Richard bein from the UK as you are I wonder at how much spacial room you have available to use for a workshop?
I know some blokes have gone nuts with their TINY sheds in their backyards in the UK... and some have converted the lower floor of the townhouse? not sure what you call them upstairs and downstairs unit thing...
And the sizes these nobs are talking about are probably blowing your mind... and your more than likely not believing them about the size... well mate believe it!!
So... I started usin a corner of the missus's laundry up north... we moved down to Perth and I was kicked out to the rented house's single car garage... THE ROOM!!! AFRIGGINMAZING!!! I was fair in heaven mate I tell yer!! :2tsup:
So then we built a house in Mandurah (southern suburb of Perth WA) and suddenly I was sans shed again... so I moved the gear into the front living room... seriously!!... amid her sewing gear the computer and everything else that was in there I measured marked and cutout of 12mm chipboard the moulds for 2 canoes... I also made a bunch of things for her highness and a couple of the kids
Then when I decided to get a propa table saw instead of the two sawhorses and the circular saw... she agreed to let me get a shed!! WHAHOOOOO!! so thinking of another single car garage I got some prices and she decided I could go bigger so YEEEEEEEEEEFLAMINHAAAAAAAAAA!! a double it was! BEAUTY!!! and so it came to be...
Tools? oh right a couple of hand tools a couple of hand powered tools and a table saw then a small thicknesser.... and that was it... had to make a bench and a wood rack and get some clamps cause somehow Id lost the ones I'd had
So move forward a couple of years and we moved down south to Brunswick Junction... just look for Bunbury in West Australia and BJ is nth east of that by about 25klicks... onto 2 acres... as part of my agreeing to our moving to the soggy wet work deprived area I had demanded "The tools I need to work wood" and she had agreed... well it was either that or I buggar of to the goldfields to live and leave her to it... soooooo... I started buying tools... yep woppa lathe woppa bandsaw whoppa thicknesser whoppa jointer ETC ETC ETC... and the plan was to buy a shed and have it up quicksmart... but the weather beat us and we got flooded out... sooooo the idea of the whopping great shed to house my tools and timberwork stuff shrunk RAPIDLY as other things became paramount and the tools were relegated to the seatainer out the back
Step forward a couple of years...
I now have a 9mtr x 6mtr shed and a 40ft seatainer for my shed... only she wont let me have the seatainer yet cause she wants to store gear crap sheila stuff in there doesnt she?... but its there it will be mine... and shes put herself on a promise that I will get the whopper shed I initially had organized to get before the shyte hit the fan...
ahem... presently I have and am using a 9x6mtr shed... its CHOCKERBLOODYBLOCK FULL!!! (You hear that Jody??? ITS BLOODY FULL WOMAN!!) I have all my timber stored out on the flat under some tarps which is NOT satisfactory AT ALL... I still dont have power and have to run 2 extention leads out there to power up one tool at a time (so if I want to use say the 10hb table saw AND the dusty... FORGEDDABOUDIT!) but you know what?
ITS A SHED!! WHAHOOOOO!! You flamin ripper!! :2tsup:
