30x40 Shop Part 1: The Structure - 320

hey folks how you guys doing hope you're all having a great day and welcome to the new shop this entire video is about the structure of the new of the new shop what we have to work with and some of the plans that I have going forward as you can tell may or may not be able to see I'm sweating it is hot in here and the air conditioner conveniently just went out so anyway let me back up the camera and give you a nice wide angle and show you as much as I can in one particular camera angle of the new shop as you can tell the entire shop is in disarray I basically just moved all my stuff over here it's been a very chaotic situation trying to get everything moved for the house trying to get all of the shop out of the old building or out of the old garage and into here and getting that house ready to sell so that house sale has been my number one priority for the past few weeks and now I can finally shift gears to this space before I set up this space I'm gonna do a little bit of renovation so just to give you a sense of bearing I guess the entry door is over here in relation to the camera I'll show you that in just a second then I have two big roll-up doors on the front of the shop which is over here and I'll show you those in just a second and in this direction left and right is 30 feet and in this direction front to back is 40 feet the ceiling is about nine and a half feet the floor joists for the upstairs loft the top of the floor joist is exactly 10 feet from the ground so I've got about nine and a half feet up into the ceiling which you may or may not be able to see I guess you can see it right yeah I guess you can see it that is like old corrugated tin that was pulled off of a barn of some kind it looks pretty cool and there's a lot of fluorescent lights in here but the lighting situation is acceptable right now to get going but that is one thing that while definetly upgrade and switch out to some really nice LED lights from American green lights that I had in my previous shop those are fantastic for video work and not only video work but being able to really see in a in a good amount of CRI color rendering index so you can actually see accurate colors with those lights so that's going to be an upgrade coming down the road I feel like this camera angle is just swallowing me so let me let me just walk you around the perimeter real quick of the Interior and talk about some of the renovations that were about to get started on the previous camera angle that the camera was right in this corner facing the other corner so this is the only man door entering the building and I've got my electrical panel over here which has plenty of room to expand which is really nice again the roll-up doors are on my left but as soon as I walk into the well soon as I walk into the shop the plan is to have all of my office stuff on this wall now speaking of the plan this like I said is a pole barn structure so for every every ten feet there is a six by six post and on the other side of the posts covered up by this pegboard which is going to be which is gonna be removed are some horizontal two by fours that the exterior metal siding or metal tin is attached to so that's kind of how these structures are built what I'm going to have done and help myself I'm going to hire some contractors to help me do a lot of the work but honestly they're gonna be the majority of the work I'm going to stud this in frame it in like a traditional you know 16 on center wall insulate it and I'm going to put 3/4 inch plywood all all the way through the walls I had originally planned for t 111 siding but so many people pretty much talked me out of it because of all of the the texture that's on t 111 siding and it just it's a magnet for dust and anyway we're gonna go with a smooth faced plywood all the way through the shop that's gonna be nice so increasing the insulation and having a three-quarter inch sheet that I could basically screw anything to anywhere that's going to be really nice the offer we'll start somewhere right here and continue all the way down one of the coolest upgrades for me anyway out here in the shop I don't have running water but the people who purchased our last home did not negotiate the refrigerator so I grabbed the refrigerator and it's gonna go probably right next to this door so it's gonna be full of water and you know beverages and such but yeah let me keep moving you down this wall as I said all of my office stuff will be along this wall very convenient to the door right when I walk in and everything that I built in the last office has come back except that big table for the dog bed I I may or may not assemble that again in here because it was primarily made for a dog bed so I'm not exactly sure one thing you will notice right here on the wall is compressed air piping the previous owner built this shop a few years back I don't know exactly when it was built but this structure is no more than five years old if I go to Google Maps on the Street View I think that was in 2014 and the shop is not there and if I go into the top down satellite view well I mean it's obviously here now so sometime newer than 2014 and and I think I was told the exact date I know I was when we purchased the home but I can't seem to remember it so anyway the previous guy who who built this shop was a car guy he restored classic cars and he had a large air compressor outside of the lean-to and he ran piping for this compressed air system he's got a couple different regulators and drip systems to get the moisture out I really do not use compressed air it's kind of cool to have it here in the shop but I'm probably just going to either cover it up with insulation and leave it or tear it down one of the two I just don't use compressed air and when I do I've got a small little quiet compressor that fills all my needs so that's that you'll see these the compressed air lines throughout the shop I do have some electrical that I'm going to keep that every one of the 6x6 hosts has a receptacle on it on both sides of the shop as well as one in the back of the shop so it's pretty well-equipped for 120 volt electricity there are a couple 240 volt circuits but I'm going to expand upon the 240 volt circuits I think what I have on the walls is plenty acceptable right now for all of my needs and I know a lot of people are gonna say well they're ten feet apart you should add more and I don't think so because ten feet apart for a receptacle isn't that bad especially when a lot of the clusters are probably going to be using like one of those I use those heavy-duty power strips you know to get like six more feet of of wire before the power strip not only that but I've come to really really appreciate those retractable cord reels that come out of the ceiling or that mount to the ceiling I should say and I'm gonna have a few of those here in the middle of the shop so I think I'm pretty well set up with 120 volt electricity I will like I said add some