I guess I should have explained this better; The wood shop is a section of a larger building. It's a 40x60 building that I built and I've split it up into three basic areas (no inside walls yet). So there's the wood shop which is in the South-East Corner, the car shop which is in the North-East Corner and then the trailer / tractor storage which is the entire west side. There's a bathroom in the car shop so I don't have to go into the house all messy and make the wife angry.
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I posted a lot of the progress on the message board back when the building was being built, but I figured I'd hop on over to this message board for the Woodshop...
I was able to get a dedicated meter/electrical panel (200amp service) coming off of a different transformer, separate from the house. Yeah, I have two electric bills but honestly, it's nice to be able to track my shop usage separate from the house. Plus, when I fire up the welder or the plasma cutter, the house lights don't dim. I also ran conduit under the slab before it was poured to get to the outside walls of the shop. Which was really nice for the table saw because I was able to put the outlets in the floor. And there's enough room in the panel for several 220v circuits. But for now, I only have one 220v circuit (for the welder). I do plan on putting in more outlets around the wood shop and a couple more put in around the car shop. I planned for that.
No telephone, we don't even use our land-line at the house.
Air-conditioning (heating and cooling) is still a question-mark. My original idea was to try and use the split-ductless system and have two remote units, one of the wood shop and one for the car shop. But that was when I was going to enclose both shops. But after using the areas for a few months now, I'm not so sure about enclosing the car shop area. I will want to one day enclose the wood shop so the split unit might still work out or I may just put in a regular AC/Heat unit... but I'm not sure yet. For now, it's open up the doors in the summer and use fans and bundle up in the winter. And honestly, it hasn't been too bad since the shop is insulated. Only two problems I ran into, 1) In the winter, it was colder inside a couple of times, I'm guessing because it trapped the cooler air? 2) Moisture control, we had a couple of high humid days this winter and now all the tools with cast-iron have rust on them. I croaked when I walked in to the shop to see my table saw rusted. So I know I will definitely need to control the humidity but more so for the wood than the tools.