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I'm a mechanic, and for my whole career I worked in windowless buildings. I was never a fan of that, I love natural light. So when I struck out on my own and renovated my shop to make it something I could work out of, I used greenhouse plastic to make the top 3 feet of the south side wall transparent, and 14 years later I absolutely do not regret it. In the summer the overhang keeps the sun from beaming in, but in the rest of the year sunlight pours in and makes the place bright and cheerful. Old workshops and factories always had big windows to take advantage of natural light, and that's a tradition I'd encourage anyone building a shop to maintain because it just makes the place so much better to be in.
I am a mechanic also and in applications that use industrial vision systems change in ambient lighting is resulting in false positives and false negatives. So i kinda get it.
I never know to feel impressed or just envious whenever I watch frame construction buildings go up. As a south Florida builder the amount of block steel and concrete we have to use for our exterior walls just blows my mind how quick a structure can go up when you’re using only lumber. Looking good man.
That feature of the utility room upstairs is one of the best ideas (besides the outdoor closet design) that I've seen. Great idea! It's been fun watching this progress!
There is nothing better than watching someone or a group of people that know what they are doing work. When you have a handful of guys like that you can easily bang that out. It still is impressive due to the years of experience they needed to get to that point.
You know Travis at my age I believe I am living vicariously thru you. Loving this shop too. BTW regarding international incidents at your place just remember “happy wife happy life.” 😃
I would recommend that the HATCH be hinged, on the hinge side have 2 vertical posts that can be latched to hold up the door/floor. Can also be insulated and sheetrock on the bottom facing side.
That is absolutely amazing! I’m so envious. I could live like a king in a place like that. Excellent use of the roof space too. Great work and well thought out.
I really appreciate the shot with you laying on the cement all by yourself. I did the same thing to my shop. Very funny. I don't know why it's it just did.
You had mentioned that you would like to keep as much wall space as possible for cabinets and storage. Since you are building an open staircase along that outside wall, have your framers build a wall (in front) enclosing the stairs and get back the wall space the stairs are occupying . Also might be able to put a closet under the far end as well. Just as a suggestion.
Great planning and great execution. It's always fun to watch a quality crew doing quality work. The shop is looking excellent. Glad to see you're using that attic space. There is a house being framed up the block from me and it is the same sort of roof pitch but it's going to be all truss webs and NO storage; huge waste!
Too late now but in-floor hydronic heating is awesome for a shop. Also, installing 6" PVC DWV pipe under the slab for dust collection has the advantages of eliminating static electricity, decrease of noise and not having the piping above your head with expensive metal DC piping gives you more options for storage. I did both for my new shop build and love it!
Really liking this series. After doing a house build I learned tons as well. I am now at the point were if I want a bigger shop I need to move and build again. Then build a bigger shop so these ideas will come in handy. Keep up the amazing work. 👽
Man! I've been planning building out my own shop for a while, and its finally looking like next spring is the target. Watching your build is giving me a lot of ideas about how I want to setup and build my own shop. Thanks for sharing, and I cant wait to see the rest of the build!
Love the shop design and build. Thanks for including the shot of you jumping off the ladder and OSB following you down. That’s every one of my projects!
I like that you will epoxy the workshop floor. FYI, I used Titan epoxy coating on my workshop and garage floor which has a lifetime guarantee not to crack. My wife liked it so much she had them epoxy coat our front and back porch to eliminate the few expansion cracks that had developed. Remember, concrete will crack, putting in expansion joints (which you did correctly - in squares) means that any cracks will tend (not always, but mostly) along the expansion lines you have provided in the concrete. So nice to see that you are doing this "shed" correctly. A few other TH-cam channels show various ways to move things up to an attic space. You might get some ideas from others on cool ways to do this.
Oh, some sort of "pocket" cover over that access hole would be awesome. You could do something with reinforced steel... so a flat sheet on top of corrugated steel. You could slide it by hand, or even get a worm gear or actuator to run it.
