Here's the problem. Have tools for mechanical work; metal fab and wood working. Want a few more large items and need a hoist. Need because if you ever have to pull a modern engine its pretty much coming out the bottom now. And also spent enough years on creeper...time for a hoist.
Currently the shop is a 3 stall attached garage with only a 8 foot ceiling. Its workable but difficult when you get a project eating up space. Got one sports car and one motorcycle that need putting away end of day.
Was planning on moving and building less house...more shop but last few months we've been rethinking that and I think overall thats the right choice.
Our home is in the hills and the back yard landscaped so not as easy a task as it could be to build a second shop. But if I tear down the world's best built small storage shed that I even poured a concrete slab under, I could squeeze in about a 30 × 40 structure. But it's at the back corner of the lot and I'd need to think through the design so it didn't look quite so shop like. Not to mention satisfy the HOA but at least here its doable. Main issue is I think one big square lump of a shop is going to be too overpowering looking. Need to have maybe some roof elevation changes and maybe 2 roof lines and more L shaped then square.
Id like to have a full height or close to full lift so need at least 12 foot ceilings in part. 30 x 40 would work if I kept maybe wood working in one stall of the attached garage and made the second shop mechanical and metal fab.
So...question is has anyone else had a issue like this? If you did build once complete did it work out or in hindsight would you have gone a different route?
Gordon S.
Currently the shop is a 3 stall attached garage with only a 8 foot ceiling. Its workable but difficult when you get a project eating up space. Got one sports car and one motorcycle that need putting away end of day.
Was planning on moving and building less house...more shop but last few months we've been rethinking that and I think overall thats the right choice.
Our home is in the hills and the back yard landscaped so not as easy a task as it could be to build a second shop. But if I tear down the world's best built small storage shed that I even poured a concrete slab under, I could squeeze in about a 30 × 40 structure. But it's at the back corner of the lot and I'd need to think through the design so it didn't look quite so shop like. Not to mention satisfy the HOA but at least here its doable. Main issue is I think one big square lump of a shop is going to be too overpowering looking. Need to have maybe some roof elevation changes and maybe 2 roof lines and more L shaped then square.
Id like to have a full height or close to full lift so need at least 12 foot ceilings in part. 30 x 40 would work if I kept maybe wood working in one stall of the attached garage and made the second shop mechanical and metal fab.
So...question is has anyone else had a issue like this? If you did build once complete did it work out or in hindsight would you have gone a different route?
Gordon S.