Your Shop Size?

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:32 pm

Generally I don't care for polls. BUT I'm going to post one anyway.

What square footage do you have available for your woodworking? The space available doesn't have to be permanent, such as. You use the garage, but have to move the car out first. Count all that space as available.

wood4me · Post by **wood4me** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:59 pm

my small shop is perfect for S.S.

my problem is big dreams small shop:(
life is still good;) any one else with that "opportunity"

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:37 pm

I feel blessed with the shop that I have. My wife, bless her, arranged to have a shed built on the back corner of our property. It is about half the size of my shop. We moved all of our seasonal storage and most of the items that we feel a need to keep but don't use into the shed.

This freed up the garage space in its entirety for my shop. This leaves me with a bit less than 400 square feet for wood storage and wood working.

The further blessing comes from the fact that I can open the door and have the great outdoors (the driveway) to expand into.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:51 pm

Hi Bob,
I know that there are many here that have had similar or even worse situations then I have had; but, it was my experience to grow up in a home that had ONE toilet, and sharing that home with two parents and two sisters, and then marrying and buying a home with TWO toilets, and sharing those with my wife and two daughters. Then my wife and I built a home. Not only does that home have FOUR toilets (no waiting:D ), it has dedicated shop space (not a garage).

I was fortunate enough to share a two car garage (with two cars) in our old home, with my woodworking equipment. That worked, but I, like many of you, desired more. When my wife and I decided to buy acreage and build a home, I designed a home that has a full basement. 1800 square feet of basement. Of that, aprox 900 sq ft are my garage and storage space, another aprox 250 sq ft area has my mechanical room, stair case, and wood storage. And the final, aprox 650 sq ft, is my wood shop. These dimensions do knot take into consideration the square footage of the concrete exterior walls or the framed wood interior walls, so there is not quite as much space as my gross dimensions suggest, but almost!

RobertTaylor · Post by **RobertTaylor** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:51 pm

my "good weather" shop is 20' x 30' and located 125' from the house and has stand alone tools. as i got older and didn't want to wait for it to heat up i moved all my shopsmith tools to the basement in an area about 16' x 16' against the wishes of my loml. however with the dust collector and air cleaner she now likes the fact that i get more things accomplished. the garage shop has a craftsman ras, table saw, benchtop shaper, 6" jointer and lathe, "made in taiwan" from the 80's drill press and bandsaw, a homemade 9" disk sander, amt 4" x 36" belt sander with a 6" disk, and a 10" ryobi planer. with five complete shopsmiths (only the '84 500, the '54 mini and the '63 goldie are assembled the others are in pieces around the basement) a shopsmith pro-planer and a stand alone shopsmith bandsaw i have no room for a workbench. i find myself using the 510 tables with the short tubes on each end of a mini as a work surface. i think i should seek professional help.

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:51 pm

bettyt44720 wrote: i think i should seek professional help.

I agree with you on that, you SHOULD seek professional help and quickly. Maybe they could rearrange your shop to make room for a work bench.

judaspre1982 · Post by **judaspre1982** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:24 pm

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wlhayesmfs · Post by **wlhayesmfs** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:20 pm

Dusty I am in the same shape as you . My wife moved the seasonal items to a back shed and I have the garage for my shop. Going one better when I open the door to the great outdoors I have large carport added on so as long as the wind does not blow in I can even mover some of the shopsmiths outside and really feel like I have Norm type shop.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 7:53 pm

I'm working on softening the opposition; it is going slow. I want to add a concrete apron (8'x20') in front of my garage (shop) door. I have been referring to it as a patio for the RV which I try to keep parked in front of the garage door opening.

In other words, all of the area between the garage and the RV would been hard, flat surface. When overnight company comes, they would have a nice shaded area for outdoor existence.

When we don't have over nighters, it is a smooth hard surface onto which I can roll the Shopsmith, dust collector, Power Station, etc. The only problem would be when we have snow storms or rain.

I like to keep the RV parked there because it obstructs the view of the shop from the street.

Gampa · Post by **Gampa** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:45 pm

My shop is 11 x 14. Here in the Great Northwest where people rust not tan my shop was originally a wash room (as in Clothes wash room) where the clothes could be washed and hung up to dry. It still has the drain for the washer and hot and cold water pipes. It even has a chimney so a wood stove could be installed but that would take up to much space and make it way to hot for my needs. It can be a tight fit for me and the SS and accessories and I am still trying to figure out a good spot for a small work bench. One of these days I will stop working on projects for everyone else and work on shop storage and organization to better utilize the space I have.

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