I built a surprisingly similar shop a few years ago. For the hoist I used a Harbor Freight 120 volt winch. I think it cost around $120 and has lifted everything I could throw at it. Also, for the 2nd floor dust collector/compressor room, I insulated it with horse stall mats from Tractor Supply on the walls and floor. Don't forget to add vents to keep the room from overheating (don't ask). The floor mats insulate the compressor vibrations from the ceiling. I can now play the radio in the shop and don't need to wear my headphones all day. The new shop looks great. I'm envious. I'm sure great things will come from your new space. Thx.
love the design and look, I would add (3)2x6 studs under the girder truss point load locations, if not you will experience some cracking - congrats on your new workshop😃
Coming along nicely. For your lift door, how about a trap door that is stout enough to walk on from above. Hinge it so that it will lay flat on the floor when open. Put something like Shop Nation Skunk Works on the door. With you putting your laser and 3D printer upstairs, and my guess is those are what you do a lot of your prototyping on, skunk works makes perfect sense. On a separate note, have you considered making a dust collector for the throat plate of the miter saw (Hercules in my case)? I saw one on Inspire Woodcraft that looks pretty sweet, but nothing for a Hercules yet. I got the one for the saw from you already, just need to capture the dust coming off the throat plate. Love your channel, and what your planning for your new shop.
for the hatch in the floor make two hinged doors which when closed can be walked on, also have a small hole where the doors meet so the hoist can be lowered through the hole and the doors open up as materials are raised through the hatch
Same thing here. 20x29 shop and when the slab was first poured but no walls I was like this is tiny, no way this is as big as I envisioned it. Two weeks later the walls (10ft ceilings) & roof were up and suddenly that 'small' shop was ginormous and exactly what I envisioned.
For your "Hole of Death". Maybe have a "basket" connected to the hoist (can use a D Ring if the basket needs to be removed) with the bottom skinned with OSB to match the ceiling while it's up. That way you have a good way to bring smaller things and the hole is covered when not in use to nobody falls through it lol
Suggestion for the cover. Make it the reverse of what your probably thinking. Make it so the hoist can lower it out of the floor/celing. This will help serve a few things... 1) Use it as your basket for bringing loose items up. 2) no need to work around it up top when open/removed. 3) No need to go up to just to open the cover, Wire in a second control and open it from below. 4) for safety, you'll always remember to close it as soon as your done with it, the big f-ing box hanging in your way will help with this.
That video of you jumping off your ladder with no ground in the shot with sheet goods on your shed build was HILARIOUS again!! Sorry, we all been there!! :) 13:30
Inside Carpentery has his DC on the second floor that dumps into 2 drums on the first floor. He just showed it in his shop tour video today. Works perfect.
Good call on the 2x6s. Maybe a little bit more costly but definitely worth it for running utilities and insulation! I'd add some more Windows though. Have you seen the small skylights that carry the light down through a tube?
I like cement walls 4' high everywhere. Makes it so you will never have to worry about rot down low no matter what happens. Also, why not 5/8" zip sheathing on the roof? I actually like 3/4 for trusses 24" O.C. Lastly, I like to take the grable returns go all the way across the gable. It looks awesome and can even put some lighting in there to look great at night.
You could make a plug for that hole. And have a hook in the middle of it. Then you could pick it with the hoist when not in use and lift it up to plug the hole.
You could screw in some heavy duty angle iron around the hole in the floor. About halfway on the beams. Then you can either create a hinged floor piece or something you lift out of the floor with the hoist. So you can walk over it and make it easy to open if needed. which probably will be not very often.
You should build a metal frame for that hoist. With a detachable frame to hook to. Lower to the ground, unhook frame so you can back over the lower frame. Once you are done lifting things out of your truck, hook the frame back up and hoist back into the ceiling. This would give you a "basket" to put things into and hoist inyo attic. Just a thought.
