Technical When does a Garage become a Shop............

I see a lot of buildings where it appears not much work ever happens.....are they really shops?

 

Whenever the owner decides to call it a "shop"........

 

About the same time fixing up an old junker becomes a "build".

 

Storage room, maybe?

 

Still need a place to turn a bolt a day. So yes, it’s still a shop.

 

What are you trying to say!!!

 

I’ve got a two car attached “garage”. Wife’s daily driver the chest freezer and minimal tools and no parts live there, out back i’ve got a 3 car “shop” with old cars, lots of tools and parts. Not much gets done in the “shop” but that’s where the magic happens when it happens

 

I park my cars in the garage, I work on my cars in the shop, the shop has the tools/equipment, oil stains, etc. on the floor.

 

At home a garage is where you keep your cars while a "shop" is where you work on them.
I've known a couple of guy who's garages were more display area than places where you might work on the cars. One had a shop out back to work in the other sent all of his mechanical work to "his mechanic" a dude who had "cliants" rather than customers. Both owned OT cars.

Remembering that about 10 years ago there was a place in Kennewick Wa that was for sale that had a big two car attached garage and then the guy had built a 3 bay enthusiast car shop in the back yard. Access to the shop was through on bay of the garage that had a front and back overhead door. There was about a 30 ft space between the back of the garage and the shop that was cement with yard over in the other half of the rather large back yard. No vehicle access to the back except though the garage bay.
The cool part is you could have all three doors on the shop wide open and no one could see it from the street.

 

My take on the definition is that a garage has a door for each vehicle placement (could be 1 or more vehicles deep)where as a shop is a building with one or more doors that allow access to an open work space, more than likely not attached to a residence. My shop has two separate doors, one for “cold” storage the other to access the heated workspace.

 

Look here, I catch you spying on me in my damn shop again we're gonna have a problem !

 

If you work in a shop…..I have an attached garage and an unattached garage!






Bones

 

My CCR's would not allow a "shop" when I built my home 15 years ago. They would allow "garages" though. Per our Covenants and Restrictions a shop is a detached out building with a higher profile than the home. Garages are attached, finished in the same materials as the home (60% stone or masonry in the front, 35% around the back and sides), same roof pitch and roofing material, same color, finished and painted interiors and so on. And the killer rule...square footage in the garage must be doubled in living space. That was the expensive one.

So I designed and built a big house 3 "garages" all under one roof, a 3 bay garage up front for the dailies, a two bay around back for done stuff, and another 3 bay with my lift and compressor in it where I build and play. But I do not have a shop.

 

A garage is a shop when it becomes a place to set in a lounger, with your feet up in front of a fire, sipping bourbon, admiring your work. That's my definition, anyway...

 

Not sure, but I guess I'm already in shop territory here.

 

In the ‘60’s my dad built a 3-1/car garage attached to his house. Frame the last bay for a pit. All tools, etc were in the area where the pit was. After I dug the pit out on the early/mid 70’s, he framed in a wall, and that bay became the “shop”. Later on, he added an attached “shop” separate from the “small” shop. He pulled out that wall, used it in the new “shop” and now had a 3-1/2 car garage with a pit, and a shop attached.
Personally I think it’s whatever you want to call it, shop, garage, shed, doesn’t matter if you’re working out of the sun and rain.

 

My humble little garage is a shop, my shop because I work alot in there. If you work and build, make stuff, it's a shop. Just my worthless 2.5 cents.

 

Mine is called “The Barn”. It depends on where you are from. No farm animals, but a lot of milking of projects.

 

I think if one is from Australia, it's called "The Shed".

 

A garage is where you park your car(s). A shop is where you build your cars.... even if it looks like a garage from outside. Now what the heck is all that noise!

 

In my small town we have a blacksmith's shop, now it hasn't been worked in thirty plus years, the man that made his trade in that building has his cap hanging where he left it the last day.
The town historical society bought the property lock stock and barrel so nothing has been changed. No work has been done, there is no blacksmith yet it's still a blacksmith's shop...
Mr. Arnold Volkman ( second generation blacksmith) was a friend of mine.

 

When it has more tools area than it does cars area then its a shop.

 

If all you do is park there, it's a garage...

 

For me it is "The Basement" there is an 8 foot slider to get things in and out.

 

A Garage is where things are stored. A shop is where things are built. Size doesn't matter.

 

Photos of this "slider", please

 

One man’s opinion @ Oj ‘s shop

 

Another " who really cares " thread ! In the end , it's a. Moot point!