anyone else working from a shed???

[bigdummy30]

i currently have a decent driveway and work out of a 10x20 shed. It ***** bad depending on the weather and darkness but i make do and learned to gauge rain clouds really well. My biggest complaint is probably that i feel bad using loud power tools with neighbors so close .Ive got a cart to roll around separate from my big box along with a workbench on wheels that i can roll out when needed .The next step is actually getting electric out there so i dont have extension cords and air hoses running all over the place from the house. Anybody else suffering through this and what have you done to cope.

 

[bgarrett]

I always thought a shed was a roof on 4 supports with no walls but have learned that some people here think a shed can have walls, windows and doors

 

[bigdummy30]

I always thought a shed was a roof on 4 supports with no walls but have learned that some people here think a shed can have walls, windows and doors

and i always thought a roof with 4 supports and no walls ,windows or doors was a carport ....guess there are lots of dumb people every where..

 

[Mister Laugh]

and i always thought a roof with 4 supports and no walls ,windows or doors was a carport ....guess there are lots of dumb people every where..

Around here a shed has walls a roof, and a door. A carport is open, but sometimes they are kind of a lean to style using one wall of a garage.

Back to te topic at hand. I guess I work out of a shed, technically I'm not allowed to do any work in my driveway automotive wise in the townhouse complex I am in. I do minor work anyway but major work is done in mom and dads garage

 

[RVDan]

Sure I worked out of a shed for a long time. A shed is just a garage small enough that you don't need a building permit.

Of course I also call my workshop a shed, it's only a workshop because the building permit says so.

 

[kbs2244]

What you are doing now is why you will be very happy to get a garage.
You are "paying your dues."

 

[mtnkrake]

10x20 shed you are so lucky. I'm working out of an 8x10.

 

[bigdummy30]

What you are doing now is why you will be very happy to get a garage.
You are "paying your dues."

the wife knows "garage" or room for garage is at the the top of our next houses shopping list....and that is hopefully soon..

 

[964haus]

10x16 motorcycle shed here.....

 

[HTGTS350]

My "shed " is 30x55 and I have a full enclosed "carport" that is 50x20 and I still work in front of the shed because all my available space is packed with cars, trucks, bikes, trailers and machines.

 

[Steroblan]

My shop was a dirt floor basement, nothing big in or out. Then I moved to the country but had no out buildings so I had to use a 10 X 12 back room in the house. Then finally built a 24 X 36 garage/shop. I soon grew out of that and built a 30 X 72 shop. "Shed" dwellers take comfort in knowing things can change and everything is temporary anyway.

 

[Outlander]

The Can-Am Garage is only named as it is to get me onto the Journal Check out the link in my signature......it is a big shed.

 

[scouting]

Yeah, I understand. My bikes are parked at friends/family's garages. My box is parked in a single bed apartment; thankfully my landlord is cool with engine rebuilding in the place. I'd kill for my own garage, but that's the downside of renting. At least I have places to work and access to a lathe. However, it is frightfully apparent that I'm single from the kitchen; most girlfriends don't want their kitchen covered in dirtbike parts. One day...

 

[crewchief888]

back in the mid 80's i was racing flattrack on honda atc's

the place we lived had no driveway, only a sidewalk from the street to the front door, we parked on the front lawn.
i had my little toolbox on an enclosed 6x12 back porch (was suppose to to be the "dining room"), spare tires, wheels, leathers boots, helmets and spare parts piled up there, homemade beadbreaker in the screened in "laundry room".
both my ATC's were chained to a heating oil drum in the back yard, covered in a tarp. my little 5x8 trailer was on the "back patio" outside the laundry room.

did all my engine building on the coffee table.

my landlord lived next door, and had no idea what i was doing, he was confused as to how i got my trailer through the 36" wide gate

 

[psychob0b1977]

I have an 8x20 shed that i am working out of. I built it last summer so that i could finally empty out my fathers 1 car garage of all my tools. i am planning on getting electricity out there this spring/summer...

 

[countrytech]

12x16 shed here. (it does have a concrete floor) It took a little while, but I got 30A 220v power and plumbed air in it. I put my 20 gal air compressor in the rafters to save space. Some of my stuff is on wheels so that I can easily reconfigure or make space for different projects.

 

[CCMullen]

I have a 12x20, with no electric, so my work has been done in our laundry room or in the carport during the winter. Now that it is turning to spring, I hope to be back in my building making some sawdust.

 

[PWC Repair]

I've been working out of my 12x18 for several years. It's on concrete and is pretty decent but I've outgrown it and started a real shop (well dirtwork anyway). I still run an extension cord and plug it in cause I can't seem to get around to running real power.

 

[Les Brock]

Your sheds are bigger than most of our Garages

 

[ilovevocs]

My situation isn't as bad as your but....

I have down graded from a 50x60 with a 25 x 20 paint booth, two tool rooms roughly 20x20, the main portion had 20' ceilings, now I have a to a three car garage with 10' ceilings. Its not as small as your shed but it was a difficult transition. I have 4 vehicles personally and my wife has her car. I keep my daily driver at home and have to park the rest of my vehicles at my parents house in their garage. I have shoe horned most of my equipment in this little garage but still end up doing allot of work outside. My painting equipment sits unused and has been traded up for spray bombing everything outside weather permitting. I put my sata spray hood on just for fun from time to time and huff compressor air as I reminisce about days of the past.

I have learned to not take anything for granted and to be appreciative for everything I have. Life's short, as long as I have a welder, a lawn chair and some whiskey I'm a happy guy.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

I have rebuilt entire cars out in the parking lot. I built one engine in someone else's shed. I build houses with a truck full of tools and a couple of sets of sawhorses out in the grass.

Someday you will look back at these times and think that they were the good old days.

And they will be.

 

[G-Ram]

Working out of an old, rotten 10x14 shed that came with the mobile home I bought last year. If I can get permission from the owner of the trailer park, my plan is to build a 12x20 semi-permanent garage. One day...

 

[805gregg]

I work out of a 20'X50' tent, I bought a neighbors RV shelter to cover my 38' sailboat that I'm finishing, now the boat is there and a lot of my tools including a couple of welders, we have mild winters and it works out well. I covered it with a 28 gauge tarp that will last 15 years