Setting up my shop

[Eric]

Just been piecing together the shop in our new house.

I'm wanting to insulate and drywall before this Winter, but I don't that's going to happen.

Pic looking into the garage. Got a peg board, cabinet and clamp rack hanging off the cleats on the wall.


Pic from the other corner of the garage. Just started putting together a cabinet for my planer to roll around on so things are in a little disaray.


Sharing the garage with the water heater and gas furnace, and some of the left overs from the move.


Made a cabinet to house my cable modem and router all the network drops I've added end here.


Here's my start on the rolling cabinet for the planer. I'm going to build some drawers for it tomorrow.


I'll have more pics as things progress. I try to do something everyday to help get the mess stored away.

I want to make another mobile cart that will fit under the counter I have with my scroll saw on it. That way it isn't in the way when I don't need it. Also want to put casters on my drill press cabinet.
I need to make everything easy to move so I can get a car in to work on it.

[Pappy]

Lots of room and potential, Eric. Don't cut corners on the casters. You want double row bearings on the swivels, bearing axles for the wheels, and positive dual locks on at least 2 casters for each cabinets. A little more investment here will save a lot of frustration later.

[tribalwind]

man,
everytime i see a new shop, its gotta be one with 20foot high ceilings and 5000sq.ft of floor space.
am i the only one squooshed into a tiny lil garage!

great lookin shop area eric.
those rafters will make for nice wood storage too

[maxparot]

quote:Originally posted by tribalwind

man,
everytime i see a new shop, its gotta be one with 20foot high ceilings and 5000sq.ft of floor space.
am i the only one squooshed into a tiny lil garage!

I used to live on Long Island also. During that time the best I had was 400 sq ft gagrage with 8' ceilings that I had to share.
Since I'm now out west where real estate is a bit less expensive (My taxes in NY were 75% of what I pay for my mortgage including taxes now)I find it a bit easier to make end meet and have 793 sq ft, 10' ceilings with it's own attic space for extra storage. And no more sharing!

[lrogers]

Looks like you've made a great start.

[bmyers]

Looking good. I bet you'll make time for that insulation when it gets colder.

Make sure the water heater and furnace have no way if igniting airborn particles. Don't put your sanding bench or finishing table next to them. Otherwise the lack of heat problem could be overly solved.

Bill

[monte]

Good start Eric. It's going to be a good shop.

[Woodnut]

quote:Originally posted by bmyers

"overly solved"

I like that...

[Black wallnut]

Looks good Eric! Are you sure you want to use sheetrock for the walls? I did for mine but it does limit methods of attaching stuff to the walls.

[Eric]

I was thinking sheetrock for fire protection and then put some plywood up. I've got a pretty large supply of plywood so it wouldn't cost much to tack that up.