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We recently downsized to a smaller home with a 1 car garage. After gutting the house about 80% I am finally working on my garage. Now I can work on trim and other finishing projects without going crazy being unorganized. Still some work to be done but here is what I have thus far. Any tips, tricks and advise for maximizing small workshop space is appreciated.
Once again I apologize for the pictures being upside down. Still don’t know what’s going on
cool….. reason your pics are upside down is they need to be resized slightly smaller
Nice looking shop!
are you loading the pictures from tour phone? Sometimes that does screwy things to them.. I have fount that if you take pictures with your phone in landscape position (wide) they tend to upload to the forum better..
if they are coming from your computer I’m not sure what could be up..
Are you holding your camera upside down maybe?? Haha. Just kidding 🙂
I will try the advice, thanks guys.
Poison, great looking little shop there and I really love your overhead wood storage. I am hopefully going to get some more work done in my shop tomorrow and post some update pics but I really love your shop.
great little shop you got there.
did u use lag bolts for the butt joints? otherwise i would be scared to stand bellow that storage.
here once again a better view 😛
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Madman thanks again for the flip! I used a combination of countersunk lag bolts and 3″ deck screws. It survived the “Hang/Swing” test and that’s good enough for local code lol!
Thank you Chris I look forward to seeing more pics of your progress. Maybe even borrow some ideas from you.
I doubt that dude. You,look like your powering on quite nicely! How’s that Bosch treating you?
The Bosch is awesome! My only complaint with it is that it’s a bit on the loud side, but its no big deal. I have used it to do oak and bamboo stair nosings to PT 4×4’s and it doesn’t skip a beat.
alright that will definitely hold up 😛
Nice shop, what r u Guys using to heat shops. I bought one of those garage heaters, doesn’t seem to be doing much.
When I was in my 2-car garage/shop I used a Dayton 175,000 btu torpedo. It could be -15 outside and I could have that garage pumping at 85+ if needed. For this smaller shop I am looking into Something ceiling mounted as I don’t have much storage for the summer when it’s not needed.
Nice shop there bro did u build that table? It looks hella strong man.
I did. The top was a left over from a hospital job I was on. It’s solid as a rock. Pretty sure it could survive a direct hit from a missle! Lol. I will get some other pics of it tomorrow and post them. The shelf is removable and the two bottom sections of plywood are on hinges to store whatever fits. I hate dead space.
Here are the pics of the bench I was talking about. This is more of a test of my posting right side up photos haha!
Yay it worked!
Very nice table man and looks really sturdy. Is that a aluminum jack in that pic? I’m Lookin at getting one from harbor freight they work great we have 2 at the shop I work at.
It is BigMike. I have used that thing to jack up my truck, jack up my house to sister joists. If it can be jacked I have jacked it with that puppy.
Yea I have coupon for one right now but I’ve been lagging it to go that way. We use them at the shop to clamp down cars/trucks on the frame rack all the time and no flaws yet.
ya those HF coupons are flooding my mailbox
I always just throw mine away but this one came with the coupon for the jack so I gotta jump on this.
most of the time the 20% coupons are better than tools with discount / on sale
Chad…I’m using this….chadlanthier wrote:
Nice shop, what r u Guys using to heat shops. I bought one of those garage heaters, doesn’t seem to be doing much.
Works great, very little odor, but boy oh boy it burn through kerosene really fast.
madman_us wrote:
ya those HF coupons are flooding my mailbox
I need one to come my way, I just bought 100′ of 3/8″ flexzilla air hose and need a reel for real cheap.
Thanks Chris I’ll look into that, what do u need for space in front of that.