finished my man cave/shop.

[elf]

Well, after my thread on why I couldn't post pictures anymore explained to me the error of my ways I thought I'd share some pictures of my shop project. When I built my shed 7 yrs ago the plan was always to enclose 1 end to make a heated shop. So I finally got cement poured last fall and framed in insulated it over the winter. Just finished the floors this week and am now ready to start moving my tools and things back in. I ike to do wood working projects, work on sleds, etc... so it's nice having a noce spot to do this. I also posted a picture of last yrs canoe project so you have a good before picture of my working conditions.

Not qite finished as I was making the entertainment center for the TV and stereo today but that should be up in place by mid week.

 

[elf]

Now here's the finished pictures.

 

[800etec]

looks great!

 

[sweeperguy]

Looks nice, is it heated floor? I see insulation under the rebar.

 

[mrbb]

looks great, makes me wish I had one !

 

[elf]

No, I didn't heat the floor. There's a 30 btu furnace hanging from the ceiling. I wanted to be able to heat it up more quickly than using slab heat. I'll probably leave it at about 35-40 so it doesn't freeze in there during the winter but then turn it up when I want to work. It's only 500 sq ft so it'll heat up quick

 

[sweeperguy]

Yea i see the heater now. I just have propane torpedo heater when I need to work on sleds, or the cars in my un-insulated garage. Warms up enough to be somewhat comfortable, but because its not heated all the time tools are still icy cold, need to work with gloves on. Can be a pain. Good thing cars are new, reliable enough not out there working more than once or twice a winter. Only a few sled work sessions per year also.

 

[scoot]

Nice. Nearing retirement age, I've thought about starting on my cave. But since all my buddies are nearing retirement too, they've came up with the crazy idea of renting a small warehouse building on the edge of town together and using it as a toy barn/clubhouse. Its in a small industrial area so noise wouldn't be an issue, even at night. And the snowmobile trail is nearby too. If we split the rent it would only be a few hundred a month for each of us. And my wife wouldn't scold us all for making a racket at 2am.
Hmm, its got me thinking....

 

[xcr440]

Looks nice Troy! You'll be fine with your heater and the insulated floor like you did. My dad made the same decision to save the cost of heated flooring and it heats up to 50-55 in no time, plenty warm for working on sleds if needed.

 

[skiroule]

Looks excellent Troy! I think this is on-par with the canoe. Hopefully the beer count stayed within budget.

 

[elf]

Looks excellent Troy! I think this is on-par with the canoe. Hopefully the beer count stayed within budget.

I don't think anything about this project stayed within budget, at least according the family CFO. The beer count would have been fine until I had two young engineers right out of college who work for me come over and help put up the ceiling. Surprised we didn't have any injuries from that project.

 

[durphee]

great job elf. That canoe looks really nice! I have always wanted to refurbish a wood powerboat but honestly have only average woodworking skills. My grandfather had a Chris Craft quite a few years ago, really good looking boat. Keep up the good work!

 

[sweeperguy]

great job elf. That canoe looks really nice! I have always wanted to refurbish a wood powerboat but honestly have only average woodworking skills. My grandfather had a Chris Craft quite a few years ago, really good looking boat. Keep up the good work!

Growing up when I was in my early teens. A friends dad had a late 30's Chris Craft. He had us removing hardware, stripping, Hand sanding, polishing cleats and stuff. It was so cool when we got done with it. We worked so hard on that for like 2 years but in the end it was so worth it. I think his dad even brought it to some boat shows after we were done. I had pics of it, but have not run across them in many many years, o hope I still have them around. Alot of the pics were Polaroids the self developing ones you would pull out of the camera then pull the liner off and watch it develop. I think they were called one step SX-70. Those were the days, of course we were just the labor we didn't have to pay for anything. We had alot of good times in it the next couple of summers. GOOD TIMES.

 

[elf]

I was looking up plans last night for a wood strip kayak. I think my next project is a bedroom set and then the Kayak.

 

[eagle1]

Looks great.. Jealous!!

 

[clark_w]

Nice looking shop, its amazing how small they get once you start adding bench's tool boxes etc.... wish I would have built mine bigger. Hey what brand hose reels do you have? And where did you get your Polaris sign?

Clark

 

[elf]

Nice looking shop, its amazing how small they get once you start adding bench's tool boxes etc.... wish I would have built mine bigger. Hey what brand hose reels do you have? And where did you get your Polaris sign?

Clark

I can check on the brand of hose reel tonight, I just got that at Northern Tool and the cord reels came from Menards. The Polaris sign is a decal I bought at HayDays. I intended to put it on the floor after I had painted and then I was going to clear coat over it but I decided the floor probably wasn't smooth enough. So I stuck it on a pc of plywood and then used a sabre saw to cut out around the edge of the decal.

I agree on the size, it's 30'x18'. Would have liked to go bigger but then it would have intruded on the rest of the shed more. The shed itself is 48x30 so in a perfect world I would have poured the whole floor and insulated and finished off the whole thing but that wasn't in the cards. So now is a 30x30 pole shed with a 30x18 shop.