Setting Up Shop In A Bad Location

 

There are great places to setup a shop and there are not so ideal places and it all depends on your needs.  Finding the best location can be challenging and each space comes with its advantages and disadvantages; these, too. My guide Ultimate Small Shop will explain more in-depth.

Here's a quick summary.

If you're working with heavy machinery or are noise sensitive, it is a bad idea to setup shop in the attic. Access to an attic workshop is mainly upwards in a narrow stairway. This may make getting tools and machinery into the basement quite difficult. Moreover, attic floors become inadequate to bear heavy woodworking machinery and tools. Noise can be transmitted to the entire house through floor vibrations as you work.

Basements are great for heavy machinery and noise control but it also present access challenges. And if your basement floods after the rain, it not wise to setup shop.

If you have a central furnace in the basement, you have got to be extra aware of the accumulation of sawdust to avoid a fire hazard.

If you like to know all available spaces you can setup a shop, the pros and cons of it, check out Ultimate Small Shop

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