my garage and 20' to go past the house into the backyard. The concrete between the shop and the driveway will come in the future, but the shop floor elevation will be 8" above the south end of the driveway, or about 4" above my house slab. So I'm having to cut into the hill, therefore there can't be any doors on the east side and all you'd be able to pull out the south would be a mower or 4 wheeler, about 10' of flat ground before it slopes up the hill. I may do retaining walls later and I may add a matching 60' lean-to on the east side in the future.
So with 20' bays and if I leave the center 13' open north to south I have 3 east 20' bays and 3 west 20' bays. I will split the power at the house and run a 200A single phase service to the shop (I have an electrical engineer at work, I have large enough conductors from the pole to the house) as well as run water to the shop. My house is all electric but there is gas service on the property east of my garage, so I may run gas to the shop.
The north bay on the west side makes most sense for a bathroom and a small office as well as an above ground shelter. I figure a 5x6 toilet/shower room (depressed floor for shower) and a 8x6 'fraidy hole would take up the north 6' of the 20' bay, I might go 14x14 on the office and have a clean room bench.
The rest is sorta open. I have a 9k Rotary lift I was figuring on putting in at an angle in the middle west bay with a future option of a 4 post either at the south west bay or the middle east bay. I was thinking the north east bay would be my welding and fabrication corner with a future jib crane right inside the roll up door. I do some woodworking so I was thinking the south east corner could have walls for a 20x14 wood shop to keep sawdust out of the rest of the shop.
I forgot to mention I plan on extending the roof on the north side 3' to 4' as an eave, but in the future I may extend the roof 20' to 40' north for a covered area. The eave would make it easier to extand in the future.
There is 3 phase on the county road if I needed it in the future. For my bathroom I'll put a small septic tank west of the building and run a lateral line west south of my house with the perfed are past the west side of the house. The future east lean-to would be mainly parts storage but the north 20' might be a paint booth.
I live on 1.5 acres in a rural area, no permits required. The are roads on 3 side of my lot (entrance to our neighborhood, we all have 1.5+ acres but none over 2). The streets are to the south (county road), the east and the north, all are asphalt. My house faces the north and my driveway goes north as well, in fact I just poured 47.5 yards this summer. My 2 car attached garage is on the east side of my house which sits in the middle of the remaining property. Power and water are on the east wall of the garage. So the shop will be to the southeast of my house.
The shop will run north/south and will have a 12x12 garage door centered on the north wall and a 8x7 door on the south wall (cross flow ventilation primarily), a man door will be on the west wall towards the north end. There will be a 10' to 12' deep porch the length of the west wall of the shop, this will overlook the back yard and keep the afternoon sun off the west wall.
The entrance to the neighborhood is the highest point of my property, about 4' higher than my floors in the house, I want the shop floor to be close to the same, my new driveway has 1/4" per foot slope to the street, its 40' wide at the house, 20' for my garage and 20' to go past the house into the backyard. The concrete between the shop and the driveway will come in the future, but the shop floor elevation will be 8" above the south end of the driveway, or about 4" above my house slab. So I'm having to cut into the hill, therefore there can't be any doors on the east side and all you'd be able to pull out the south would be a mower or 4 wheeler, about 10' of flat ground before it slopes up the hill. I may do retaining walls later and I may add a matching 60' lean-to on the east side in the future.
So with 20' bays and if I leave the center 13' open north to south I have 3 east 20' bays and 3 west 20' bays. I will split the power at the house and run a 200A single phase service to the shop (I have an electrical engineer at work, I have large enough conductors from the pole to the house) as well as run water to the shop. My house is all electric but there is gas service on the property east of my garage, so I may run gas to the shop.
The north bay on the west side makes most sense for a bathroom and a small office as well as an above ground shelter. I figure a 5x6 toilet/shower room (depressed floor for shower) and a 8x6 'fraidy hole would take up the north 6' of the 20' bay, I might go 14x14 on the office and have a clean room bench.
The rest is sorta open. I have a 9k Rotary lift I was figuring on putting in at an angle in the middle west bay with a future option of a 4 post either at the south west bay or the middle east bay. I was thinking the north east bay would be my welding and fabrication corner with a future jib crane right inside the roll up door. I do some woodworking so I was thinking the south east corner could have walls for a 20x14 wood shop to keep sawdust out of the rest of the shop.
I forgot to mention I plan on extending the roof on the north side 3' to 4' as an eave, but in the future I may extend the roof 20' to 40' north for a covered area. The eave would make it easier to extand in the future.
There is 3 phase on the county road if I needed it in the future. For my bathroom I'll put a small septic tank west of the building and run a lateral line west south of my house with the perfed are past the west side of the house. The future east lean-to would be mainly parts storage but the north 20' might be a paint booth.