Hi All, I have enjoyed learning so much from this forum, and continue to put it to good use. My wife and I are in the process of buying a different house, and my future wood shop is a blank canvas, albeit a concrete one. Here's the scoop, the house has a walkout basement that daylights in the backyard. The garage actually has a room/basement underneath of it. It is a two car garage, and the garage concrete floor is supported with I-beams in this lower room that will become my work shop, also a 2 car garage size. That workshop as an exterior door that goes out to the back yard, and it also has a door that goes into the basement. The ceiling height to the bottom of the I-Beams is about 8 feet. The underside of the garage floor (i.e. the woodshop ceiling) appears to be sprayed with with foam insulation. The workshop room also has a concrete floor in it. Aside from one flood light, it has nothing else in it. Concrete walls, concrete floors, concrete ceiling. The 200 amp electric panel for the house is 4 ft from this workshop, which should facilitate easy electric work. Blank slate.
I am excited that it is a standalone work space and it is under the garage and should hopefully keep some of the noise contained. I have a lot of planning to do, and the house is not actually ours yet. But I am a planner and have the wheels already spinning on how to setup shop in the best manner. The first questions I have to resolve are: air quality, ceiling and wall construction (if needed), noise reduction, and heating if desired. Has anyone ever encountered a scenario like this? I have not historically done a ton of work in my current shop during the winter because it is not really setup for it, and I imagine the walls in this room would be a giant heat sink? Am I in "la-la land" thinking this concrete room is going to hold in the noise, or do you think I need to be incorporating some noise reduction in my plans for walls and ceiling? I will be adding specific questions as they arise to this thread, but I am starting it and will populate pictures and updates as I progress with it.
Thanks.