Frank's Workshop Construction Project is Complete

[Frank Pellow]

Frank,

Congrats on getting your shop to the point of being able to consider it done. It might be interesting to add up all the hours you spent on it, planning and working, to give potential shop builders an idea of what they'd be in for.
Rob

As you suggested Rob, I reviewed my shop construction diary (extending back about 2 years to the initial planning entry) and added up all the time spent on the project. Here are the results of my analysis:

Planning: 440 hours

Purchasing (research, visits, deliveries): 140 hours

Productive work by me: 1,020 hours

Productive work by others: 65 hours

Useless work by me: 55 hours

When I was working for a living, I averaged about a 55 hour work-week, so another way of looking at these figures is:

Planning: 8 weeks

Purchasing (research, visits, deliveries): 2.5 weeks

Productive work by me: 18.5 weeks

Productive work by others: 1.2 weeks

Useless work by me: 1 week

[Tyler Howell]

Congrats on a job well done. We worked real hard on this one but it was fun and pulled out a winner

[Chris Padilla]

Sweet...I haven't kept mine up as much as you did, Frank, but congrats on reaching the "more or less finished" milestone. I'm sure it felt good when you finally convinced yourself of that point!

As for my remodel, I think drywall (assuming my drywallers have the time), ought to happen in January. After drywalling, I will declare my remodel finished and then cabinets and storage shall begin!

Congratulations, again!

[Jerry Olexa]

Frank You should be PROUD!! Excellent job of designing, building AND posting! And yes, I think a BOOK would be worthwhile. Its a very specialized market but it could work!! YaDidGood!