New Shop Design help needed

[Vegas69]

Love that shop, it makes me think I should've made mine bigger.

[SSLance]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Love that shop, it makes me think I should've made mine bigger.

Thanks... Like Greg says...they are NEVER big enough...

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by SSLance

Thanks... Like Greg says...they are NEVER big enough...

I'm not touching that......


Good to see you today Lance!! The new place is going to be awesome!! Thanks for taking your day to mess around!!

[SSLance]

It was fun Greg, can't wait until we can do things together much more regularly.

[SSLance]

I've enlisted some 3D modeling help to get a better picture.





Now I need to load Sketchup onto this PC so I can play around with things a bit more.

[GregWeld]

After having seen the setup ----- I'm wondering if you're not giving too much up in an effort to keep the motorhome inside. What about a "nice" carport cover out the back side door -- and a wooden fence/screen with gates for quick access) so you're not seeing the side of the motorhome from the pool etc - and it would keep the sun off it etc. If you have no project going - the MH could come inside -- but if you have a big project or need the room - back it out under the covered carport for a month or whatever time you'd need.

It could sit on compacted gravel -- or those cement blocks - buried to ground level with gravel for drainage...


Just thinking out loud here buddy.

[SSLance]

You have to remember Greg, about 60% of the reason I'm even getting a new house plus shop is to have a place to store the RV inside. Heat is a killer to the inside of an RV and my RV being dark in color makes it even worse. Plus, if I put up any kind of a shed or cover in that back area, the legs of it would make it too difficult to move other things around like car trailers, other cars\RVs or whatever. Heck, I'm halfway concerned about being able to back my long arsed truck and car trailer up into the slot between the RV garage and fence. That flat area behind the shop is only roughly 50' x 50'.

The RV is a small part of the space inside really and it has wheels...which makes that part easier. Heck, I could park TWO RVs side by side up against that back door and not take up much more room for my other stuff than one RV does. The trick is just getting whichever lift I choose far enough away from the East wall (or things along that wall) while still being able to get a vehicle on and off the lift.

I'm talking with a Bendpak sales rep now and am learning about their adjustable locks on the posts which make leveling it a lot more easy than the other types of drive on lifts with fixed locks on posts. This would let me angle the lift and fix most of my issues.

Plus I remeasured my truck wheelbase today and came up with a shorter measurement which will help as well.

Today's progress pics...







See that black PVC pipe with the brown paint on it? That is the clean out for the drains in the RV bath that I was going to extend over to beside the back door and use as an RV dump.

I take one day off from going up and this happens... Had I been there I could have just had the guys setting the pool equipment plumbing set it up a foot further away from the building...but NOOO...

[jarhead]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

I'm not touching that......

OH man , I am laughing my ass off...

You guys...