Shop Renovation: Ned's Shop gets a facelift - Family Woodworking

Hi Gang:
I'm sitting in a hotel down in Wytheville VA at the moment, so bear with me as I start a new thread about my shop up in NY.

Lori, Patrick and I are going to be returning to NY next month. Long story... summation being that the house we're living in has to be sold to settle the estate and we can't afford it given how bad our jobs have been down here. SO we're going back North... i'll continue with Lifetouch until I can land a full time day job somewhere in the Syracuse/Utica area.

This means that I'll be hauling all of my tools and lumber back up north to NY again, and putting it all back in the shop. Since I've got a relative blank slate to work with floorplan and shop wise, I'm going to take the opportunity to do a couple of upgrades to the building, things that I always 'meant to do' but never managed to get to. In no particular order:

• Solar heat
• DC bump out
• better lumber storage
• new door
• better steps/deck
• power
• AC

as it stands now, the Solar heat is going to be done second... as I already have all of the materials on hand for that, or can get them for very little cash. Yes I realize that it is about to be summer... I know my building habits, if I start now, I Might get it done by the time I need it. LOL

Better lumber storage is going to be easy... and will be done first thing once we get all of the tools back up north. I've been thinking of how I had the shop laid out before the move to VA... and I'm going to be rearranging where things live.

here's a view of the shop 'now'

the lumber racks are on the East/Right wall as one walks in the shop. All are up at least 4' from the ground, going all the way up to 10'. I've decided I'm going to move them so that they're all in the corner below the overhead sheet goods rack (which is at 7' high, plenty of room underneath it) This will free up the corner just inside the doorway for what I plan on being the 'Table saw' area. The racks I have are perfectly serviceable, I'm just going to relocate them to the lower section of wall in the corner.
Another reason I'm planning this is that the new Solar heat will require a couple of holes for air flow, and the ingress would be right in the middle of the wood racks, probably not good for the lumber long term.

The New door will replace the shop bulit ones which I've honestly had a hate/hate relationship with for a couple of years. I'm planning on getting a pre-hung exterior door from a local yard, locating it in the center of the current 6' wide opening. That will be the simplest and most secure way to fix an ongoing problem. It will also allow me to bring the solar further along the east wall, increasing my 'free' heat capabilities.

DC bumpout: that will definitely have to wait for funding to build up awhile, In the meantime my little 3/4 hp Jet will just live near the TS and planer and Jointer.

Power... going to trench a power line out to the shop and put in a sub panel. Again, funding allowing.

New Steps/Deck. Allen and Mark can both attest that my steps are somewhat... rudimentary. Going to bite the bullet and build a proper set of steps and a deck on the East end of the shop... Lori won't like giving up more yard to the shop, but that's OK, I've always had that in my head, I'm just going to do it one weekend (OK, you can stop laughing now...), would you believe one Week?

AC, nothing fancy, just a window rattler stuck through the wall.

more as I think of it, and will post pics once the migration has happened.

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