i currently use my brothers garage or my parents porch to build my projects and just curious of the dimensions of everyones shop on here and how well the size worked for them?
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Robert you have the shop that i want when I do get my forever house, I dont think my wife will be satisfided with a steel building I all ready tried that but the size and the detached part she would love
Robert J Guidry Sr said:
Robert you have the shop that i want when I do get my forever house, I dont think my wife will be satisfided with a steel building I all ready tried that but the size and the detached part she would love
Robert J Guidry Sr said:
Okay, here's a cautionary tale for when you're dreaming/designing your shop...
When we added a small addition (laundry room, mudroom, porch) onto the back of the house I knew I wanted to also add a shop to the back of the small (10x16) detached garage but was concerned that I was eating up all the space in my already small backyard. Finally decided a 10x16 gabled shop attached perpendicular to the garage would do the trick...match the architecture of the existing structures and would be long enough to handle 8' boards. Felt like an idiot the first time I tried to rip an 8 footer on my tablesaw sitting smack in the middle of the shop & realized the 16 ft. was an OUTSIDE dimension. Luckily, we'd recycled a sliding glass door from the addition and I can rip 8 footers with the door open and the piece sticking out the door. Obviously, I work with shorter lumber when the weather is chilly.
Anyway, the shop is too small but I think it would be if I'd built it fencepost to fencepost & used every inch of the yard. There's always something to add in there. I built a tall rotating clamp stand a while back that has hardly rotated since I loaded it up with clamps because they keep bumping into stuff.
I have a tip if you do want to heat a small shop, I found a great thermostatically controlled electric heater at a greenhouse supply company. It keeps the shop warm enough for stains, glues, etc. when I'm not out there & I can crank it up when I am. All the electric heaters I found at farm/home supply places were expensive, more btus than I needed to heat a little shop & had a thermostat that started around 65 degrees, warmer than I felt an empty shop warranted as much as I do like my carpenters glues.
32 X 64 but it always seems to not be enough :)
I have a 12' X 24' shop. Would now like it to be wider. Sometimes moving large pieces around is difficult with drill press on one side and wood storage on the other side. I probably keep more pieces of scrap wood then I need to.
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