Show us a pic of your workshop

Bruce from Can. · Feb 15, 2015

Show us some pics of your work space inside and out and other general info ,length width . And what would you do different if you could have a "do over" How is it heated etc.

howdy1960 · Feb 15, 2015

I would be happy to share a picture but I figure 'most' on here are sick of seeing snow.
It's heated by solar radiation.

Dave Sherburne, NY · Feb 15, 2015

Here's mine, actually a long 2 car garage. I usually have to move at least one vehicle out to do anything.

Page tractor with my shop/garage behind it.

Shop I built when I lived in Wi. Very well insulated and heat in the floor.

JD finished project, it has the rearend from the Gilson in it now.

There's a gas furnace hanging from the ceiling now where the clamps are.

Dust proof cabinet I built for the computer that serves as a radio and a place for the chargers and a timer to turn them off with.

Almost every thing in the shop is on Casters

In the corner under the bench is the water heater that keeps the shop about 50 degrees.

oj · Feb 15, 2015

built a 40x40ft addition onto my old 20x40 tool shed, 16ft high with a 24 ft wide overhead door facing west...
heated by geothermal heat pump... costs about $250 a month in hydro to heat, which compares to $400 a month for the old tool shed with fuel oil (when fuel oil was 70c/litre)...
spray foam insulation - it costs more by seems to be a lot better so far...
3/4 inch copper air line around the shop, 3 welder plugs 9one either side of the door and one opposite the door), 15amp plug ins every 8 ft down the 3 walls and one either side of the big door, and each wall has a 20amp plug in too....
lit by 9 6 tube t5 fixtures...
would love it to be another 20ft longer, but it was all i could afford at the time... and i should have put a drain system in the floor!

farmer boy · Feb 15, 2015

Don't have a picture, but it's not heated anyways. It is insulated though. On a day like today though, I would really appreciate a heater though. It keeps the tools dry and is normally a little warmer. With the way the wind blows around here, it's the only out building that doesn't have snow in it. It and the house. A 1" crack can let in one he!! of a drift over night.(I ain't kidding either).

Mike (WA) · Feb 15, 2015

No pics of mine- I feel bad enough about the mess as it is.

jm. · Feb 15, 2015

Only photo I have tonight but the two things I di that I like. It is on a concrete one foot high wall there at the base of the walls. Not a pole barn, now you say what is the difference, inside cutting with a cutting torch or what ever sparks go to the concrete wall not under the siding. Also used 4 ft of peg board around one side for hanging things works out good. Thirty ft by forty foot with 2X6 walls & good insulation. easy to heat.

JMS/.MN · Feb 15, 2015

Some pics but shop is 48x48, half is insulated, not yet heated, other half has 16x24 insulated and heated with two sources- oil burner and outside wood boiler. Ceiling has several lines of 4 inch perf sewer pipe that terminate into an extra centrifugal fan on top of the furnace....pulling warm air from the ceiling and blowing past the stove pipe. Two walls have floor to ceiling shelves.

Cold area has a floor pit, 24x24 area has a HM overhead pivoting hoist with HM press and Hossfeld bender mounted on it. 60 feet of wall has 7 rows of 2 foot deep shelves. Shop has a milling machine and two lathes, one 1910 South Bend 13 inch, and another brand, 16 inch by 8 feet, quick change gears, only about 60 years old.

bison · Feb 16, 2015

42 x 70 x 14

Redturbo · Feb 16, 2015

30x48x14
Overhead door is facing east

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This windows add a lot light from the west

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Wish would have put a small overhead door on the west wall so could tow dead things inside.

Redturbo · Feb 16, 2015

You can see the radiant tube heater in top left of the picture.

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The Super M is neighbours for a clutch winter of 2013, its gone home now.

Redturbo · Feb 16, 2015

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showcrop · Feb 16, 2015

here is mine

This is from just inside the walk in door and shows far left the inner room

This is looking in the door into the inner room with my current project which came out of storage a few weeks ago.

Blackhole49 · Feb 16, 2015

Both barns have natural gas radiant tube heat. Small barn heated all winter. Hoist barn, only when in use. Small, 24'x40'x8', large, 30'x48'x12'. Wouldn't change a thing unless money were no object. Put up the small one by myself. Had my 13 and 16 year old sons help with the large one 17 years later.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 16, 2015

(quoted from post at 15:30:11 02/15/15) Show us some pics of your work space inside and out and other general info ,length width . And what would you do different if you could have a "do over" How is it heated etc.

10 years ago when I built it. 40 x 84 with 14' lean-tos on each side.

A few days later.....

You wouldn't want to see it now LOL!

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