Building a new shop
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For every opening you make in a building, you are losing a bit of security. One option is to use 7/16" OSB to clad my inside walls. You can cover the whole wall first, and then cut out the window openings. You can use the cutouts as inner shutters to cover over the windows that you want to make more secure, and hold them on with stud screws and wing nuts. Steel sheeting can be used much the same way if you are lining your building with it. Window bars and grilles are an option. | For every opening you make in a building, you are losing a bit of security. One option is to use 7/16" OSB to clad my inside walls. You can cover the whole wall first, and then cut out the window openings. You can use the cutouts as inner shutters to cover over the windows that you want to make more secure, and hold them on with stud screws and wing nuts. Steel sheeting can be used much the same way if you are lining your building with it. Window bars and grilles are an option. | ||
| − | + | Main doors should be placed so as to allow you the best access to where you need to go. Door frames should be rugged enough to hold a solid core door of either wood or commercial steel. Residential doors just don't cut it when it comes to security and protecting thousands of dollars of equipment, tools and projects that you have in your building. Outward swing doors offer more security and provide better emergency access if you should ever have to use it for that purpose. | |
| − | Overhead doors give you an infinite setting on the opening height of your door to allow your project access. It makes no difference if it is a chain roll up or power assisted. You can set the height of the door opening. The door tucks up overhead and is out of the way. Don't forget to get the insulated type. Sliding doors are heavy to move, always in the way and must have a clear path to close properly. Two doors are better than one, you'll never know when you're going to use it and you'll always wish that you put it in. (At least, frame a future door or window in at construction.) | + | Overhead doors give you an infinite setting on the opening height of your door to allow your project access. It makes no difference if it is a chain roll up or power assisted. You can set the height of the door opening. The door tucks up overhead and is out of the way. Don't forget to get the insulated type. Sliding doors are heavy to move, always in the way and must have a clear path to close properly. Two doors are better than one, you'll never know when you're going to use it and you'll always wish that you put it in. (At least, frame a future door or window in at construction.) |
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| + | If you plan to put a car lift near the overhead door, ask the door installer about a special "high lift" track that will track the door about 12'-14' up. If you don't do this you will not be able to raise the overhead door any time a car is up on the lift. | ||
Door location is paramount in the setting up of your garage or shop. It doesn't matter if it is the decision between using a single door or two doors on a small garage, or if you should put the door in the middle of the end walls of a large shop. Take out the graph paper and draw your garage or shop area out to scale. Use scale sized piece of paper or wood blocks of 10 X 20 foot dimension to "drive" into your garage and park your vehicles to simulate what is practical for your building size. Sometimes, offsetting an end wall door and parking diagonally will give you better access and utilization of your space. Try going double deep with the garage on a deep lot property, install a OHD on either end, use the back end to move cars under construction into rear yard for sandblasting and painting, while the front end is used for everyday use of the family vehicles. This keeps the neighborhood from getting down on your case. | Door location is paramount in the setting up of your garage or shop. It doesn't matter if it is the decision between using a single door or two doors on a small garage, or if you should put the door in the middle of the end walls of a large shop. Take out the graph paper and draw your garage or shop area out to scale. Use scale sized piece of paper or wood blocks of 10 X 20 foot dimension to "drive" into your garage and park your vehicles to simulate what is practical for your building size. Sometimes, offsetting an end wall door and parking diagonally will give you better access and utilization of your space. Try going double deep with the garage on a deep lot property, install a OHD on either end, use the back end to move cars under construction into rear yard for sandblasting and painting, while the front end is used for everyday use of the family vehicles. This keeps the neighborhood from getting down on your case. | ||
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