We're planning to move our laundry machines out of the garage and into the main house.
This gives me an opportunity to rethink how the shop setup is laid out and being used.
In particular, I'm looking forward to improving dust control.
Does anyone have any suggestions better than the current plan of placing a cyclone in the "open" (washer/dryer) area?
And any suggestions on how to lay out 240V service? (I'm looking to get 2x240V circuits, to replace 240V extension cords to the dryer outlet)
Current layout:
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We do need LOML's car to be able to park inside most nights, and I want to be able to get in/out without banging the doors.
I move it out to get the J/P out for milling and I usually have a door slab on sawhorses as my project/assembly table during any project work days. The table saw may roll out a bit more for wider rips. Most other tools are usable in place.
Does anyone see a viable layout where I get the car on one side of the garage and all tools on the other so that I can set up a dust curtain to better contain dust? I could potentially clear some additional space by moving the gorilla racks and the household/paint cabinet out of the garage and into an outside shed. The layouts I've looked at with all tools along the long wall seemed to have infeed/outfeed issues; and I hit walkway issues if I tried to arrange a 2nd tool between a tool wall and car parking.
Some lower-priority musings include:
- improving TS outfeed (currently using a rigid flip-top stand if needed; not sure a short-stroke slider would work in this space).
- dedicated space for J/P (moving out the gorilla racks would leave this with modest infeed/outfeed along the wall)
- bringing miter saw back into shop (I was thinking I could set up a miter saw station in place of the gorilla racks)
A few photos of the current setup below, with the car out and the TS slightly pulled out:
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Thanks,
Matt