Thread: shed layout

Hi everyone

I'm living overseas at the moment, but getting ready to come home soon. In my infinite wisdom, I measured my unusual shape workshop space before leaving, with the intention to redesign the layout of my shed before I move everything back in. Unfortunately, I don't have any pics of the space, but I've attached an outline of the design with the major dimensions, and where I propose to relocate most of my fixed machinery.

But first things first.

The 'shed' is the basement/garage of a two storey house, cut into the side of a steep hill. It is a double garage (one car needs to live inside still, but I'm working on it), but there is quite a lot of extra space, giving me enough, but not a lot, of room. There are a few other rooms attached that I have sneakily annexed to my shed domain that in total give me a lot of space. But the space is a little tricky to use.

It has a concrete slab floor, and double brick walls, mostly rendered. Ceiling is quite low (less than the standard 1800 height). Natural light is pretty poor. Directly below the table saw in the pic is a garage door, and the finishing room has windows, but apart from that it is artificial light. But 3 large banks of long, double flouros in the main area, plus lights in the other rooms.

Power is marginal. 1 15a socket on the far left hand wall (just outside the throne room), right under the fusebox. RCD already installed. One other 10a circuit, with a few (forgot to mark that down) double GPOs installed on the RH wall.

I am very lucky to have a storeroom that I can use to stash tools and other things. And also a finishing room at the front of the house, although this will have to share some space our excess furniture etc, so it won't be the full space shown.

Tools - I currently have or will get when I return:
a JET table saw (JTAS 12)
jet dust extraction unit (DC 1200)
GMC 255mm SCMS
ryobi 12.5" thicknesser
jet 6" jointer (JJ 6CSDX)
bandsaw (type TBC)
drill press (type TBC)
roubo style workbench

Dust collection is important to me, so I might start a new thread in the dust collection area. But I think I've come up with a good solution here. There is an alcove/short hallway that actually has a door to the front of the house. I never use the door as I tend to come in through the garage door. The dusty lived here before I left. My plan is to enclose that alcove to prevent dust recirculating throughout the workshop. If need be, I can add a vent panel to the door. I will need to access the dust collector, so I will make a door from two layers of plywood over a pine frame, with some kind of acoustic insulation in between. The top and bottom 300mm of the panel will be fixed in place (the bottom will have be fixed to allow the ducting out of the alcove, with the balance hinged to allow access.

Fixed ducting will be 6" (150mm) and run along the floor. But before you think 'tripping hazard', hear me out. The ceiling is low, so I want to avoid running ducting across the roof. And I have laid out the machines in such a way that I can have only two runs - one short run (6" dropping to 4" at the table saw) and one longer run (that would follow the wall, go around the corner and connect to the jointer, thicknesser, scms, floor sweep (not marked on layout), and then onto the bandsaw. Blastgates used where needed to manage airflow.

Probably enough info for now.

Comments, ideas, suggestions, criticisms, etc all welcome. I've got lots of ideas - many of which are not on this post, but I can always handle more.

Trav