gearheads78

My wife made fun of me but I thought I would share what I just did anyway. I have a decent size garage but it still small for the junk I have in it about 890 sq ft . I have been collecting fabrication machinery and equipment over the last couple years and now it's time to set it all up.

I spent some time taking accurate measurements of the shop, lift and every shelf and piece of equipment I have. I then went inside and on poster board draw a scale drawing of the garage and lift. Now hear comes the part my wife was laughing at. I drew a car to scale and made squares and rectangles to scale of floor space needed for each item. I lables all the shapes and set inside the shop. I moved things around 4-5 times to get the best possible use of my space.

Moving around a piece of paper sure beat moving a 2500 lb press brake 4 times

BIGJERR

Sounds like ...........well your smarter than me.................LOL Sounds a a very good idea!~...........I just test fitted a full size fridge 5 times till I got the opening just right..............Jerr

citcapp

Thats the way the pro's do it, so now you must be a pro. My garage is so small I have everything on wheels and move things as needed to the carport when working. Pain in the ***

jensenracing77

sounds better than what i did. i just put everything where i think it will work and then move it and then move it and then....... till i am so tired that i have to just put up with it where it is.

gearheads78

LOL that one way to do it

Jamesbo

That's the way Interior designers do it. There's a scale template with chairs, sofas, coffee tables, etc. They just put in on a piece of graph paper and schuffle it around.

Sorry, I've not seen a scale template for a Cutlass. Try about 2 full length sofas side by side Any art supply place will have them.

If ya need any Mayo jars, I've got a plethora

ijasond

That's exactly what we do when scouting out possible locations for new body shops if we're not sure we can make the layout of the building work.

380 Racer

Yes a fridge is one very important piece of equipment for a garage!!!!