Thread: A bigger shed - sort of.

Interesting. Maybe I wasn't wasting my time playing Tetris on a Nintendo after all.

John

Great news! Now, what you going to buy to fill up your new found space?

That's what happens in my shed

Stuart

Yes well that's always the problem, I'm going to have to go through the shed one day and get rid of some of those things I collected decades ago thinking they would come in use one day. Terrible habit I know, aren't you glad you don't share my problem?

I can sympathise with you on this as I am always trying to rearrange things to try and magically create more space.My workshop is a double garage around the 20 square metres or so.

I have to accomodate all my machinery, tools, bench and timber and keeping it all neat and tidy is a real daily struggle.
No matter how much space you have it never seems half what you need.


Q

Originally Posted by sacc51

I’ve been re-arranging my workshop over the last few days trying to find a little more room. I’ve done this many times before with only a clean shed and a few scratches and bruises to show for it. This time was different, I tried something new and I actually ended up with more room, and of course some new scratches and bruises. I first measured the footprint of everything in my shed then measured the floor area. Then with pencil and a large piece of cardboard drew a scaled version of the floor area, including doors, girders, etc, then drew a scaled footprint of toolboxes, machinery, benches and so on another piece of cardboard and cut them out. Then for the rest of the night, while watching TV, I played jigsaws, moving all the little bits of cardboard around inside my cardboard workshop, taking measurements and noting down the different configurations that appeared to give me more room. Over the last few days I moved everything around following the first configuration I drew, I’ve definitely made more room, not a lot, but enough to have made it worthwhile. Now I can fit the bin and step ladder inside plus a couple of other bits and pieces. May seem like a waste of time to some, but with a smallish shed, space is all important.

That's a method I first saw used with my ex-wife, which was pretty nifty for working out where furniture was going to go when she was rearranging a room.

I enjoy getting the occasional motivation for a shed tidy, it's really satisfying finding/making new homes for things, improving my otherwise poor organisation, and then reclaiming space, of which I tend to stand and admire a number of times through the coming days before chucking something there thinking "Yeah, I'll sort it later", actually making a base for a new tower of stuff

Originally Posted by mark david

I can sympathise with you on this as I am always trying to rearrange things to try and magically create more space.My workshop is a double garage around the 20 square metres or so.

I have to accomodate all my machinery, tools, bench and timber and keeping it all neat and tidy is a real daily struggle.
No matter how much space you have it never seems half what you need.


Q

Anyone want to try working in a 4m X 2.5m area, X2 mill, 7X12 lathe, bandsaw, 20t press, bench grinder, drill press, wall mount tool box, 250amp MIG welder, arc welder, 1.2m work bench plus other storage. It does get a bit crowded.
Kryn

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Anyone want to try working in a 4m X 2.5m area, X2 mill, 7X12 lathe, bandsaw, 20t press, bench grinder, drill press, wall mount tool box, 250amp MIG welder, arc welder, 1.2m work bench plus other storage. It does get a bit crowded.
Kryn

I know the feeling:
JNworkshop.jpg

This was my workshop two years ago.
I added a Mikron T90 lathe and a Mikron F75 mill since then.
Talk about crowded...

Very nicely set up shed Jan.

Jan, looks like you've still got a bit of room down the middle. Nice set up, by the way, what is the machine on the right, with what looks like a square table between the vertical slotter and surface grinder?
Regards
Kryn

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

Jan, looks like you've still got a bit of room down the middle. Nice set up, by the way, what is the machine on the right, with what looks like a square table between the vertical slotter and surface grinder?
Regards
Kryn

Hello Kryn,

The vertical slotter is really a Hembrug horizontal/vertical mill with the vertical milling head installed.
Next to it is a die filer, quite neat to work with, though I am thinking about selling it.
I hardly use it and I think I could use the floor space..