Workshop floor is getting poured tomorrow. So our builder's crew hustled today to insulate the floor. So far looks like workshop being ready and livable by may is going to happen. It won't get used as my workshop until main home is built year after. But I am happy for any suggestions on things you would do if this was your shop. It has full bath in back corner so I don't track sawdust in the house but other than that, it's full open 600 sqft shop.
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@Rajiv I am jealous. :-)
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@Rajiv Great idea, building your shop, living in it, while you build your home. I'm planning a move in April and I've been stressing about not having my shop readily available. I've no problem living in the shop while building my small house. Thanks for the idea! So why did you go with a square design, if I may ask?
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@elaterite honestly, no specific reason. It is 26x26 structure. I always wanted bath in the shop for two reasons… I hate dragging in sawdust in the home and I also want to pick film photography again. Bathroom could be converted to darkroom on as needed basis. Wife and I just looked at each other one day and went…all we need is small kitchen and we could live there. So we added that. For now, appliances will move to main house when it gets built. But in future, when it becomes harder to do woodworking ( I have arthritis in my hands ), we could easily convert it back to livable space and use it as vacation rental. We are 5 mins from beach with back end of lot backing on protected inlet.
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@Rajiv Nice--good planning! Now that I'm thinking about it, if I build the shop so I can live in it, I may never get the home built--lol! I hate to go to all the trouble of putting in a bathroom, but your idea really has merit for what I plan to do. I'll be doing most of the building myself so I need access to my tools and equipment instead of traveling 40 miles round trip to dig around in a storage shed for the stuff I need. I guess a bathroom is a small price to pay to save on time and fuel.
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@elaterite when we bought our first house in 1999, it was a subdivision of 20 homes outside city. We had a neighbour who was into vintage cars. He literally just had a large 5 car garage built with mezzanine level that was livable space. His plan was to build home bit later but 5 years that we lived there, he never got around to build his home. So yeah...risk is real :)
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@Rajiv Nice! I’ve got a 600 square foot shop as well, but no bath or plumbing. Mostly woodworking with a side of general crafting. It’s hard to tell what to do with a space like that right away; my shop is on it’s third reorg in as many years.
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@Rajiv that's awesome mate! Love the idea of using the bathroom as a darkroom down the line. I'm dreaming of converting my basement bathroom into a darkroom, I wish I had room to put a longer deep sink.
Maybe one of these years I'll get around to insulating the garage so I can woodwork in the winter, I hope to put in some PVC ducting at that time for dust collection (stretch goal: automatically open/close vents based on which tool is powered). Those are my dreams/suggestions, cheers!
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@shom this is definitely insulated and heated. I am thinking about dust collection. But want to wait for a year or so before I run any permanent ducting. I expect machinery position will change often initially until I can establish positions that fit the way I work.
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@Rajiv yeah makes a lot of sense to live with it for a bit first! Well, I'm excited to see how it comes along.
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@Rajiv @shom I use MagPort connectors for my dust collection and am still moving the hoses around after a couple years. I feel like I’ll get a final layout soonish, but I also want to get a drill press / tapping stations set up first, which means setting that up for wood dust collection (when drilling wood) and metal collection… nothing is simple.
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@Rajiv @shom https://magport.net/ - forgot the url initially.
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@davepolaschek those are great, my mate has some in his basement workshop with two blast gates on his two input ports, works great. I plan on getting some this spring when I get back into my garage shop.
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Those look interesting. I have rockler's dustright kit that I have been using, but these seem even easier than that.
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@Rajiv @shom The only downside is that I end up using flexible hose, which adds drag compared to hard ducts. But until I figure out where things are going long-term and get a few blast gates and hard ducts, they’re pretty slick. I have 4” fittings on bandsaw, lathe hood, and planer, and 2½” on table saw, router, little drum sander, and my pen-blank sander.
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@davepolaschek @shom well…my dust collector is laguna CFlux 1 (https://lagunatools.com/classic/dust-collectors/c-flux-1/). And I make good use of the fact that it’s on wheels. So I can get by with shorter run of flex hose. Looking at those mag ports, they seem very much 3Dprinatble as well…..
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@Rajiv @shom I’m sure they would be. I’ve heard of people doing that, but I don’t need another hobby just now.
I’ve thought about putting one of my DCs on wheels, but the 4” is a Harbor Freight 1HP unit with the big Oneida cyclone. The 2½ is a shop vac with a smaller cyclone. Easier to move the hose, but then I’m also move my lathe, bandsaw, and planer around the shop.
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