Subject: Re: Building a new workshop! where?

From: "Bill Griffin" <[email-masked]>
Date: 27 Mar 1997 20:06:25 GMT

In the process of retiring and will build a home. Currently have a 2.5 car
garage that is getting overcrowded with tools. In preparation for final
home, I built a 40 x 60 shop building that is separate from the planned
house. It is metal sheathed and roofed with a concrete slab. Built in the
slab are vacuum lines, water, sewage, 220/110V lines and a pvc pipe with a
pull string to connect to the eventual house (cables, phone or anything
else I want to pull between the buildings in the future). There will be an
upstairs office over the evential shop. It is weathered in and I will be
moving my tools there in a few months from now. Elected for the separate
building to keep noise and dust down in the house and to enable me to have
growth/project room. I can also park my pickup in it very easily (even a
fishing boat). This may not be your best option but it is one I have
thought about for a long time and is the one I finally opted for.

Martin A. Escarcega <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> A standalone building worked for me. I scrounged an old split system
> air conditioner winters aren't a problem here. I like it, a little more
> private, most definitely more quite for those in the house. Basement
shops
> tend to be noisy for the house, (people sleeping) and I hear the dust
> travels upward, sooo, I dunno how your better half would feel about that!
> :-)
> 
> Marty
> 
> Dave Scholten <[email-masked]> wrote:
> : I'm in the process of designing a new house.  The question I keep 
> : coming to is where to put my woodworking shop.  Options are:
> 
> : 1. 20x30 barn
> : 2. Under the 24x30 garage
> : 3. behind the garage attached to the house.
> : 4. in the basement someplace.
> 
> 
> : I see pro's and cons of all of the places: cost, humidity,
heating/cooling,
> : accessibility, etc.  I live in Michigan so we do get the weather
extremes.
> 
> : Where is the ideal place?  Has anybody else thought about this?
> 
> : Thanks,
> : David Scholten
> 
> 
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From: [email-masked] (Garrett Lambert)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 13:55:53 GMT

I've often wondered about running lines in the slab floor. Obviously
you've thought out your machine layout careully and are confident
about it. Care to share it with us? (What will you do in the even of a
clogin your vacuum line(s)?