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I should be moving house in about a months time (if all the legal stuff goes OK) which, of course, means a new workshop. It is a good sized double garage, with two separate up & over doors. I intend to seal one of the doors, leaving one that can be opened so I can get a car into the workshop to work on if necessary. This gives me all the rest of the space to play with. I have some ideas in my mind about where tools, workbenches, etc. will be going but I would like any suggestions (or potential pitfalls to avoid). Any tips would be helpful, or even suggestions for "essential" items that I should be filling the space with.

Regards

Kevin

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Kevin Steele
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I would forget the idea of allowing space to get a car in. Then you'll have enough space for a Really Useful Workshop.

Cheers Tim

Tim Leech Dutton Dry-Dock

Traditional & Modern canal craft repairs

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timleech

But that space is also large enough to house a casting area with my furnace & casting boxes, or layout large items to weld up, or lots of other tasks that require some floor space. Or, of course, I could give in to temptation and buy some large industrial machine that was just too cheap to resist

Regards

Kevin

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Kevin Steele

It will be too small. I don't care how big the garage is it will be too small.

nth corollary of Sods Law, the space required for any workshop is greater than the space available

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Henry Springer

As far as I can tell, the space needed is proportional to the cube of the number of machines you have...

Regards, Tony

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Tony Jeffree

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