| Workshop by arw01 | posted 98 days ago | 108 reads | 0 times favorited | 8 comments |  |
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In the winter of 2006 my wife, obviously delierious, told me I should build a shop! Well, of course that week I was on the phone getting bids!
780 square feet at 30’ wide x 26’ deep pole building. 4” concrete floor with 2” extruded foam under the concrete. Radiant floor heat tubes, but no heat source yet.
The bench is made of scrounged materials. My only expense is the nuts and bolts that attach the legs to a stringer. The feet and legs are reclaimed oak from shipping dunage. The top is from a custom home’s main beam.
Built in Summer of 2006, fall of 2006, winter of 2006-2007, spring of 2007, summer of 2007, fall of 2007, winter of 2007-2008, spring of 2008, and now still working on it in the summer of 2008!
I’ll try a few more photos here embedded now that i found the trick!
The lot at our home is 85’ x 145’ so I had plenty of room to plop a shop at the back corner where we never ventured. Known as dog land at our home, and by my wife as where the old wood piles used to be.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 98 days ago
You have a nicely sized shop in which to work and having a heating source available is nice if you need to work in the winter. You have a solid looking bench pictured there as well and it is nice to see wood re-purposed like this.
Thanks for posting pictures of your shop. I enjoyed the tour.
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John Gray
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posted 98 days ago
Beautiful shop! I like the radiant floor heating.
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Tim Pursell
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posted 98 days ago
You’ll love the warm concrete floors come winter. Keep an eye out on Craig’s list for a used boiler, or check with some heating contractors in your area. I got mine for free when someone switched from a boiler to forced air( they needed A/C)
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Roper
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posted 98 days ago
very nice work space.
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arw01
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posted 98 days ago
Well the trick didn’t work, anyway to get more than 6 photos into the shop workshop portion?
Alan
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Kipster
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posted 98 days ago
Nice! floor heat ,I’m jealous Thanks for posting.
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arw01
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posted 97 days ago
All the electrical in the shop is run in surface mount conduit so I could move things around in the future if I needed to. Nothing runs in the attic, just across the walls and the floor.
I got a little smarter and started running a single 3/4” to the junction box at the top of each post, then drop down the post to the outlets at are at 50” above the floor. This allows you to put an American sheet of plywood against the wall and still have access to those outlets.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 97 days ago
Alan,
No you can’t post more than 6 pictures in the workshop portion. But you can either replace them with newer photos or you can post them individually as you have done with your picture showing the conduit spacing. I am sure that Martin had a lot of foresight in designing this limitation because without limits some of us avowed shop junkies (myself included) would just keep asking for more/current pictures. :)
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.