Lie someone mentioned below, radiant floor heating would have been awesome! Since you haven't done that, consider a radiant tube heater (think car dealership service bays). I had one in my shop in Michigan and it was awesome. Whatever you do, do not use a forced air furnace of any kind! Efficiency sucks and hot air blowing around while you're cutting and sanding wood is a huge issue (even with air filtration systems but, you should have those too).
When it comes to building, that group works. I was going to put windows in but held off. Don’t even think about with garage doors open. I might rethink if I put in AC. You’ll love the attic lift. Do you know how much using ZIP versus traditional sheathing plywood increased the cost?
Are you putting in solar tubes or sunroofs in the upper areas? I'd opt for the cheap tubes if nothing else to get some light up there. I like the design so far!
The value in hiring professionals. I hired someone to frame and sheath my 2.5 car garage (yes I said 2.5) and they had it up and sheathed in a half a day. Including having the sheathing on the roof done. Getting experts is the best way to go.
I get the idea of the lift as that will help with emptiying of the dust collection bin. Otherwise I wouldn't put my collection bin up anywhere I have to take stairs to empty it.
@@jonarse yeah I don’t know. I’ve never seen a dust collector set up with the container being farther away. I hope it works for him cause that would be a perfect set up to have that stuff up there.
@@Golfexpertbelieveme I don't know what the options are for after it goes through the main extraction, but once it does all that is really needed is gravity, long tube?
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I'm a mechanic, and for my whole career I worked in windowless buildings. I was never a fan of that, I love natural light. So when I struck out on my own and renovated my shop to make it something I could work out of, I used greenhouse plastic to make the top 3 feet of the south side wall transparent, and 14 years later I absolutely do not regret it. In the summer the overhang keeps the sun from beaming in, but in the rest of the year sunlight pours in and makes the place bright and cheerful. Old workshops and factories always had big windows to take advantage of natural light, and that's a tradition I'd encourage anyone building a shop to maintain because it just makes the place so much better to be in.
Agree with you!
I am a mechanic also and in applications that use industrial vision systems change in ambient lighting is resulting in false positives and false negatives. So i kinda get it.
The attic hoist is just about brilliant. We did something like that for my dad's shop since he retired and it's been a back saver.
I never know to feel impressed or just envious whenever I watch frame construction buildings go up. As a south Florida builder the amount of block steel and concrete we have to use for our exterior walls just blows my mind how quick a structure can go up when you’re using only lumber. Looking good man.
That feature of the utility room upstairs is one of the best ideas (besides the outdoor closet design) that I've seen. Great idea! It's been fun watching this progress!
There is nothing better than watching someone or a group of people that know what they are doing work. When you have a handful of guys like that you can easily bang that out. It still is impressive due to the years of experience they needed to get to that point.
Its always amazing to watch true professionals do the job they've mastered.
I am blown away by the efficiency of your crew. I'd have watched that all day every day. Also kudos to your architect!
Crew's working like boss is taking them to Disney land if they finish by Thursday lol.
You have got a great crew there!
Love the dream shop layout and progress! Way to to go, well deserved!
They are excellent. They know exactly where to grab and leave, getting the job done
I'm stoked for you for this shop!
You know Travis at my age I believe I am living vicariously thru you. Loving this shop too. BTW regarding international incidents at your place just remember “happy wife happy life.” 😃
I would recommend that the HATCH be hinged, on the hinge side have 2 vertical posts that can be latched to hold up the door/floor. Can also be insulated and sheetrock on the bottom facing side.
That is absolutely amazing! I’m so envious. I could live like a king in a place like that. Excellent use of the roof space too. Great work and well thought out.
I really appreciate the shot with you laying on the cement all by yourself. I did the same thing to my shop. Very funny. I don't know why it's it just did.
How exciting! I love watching experts do what they do.
