Your OWN shop!!!

Well, I got a 50 by 60 shop with 2 roll up doors, 220V, air compressor and water.

I haven't measured, but I've got a feeling the door is going to have to be a bit higher, unless I buy a flat top.

Not great in the middle of winter, it was an old horse stable until they poured the floor and clad it in metal, so it needs insulation.

 

If your building new or renovating with a new floor as part of the reno , look into IN SLAB RADIANT HEAT best thing you could use for a shop , utilizes all the heat not like unit heater mounted 15' in the air and thaws out the equipment from the bottom up in the winter and always a dry floor.

 

Excellent advice here especially in NH. If you do decide to go this route make sure whoever installs it knows what they are doing. I have heard more than one horror story of people going through the trouble of installing this and not have it work properly because they failed to insulate between the ground and the heating tubes. I have a firend who built his own house 10 years ago and put radiant heat under his concrete basement floor. It works amazing.

 

Having your own pit is pretty sweet.

 

I would say a pit or a lift would be the biggest thing I would want. Radiant heat is great too. A friend of mines has it in his shop and its nice in the winter not laying on cold concrete

 

floor drains. and can never have too many outlets.

 

an epoxy floor before you move in for easy clean up

 

Radiant heat in the floor is nice, a friend of mine has that in his 30x60, the only down side to it he says, that it is a very expensive way to heat. In our shop we have a waste oil furnace, with five trucks that change oil there, and some generous donations of oil from outside sources it stays very comfortable in there all winter long.


Floor drains are a must if you live in the north and park a snow packed truck in the shop.


A pit would be something that I would like to have, sucks rolling around under the truck on a creeper.

 

Coffee maker, beer fridge, a decent stereo, I recently added some insulation and an A/C to the tool room in mine. Looking forward to using that feature ! Oh, and tools, gotta have some tools and a few projects to make it look as if you're doing something.