i'm building a new garage/shop with my dad and came up with the idea for this thread. let's see some pics of your shop or garage, both inside and out. no need to give locations or anything like that, just interested in seeing where your magic happens (again, looking for garages, not bedrooms!). i'm wondering how to do my layout once the building itself gets up. 30x60. just getting started, so my pics aren't worth much. i'll get some soon and post.
30 x 60 ? I`m jealous. I used to lease a 40 x 110 shop. Was a ***** to heat, but damn I had a lotta **** piled in there. Here is my current "shop" . My 2 car garage at my house. It`s well insulated and my son`s bedroom is above it. Stays nice a warm during the cold days. Wish I had more room.
used to work at the chrysler dealership here. it was 20ish stalls, 3 full lifts, 2 wash bays, and an alignment rack. it was heated and air conditioned. the best part about there was the 50's imperial we rebuilt there for some millionaire.
I are building my shoebox in my sisters "cowshed" but it is modefide to a garage with insulation on the other side of the wall is a stabel with hourses /Stefan
Have you seen the sister site, Garage Journal? http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=7
i'll admit, i'm very lucky when it comes to my garage. my dad does construction, and without his help (and a 2nd mortgage payment, wife approved! thank you, dear!) i don't think i could afford anything near that size. granted, i did tell him he has free reign in it once it's done, so he does has some incentive. currently, my nice stuff is crammed into our 2 car attached garage. it's really more of a storage box right now. takes roughly 20 minutes of unloading stuff to get my chevelle out, and another 20 to repack at the end of the day. so really, i'm not getting much work done. i didn't know about the sister site, garagejournal.com. i think that's gonna be the next site that gets me in trouble. dad's gonna love that one. thanks.
20 x 25, well insulated and heated, and still not nearly enough room! How did I get by all those years in a gravel driveway?
I work under the shadetree in an office building parking lot but, if I ever come into some money, I will complete my plans for a stealth garage. http://www.laroke.com/larryk4674/2003/stealthshop.htm
You open the fence gates to the back yard, pull the front snout of the truck up to the boathouse, open the doors and have at it. Designed and built by Yours Truly, including the tailboard over the doorway. It's just hammer and nail stuff. Pretty lo-key. What's wrong with laying down in the gravel driveway to work on your rig? Now that is "back in the day." I have a tarp to throw on the ground if it's wet or cold. Luxury garage, yeah boy.
I work in the 2 car atatched garage. It's noisy for the fam and cold as hell with it being 15 degrees and nothing but a torpedo heater, but it's better than nothing.
Rent an old garage with no power but run extention chords from the generous neighbors. Back at home, it's a tarpulin carport alongside the house (extension chords) and a long driveway. Creatively workin with what I have 'til scoring something even better, insulated, juiced, etc.
Just a 24x24 that only suites one car if you want to walk around it. But better than just on the concrete pad before I put the walls up.
there's already about 20 threads like this... maybe do little searching next time http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=150625 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50228 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=336549 just a couple of the many threads already. and make sure you visit http://www.garagejournal.com/
The Raven and I put the ousher together in a 10x25. With the C-10 in there and the garage door closed you had to crawl under it to get from one side to the other. I now had an 18x25 attached on the new house. its still a little cramped but way better than the garage at the old place. That's where we are wrenchig on the Stude. I also work in the back yard when iots above freezing.
here are some quick pics of inside garage thought it would be big enough but I don't think it don't matter how big the garage is it won't be big enough
here's my curent 2 car attached (not getting much done in there) and the new one under construction. new one will be 30x60. big enough to start, but will probabally outgrow. wife says it's "****in' huge" and thinks i'm nuts, but she's still all for it. 8 years of marriage and she's never parked in a garage before!
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