72 x 40 Shop Build

[Ridge Runner]

After over a decade of lusting after a shop of my own to build custom vehicles in and start my own business, it's finally happening. I finally got the trees cut last month, and will hopefully be breaking ground this month or next. I was originally going to build it 60' x 40', but went out to 72' to accommodate the rooms. I still have to tweak a few things, but this is more or less exactly what I want. Turns out, I'll even have room for the 20' sticks of metal tubing, which I thought would either be a major inconvenience or require building a separate room.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I like you design, but the bathroom and engine building room is going to be hard to get into without any doors. lol.
At times I wish I had a large shop to use also.
don't let me bust your chops, it is a nice set of plans.
Best of luck and please do post pictures of the build.

 

[matt_i]

Great size! What else is going in there? CNC plasma table?

 

[holdover]

I built a 40 X 60 and thought it was big enough. It has cathedral ceiling in the back half with two lifts pitch is 5/12 outside 3/12 inside, wall height is 10' 4.5", center line clrnc is about 15' 3" and it is where I have my 14K lift with a 9K to the right of it.. man door on the side and a 16' door on the gable end. It also has a 16' X 60' lean-to on the side with the last 16' X 16' as a machine shop/clean room for building engines. If I were to do it again I would go 50 X 70 with a 18' entrance door on the center of the gable end. I would also again build a lean-to off the side. Bigger really is better! Enjoy

 

[Ridge Runner]

I like you design, but the bathroom and engine building room is going to be hard to get into without any doors. lol.
At times I wish I had a large shop to use also.
don't let me bust your chops, it is a nice set of plans.
Best of luck and please do post pictures of the build.

Yes, those might present a problem. It was almost 2 AM the other day when I finished these drawings and I'm also not sure about the final layout of those three rooms. To help seal off the apartment from dust and fumes, I'm thinking that I may use about 4' of the bathroom to make an anteroom out of, and then have the bathroom and apartment doors opening into that.

I wish I could go bigger, but this is what I can afford right now. I was originally going 60'x40', but talked myself into another 12' so that my rooms didn't eat into my planned floorspace. Now that I have this floorplan, I can see it's a very good thing I did, or I wouldn't have had much room on the far left.

Matt, I wish I could get a table! Maybe one day. Right now, I'm looking at a tubing bender, English wheel, hydraulic press, arbor press, throatless shear, bead roller, and box and pan brake from Baileigh. It's going to be an auto fabrication shop.