Detached Workshop Garage Design

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Joel Heinke

The workshop interior build out continues. The mezzanine is now complete, OSB flooring painted, storage racks painted and assembled. Have I said how much I like the re-purposed pallet racking for an interior structure? It's much easier and cheaper than the alternatives.

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I completed the wiring for the under mezzanine lighting today and it's nice an bright. I used 8ft LED strip lighting that can be daisy chained together to simplify the wiring.

A friend loaned me a hydraulic lift on wheels (orange thing) with the thought it can be used as an elevator of sorts for mezzanine access instead of having a fixed set of stairs. To make it useful, it will need some modification so the initial lift point is 18" or so from floor instead of 6 feet but I think it might have promise.

Next up is to finalize the position of the pallet racking on the side wall, then repaint it, and configure shelves. All the storage rack space is needed as we are about to start a "whole house remodel" and most all of our furniture and possessions need to be stored somewhere. I'm hoping to have a usable workshop even with the new garage being used as a warehouse at the same time.
 
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They make a deep back to back unistrut that could be used vertical from a floor mount to 5' or so past the mezz floor, and with these https://www.ebay.com/itm/151126142295 make a platform, and use a 4x4 winch to raise and lower.

Sort of like a big dumbwaiter. that you can load with heavy stuff and/or yourself.

Obviously, this isn't code or osha compliant, but for your own limited personal use.

I've noodled this idea for myself, but I'm reluctant to permanently occupy the 24" x 24" or so of floor space. With my stairs, I have storage and a bench below.
 

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Luce_ said:
They make a deep back to back unistrut that could be used vertical from a floor mount to 5' or so past the mezz floor, and with these https://www.ebay.com/itm/151126142295 make a platform, and use a 4x4 winch to raise and lower.

Sort of like a big dumbwaiter. that you can load with heavy stuff and/or yourself.

Obviously, this isn't code or osha compliant, but for your own limited personal use.

I've noodled this idea for myself, but I'm reluctant to permanently occupy the 24" x 24" or so of floor space. With my stairs, I have storage and a bench below.
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My main challenge is that I have multiple above floor storage spaces and I'm hoping to find a single lift solution providing access to all of them. In addition to the mezzanine, there's this space above the office/half bath, and the pallet racking now installed along the long side wall (not shown in picture below).

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A mobile lift with a small footprint seems to be optimal versus stairs or an attached vertical lift on each. I do think the Ballymore lift (orange thing) could be fairly easily modified to make it work better and parked under the pallet racking when not in use. So it's the leading contender right now but I'd go another direction if there's a better solution. A old, used forklift would be great for putting "stuff" on mezzanine and office ceiling but not so good for putting people up there, especially in a one person shop. The shop is outfitted with the trolley mounted chain hoist which I think will be suitable for lifting stuff up on mezzanine and office ceiling. I'm going to build a "lift basket" so multiple boxes can be easily lifted with chain hoist at the same time.

Please post up any other ideas for lifts that might work better than what I'm currently thinking....
 
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IanAnderson said:
How about something like this?
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Seems a smaller footprint than what you have

Ian
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That lift does look interesting but must be more of a UK thing. I don't find anything similar (that small of a footprint) here in the US. I'm guessing the safety police here have some regulations that don't allow a powered lift that is that compact.
 
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I did get the final piece of the storage shelving done today. It's now positioned, fastened to the floor, painted and shelving assembled. I've been thinking about how to best secure it to ensure it won't tip over in case of an earthquake. Wouldn't you know it, about an hour before I installed anchor bolts in the floor, we had a 3.8 magnitude earthquake occur. Not a big enough shaker to move anything around but it was a good safety reminder as to why anchor bolts are a good idea.

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Next up is fabricating a lift basket to get boxes up on the mezzanine and then it will be time to fill the shelves. Somehow I think building the storage shelving will have been more fun than filling the shelves :rolleyes:
 
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