You had mentioned that you would like to keep as much wall space as possible for cabinets and storage. Since you are building an open staircase along that outside wall, have your framers build a wall (in front) enclosing the stairs and get back the wall space the stairs are occupying . Also might be able to put a closet under the far end as well. Just as a suggestion.
You could make a cover for that hole that folds up and acts like a railing when the hole is open. Best of both worlds.
This is a great suggestion
Great planning and great execution. It's always fun to watch a quality crew doing quality work. The shop is looking excellent. Glad to see you're using that attic space. There is a house being framed up the block from me and it is the same sort of roof pitch but it's going to be all truss webs and NO storage; huge waste!
Too late now but in-floor hydronic heating is awesome for a shop. Also, installing 6" PVC DWV pipe under the slab for dust collection has the advantages of eliminating static electricity, decrease of noise and not having the piping above your head with expensive metal DC piping gives you more options for storage. I did both for my new shop build and love it!
Maybe not absolutely required in Ohio, but others should also consider insulation under the slab. Great way to cut down on heat loss.
@@richs5422 We are required to install R-10 under slabs on all new construction by code here in zone 6. 2" of XPS.
I wouldn't want in floor heat because I might need/want to mount something to the floor and wouldn't be able to drill into it.
@@ADBBuildYou can find the pipes with an infrared camera if the heat is on . They make them as an accessory to your cell phone.
@@ADBBuildTake a picture of the lines.
Man I love watching your videos. Total inspiration.
Very, very cool stuff! Brilliant idea to create a utility room in the attic! Keep the noisy stuff out of the way will be a massive plus!
Really liking this series. After doing a house build I learned tons as well. I am now at the point were if I want a bigger shop I need to move and build again. Then build a bigger shop so these ideas will come in handy. Keep up the amazing work. 👽
I am so excited to see this all coming together and seeing how excited you about it too. Unreal how fast those framing walls when up.
Wow that is so exciting to see something you had in mind now coming to life.
I've been watching your videos since about 20,000 subs. I just noticed that you're up to 375, 000 , wow, awesome. Nice build.
Enjoying the build! You're blessed to be able to build such a structure! GO VOLS!
This shop is what every woodworker dreams of!
Shop is looking badass. The flashbacks to you building the camp shed were hilarious. Loving this series!
Man that's going up so quick and looking really nice bud!
Another banger. Keep'em coming. Happy for you for the new shop!!
Man! I've been planning building out my own shop for a while, and its finally looking like next spring is the target. Watching your build is giving me a lot of ideas about how I want to setup and build my own shop. Thanks for sharing, and I cant wait to see the rest of the build!
Interesting to watch going up, definately got shop envy!
Love the shop design and build. Thanks for including the shot of you jumping off the ladder and OSB following you down. That’s every one of my projects!
Awesome job... can't wait to see the final part of the build 😊
Till the next one... 👍👍
new shops looking great, Travis! Looking forward to watching the progression and see you get to move in!
Really looking good. Can't wait to see the next installment 👍
Looking awesome! I vote for a Colin Furze style tunnel from the house to the shop!!
Now there is an idea...
Excellent idea with the utility room up above. Great planning!
Wow, just wow! Congrats!
Congratulations on the build. I love living vicariously through your success 😂
I like that you will epoxy the workshop floor. FYI, I used Titan epoxy coating on my workshop and garage floor which has a lifetime guarantee not to crack. My wife liked it so much she had them epoxy coat our front and back porch to eliminate the few expansion cracks that had developed. Remember, concrete will crack, putting in expansion joints (which you did correctly - in squares) means that any cracks will tend (not always, but mostly) along the expansion lines you have provided in the concrete. So nice to see that you are doing this "shed" correctly. A few other TH-cam channels show various ways to move things up to an attic space. You might get some ideas from others on cool ways to do this.
Oh, some sort of "pocket" cover over that access hole would be awesome. You could do something with reinforced steel... so a flat sheet on top of corrugated steel. You could slide it by hand, or even get a worm gear or actuator to run it.
