The Garage/Shop Thread

[ChickNorris]

Go.

[ChickNorris]

I like vehicles. Know a bit about them. Always wanted to make my own but doubt I'll ever have the garage space... not until each of my beautiful outbuildings is bigger than the house... that's a while off, if ever... but a girl can dream to have a dedicated building for each speciality workshop, riiight?

[gnihcraes]

At that point in my life, I had the time, money to get something built. Dreaming for years. Finally got through the city's rules and regs to build this.

Here is the official plan my wife gave me for christmas a couple years back. If she's suggesting, I'm down with this.

https://justgarageplans.com/3734/plan-detail/1008.php

Has a 12 foot height on one side, we did 2x6 construction all around and removed the center dividing wall with an overhead truss beam to carry the load. 100% open floor plan.

Fun to build and setup inside the way I want. Just need to get a car lift some day.

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[gnihcraes]

Technically, I still have my old 1955 garage, we use it for the wife to park in and other storage. 2 garage household and they exceed the square foot of the house. hehe

[izzy]

I have d a small workshop in my basement and I love it. Turns out that it's big enough to lose a box of spair parts in though.

[MarkCO]

Looking for pictures, ideas?

Air, vacuum and power...never enough of those in most shops. I have air and vacuum built in for both of my shops, switched outlets and still could have put in more.

[ChickNorris]

I ran electric around the inside perimeter of my shop, outlets every 6'. Yay

Oh & a row up top & right down the middle just because. Teehee.

[JohnnyEgo]

I've spent 25 years doing hobby woodworking in whatever space was available, to include several apartment balconies. I've never had a dedicated space for the hobby, and still don't. Share the garage with my wife, hence everything is on wheels. While I would love to have the ability to set up my equipment and run DC piping and power through the floors and ceilings, I have learned to make do. My first order of preference for any garage I have ever been in has always been lighting. Lots and lots of lighting. I am currently running (4) 4-bulb T8 high output light fixtures in my garage, and wish I had three more fixtures. When the balasts go, I will swap them out with LEDs.

Next after lighting, having a dedicated sub panel and surface mounted EMT wired outlets is a must for me. I like to have at least two separate 120v 20amp circuits, two 240v 20amp circuits, and one 240v 50 amp circuit in my shop. Lets me run two of anything (shop vac & miter saw, dust collector and planer) at the same time without any concerns over tripping breakers. I also really like shop heat.

About the only thing I don't have that I would like is a high-lift garage door. I have 12' ceilings, which are awesome, but the garage door tracks make it a pain in the butt to swing a long board, and I really want a gantry crane I can pull close to the garage door. Otherwise, for a space I have to share with my wife's mini-van, I am about as happy as I could be with it.

Dedicated shop space and being able to save 50% on shoes are the two things I envy most about my friend Jim.

[ChickNorris]

Nice.

[OldFogey]

Kazoo's shop was amazing. Bet his new one turns out just as good. My "shop"? 3 workbenches and a potting bench in the garage along with assorted household overflow. Went to led shoplights over the workbenches (me so green) and got a new space heater for winter reloading. Just the word "shop" makes me the envy type of green.