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It was recently brought to my attention that I have been lurking here for a long time but I've never posted.
This is my first workshop at my first house. Originally an 8×10 baby barn that someone has added 2 wings onto to make it 10×18 with a door on the long side. Seemed like lots of space until I started getting all my tools and 2 motorcycles packed into it. The "wired" shed I bought turned out to have a bare 14/2 wiring buried with no conduit connected to a fuse in the house's fuse box. The fuse turned out to be a 30amp that the previous owner had cut the safety tabs off of so it would fit. My father in law is an electrician so the first upgrade was more power. We left the original line in place to run nothing but the lights, and added a pair of 45 amp fuses in the house split into 4×15 amp breakers in a sub-panel in the shed because using a table saw when the lights go out is not awesome. The conduit also gave me the chance to run ethernet cable out and get rid of the flakey wireless signal.



The second quick change was to add a folding workbench to give me a bit more working space.



The first time I parked the smaller of my two motorcycles I noticed that the floor was sagging so I had to start digging into it. I found that when one of the wings was added instead of raising the existing shed they dug a hole and buried the floor beams in the dirt so they were completely rotted out. In the end I had to replace the whole floor, and raise the shed 6 inches which turned into a lot more work than I would have ever expected.





The floor nearly finished and now strong enough to hold 700 lbs of pure Honda horsepower.



In another month we will be moving to a new house with a 25×26 garage on a cement pad that has it's own 100Amp entrance, and I can't wait. Parking a 9ft long motorcycle in a 10ft wide shed limits space very very quickly. I need to dig up some pictures of the few projects that I have finished so I can participate a bit more around here.

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Sweet ride!
Good luck in the new digs. Green with envy!
 
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