I built a surprisingly similar shop a few years ago. For the hoist I used a Harbor Freight 120 volt winch. I think it cost around $120 and has lifted everything I could throw at it. Also, for the 2nd floor dust collector/compressor room, I insulated it with horse stall mats from Tractor Supply on the walls and floor. Don't forget to add vents to keep the room from overheating (don't ask). The floor mats insulate the compressor vibrations from the ceiling. I can now play the radio in the shop and don't need to wear my headphones all day. The new shop looks great. I'm envious. I'm sure great things will come from your new space. Thx.
8:31 🤣🤣 Example number 597 huh!! Thanks for the laugh!
Very impressive framing crew!
Looks amazing
love the design and look, I would add (3)2x6 studs under the girder truss point load locations, if not you will experience some cracking - congrats on your new workshop😃
Perfectly pased vide. Quick and to the point.
Awesome build. Makes me wish I had more room in my backyard.
New subscriber!! Very nice job! Can't wait to see it all come together!
Looking awesome! I was thinking a trap door with hydraulic struts would be nice for the hoist hole
Gonna be an awesome shop, no doubt.
Coming along nicely. For your lift door, how about a trap door that is stout enough to walk on from above. Hinge it so that it will lay flat on the floor when open. Put something like Shop Nation Skunk Works on the door. With you putting your laser and 3D printer upstairs, and my guess is those are what you do a lot of your prototyping on, skunk works makes perfect sense.
On a separate note, have you considered making a dust collector for the throat plate of the miter saw (Hercules in my case)? I saw one on Inspire Woodcraft that looks pretty sweet, but nothing for a Hercules yet. I got the one for the saw from you already, just need to capture the dust coming off the throat plate.
Love your channel, and what your planning for your new shop.
heck of a shop, damn nice work
for the hatch in the floor make two hinged doors which when closed can be walked on, also have a small hole where the doors meet so the hoist can be lowered through the hole and the doors open up as materials are raised through the hatch
Travis, this is going to be an impressive shop. One question, why did you not use the roof zip system panels while you used the wall system?
I hope all is good with you and family.
It's crazy to see your journey. I subscribed about 370,000 subscribers ago 😮😂! Great job as always!
That WAS Impressive!
It is amazing how crazy fast each team was.
Same thing here. 20x29 shop and when the slab was first poured but no walls I was like this is tiny, no way this is as big as I envisioned it. Two weeks later the walls (10ft ceilings) & roof were up and suddenly that 'small' shop was ginormous and exactly what I envisioned.
Excellent Michael Scott reference 👏
Glad you caught it!
This is exciting! Thats awesome you're getting this space. Are you going to build a skywalk between the house and the shop? 🤔
For your "Hole of Death". Maybe have a "basket" connected to the hoist (can use a D Ring if the basket needs to be removed) with the bottom skinned with OSB to match the ceiling while it's up. That way you have a good way to bring smaller things and the hole is covered when not in use to nobody falls through it lol
Exciting stuff!
Suggestion for the cover. Make it the reverse of what your probably thinking. Make it so the hoist can lower it out of the floor/celing. This will help serve a few things... 1) Use it as your basket for bringing loose items up. 2) no need to work around it up top when open/removed. 3) No need to go up to just to open the cover, Wire in a second control and open it from below. 4) for safety, you'll always remember to close it as soon as your done with it, the big f-ing box hanging in your way will help with this.
very cool, makes me dream of a ship when i get older :)
That video of you jumping off your ladder with no ground in the shot with sheet goods on your shed build was HILARIOUS again!! Sorry, we all been there!! :) 13:30
That's what I'm here for!
Inside Carpentery has his DC on the second floor that dumps into 2 drums on the first floor. He just showed it in his shop tour video today. Works perfect.
Good call on the 2x6s. Maybe a little bit more costly but definitely worth it for running utilities and insulation! I'd add some more Windows though.
Have you seen the small skylights that carry the light down through a tube?
