Wish I had more land.

[dbhost]

Not sure this was legit or not, but saw and ad on Facebook today for a 38x24x16 steel building installed for just a hair over $17 grand...

Permits, prepping for and laying down the floor / foundation for that would cost that much!

But that is a REALLY nice sized building for a dream shop!

[twistsol]

That sounds like a pretty fair price, but you'd end up with an uninsulated steel box or in Texas, an oven. Once you get out of the suburbs, it seems like everybody has one of these as a shop or just to store toys. 40 x 60 is what I'd. like but I'd have to move away from the HOA. After all, anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

[capncarl]

it is a good shop size. And will fill up a residential lot in a minute. A new metal shop is going up down the road from me but it didn’t catch my eye as 16 ft. height. Most of lotis it that subdivision look to be 1 to 1.5 acres, which would be a minimum size for that building and house. What I did notice was they left their large pine trees that were fall on the house close. Not a good thing where you get hurricane force winds wandering in off the gulf. People gotta learn from their own mistakes!

17 grand is just the down payment . Do you want 1 or 2 roll up doors? How about a window? A back door may be required by fire code. A really nice got to have feature in a shop is a rest room. I’d kinda like lights and electricity in my new shop too! Spray foam insulation probably adds 4 grand. As much as I like my air conditioner, on a shop that size it might be worth it to box off part of the shop to use for your actual work shop and insulate and air condition/heat that part..
Yep, dream shop, only doable after winning a lottery!

[Jim Frye]

Every time I think I'd like more shop space, reality sets in as I admit I don't have enough time left for one, and the one I have (12'x22') requires that it is kept tidy so it can actually be used. I keep coming back to a line from a Zac Brown song "I have everything I need and nothing I don't ".

[dbhost]

On the oven issue, no doubt, however most if not all of these have ridge vents which help a lot. And there is no way I would leave it bare steel walls, but rather insulate and finish it out as a proper shop. Yeah win the lotto territory after a while...

My current garage workshop is scary narrow at 18' for a "2 car garage" and only 22' long. Moving the lawn and garden + camping stuff out to the shed helped a LOT, and I know getting the mini split put in will free up floor space, as will getting the drum sander assembled onto its mobile base. I didn't think that one through, I need help from folks with healthy backs and all of my friends are middle aged or later old farts with bad backs...

Honestly Grizzly ought to have directions on how to assemble this and put it in place using a shop crane / cherry picker to do the lifting...

[pearson]

i would like to spend my retirement elsewhere, so not even thinking of doing business at home. I’ve always used microsoft products, but it wasn’t until I started working from home that I truly appreciated them. The ease of switching between Word, Excel, and Teams made the transition from the office to remote work so much smoother. I love how everything is synced across devices with OneDrive, meaning my files are always just a click away. Whether I’m prepping for a big presentation or just replying to emails, Microsoft makes the tech behind my workday feel seamless and efficient.

[capncarl]

DB, I’ve heard that hindsight is 20-20, and didn’t think much about it then, but now I see whomever said it was dead on! Old story, but , when I was in process of building my house and shop… not HOA, my shop footprint was to be +/- 1000 sf. Then some nosey neighbors got involved. They blindsided me with a stop order from the declaration. My 1000 sf shop suddenly shrunk to 500 sf. I had 1000 sf of roof line so I was able to keep 500 sf of shop and 250 sf of porch and 250 sf for carport. Within a year of moving in no one was paying attention so I enclosed the 250 sf “porch”. Making my shop +/- 750 sf. Meaning a 750 shop with a wall splitting it 2/3, 1/3 and a 250 sf carport, I’ve long given Up the carport to my wife’s Town Car yard truck so the only chance of enlarging my shop is to remove the wall making it 750 sf. Then reality sets in. This wall has a large mechanical workbench with all matter of tools on the wall and a large MiG welder underneath while the other side of the wall has slat wall holding bunches of dust collection fittings and 10 foot long floor to ceiling wood storage racks.
My problem is not removing the wall, but rather what to do with all the STUFF that is attached to the wall! Like Jim F said, I don’t know if I haven enough time in me left. I estimate that it would take me 9 months to complete the job of relocating all the stuff on the wall and remove the wall and set the shop as one 750sf room. This jumps up to a year and a half when I try to continue my Tiny Tree, Tiny Mushrooms and Tiny Tables!
At this time I’d like the add the the proven statement that you should buy your last table saw first, you should build your last sop first!
This add on, modify, move walls and improving is killing me!
Capncarl

[JamesDean19]

I once worked in Metal Sawing Technology (metalsaw.com) in Houston as welder for sawblades. The lot is great, big and all. The shop? It was well insulated with this crazy big fans to make workers feel a bit comfortable. Believe it or not, it does not do any good during the summer. No matter how well-insulated it is, it is going to hit you real bad. It was great time working for them though.