How narrow is too narrow in a workshop?

[yellofins]

Thanks for all of the replies.
I just got the word that all of my utilities will have to be rerun because they run under where I was planning on putting the slab, including the sewer line. (Fuquay and Wake Co. regs.......)
I think I will be reworking all of the plan.
My builder did come up with an idea to kick an extra bay out of the side of the garage.
He's going to get an estimate together for me. I only have to pull up some driveway concrete to get the space.
The extra bay would be for the LOML's car...then I get the 2 car garage as a workshop.

Back to the drawing board......

Ron

[Tar Heel]

If you go with the extra bay for your wife's car, I suggest you invest in a GOOD dust collection and air filter system. If not, you just might be hearing a lot of "chin music" from the wife and be spending time washing her car (if these water restrictions are ever lifted) that could be better spent in the shop. Don't ask me how I know. I would even consider putting a wall between your space and her space.

[yellofins]

Tar Heel.
I already get the feedback from the LOML regarding the sediment that is left on the floor, her car, the stuff that gets tracked in.
I do have good dust collection.
I have air filtration and there will be a wall between her space and my space. She will have her own door to get in and out of the house.
I'm just afraid of the quote to connect and extend.
It may be out of the budget......

Ron

[meika123]

Hey Stuart,
How about them "HEELS"-huh!!!

[JOAT]

HA! I've got you all beat. My shop is 8'X12'. Got it about 12 years ago, and that was all I could afford. I couldn't even go for a 10'X12' version. Was raising my two sons on my own, paying house payments, etc. Then the office where I worked closed, and I got a reasonably decent bonus. Apparently I was about the only one that did get a bonus, except forl management of course. Found mondy. I could use it to get a shop, or maybe never get a shop. So I took what I could get and have been properly grateful for it. Sur, I'd h ave loved a larger shop, but it wasn't happening. So I've lived with it. I'm not in a position where I can afford a space to work on a vehicle project, then when that's done, it'll be used for, hopefully, making a wooden boat. Sure, I have to shuffle my saw, lathe, and planer around, when I want to use them... but at least I've got a shop. When I was a kid, there was an older guy (probably in his 50s, who had a workshop he adee his living in. It was a small one-car garage. It was just barely wider than the width of the garage door, and probably between 10 and 15 feet long. If you've got money to spare for a larger shop, more power to you, but if you plan on waiting until you can afford one, you might want to reconsider, and take what you can get.

[Tar Heel]

Originally Posted by meika123

Hey Stuart,
How about them "HEELS"-huh!!!

You've just gotta love 'em. Well, many of us do. I do know their is another shade of blue that some folks like (never have understood why) and then there's always that nasty shade of red a few miles from here that has it's admirers. Well, enough of this...I don't want to start a verbal war. It's just that it is hard to be humble when you are a Tar Heel.

[DavidF]

My first shop in England was 12' x 8' - In England that's a good size yard! with houses being built at 24 to the acre most people haven't got any more space! I did alot of work in there. I didn't have much "stuff" and therefore it worked. Now I have 20 x 20 and more stuff and I have just as little room to move about

[TracyP]

I am in a 10x20 shop and the more stuff I get the less space I have. This weekend is shop re-arranging weekend, got new to me stuff last weekend.