Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
A long overdue progress report
Jorge
Things are rolling, after a good season in the farmer's markets, the shop to be is going up, the ground was prep and a slab cast last may, here ready for the walls.
Here the first two
The attic deck
How it looks now
So I am thanking all of you time and again... 
Re: A long overdue progress report
David Walser
I'm glad to see the progress. Hopefully you'll get the exterior finished (at least) before winter weather arrives. Tell us a little more: what are the dimensions, etc.
Re: A long overdue progress report
Jorge
Hi David, the original shop was 20' x 40' with the floor in 3 levels, dictated by the slope; this time the land was prep and it is all leveled, I went with a smaller footprint, 18' x 26' there is a 5' partition that will be divided into a machine room, all the noise makers, furnace, compressor, dust collector will be there, and a large closet, independent from the machine room, with lots of shelves and a de-humidifier, to be filled with rough bowls and run now and then. Although once turned bowls do sell, I like the twice turned best and they are my best sellers.
so the shop proper will be roughly 18' x 20' 4 times the space I have now, who limits my production severely, and now I can dream of perks like a band saw and perhaps a joiner-planer as well, I used to make furniture and people still ask me to make them things.
Another little pleasure will be to use my Nova 3000 again, and play with a rose engine for it I found in a rust depot, it is not rusted, pristine.
Re: A long overdue progress report
mikeee12345
Looks like a really nice layout for your shop, putting all of your utilities in a small room
is a good idea. You will really enjoy the hydronic heated floor, I worked on a similar shop
that utilized a small wind turbine generator that sent it's power to a water heater which
was used to circulate the heat transfer fluid through the floor. When ever the wind was
blowing he was heating the floor in his shop which was used as a storage mass for the energy.
Later on we added a heat exchange coil in his house and ran a loop from the shop to the house
and had extra energy to heat the house at times. You could easily do the same thing with solar
collector panels.
Re: A long overdue progress report
Jorge
Thank you Mikee, yes solar panels are in my mind, we will get there some time...