for 240 but that's not gonna be done until after the tools are placed because all of that will be a conduit run and drop from the ceiling that's the plan anyway let's see this camera angle goes back to the corner and here you can kind of see that lighting is good to work in here but it's not the greatest as far as recording because it gets awfully dark on this back wall so let me move the camera towards the back wall and we'll proceed over there the back wall there's two main features on the back wall number one as you can obviously tell there's a stairs and I was trying to think of some like stairway to heaven joke but I got nothing so this goes up to the loft and the loft is a 12 by 20 floor basically pure storage now my initial plan plan a was to use the loft as storage just as it was intended to be used just as the previous owner used it and keep everything down here that way everything's you know on one floor on one level and long-term storage is up and out of the way plan B after my good friend Jeremy was here helping me move Phin he said you know what you should box that in insulate it and turn it into an office and I thought that would be great because it takes all of my office gets it off the floor level even more room to work I tried to plan for that to come to fruition and and that was one of the goals of Plan B I guess but there's there's just too many issues as far as venting the attic and you know heat rises anyway it's crazy hot in the summer time and even with insulation I just I just don't want to deal with that whole situation up there there's too many different little bugs that's stopping me from doing that so I've reverted back to plan a which is to keep the office down here like I said and use that as storage which is still fine there's plenty of space here I know as soon as you say that you fill up the space that you have but anyway the stairs are gonna stay I will build some type of trap door insulated trap door that opens up on a hinge like this I guess you could say so there's basically an insulated ceiling right at the top of the stairs to keep the climate control down here speaking of climate control right there that's the preview that is the obviously the unit that's installed it is a forced air HVAC unit heating and cooling that it was repurposed it was originally installed in an elementary school as what I was told or some type of school and it's a huge unit I don't know what size it is because all of the markings it looks like it was all painted on the outside so there's really not that much information on it when I first moved into the shop all my stuff a week or two ago something like that it would turn on it I'm sorry I would not turn on so I contacted a local friend of mine HVAC guy the star capacitor was gone or bad and there was little to no freon or coolant in the system so changed out the start capacitor and put more gas in it and it cooled just fine absolutely vicked but the whole like no no freon or fluid in the coolant in the system is kind of alarming which means it's probably going to leak out and then about two days after it was cooling just fine the compressor something around the compressor shorted out and it's it's basically a money pit I'm not going to keep with this system not only am I not going to keep up with the system but I want to talk about our but basically mentioned that this one right here this is the exhaust so the cool air coming into the shop right here I'm looking at a monitor sorry that looks weird and then this one is the air return so there's about the air filters at these are two inches apart that is way too close way too close so this is coming out I'll probably have to purchase another piece of exterior metal steel to go on the outside to cover all that the holes that were cut so it looks seamless on the outside and then I'm gonna go with a mini split system to cool all this and who I don't know if you can see but I'm just draining sweat it is so hot in here yeah let me at least show you the loft space upstairs as we go up the stairs I've already put some stuff up here but the light switch is back here so hey mr. snowman I forgot to put you up here there's a decent amount of storage up here decent amount of space twelve feet left and right and 20 feet from that corner to that corner I'm short so these trusses and lights I can walk on during no problem most of my friends can't but it was an idea to like I said close all this in insulate it put another mini split up here and make this my office but too many too many issues and and that's that so why does the loft not go all the way across well that was one of the regrets that the original owner had he only wanted to pay for enough wine I say pay he only wanted to build out the loft half of the total length of it and therefore the doubled up trusses or the 16 on center trusses over here aren't aren't continuous because after here goes - I think that's 4 feet on center the trusses go back but anyway this is just the ceiling that was down below I'm going to once I get all the electrical done below fill all of this with insulation and it'll be nice and tidy so there's a plan with that and I got to get out of here because it is smoking hot up here there's a nice view of the shop it's a it's crazy how when I had all this stuff in my last shop it was all efficiently clustered and in this shop it looks like it's taking up so much space partially because all the miter saw station is not assembled and all the drawers are scattered but anyway this shop if you're curious is exactly three times the square feet of the last shop and it's still hot up here so let me get back to the ground level I've got the camera kind of high because there's so much crap in the way or so much stuff in the way you kind of can't see this entire wall is going to be the materials wall so all the way down there is right as you come into the big big roll-up doors is going to be the material storage plywood and wood for upcoming stuff and then right after that is going to be right here somewhere the miter saw station and though it's going that's going to be basically right below this window so let me let me bring you around I guess a little bit and I'll talk about these windows because there's a little bit of store oh also really quick I will say that sweating I will say that all the tools all the major machines most of the major machines we we lifted up onto my trailer with one of these two-ton engine cranes this was one of the most valuable purchases I made when it comes to this larger machineries a large machinery moving and I'll make a separate video and actually moving all the stuff because I I think that's somewhat interesting learning with the camera again alright so the neighbors got a dog right there I don't know if that's picking up on the audio not the end of the world neighbors here are fantastic so I don't really care about that I can't think with that dog barking it'll be ok though so the this we're back at the front door