Slightly off topic-shop sizes
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From: Huntsville,Ont.
Guess my wife is right, I'm spoiled, my shop is 24 x40 with 9 ft. 6. ceiling.
I think a 24 x 24 will work for anyone most of time and it cost very little extra to go higher.
Pour a ribbon pad foundation, put down two rows of blocks, add an 8 ft. wall.
You can add the poured floor later or not.
I framed mine with timbers for the walls, built the trusses myself with an open area up top for storage, covered the wall outside with boards as I could afford, later filled in with studs, insulation, and the got some damaged particle board from the lumber yard and covered the inside.
Took a few years but it was legal, usable, and I had a roof over my head.
Plan in steps so it don't cost so much at first.
I think a 24 x 24 will work for anyone most of time and it cost very little extra to go higher.
Pour a ribbon pad foundation, put down two rows of blocks, add an 8 ft. wall.
You can add the poured floor later or not.
I framed mine with timbers for the walls, built the trusses myself with an open area up top for storage, covered the wall outside with boards as I could afford, later filled in with studs, insulation, and the got some damaged particle board from the lumber yard and covered the inside.
Took a few years but it was legal, usable, and I had a roof over my head.
Plan in steps so it don't cost so much at first.
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From: Peterborough, Ontario
A full shop for me needs at least a 12x12 overhead door, as that is the smallest I can get the excavator in.
I'm wanting something for the short term, maybe a year, to get inside out of the colder weather to get some projects moving along. It's been a slow winter, due to goofy weather, but now it's looking like things could get busy, we're going back onto a retaining wall job next week now that we have frost, and we also have a bunch of interior digging to do inside a factory/warehouse this winter now too.
I'm wanting something for the short term, maybe a year, to get inside out of the colder weather to get some projects moving along. It's been a slow winter, due to goofy weather, but now it's looking like things could get busy, we're going back onto a retaining wall job next week now that we have frost, and we also have a bunch of interior digging to do inside a factory/warehouse this winter now too.
Last edited by greywynd; Jan 5, 2012 at 10:18 PM. Reason: spelling
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