Building new workshop

[Chunka87]

Going to be build a new farm workshop this winter. Thinking 60x60ft maybe 60x80. Any ideas for best layout and key things u would make sure were included when starting from scratch. (Bit like air line all the way around with multiple connection points)
Cheers

 

[ARW]

Lights, lots of lights!
storage space for parts

 

[Skintagain]

Air line either crimp or Parker’s legris blue stuff and power all around perimeter

A door that doesn’t rattle

A roof that doesn’t drip ideally fibre cement.

A partitioned off insulated area that you can mess around in that you can heat economically without heating the whole shed

 

[Chunka87]

Lights, lots of lights!
storage space for parts

would u go with led strip lights

 

[Skintagain]

would u go with led strip lights

Led lights are ok but they are expensive and they don’t all last. Try and get some with a decent warranty.

 

[Sharpy]

Doors in the side, not the gable.
A long pit.
A steel rack on a gable.
Mezzanine floor/ loft running along the wall opposite doors for stores and tea room/office/toilet, oil and grease and heavy spares underneath.
Wash area handy to side with pressure washer in workshop.

 

[Speedstar]

Going to be build a new farm workshop this winter. Thinking 60x60ft maybe 60x80. Any ideas for best layout and key things u would make sure were included when starting from scratch. (Bit like air line all the way around with multiple connection points)
Cheers

Under floor heating

 

[Chunka87]

Doors in the side, not the gable.
A long pit.
A steel rack on a gable.
Mezzanine floor/ loft running along the wall opposite doors for stores and tea room/office/toilet, oil and grease and heavy spares underneath.
Wash area handy to side with pressure washer in workshop.

Gd ideas. A pit is a must as have own lorry on farm so should make working on it a bit easier

 

[Sharpy]

Gd ideas. A pit is a must as have own lorry on farm so should make working on it a bit easier

Also handy for trailer maintenance, greasing forklift props and dropping oils amongst other things.
MAKE SURE IT CANNOT FILL WITH WATER!!!!!!!! (bitter experience............)

 

[Hilly]

If I had the money I’d have a pit and a heated floor .

 

[Chunka87]

If I had the money I’d have a pit and a heated floor .

I’ll have to look in to how to heat the shed underfloor won’t be cheap but might to worth it in the long run

 

[Hilly]

I’ll have to look in to how to heat the shed underfloor won’t be cheap but might to worth it in the long run

Fair bit of spent rumbling about on floor , be much more comfortable for sure. .

 

[robcollins]

My few thoughts:

You wouldn’t have to heat the entire floor, don’t forget about “tired feet” from the underfloor heating.

Duckboards at machines/workbench

Make sure the electrics are right, bigger cable when wiring it means you can use the welder any where!

LED spots are good over a workbench. The drivers are what fail on LED. Their advantage is the low power consumption.

It’s cheap to cable tie underfloor heating pipes to rebar so you can think about heating it after and you’re not in too deep financially.

DonnDIY on YouTube did some neat underfloor. He’s in Latvia, and it seems to get properly cold there.


MCB board where you can access it from the floor. Have RCBOs instead of MCBs so if there’s a short, only one circuit is down.

Insulated roofing, the Kingspan KR1000 is good stuff. No condensation and it stops you getting cooked on a hot day. You can get it 150mm / 6 inches thick.

Might be worth getting a price off them directly.

A tearoom for the big scheming!

Plot out where the machines will be, and maybe leave some pipes so you can feed them from the floor, reducing trailing/hanging cables.

Water trap for the air line. There are plenty of DIY versions.

You can also get automated water drains for the air compressor tank. Could save a lot of hassle.

Twice as many sockets and circuits as you first thought.

I know I’ve mentioned electrics a lot, but that’s my trade!

 

[Scholsey]

Gantry crane?

 

[Forever Fendt]

Doors in the side, not the gable.
A long pit.
A steel rack on a gable.
Mezzanine floor/ loft running along the wall opposite doors for stores and tea room/office/toilet, oil and grease and heavy spares underneath.
Wash area handy to side with pressure washer in workshop.

\Got all those except tea room all works good

 

[Zebbedee]

The best advice I can give is insulated sheeting on roof and sides with insulated roller door and roof lights in sheeting. Warm in winter cool in summer and with white inner sheet it’s bright and also polished concrete floor so it’s easy to brush. Size is a difficult one too small is a nuisance as you spend half the time with doors open working half outside but on other hand go too big and you start storing stuff in it and still end up working outside!!!! My money went on sheeting then door and floor then everyth8ng else as we could afford it very seldom do we run the heater only five minutes in cold morning or if we are painting. Underfloor heating would be worthwhile if it was a busy workshop with doors always getting opened and closed through the day but a luxury on a farm I reckon

 

[GeorgeK]

A good alarm that also goes off in the house and on your mobile, cctv (also on mobile phone and in house), security lights and doors and walls that are resistant to cordless angle grinders

 

[Hilly]

My few thoughts:

You wouldn’t have to heat the entire floor, don’t forget about “tired feet” from the underfloor heating.

Duckboards at machines/workbench

Make sure the electrics are right, bigger cable when wiring it means you can use the welder any where!

LED spots are good over a workbench. The drivers are what fail on LED. Their advantage is the low power consumption.

It’s cheap to cable tie underfloor heating pipes to rebar so you can think about heating it after and you’re not in too deep financially.

DonnDIY on YouTube did some neat underfloor. He’s in Latvia, and it seems to get properly cold there.


MCB board where you can access it from the floor. Have RCBOs instead of MCBs so if there’s a short, only one circuit is down.

Insulated roofing, the Kingspan KR1000 is good stuff. No condensation and it stops you getting cooked on a hot day. You can get it 150mm / 6 inches thick.

Might be worth getting a price off them directly.

A tearoom for the big scheming!

Plot out where the machines will be, and maybe leave some pipes so you can feed them from the floor, reducing trailing/hanging cables.

Water trap for the air line. There are plenty of DIY versions.

You can also get automated water drains for the air compressor tank. Could save a lot of hassle.

Twice as many sockets and circuits as you first thought.

I know I’ve mentioned electrics a lot, but that’s my trade!

What do you mean by tired feet ?

 

[stevedave]

More electric sockets than you think.

 

[Hard Graft]

Bunded oil storage but build the bund in the ground so it’s all flat