It's worse than I thought... Demolishing My Old Shop

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Might want to save the door to put on a finishing booth. Keeping dust out of finish work in a shop is a challenge.

My only major shop regret is not having a bathroom. Even with the house bing 25ft away it's a distraction that always leads to productivity loss.

You got me with the deer ghost in the first video. I'm onto you now though! Save that door and turn it into a sliding wall for tool storage!

Elevator door idea: make a cool sliding tool wall to double the wall space storage. Could keep shallow items behind it, turn it into cool feature. 💪🏼

Can you make a welding table with the elevator door? Keep up the great work, love the new shop space.

turn the elevator door in to a big cabinet door to store any paint or other flammable products

Your finding the nails AND screws together in the shelf supports & cabinet reminds me of when my brother & I cleared out/opened up the inside of our 2-car garage to make it into a woodshop. There was a loft towards the back at one side (the removal of said space hog was kind of what prompted me to start that project) & a small corridor behind that running the width of the garage. As we removed stuff, we found 2 especially weird things. One was a random stair stringer fastened to the back wall up towards the roof. The other was the backing board that apparently went to a science fair project by the previous owner's daughter - making up part of the back corridor wall. My brother joked that, when the previous owner had the garage built, he just told the builders to use whatever was left over from the house. LOL The former owner also loved his nails. While we did have to leave part of the back corridor dividing wall up to house the circuit breaker box, everything else came out. My only regret now, as I try to attach things to the walls that have to go into studs, is that we used OSB instead of plywood or sheetrock. The good news is that the OSB is only on the back area walls. The side walls have sheetrock, so it's not as big a hassle to find studs. But the OSB really doesn't want to hold screwed-in items like hooks, & it is very difficult to find studs behind it. But whatever.... I did get a few chuckles, kind of at your expense, during this video, though, Brad. I always love your sense of humor. I look forward to seeing what you do with the space. Hope you have an awesome day!

I have a central tool island with table saw and out feed table and to the right side, bandsaw, jointer and planer. Even in a larger shop it's a good idea to consolidate space where possible and since all these tools are often used together, having them all together is really efficient. Because of the varying heights and feed directions, none of the infeed outfeed areas interfere with each other, I've got an easy 8'+ feed for each tool, the planer gets the outfeed table to feed onto and you can drop electric in and dust in one spot, down the center of the dead area of the island. Additionally the dead space of each tool, right side of table saw, back of jointer, left side of bandsaw and planer, all fit up against each other. One other tip is to have at least one rolling cart. It's great for moving stacks of parts around a larger space and to use as a "table" virtually anywhere. For example I use a cart to wheel parts over to my planer. The parts then stack up on the outfeed table and then go back on the cart to for the next pass through.

You might want to bleach and treat the metal walls before putting up new walls. This will prevent mold and rust from building up over time. Also, a mold resistant paint on the inside will further protect it from the elements and time. Given how much mold was in the walls, you probably want to give the metal walls a good cleaning before proceeding. That will make it not a health risk down the line. Build looks great!

Make a spray booth / finishing room that you access via the elevator door. Or a separate little room for your dust collection.

Dude, make a lifting elevator workbench with that door!!!

Dude! That elevator door makes a great work bench. I have one of the 30" wide doors someone gave me. Stainless steel top, mount to the 4x6's in the pole barn, I can bounce a transmission off of it without it even moving, then wipe it down with Windex and it's perfectly clean. I'm only at 11:08 in the video right now, so maybe you've decided to keep it. Hopefully so!

I also recommend using double duplex outlets (4) with each side of the box on a different circuit. That way you have two outlets right next to each other that are on different circuits and you could run two high draw items in the same area at the same time without any worries. Personally I went with external conduit. I ran it above counter height and down one side of the ceiling with a few branches to the other side. I had the conduit oversized in case I need additional wire later. It's a clean install, I don't mind looking at it and it's a lot easier to make changes.

List of things I would have if I had a shop that size. 1. Air everywhere, every tool station should have close access to dry high pressure air. 2. properly piped dust collection. 3. Proper miter station (But I don't need to tell you that). 4. 110 plugs everywhere and at least 4 220 receptacles. 5. a proper 5x10 CNC from Avid CNC with a tool changer. 6. Proper wood storage for at least 10 sheets of Baltic Birch and all the rest of the cut offs. 7. a proper office that is completely sealed off from the shop so I can have computers, 3D Printers and all my soldering stuff without getting sawdust on or in everything. 8. Large Roll up door for materials and rolling out bigger builds. 9. HVAC so I can work year round. ventilation system. 11. lots and lots of rolling storage. 12. Nice big work and assembly table on wheels that can double as a outfeed table. 13. Tons more but I have to get back to the shop 😉

It was great watching tear down the OSB; lumber; and tearing out the old insulation! I cannot wait to see you finish up and start building out the new shop building! Well done!

More electrical power. Once the walls are up it gets harder. More light for old eyes. And I wish it was twice as big.

We just bought a house with a barn and I CANNOT wait to start planning out the new shop. So happy for you and look forward to watching the progress!

That dear literally scared me bruh😂😂 Save the door and make a secret entrance like fingerprint sliding door

Holy crap Brad (figuratively AND literally)! That was So. Much. Work. Thanks for taking us along for the journey. So excited for you to have this new, much larger space.