After Saving for 20 years...

[Gwhizman]

and removing 40 trees... 24 x 40 metal garage

 

[930dreamer]

Great build, very nice.

 

[leftyz]

Nice! What are your plans for all that space?

 

[Gwhizman]

I'm really into woodworking.. I've installed dust collection, compressed air and have more cabnet space planned.

 

[Hardware]

Nice space. cool cabinets

 

[Call me the Breeze]

Looks like you have the room to do many woodworking projects!

 

[Boyd Who]

Very nice! I see a Canadian flag...what part of the country are you in?

 

[JC23]

Looks great, Gwhiz. You gonna have enuf light at the wall benches???

Have fun in there!

 

[Gwhizman]

I'm in Atlanta.. the wife is from Canada (Winnipeg)

 

[Gwhizman]

I'll have to make some new pics I built upper cabnets with 4' lights across the entire bench.

 

[Motown 454]

That will be a great work space . Nice work on the cabinets.

 

[regguy1]

Very Nice......

Tell me about those roll up doors....they're interesting

Have you considered doing an epoxy floor?, it's soo easy to clean:

 

[Krokodil]

Very nice setup you've got there!

 

[bobadame]

Congratulations on the completion of your wood working shop. Looks super!

 

[Pappa Ugg]

Congrats! Nice place.. enjoy

 

[Boyd Who]

I'm in Atlanta.. the wife is from Canada (Winnipeg)

Cool! I live about 2 hours NW of Winnipeg.

 

[Rick B.]

Very nice garage but the stars and bars are hung up backwards. I'm just sayin'.

 

[Greg-nwo]

Very nice

(I'm about 2 hours east of Winnipeg)

 

[moparhunter]

I'm In Winnipeg ,Place looks great say hi to your wife fromanother Winnipeger

 

[kfainf]

Great shop! Looks like plenty of room. Congrats from another north Georgia Garage Journal fan.

 

[dkroth]

Very nice garage but the stars and bars are hung up backwards. I'm just sayin'.

x2 The stars are always in the upper left.

 

[dkroth]

Oh, and you are definitely living the dream! Enjoy it!

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

Awesome shop you have there. Thats a very good size.

 

[colt zantop]

very nice.....

 

[Corsario]

Very nice place. Lots of room there. Keep posting pics of the progress.
Take care!
Corsario from Argentina

 

[Mufrat62]

Nice set up. Your garage is the same size as mine. For some reason like everyone says I thought it looked huge when I built it and once I have started adding benches, atv's etc it fills up fast. Nice work benches and cabinets. I am 2 hrs straight west of Winnipeg and didn't see any insulation in the building so I didn't know if you could use it with our winters.

 

[emil]

Lots of Manitobans in this thread! Garage looks great, looks like there's tons of room.

 

[Gwhizman]

Very Nice......

Tell me about those roll up doors....they're interesting

Have you considered doing an epoxy floor?, it's soo easy to clean:

The doors are by Janus... new to residential the motor is in the tube not external.. very slick

 

[marty_p]

FRICKEN EH, proud for you! Great use of space, and lots of room for your creative juices to flow!

ENJOY!!!

 

[Gwhizman]

someone else had noticed the US flag was hanging backards and I did correct it and on investigation the Canadian flag was also backwards... corrected also. In my defence I was standing on the bench tops to hang them so from my prespective they were correct from my side. No disrespet was intended.
I've also completed the upper cabnets in the same style as the lowers.
Insulation is next on the list.

 

[54FordPanel]

Very nice!

What's "saving"?

 

[CrashTestDummy]

Nice!

It's too small!!

X2 on the epoxy floors. Even the cheap stuff is better than bare concrete.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

[Gwhizman]

Where's the cheep stuff? Everything I see is 100 bucks a gallon!

 

[csp]

Got any details on the cabinets?

What is the door material? Looks like sheetmetal of some sort.

What are the latches? How are you hanging the uppers?

Nice looking setup!

 

[SiGmA_X]

Looks great gwhizman! I'd love a little more info on the cabinet construction if you have a moment. They look very good and very usable.

 

[Gwhizman]

The cabinets are made from 5/8 plywood with face frames of ripped down pine shelving. The doors are the same pine ripped and mitered corners this allows you to cut a grove on the inside to accept the galvanized panel. The panels are no more than 5 V galvanized roofing (minus the outside V's) so all you see is the center V. The handles or pulls are scrap EMT cut down and held in place with EMT clips the bottom cabinet handle lock in place with a 1/2 EMT slipped through 3/4 EMT. I did all the electrical myself and had parts left over and just could not let them go to waste.. The uppers are the same materials cut to the width of the building upright tubes and secured with heavy self tapping screws. This spacing left just enough room for 4' florescent lights under the uppers for benchtop lighting. The overhead lights are the same 4' fluorescents (dirt cheap at Home Depot)

 

[csp]

Thanks for the info on the cabinets. Looks like the uppers have overlay doors and the lowers are inset.

I like your pulls/latches on the lowers. Great thinking there with what you had on hand.

 

[Gwhizman]

That is correct the top are overlay .. they were built after the lowers and after a kitchen remodel that left me with a mess of old overlay hinges.

 

[twokidsnosleep]

Loving the shop. Great space and lighting.
Now you can fire those machines up an make some sawdust!

 

[Gwhizman]

go the sawdust covered.. built-in dust collection in floor and both compressor and dust vacum located out back in a duty house to keep noise down.