New workshop build

[HAXIT]

I'm assuming that is a garage, and not that you tore everything apart.  [scared]

BTW Your floor, as everything else you have done, looks great. As long as the floor is not wet underneath the concrete, you should have no problem except possibly from condensation. If the subfloor is wet (it appears not to be) you can xpect condensation problems.
Tinker

Yes, it is the garage or more correctly the old shop in the past, transit for new tools at the time and welding shop in the future.
Isn't garage was made to park the car? Not when I own it. [big grin]

 

[HAXIT]

Your workshop is gonna look great Haxit  !!

Thanks and let's hope so. [wink]

 

[HAXIT]

Step 3&4 and the result.
After primer the base coat went on the top then I had to broadcast the color chips and after 12 hours put the top coat on.
So, the floor is three layer and the color that I chose was mid gray with three colors white,black and neon green chips.
Here is the close up pic.

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And the result.

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[Tinker]

[member=63059]HAXIT[/member] My first thought was "Ah ha, He wants to hide the dust"  And then i realized who was doing the job and for whom. After looking/reviewing all of your progress, I can't imagine any spec of dust hanging around for any measurable time on that floor. [blink]
All kidding aside, I really like that idea for your floor. It looks great. Can't wait to see all of your toys in there.
Tinker

 

[Poindexter]

This is my favorite thread on this board!

 

[Kev]

It is finally here.

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[member=63059]HAXIT[/member]

Happy days [smile]

Hopefully that'll be me soon ... just made an offer on a property (fingers and toes are crossed) with a newish 3 and a half bay workshop that I'd line and floor seal. Though I'm likely to be less detailed than you [embarassed]

Are you just filtering the air or are you going to A/C the space?

 

[HAXIT]

It is finally here.

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[member=63059]HAXIT[/member]

Happy days [smile]

Hopefully that'll be me soon ... just made an offer on a property (fingers and toes are crossed) with a newish 3 and a half bay workshop that I'd line and floor seal. Though I'm likely to be less detailed than you [embarassed]

Are you just filtering the air or are you going to A/C the space?

Thanks Kev, I wish the best of luck for you for the property. Without having the space we are almost paralyzed.
I will just filtering the air.

 

[HAXIT]

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

 

[Tinker]

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

 

[peter halle]

[member=63059]HAXIT[/member]

Congratulations on the amazing workspace metamorphosis!  The results you have shown in such a short period of time is amazing.

I will offer one tiny piece of advice.  Once you start woodworking and there will be some sawdust on the floor, do not make sudden movements or turns.  The epoxy floors can get very slick with the sawdust acting as cornmeal on a pizza peel.  I learned the hard way - OUCH!

I can't wait to see more of your shop as it continues.

Peter

 

[HAXIT]

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

If this story is more then three years ago, then you are right it has been a huge improvements since then. Of course type of epoxy used has a big impact as well. One of the main reasons in these days is the easy care and long lasting that some people prefer  epoxy flooring. Only time will tell how good this floor would stay the way it is now.

 

[HAXIT]

[member=63059]HAXIT[/member]

Congratulations on the amazing workspace metamorphosis!  The results you have shown in such a short period of time is amazing.

I will offer one tiny piece of advice.  Once you start woodworking and there will be some sawdust on the floor, do not make sudden movements or turns.  The epoxy floors can get very slick with the sawdust acting as cornmeal on a pizza peel.  I learned the hard way - OUCH!

I can't wait to see more of your shop as it continues.

Peter

Thanks Peter, I will remember your advice.

 

[Tinker]

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

If this story is more then three years ago, then you are right it has been a huge improvements since then. Of course type of epoxy used has a big impact as well. One of the main reasons in these days is the easy care and long lasting that some people prefer  epoxy flooring. Only time will tell how good this floor would stay the way it is now.