Looking forward to seeing the air compressor getting installed.
I like cement walls 4' high everywhere. Makes it so you will never have to worry about rot down low no matter what happens. Also, why not 5/8" zip sheathing on the roof? I actually like 3/4 for trusses 24" O.C. Lastly, I like to take the grable returns go all the way across the gable. It looks awesome and can even put some lighting in there to look great at night.
I am sooo jealous. So where's the print farm going? In the attic? Enjoy it, life is short.
You could make a plug for that hole. And have a hook in the middle of it. Then you could pick it with the hoist when not in use and lift it up to plug the hole.
Hey Travis, have you looked into a Versa Lift for that hole in your ceiling. We use ours a lot and love it. Great video. 👍🏻
I vote a detachable lift carriage!! Great video! Btw that hole was exactly what I was going to suggest in the comments then you explained!😂😂
Looking good!😎
Looking good
hoist idea is brilliant
You could screw in some heavy duty angle iron around the hole in the floor. About halfway on the beams. Then you can either create a hinged floor piece or something you lift out of the floor with the hoist. So you can walk over it and make it easy to open if needed. which probably will be not very often.
nice looking building
Very cool. Wish I had the room to build a real shop!!!
You should build a metal frame for that hoist. With a detachable frame to hook to. Lower to the ground, unhook frame so you can back over the lower frame. Once you are done lifting things out of your truck, hook the frame back up and hoist back into the ceiling. This would give you a "basket" to put things into and hoist inyo attic. Just a thought.
It’s getting real dude!!!
My 30x30 shop has no windows and I wish it did so good on you for keeping them.
You want some natty light? Try Skylight premium brew. Made from the best frosted glassware.
Lie someone mentioned below, radiant floor heating would have been awesome! Since you haven't done that, consider a radiant tube heater (think car dealership service bays). I had one in my shop in Michigan and it was awesome. Whatever you do, do not use a forced air furnace of any kind! Efficiency sucks and hot air blowing around while you're cutting and sanding wood is a huge issue (even with air filtration systems but, you should have those too).
When it comes to building, that group works. I was going to put windows in but held off. Don’t even think about with garage doors open. I might rethink if I put in AC. You’ll love the attic lift.
Do you know how much using ZIP versus traditional sheathing plywood increased the cost?
Just remember when it comes to a workshop.....it ain't never big enough!
Ain’t that the truth
Are you putting in solar tubes or sunroofs in the upper areas? I'd opt for the cheap tubes if nothing else to get some light up there. I like the design so far!
You can never go wrong incorporating regular stair access to your second level garage / workshop.
Nice layout.
I took construction courses for one year and with 3 people we used to frame an entire 3 story house in 3 weeks and I was just the helper
The value in hiring professionals. I hired someone to frame and sheath my 2.5 car garage (yes I said 2.5) and they had it up and sheathed in a half a day. Including having the sheathing on the roof done. Getting experts is the best way to go.
I get the idea of the lift as that will help with emptiying of the dust collection bin. Otherwise I wouldn't put my collection bin up anywhere I have to take stairs to empty it.
Exactly, yeah I can just lower down the sawdust
It is the comparison of the space to the outside. Infinity height and large volumes of space around make the confined space seem tiny.
If your dust collection is up high, what’s your plan for emptying? Shops looking sweet!!
i'm guessing that lift he talked about near the end
wondered about myself, maybe the powerplant for it will be up there but the actual final container is on the first floor.
@@jonarse yeah I don’t know. I’ve never seen a dust collector set up with the container being farther away. I hope it works for him cause that would be a perfect set up to have that stuff up there.
@@Golfexpertbelieveme I don't know what the options are for after it goes through the main extraction, but once it does all that is really needed is gravity, long tube?
Maybe duct it through the wall and just jet it out back. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, ha-ha! I'm sure the neighbors won't mind.
Yooooooooooooo😂you did it🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