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Rojo22

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Well, I started this venture over 8 years ago, and am starting to finally get to the point, I can see the end. I had a 150 foot double driveway with turnout poured down to the shop (shell) last year, and just this past month, had custom trusses delivered and installed. I can start to visualize tools and stuff actually in the shop now(still dreaming). I have a ways to go, but I thought I would pass on the excitement to those who, like me have tried to do this over a number of years and feel like the completion day will never get here. WOOHOOO!!!!

The shop is 25 feet by 25 feet on the inside dimensions with a ceiling that is 9 and a half feet high. The main work room on the left side is 17 feet by 25 feet. I have a finishing room in the back right of the shop that is 8 feet by 12 and a half feet, and the room you see on the right front is also 8 feet by 12 and a half feet for the lawn mower, and other type yard stuff. WOOHOOO!!
 

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sweet, my shed is always taken over by family, lawnmowers, bikes, old furniture you name it anything thats in the way is dumped in my shed
 
Congratulations on your progress. I have serious shop envy right now. Have you decided how you're going to heat/cool it yet?

Jim Smith
Conyers, Georgia
 
Well you are just down the street from him Jim. Maybe you could get over there and drool it it a while? Very nice shop. I hope to build one similar some day.
 
I will probably have the guys that do the AC/Heat for the house come by and let me know how much a unit will cost to heat and cool it. I have gotten permission from the "power company" and the county, to increase my home power box to 400amps. We will split the power to the normal 200amps the house has now, and send the rest of the 200amps down the hill to the shop! I have been sealing the walls with Dryloc to keep the moisture out in the inside. I will stud the walls, and then run all the electric stuff, then insulate the place, and then finally drywall the place. I am going to run phone line, Cat 5e, and satellite feed down to the place, so it should be a right proper hang out. I would love to host a get together, but I still am a ways off from being ready. Once I move tools in though, everyone is welcome to come on down! There even might be a fridge stocked with cool spring mountain water.....
 
"Perfect" size for a shop. Now I will crawl into my little insect hole that I call my shop(8'X10') and dream how nice it would be to have one like yours. Congrats, you will have a great hang out place when complete.:smile:
 
You are indeed lucky to have a shop that big. Mine is built onto the end of my garage and is 24' x 24' with only a 71/2' ceiling. I have a friend who's shop was a walk in closet. It is only 5' x 9'. A jail cell is about twice a big but he is organized and turning out over 1000 pens a year. At least it is easy to heat and cool.

Good luck on a speedy move-in.
 
Good start. Commode/sink? Next--4 skylights in the roof. Might consider rolled insulation under the roof between truses. Also 1 1/2" stryfome sheets for wall insulation. OSB makes a nicer shop interior than sheetrock for nailing/hanging purposes. Double outlet boxes every 6 ft all around. 250 Hal. light hung at gable with remote switch at house to see at night. Plenty of circuits for power. Just before move in time, Home Depot has a good sealer for concrete. Lay down a good coat all over. Try one gallon first. Shouldn't take more than two gal. Plenty of florescent lighting switched for a few or all lights at a time. I wish I'd have used a couple of 'roof windows' instead of all skylights, to open for air circulation. A pellet burning stove makes a good shop heater. Get ready to enjoy yourself.
 
There is absolutely no plumbing in the shop! The reason is the county will then decide that my "shop" is living space, and then the codes all change to having to build it like a $#@%^& house. The only pipe in the place is going to be for dust removal, and for compressed air.

I have a 2 part epoxy floor to go down before I build the walls on the inside. I have a plan that has 18 4 panel flourescent lights in the main room, 3 4 panels in the finish room, and 2 4 panels in the lawn mower room. I plan on having a guy come out and sink a phone pole for lighting over the concrete, and we have several other lights for the front of the building. No sky lights, they let the alien radio signals in that control your brain and make you actually do work....Metal roof will help keep the rays bouncing back to the mother ships. I plan on building a cuppola on the roof with a big ole' weathervane on the top!

OSB BOARD...GEEZ....I have a really nice floral pattern wall paper picked out for the main shop room...just kidding....I have a faux denim paint treatment from Ralph Lauren going down on the walls....LOL.....
 
What pitch are the trusses? They are similar to mine. I can stand up between trusses. We put in a set of folding stairs and laid 3/4 OSB for flooring. It makes for a large amount of storage space.

Marcia
 
Rojo22 said:
I will probably have the guys that do the AC/Heat for the house come by and let me know how much a unit will cost to heat and cool it. I have gotten permission from the "power company" and the county, to increase my home power box to 400amps. We will split the power to the normal 200amps the house has now, and send the rest of the 200amps down the hill to the shop!
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400 amps? Do you have several employees welding at once, or something along those lines?

My shop has a "measly" 50-amp service. Two weeks ago, a friend came over with his mini-lathe, and we had the overhead lights, two 500W work lights, three 1.5kW space heaters, and both lathes running just fine... I can't imagine what you would do with a 200-amp service in there. I'll just have to drool.
 
Rojo22 said:
There is absolutely no plumbing in the shop! The reason is the county will then decide that my "shop" is living space, and then the codes all change to having to build it like a $#@%^& house. The only pipe in the place is going to be for dust removal, and for compressed air.
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That's where the concrete saws and drills come in once everything has been signed off for the shop!!!
 
No plumbing is a bummer. I like your shop and a little envious here. Congratulations on a nice building!

Can you at least put a semi-permanent hose down to have access to water? Nice to have water to cool things down. Or can you at least plumb to the outside for a faucet?
 
Art Fuldodger said:
I can't imagine what you would do with a 200-amp service in there.
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Art, I could tell you, but then I would have no idea what I will be doing. There will be a full sized air/heat unit, a bunch of lights, I have other folks that could be in the shop with me and using multiple tools at the same time....A microwave oven....A curling iron....plasma tv...message chair....disco ball....popcorn machine....lady leg lamps...you never can tell....

Lee
I know nothing about a "semi permanent" hose arrangement and that is the story I am sticking with, and I am checking now if the county can actual get good enough resolution on the Satellite shots to determine the dirt trail to the shop is actually a "gopher" or a "semi permanent" hose arrangement that I know nothing about.....
 
Steve

Dont worry, I have already been down to the Big Orange Box, and they have the Lithonia Lighting T8 4 light panels that I want. Supposed to save energy too, so that will help! The main room will have 18 panels, so I am HOPING that will be enough. Never can have too much light....
 
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