My home wood shop (a/k/a the ‘shed’)
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CHEAP INTERNATIONAL CALLSMy wood shop is a home built 16’ by 12’ shed with a barn style roof in the back yard. A nice size building; however, over time I wish I had a larger space. I just completed building my eldest daughter’s dresser bed (storage bed) and it was a fun dance to move parts around the shed, out of the shed and back during assembly time. Who wouldn’t want a larger wood shop with more tools?!
The shed has a 3’ x 4’ horizontal sliding window on the south wall and a set of double doors on the north wall. I build the door opening wide enough so that I could rip a 4×8 sheet of plywood on the table saw. The table saw is positioned so that I am standing outside with the sheet of plywood and the cuts end up in the shed on the roller stands.
Electricity. I have been told that I over energized wood shop. I have a 60 amp feed coming into to a sub breaker box. Yes, that is a bit much, but I had the breaker and the spare amperage in the main breaker box, so why not make it available? I have four circuits in the shop with the following layout:
20 amp for the left wall outlets
15 amp for the over head lights
15 amp for the right wall outlets
15 amp for the window outlets
My father asked me why do you have a separate circuit lights? That is over kill. My response, was how would you feel if you are in the process of ripping a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood and the breaker trips and the lights and the table saw lose power? Oh by the way it is eight o’clock at night in the winter! Not a good feeling.
The other comment my father had was I had too many outlets. Let see I have three on the left wall, three on the right wall and one on either side of the window for a grand total of eight. I told him you can never have enough outlets. There are still times when I have to get the extension cord because the tool’s power cord will not reach an outlet!
With the barn style roof I was able to incorporate some ‘attic’ storage space. On the left and right hand walls runs a two foot wide shelf the length of the wall at 76” from the floor. On the southern wall is a four foot wide shelf. Currently the ‘attic’ is filled with a collection of things, such as metal folding chairs, shop smith components, old 1×4 cedar fence pickets, blow up swimming pool, and some other stuff.
The shop needs thorough cleaning, reorganization and purging of stuff. But that is for another post.
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