What's the best shop idea ?

I have a standalone building that houses my shop. When we were building it my best move was running electrical under the slab to where my table saw would sit and to where my main bench would sit.
 
dlane said:
“faced with an odd space problem. Huge shop space, almost none of it usable.”
Did they put your household items in the shop too ? that’s what happened to me.
Shop stuff in the house , house stuff in the shop, still sorting things out after a year o_O
Looks to be a nice size shop when things are put up.
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Before the van rolled up to the house, I'd drawn up a map of both the house and shop, numbering the rooms. Then I stood next to the van as it was being unloaded. So nealy everything went to the right place. That said, my Oregon house was 2400 square feet, and the new one's only about 1800. So I did have to send some "excess" house stuff to the shop. Our Tempe house was 1800 square feet as well, and most of its contents are now here.

I expect it will be at least 6 months before I have the shop reasonably well organized. And of course, we're still unloading boxes and putting stuff away in the house! Lots of household stuff has been going to Goodwill. Tried to hold a garage sale, but very little sold in 2 days, so I've given that up. As for excess shop stuff, I'll be giving some away to fellow members of the Valley Metals club, selling other stuff here and on Craigs.
 
woodchucker said:
Seems like you need to get heavy duty shelves in there so you can start processing. put the shelves in so you can stack reasonably to the roof. Open a box, figure out what's in there, mark the sides and stack it on the shelf in an area with like stuff. While those heavy duty shelves are expensive, you'll get double use out of it in the end.
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I already have one shelf designed for book-size moving boxes. I'll be building another (rolling) shelf for clear sided 12 gallon totes: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-12-Gallon-Clear-Tote-with-Hinged-Lid/4462415
 
Mine is a small cider block single car garage with carriage doors that houses both wood working equipment and a lathe. The great idea I had was to put up a canopy in front of the doors and move a workbench out under it. With door open and a fan blowing I can and do work even with the 95+ F days.
 
starr256 said:
Mine is a small cider block single car garage with carriage doors that houses both wood working equipment and a lathe. The great idea I had was to put up a canopy in front of the doors and move a workbench out under it. With door open and a fan blowing I can and do work even with the 95+ F days.
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Nothing like a cooling breeze when it's hot. My garage shop is under the main roof of the house with ducted evap A/C I've extended the ducting into the garage and mounted a small fan by the lathe. We can get temps up to 45c in the summer got up to 47 a couple of years ago. Fortunately we get a very dry heat so evap A/C work well.
 
Yup, if you’de going to live in a hot place, make it a dry hot place. Nothing worse than sweat that doesnt evaporate. My shop is in a cool basement, ideal!
 
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