Help New WorkShop Designs

[Graeme Harrold]

Welcome aboard, and Im sure everyone would also love to hear a nice introduction in the Hello Section………… :lol1:

[Dermot Howard]

Hi Graeme.
Thanks for the pointer, I have posted there now. any more advice please let me know

[Neil Wilkinson]

That sounds about a similar size as my new workshop im currently building. Ive built it with office etc upstairs covering half the building leaving the other half for tall lorries etc. As you can see it still leaves room for a crafter and a sprinter side by side. Still a bit to go yet though , but were getting there . Any pics of yours ?

[Peter Normington]

looks very smart Neil,
Do you want to sell it!

Peter

[Nicola McIntosh]

terrific workshop neil did you design it yourself 😀

i’ll buy it 😀

you’ll get a better price from me than those stingy southerners :lol1: 😉

nik

[John Childs]

Hiya Dermot.

Neil’s looks like the sort of layout I’d like. Half the ground floor for fitting, and the other half for making.

I’d keep all the printers and cutters on the ground floor so that I didn’t have to keep humping rolls of vinyl upstairs, and the finished product down again.

If you either have, or are ever likely to have, any employees then I’d make as many of the partition walls as possible from glass. I’d also position my office where I could keep any eye on as much as possible, and CCTV the rest. 😀

[Dermot Howard]

Hi Neil.
Unfortunately I have no pics as it is not up out of the ground yet. We are still shopping with banks, we have a few offers on the table but interest rates are varying between 5.49% & 2.4%. It is decision time on Friday week or sooner. With myself being self-employed it was not as easy as thought but my new wife of 7 months is an accountant and that really helped with the banks plus I owned the site and up till not I have been mortgage free, it will kill me to have one, buts that’s life we all have to do it.
I’m not sure if I will be able get the height (what height is yours) as the council want me to keep it low, like a regular garage as it is being built at the house. However the site falls back and I am thinking that I might dig it in a bit and the fall will allow us to go up a little and it won’t be so noticeable.
I am working on some ideas and will post them soon; in the mean time here is the house and the outline of the workshop area. We will be trying to keep it in the old style like yourself, blend the house and the workshop together.
I think john is right with keeping the printers/plotters etc on the ground floor. And I love Neil’s Sliding Sash windows, a bit more expensive but I think worth it. We are hoping to put them in the house, nearly twice time the price of standard windows over here.

P.S/ No attachments as i cant see the attach button?? Where is it?

[Neil Wilkinson]

quote Peter Normington:

looks very smart Neil,
Do you want to sell it!

Peter

no peter but if ive any money left when its done i’ll be back on to you about that printer , i havent forgot 😉

[Neil Wilkinson]

quote Dermot Howard:

Hi Neil.
Unfortunately I have no pics as it is not up out of the ground yet. We are still shopping with banks, we have a few offers on the table but interest rates are varying between 5.49% & 2.4%. It is decision time on Friday week or sooner. With myself being self-employed it was not as easy as thought but my new wife of 7 months is an accountant and that really helped with the banks plus I owned the site and up till not I have been mortgage free, it will kill me to have one, buts that’s life we all have to do it.
I’m not sure if I will be able get the height (what height is yours) as the council want me to keep it low, like a regular garage as it is being built at the house. However the site falls back and I am thinking that I might dig it in a bit and the fall will allow us to go up a little and it won’t be so noticeable.
I am working on some ideas and will post them soon; in the mean time here is the house and the outline of the workshop area. We will be trying to keep it in the old style like yourself, blend the house and the workshop together.
I think john is right with keeping the printers/plotters etc on the ground floor. And I love Neil’s Sliding Sash windows, a bit more expensive but I think worth it. We are hoping to put them in the house, nearly twice time the price of standard windows over here.

P.S/ No attachments as i cant see the attach button?? Where is it?

dermot i cant remember off hand the height but if i remember right the door is about 15′ high . I thought long and hard about putting all the equipment on the ground floor but heating was my main worry so all will be upstairs .My brother is an aircon engineer so he has kitted it out with a nice aircon system for me I know ill have to go up and down but to be honest i could do with the excercise :lol1: . However as john said a glass partition could be a good idea and keep it all on the ground .
The sliding sash ad slates and finish etc are the same ones we just used for the house as im tryin to keep it all blending in . Looking foward to seeing your pics as i love to see other peoples places for ideas .

[Dermot Howard]

Neil.
Can you pm me your email and i will send you the plans and my ideas so far, i cant seem to attach anything, i can other other posts,

[John Childs]

Dermot,

Not every individual forum allows attachments. This is one of those, and it is not a problem at your end.

To be sneaky, and get around that limitation, you can use something like imageshack to host an image.

Rob probably won’t like it, but I won’t tell him if you don’t. 😀

[Robert Lambie]

quote John Childs:

To be sneaky, and get around that limitation, you can use something like imageshack to host an image.

Rob probably won’t like it, but I won’t tell him if you don’t. 😀

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

you should be able to attach pictures now as i have moved the thread to a section where you can

[Dermot Howard]

cheers john.
I will do that later. I know im in the middle of a design but i think it would be great if we all shared our workshop layouts. I now can see an add attachment button. so here is all my details. All ideas welcome

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Attachments:

floor plans.pdf

Elevations.pdf

site layout.pdf

current WORKSHOP LAYOUT copy.pdf

[Dermot Howard]

Good Man Rob.
Thanks