What kinds of workshops do you all inhabit?

[beagley]

I have an idea of what would make for a good workshop, but in reality what do you guys have as far as space and area that you have to actually build your cars. Here is an old school mspaint image of what I would like in a garage.

 

http://usa7s.com/vb/picture.php?albumid=21&pictureid=111

 

Is this feasible?

Edited August 6, 2010 by beagley
Changed picture a bit

[turboeric]

No picture showing up for me.

[beagley]

Interesting...... its a 6 car garage, 3 x 2 with the back row of 3 as the "work shop" area.

[SkinnyG]

One bay should have a vaulted ceiling for hoist clearance - a real hoist, not an engine crane.

 

And you might want a "compressor room" to keep noise down. A "sand blasting room" to keep dirty away from clean.

 

Make one bay seal-off-able so you could have an impromptu spray booth.

[beagley]

Hmmm.... so I need approximately 109629349629364987 square feet of space for this garage?

 

What about a 5 axis CNC machine? I've always wanted one of those.

 

Good idea for the vaulted ceiling though. I do plan on putting a lift in one bay.

[slomove]

Can I please have a shop (any shop) to start with? I do all of the work in the driveway. This is Southern California but once a while it rains or it gets pretty hot in summer or we get mosquitos buzzing around. My regular double garage is a messy pile of tools and machines and all vehicles except the Seven (has her own little dog house) and the motorcycles (stored in a trailer) live outside at the curb.

 

So, I would be happy to have some kind of a shed....

[DLW]

I inhabit a large automobile-dismantling shop from 7am-3pm Monday through Thursday, but as for a space to build a Se7en, I have a very small one-car garage with a good-sized driveway, space for 3 normal cars side-by-side out front, and have access to a 10-foot metal carport that could easily be tarped all around for privacy. I would have to dispose of all donor cars quickly due to neighborhood regulations, but considering where I work, that wouldn't be an issue if I had a title or a bill of sale.

[MightyMike]

Interesting...... its a 6 car garage, 3 x 2 with the back row of 3 as the "work shop" area.

 

 

That sounds nice. I wish I had the space for both my cars and wood working equipment.

[JohnK]

2 1/2 car, unheated, 22 ft deep, 9 ft to joists, block wall, good/smooth cement floor, attic storage space. Before kit came I put in shelving on every wall I could along with 3 x 4 chest level work tables at left and right walls at the windows. 5 strong 2 ft deep x 8 ft shelves on back wall have been very useful. Whole-house exhaust fan in attic draws out welding or exhaust fumes. One side is for grinding (belt sander, vice, grinder, ...) other is for clean work (TIG, fabrication/layout, assembly,...), but fiberglass and aluminum work on car makes dirty/clean sides kind of moot. House has lathe, bandsaw, drillpress, ... so there's usually traffic between house and garage. Honda Civic occupies one space normally. Major effort is staging work and keeping parts organized.

[WestTexasS2K]

Do it like the Brits do it build it in the living room then tear down a wall when it's ready to go.

[escondidoron]

My friend Kurt's "2-car" garage is one of the nicer ones that I've come across:

http://www.midlana.com/Diaries/Current/right_rear_wheel_on.JPG

 

His wife's car goes inside at night.

[DeanG]

I am trying to build my super workshop (well a 1 car attached but it now has an epoxy painted floor, painted drywall and decent lighting). I want to plumb in shop air. Does anyone have any hints? At the moment I am planning to put up 1/2" galvanized piping. I will be doing some painting but not much.

[JeffC]

What is this that Kurt is building?

 

My friend Kurt's "2-car" garage is one of the nicer ones that I've come across:

http://www.midlana.com/Diaries/Current/right_rear_wheel_on.JPG

 

[powderbrake]

I would suggest that you use 1/2"copper tubing for the air. You can solder it in place easier than screwing pipe together. If the code requires silver soldered joints, the solder is available at a welding supply shop, and needs no flux, but you need to use MAPP gas not propane , to get a hotter flame.

[WestTexasS2K]

I am trying to build my super workshop (well a 1 car attached but it now has an epoxy painted floor, painted drywall and decent lighting). I want to plumb in shop air. Does anyone have any hints? At the moment I am planning to put up 1/2" galvanized piping. I will be doing some painting but not much.

 

If you are going to run long distance then you may want to use 3/4 pipe to keep the cfm flow rate up. Using 1/2 over a long distance will cause a drop in performance.

[WestTexasS2K]

I am lucky enough to have a 30x40 shop behind the house. It seems to be full of something all the time. So this weekend I am adding a second floor to half of it for storage of spare parts and seldom used items that i dont want to get rid off. My wife has grand ideas to store her holiday decorations in the addition . I don't think that is going to work out for me. I am going to move my large air compressor to an outdoor place and build a cover or a room for it. It takes up 18 sqft that I could use for other things.

The new loft gives me 600 sq ft more to work with. It will only have 4' height on the edges, but is almost 8' in the center.

 

I would love to epoxy coat the floor ,but it most likely will never get done because I would have to move everything out and blast track or grind the floor to do it properly.

Edited August 8, 2010 by WestTexasS2K

[DeanD3W]

JeffC - Kurt is building http://www.midlana.com/Diaries/Current/

[Sevnn]

JeffC - Kurt is building http://www.midlana.com/Diaries/Current/

 

Looking at the engine layout and chassis design/welding I immediately thought, "that looks like kimini." I talked to Kurt about buying kimini when he was selling and got close but he needed more out of it than I could stretch to. I am very interested to watch his new project. He is definitely a very talented and skilled builder.