The dairy closed in the early 1970's.
Tinker

 

[HAXIT]

Hi Folks
The room is done and getting ready to move in. [thumbs up] [thumbs up] [thumbs up]
It is hard to believe it but no pain no gain seems like is true. Here is the last pics from the cured floor. It just got hard like rock and it is so shiny that you can count the florescent tubes on the floor. [scared]
I got my both hands up and must admit that I am not even close to a professional floor installer, I just learned my lesson from people's mistakes. I am not even a woodworker, I am a welder. [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

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The past pics from the room, the walls (excluding the one that I made) were not painted yet. The whole shop is painted with ultra pure white eggshell enamel now.I bought two rechargeable 10 pound ABC fire extinguisher and installed them on the wall. One at the end of the shop and one near the door.I hope that I would never need to use them, but you got to have them.
Here is the last pic of the completed and finished empty room with door frame and fire extinguishers on the wall.

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[rljatl]

Wow, that is an incredible transformation. 

 

[HAXIT]

I forgot!
Tomorrow morning, the security company will be here to update my security system at house and give me the wireless remote and add the shop and the garage to the system as well. So the door will have security and Thursday morning the movers will be here to take the larger machines down and I will do the rest.

 

[HAXIT]

Well, the security is updated and I just had my first false alarm experience. [bite tongue]
After the security installer left the house, I armed the system then left the house to eat something. When I came back I did not want to go upstairs but I went to garage to move some tools down stairs and I completely forgot that garage door and the shop has security now since 2 hours ago. [sad]
I came down stairs and I left my phone in the car and security company is trying to contact me but they cannot reach me. First the siren went off and the noise traveled almost to end of my street. I already know what I did, now the police showed up at the front of my door and my home phone is ringing same time again the security company trying to reach me.
Conclusion:
The system works great. [big grin]
If it happen again,I might pay $500 fine. [scared]

 

[Tinker]

Well, the security is updated and I just had my first false alarm experience. [bite tongue]
After the security installer left the house, I armed the system then left the house to eat something. When I came back I did not want to go upstairs but I went to garage to move some tools down stairs and I completely forgot that garage door and the shop has security now since 2 hours ago. [sad]
I came down stairs and I left my phone in the car and security company is trying to contact me but they cannot reach me. First the siren went off and the noise traveled almost to end of my street. I already know what I did, now the police showed up at the front of my door and my home phone is ringing same time again the security company trying to reach me.
Conclusion:
The system works great. [big grin]
If it happen again,I might pay $500 fine. [scared]

I'm glad somebody else has those problems  [unsure]
One time  we left our security system on while we took a trip to Germany.  We  came back to house and had forgotten how to disarm the system.  Ten minutes later the police AND fire department showed up.
Tinker

 

[HAXIT]

Ladies if any and gentlemen, welcome to my workshop. About 80% is done and the 20% is all about making some storage area and clamp rack and etc...
The Hammer A3 31 is right front the door and is set up to cut anything up to 10' or I can open the door and move the machine to right and go up to 18'. At the end you can see the cms-ge set next to the drill press. Again from wall to the cutting point is 7' and can be change quickly to 9' if I have to.

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Drill press is my beloved Swedish made Solberga. No belt and no maintenance, it is a gear head drill press. The top mounted motor is dust and water proof. 2 horse power with 8 speed setting which is done with two handles at the left side. The choices are 130-260-420-535-840-1070-1745-3480.Both the drill head and the table arm are adjustable 360 degree around the column and can be raised and lowered.

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Tormek  T8 water cooled sharpening system with the complete jigs and accessory,rotating base and ts 740 station.

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No detail on this one but I love it and it won't stay at the corner always.

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The whole wall is covered with festool accessories. The Kapex is in the perfect location, from the end of the wall under the stairs to kapex blade is 18' so for long lumber there is no problem here. Ignore the wires that hanging. It is for the project in the future.

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[rmwarren]

Oh for goodness sake would you just toss a couple handfuls of sawdust somewhere around there??? Looks like a darned operating room!

Seriously thought, incredible project in what must be record time. I'd still be moving the washing machines.

Enjoy the new shop.

RMW