Your Shop Size?

jayhawk · Post by **jayhawk** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:24 pm

We purchased a new house this summer and one of the selling points for me was the 25'X30' shop just outside the back door. It was awesome rolling the Shopsmith out of the old garage and into its new home.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:39 pm

heathicus wrote:I have almost 1/3 of a 3 car garage. I say almost because the back area of my side has become a small storage area. I don't know how many square feet that equals and I'm too lazy to look it up right now. When working, if weather permits, I wheel everything out into the driveway. LOML is very kind not to complain too loudly about the sawdust all over her truck. I hope to rearrange, build some decent cabinets and a workbench this summer. But we're leasing the house, so I can't do anything permanent.

Gee! I never thought of using a truck as a Dust Collector. A lot is said since she drives a truck. You must have snagged one of the intelligent ones!

My 'workshop' was supposed to be 1/3 of a 1000+ addition 30+ years ago. Somehow a mother-in-law bedroom was incorporated into that 1/3. It ended up being the 'master' bedroom instead. The 'shop' is currently storing non shop related stuff(knock off 1/3 of the 1/3 of the 1/3). The rest is a jumble of usable and to be reusable ss 'stuff'. Just moving myself from one area to another requires limberness of body to circumnavigate various large items. Available floor space? What is that?

colday · Post by **colday** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:43 pm

I too have 1/3 of a 3 car garage for my shop area. Or at least most of the 1/3 also do to storage of "stuff" we will never touch or see again. I also get to share the door end with a lawn mower or snow blower depending on the season.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:17 pm

colday wrote:I too have 1/3 of a 3 car garage for my shop area. Or at least most of the 1/3 also do to storage of "stuff" we will never touch or see again. I also get to share the door end with a lawn mower or snow blower depending on the season.

Y'all really have to cut grass up nawth?:D

handywayne · Post by **handywayne** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:15 pm

48 X 40 total 960 square feet underground shop I built it last summer. Plenty of room for my wood working and metal shop. Shopsmith 510, jig saw, belt sander, strip sander, planer, bandsaw, scroll saw, joiner, walker turner joiner, lot of hand tools currently restoreing a shopsmith 10er. Still working on my dust collection system.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:20 pm

handywayne wrote:48 X 40 total 960 square feet underground shop I built it last summer. Plenty of room for my wood working and metal shop. Shopsmith 510, jig saw, belt sander, strip sander, planer, bandsaw, scroll saw, joiner, walker turner joiner, lot of hand tools currently restoreing a shopsmith 10er. Still working on my dust collection system.

Hey! That sounds great! Got any pictures??? Welcome to these forums!

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:46 pm

a1gutterman wrote:Hey! That sounds great! Got any pictures??? Welcome to these forums!

Hey! Tim, that sounds great!! Got any pictures???

easterngray · Post by **easterngray** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:08 pm

Heres an old short film of my apprx. 200 square foot shop - a few changes since I made it, but you'll get the idea. Happy new year! Alec

papahammer8 · Post by **papahammer8** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:33 pm

i put down 300 ft. but i just moved onto my property. it has been 2 years since we bought it. i built my shop first.

[ATTACH]7148[/ATTACH]since we had to find financing for the house. i am a carpenter by trade . so i was able to pick up left over lumber thru the years. i built my self a 16x16 shop with a gambrel roof that gave me a second story. then i went and built a 10 x 16 addition on the left side as a clean room for finishing. only been in my new home for 2 months so i'm finaly getting shop organized inside. have 3 mark v's in main room . have put the dc3300 in a room of it's on along with the air compressor. the upstairs room is used by my wife as storage for now. but it will be her crafts room . since it difficult for me to climb stairs. this pic show the pole i had to up so power company could hook up power . wouldn't let me attach to the shop. i believe i have 760 sq. feet of usable space . next will be putting in heat and air. still have some siding to do. happy new years freinds_____ jim

8iowa · Post by **8iowa** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:27 pm

That's a cool video Alec. The "goldie" looks brand new.

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