One week to the start of my new shop!

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Is it wrong that in buying a new house, I refer to the new shop as much as the new house? :biggrin:

One week from today we close on our new house. Luckily there isn't a massive honey-do list with the new house once we move in. I'm sure there will be items, but the only 2 significant items on my list are a fence install, and starting the garage/shop build.

I'll throw pictures as I start, but the idea is that I will be walling off stall 3 of the garage from the other 2 stalls to keep the dust off the cars and to give me more wall space. It will also get its own electrical panel and heat at some point, and will then be set to go.

The good news is that there is a shed on the property too so I don't have to loose space to lawnmower, etc.

I know a garage shop doesn't sound like much compared to some, but just having DEDICATED space where my stuff will all be in one place will be a huge improvement for me over what I had.
 
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Congratulations on the new "castle", Dean!! Should be a GREAT time to buy (albeit a lousy time to be selling your old house!!)

Good "renovating"!!!
 
Here's a pic of the outside. And Ed, since we went newer and bigger, we did ok on the sale, but great on the buy. So selling is definitely bad right now unless your moving up.
 

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TomW said:
'course you could wall off the 2 car garage and keep all that non-shop stuff in the one car side...

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Yes I could Tom... But this is Wisconsin and that would mean cars outside. If I were retired and didn't have to get up and scrape off my car to go to work in the mornings during the LONG winter, that would be a possible consideration.

Now if I were in Texas - I think it would be a 3 car size shop :smile:
 
TomW said:
'course you could wall off the 2 car garage and keep all that non-shop stuff in the one car side...

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OR...take the whole garage for a workshop and park the vehicles outside like so many people do!
 
Haynie said:
alphageek said:
Luckily there isn't a massive honey-do list with the new house once we move in.
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They call him Pharaoh king of DA-Nile.:biggrin:

Congrats on the new kingdom.
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ROFL! Actually we close on the house 2 days after the end of school where both my daughter AND wife are off for the next 3 months while I still have to work. Therefore they have to be careful adding to the honey do list, because I will be reminding them of all the time on their hands. Of course, that won't work for everything, but I just need it to stall the list long enough to get my shop started over the summer before the list builds up :)

And yes some of that is still denial, but gotta do what I gotta do :)
 
Looks like a great place to live. You can join the rest of us that have casters on everything. With a three stall you have more than enough room, it just shortens the time you can spend on every project for clean up and tear down.

Occasionally I even leave the cars out all night when I know I am coming right back to it the next day, like a holiday or something. That is nice....but like you, my wife doesn't scrape, so it only occurs on nice spring/summer nights.
Have fun...I think I have spent more time building shop stuff than furniture...just work on ways to make the set-up easier and quicker...
 
They just buy their own pen. I recently bought a new house in order to retire with no honey doos. 6 months later I am still at it. However, I am taking my time and pacing myself
 
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