we were we were just showing I was just showing you that wall on that side so we're just coming back over here these are two pretty nice roll-up doors they work really well the problem with them though is they're not insulated and the exterior of these doors is painted Brown well what happens is the Sun comes up at about I'd say about the twenty degree off of the front face right there so these these doors do get some sunlight and they bake so it's okay to just leave them and use them for right now but I really want to get some type of insulated door solution here to reduce the amount of heat coming into the shop from the Sun so that's that this is pretty much on a an onion I can't talk today an uninteresting side of the shop oh it's hot and back at the door so alright doggy oh speaking of noise so the dogs barking ramp reminds me of noise the dust collector we're looking at the corner where we come into the shop if I spin you 180 degrees around try not to get busy and this corner over here the far back corner that's where the dust collection system is going to go and I've been talking with the fine folks at clear Vue cyclones and we've designed some type we've designed a sound-deadening closet for it to go into now I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to go that route or not I'm gonna get the whole system up and running get everything going and figure out how much noise it's actually making if it is a nuisance to the neighbors or not if if the neighbors are cool with it that doesn't bother them at all I'm probably leaning towards not building it right away and maybe down the road building it once I can get some stuff going here in the shop because I really want to get back to making projects I know the shop build is interesting to a lot of people but that's that's in the cards too to make a sound dampening closet for the dust collector it's getting hot let me take you outside and show you the lean-to area because that has a little bit of potential for the business as well and my wife's walking the dogs and that's incredibly distracting so let's just go out there alright coming out of the shop I have this area right here that is a storm shelter so I live in Mississippi and unfortunately Mississippi has tornadoes this is something that it's one of those things that I'd rather have and not need then need and not have so it's a pretty pretty nice reinforced structure oh that's heavy oh that was loud sorry just a hollow area to escape tornado is basically there's electricity in here so you can tell whether or not the power has been knocked out or not so just a basic basic structure storm shelter again something that I'd rather have and not need than need to not have it does not touch the wall over here so I can actually get in here and walk all the way through to the other side without my shoulders actually hitting anything but I currently have some slabs sitting here a nice piece of hickory pecan and Osage orange anyway let me back up and show you this side of the shop completely so the storm shelter kind of splits the two and it's convenient because it splits this back here to hide all of my lawn equipment which I have yet to organize I want to build some type of nice organizational system for all of this to get it all off the floor that's in the cards and also something else that's convenient about this storm shelter is I still don't lose ground floor as far as storage because I can use the top of it for storage and there is about I don't know a three and a half four feet high over here and down to about two ish two feet over here something like that but it allows some opportunity for storage above it which the previous owner left some stuff on it some just random stuff but I was thinking about building some type of floor joist system right above it and put it some type of decking on top for basically doubling up the storage so if I use a two by six as joists and then decking on top and it gives me a lot of cubbies to like throw rakes in and long-handled stuff and still use another layer on top of that for storage but anyway lots of options over there and I've got some hooks over here for a hammock old hammock won't fit I'm definitely gonna get a hammock and just chill out here some nights it's gonna be a lot of fun oh man is hot if I said it's hot yet let me put you back on the tripod I know this video is probably getting long so just to recap everything that I've got going on as far as the renovation before I can actually start building in here all the walls are going to be studded 16 inches on Center they're going to be insulated on top dog barking on top of that is going to be smooth panel 3/4 inch sheet goods most likely just some plywood and that'll allow me to hang anything anywhere I do also I am going to replace these lights with some nice LED lights that are that have a high CRI color rendering index so it's nice and crisp and clear you can really see what's going on I also am going to add some more electricity in the center of the shop coming down from the ceiling very strategically though I'll make a separate video specifically on tool placement workflow all that stuff something that people have been asking me to do for a very long time finally have a perfect excuse to make that particular video the fan is going to stay the winners are going to stay but they're probably going to be tinted quite a bit this air conditioner in the back it is gone it's gonna come out and a cooling mini-split system is gonna go in that I cannot wait for because it's hot it's really hot in here the loft upstairs is going to remain as a storage loft and I will build an insulated trap door of folding horizontal door to allow me access to go up and still keep the climate down in here what else oh there's a lot going on in the shop so I want to install a security system in here that's something that I've been looking forward to for a while something that I can be in the house and look at my phone or whatever device and visually see what's going on in here in the shop give me a little bit of peace of mind that's going to be very beneficial for me I'm rambling I think I've got some other stuff come here Skeeter come here Skeeter boy my dog just ran in here come here come here come on it's okay it's my little one-eyed Skeeter he's only got one eye say hello he doesn't care hello good boy Oh what else office is staying down here oh I want to eventually do insulated or install insulated garage doors of some kind preferably with windows in them so I could see out that would be really cool I think that's it it's hot I'm gonna cut this video off you guys take care have a great day and I'll catch you in the next episode of this shop build series not exactly sure what the next steps oh it's gonna be so you guys take care have a great day oh it's probably gonna be moving all the tools and stuff into this shop because that was pretty interesting you guys take care have a great day and I'll talk to you later when it's cooler