broken4_racing
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Hey Guys,
We recently made a huge purchase for us, an acreage. Super excited to be out of the city and back into the country. It is a foreclosure house that is going to need ALOT of renos. Frozen pipes, smashed windows, the whole 9 yards. I am building a shop, and want your input on do's, dont's, maybe's, etc. I have read a lot of threads about shops, but wanted to see if anyone had specific input for racecar prep, building, etc.
Basic build will be 40x50, 3 overhead doors and the man door along the 50' side. Footings will be 2' tall, with the 5-6" slab starting at the bottom of the footing. 12' 2x6 walls with double top and bottom plates. This will give me just shy of 14' from TOS to underside of trusses. The mezzanine will have a 8' clear head room, so I can add extra lighting for the future lathe/mill, and build a room for most of my grinding. I will put a couple inline fans sucking air from one joist space of this area, and use furnace filters on the bottom of the joists to help filter the air before circulating it into the shop.
Since this is way far up in Canuck land, the plan at this point is to have in floor radiant heat. The price difference seems to be within a couple thousand so that seems worth it to me.
Lift is located on door the closest to the workbench, and furthest from parking the truck to minimize welding sparks, griding etc flying on it. I may put up a curtain to try and cut this down more. The workbench will have a built in mitre saw stand as I also do some woodworking. The saw will drop down for storage.
Planning to sheet the inside with 7/16 OSB and paint it white to maximize lighting. For lighting I am looking at putting in 12 of the UFO LED lights, each with 22,500 Lumens. This will give me a total of 270,000 lumens, or 135 lumens/ sq ft. My current garage has ~86 lumens/sq ft, and while it is bright, I could definitely put more.
The right side (or left) will have a 10' car port for the enclosed trailer.
One of the biggest inputs I am looking for is for a hoist. I would like to put an overhead beam above the lift to help with engines, flexing, putting things on the mezzanine, etc. Ideas:
1) single beam down the center, approx $2000 beam. issue is lifting a single corner of the racecar will try and twist, etc. This also will make the header beam above the overhead door much bigger, likely pushing into LVL's.
2) two beams, with support columns landing right beside (touching) the lift columns. Approx $2400 in beams, plus the required additional connector beam, and tracks/bearings/wheels to have the trolley run on two beams. This would keep the overhead door beam the same. Issue here is headroom. I would likely drop the two long beams, so i can run the connector beam above, and not lose two beams worth of lifting height if it was hung below.
For the exterior, the plan is to run the driveway down the side of the property. This makes the tree look in the way, but I should be able to leave it.
Give me your thoughts, ideas and plans!
We recently made a huge purchase for us, an acreage. Super excited to be out of the city and back into the country. It is a foreclosure house that is going to need ALOT of renos. Frozen pipes, smashed windows, the whole 9 yards. I am building a shop, and want your input on do's, dont's, maybe's, etc. I have read a lot of threads about shops, but wanted to see if anyone had specific input for racecar prep, building, etc.
Basic build will be 40x50, 3 overhead doors and the man door along the 50' side. Footings will be 2' tall, with the 5-6" slab starting at the bottom of the footing. 12' 2x6 walls with double top and bottom plates. This will give me just shy of 14' from TOS to underside of trusses. The mezzanine will have a 8' clear head room, so I can add extra lighting for the future lathe/mill, and build a room for most of my grinding. I will put a couple inline fans sucking air from one joist space of this area, and use furnace filters on the bottom of the joists to help filter the air before circulating it into the shop.
Since this is way far up in Canuck land, the plan at this point is to have in floor radiant heat. The price difference seems to be within a couple thousand so that seems worth it to me.
Lift is located on door the closest to the workbench, and furthest from parking the truck to minimize welding sparks, griding etc flying on it. I may put up a curtain to try and cut this down more. The workbench will have a built in mitre saw stand as I also do some woodworking. The saw will drop down for storage.
Planning to sheet the inside with 7/16 OSB and paint it white to maximize lighting. For lighting I am looking at putting in 12 of the UFO LED lights, each with 22,500 Lumens. This will give me a total of 270,000 lumens, or 135 lumens/ sq ft. My current garage has ~86 lumens/sq ft, and while it is bright, I could definitely put more.
The right side (or left) will have a 10' car port for the enclosed trailer.
One of the biggest inputs I am looking for is for a hoist. I would like to put an overhead beam above the lift to help with engines, flexing, putting things on the mezzanine, etc. Ideas:
1) single beam down the center, approx $2000 beam. issue is lifting a single corner of the racecar will try and twist, etc. This also will make the header beam above the overhead door much bigger, likely pushing into LVL's.
2) two beams, with support columns landing right beside (touching) the lift columns. Approx $2400 in beams, plus the required additional connector beam, and tracks/bearings/wheels to have the trolley run on two beams. This would keep the overhead door beam the same. Issue here is headroom. I would likely drop the two long beams, so i can run the connector beam above, and not lose two beams worth of lifting height if it was hung below.
For the exterior, the plan is to run the driveway down the side of the property. This makes the tree look in the way, but I should be able to leave it.
Give me your thoughts, ideas and plans!
