Tifun's New Shop Space

The wife and I bought a new house a month ago and we finally moved in. She has her priorities and I have mine. I started working on the new shop space and over the weekend and felt like sharing it here. It won't compare to a lot of shops I've seen on here recently but it's mine and I'm starting to love the way it's coming together.

Here's a shot for comparison in the yard. It's 16x20 and has its own dedicated 200a service and meter.


It had some semi dengy flooring so I came across a buddy who was pulling up some laminate and though hell yeah this could be awesome. So I went to town.

Things were looking up. Until the boards wouldn't rejoin. I spent about 5 hours getting 3 rows in before I started breaking the boards out of anger. It was most likely due to swelling. So I scraped the idea of that and started shopping around.

After talking with a few buddies I decided on a flooring. Then it was picking out the color or pattern.

Armstrong VCT



I decided on the grays.

Once back at the shop I spent yesterday scraping the floors. The old linoleum and glues were a huge pita. I finished up the scraping today and started applying the glue for the VCT.


Mike was an awesome help tonight. We got 120/320 sq ft completed and it looks awesome.


So the building is pretty rad. It has baseboard heat and great lighting. 4 large windows, fully insulated with a large access attic port for storage, French doors and an additional fire door on the opposite end.

It also has AC. Which turned out to not work. I found a floor model at Home Depot and saved myself $50. The hole needed cut bigger as I went with a larger unit. This dude keeps the shop at 68 degrees without even trying. Even in mid 80 degree weather.



I've also got cable TV installed and a nice leather pull out sofa for the drunkies.

I'll post more as progress pics up. In 3 days I feel pretty accomplished about the direction and can't wait to get in a wrench.


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Nice set up!

Hell yeah, man. Dig it.

Absolutely spot on wrenching space mate you got a great set up and plenty of room to test n run up motors without annoying ya neighbours haha can only imagine the high from the glue from the flooring tho no need for too many beers : : 8) look forward to seeing wot else ya throw in there

Thanks. Tonight is floor night #3. Worth the effort for sure.


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Sh1t dude, that's another house IMO.

Looks great.................need a bar and frig.

Good luck with it.......when's "house warming".....?

Hell yeah.

And you win...Thats awesome bro!

Yup... jealous indeed.

Haha. It's turning out great. The Hoodcats came by last night and we finished up the floor.
https://vimeo.com/136090710

Once we finished the floor we all did laps on the CT70. We have a leader board. Somehow I am the leader of said board. Allegedly.
https://vimeo.com/136090853

I'm going to retrim the floor with new baseboard and 1/4round. After that it's time to start piling in all the fun. I need to run a couple 220v drops but everything should be pretty straight forward. As for the fridge, I've got one already. Along with a leather hide-a-bed sofa love seat for those passing through. Heat/AC/TV/Fridge/Private entrance should make this semi enjoyable.

I was initially going to build a compressor room off the back of the building right out the back door. I think I'm going to to sacrifice some space inside to help keep it climate controlled a little better. I'll be building a storage closet in the corner where the breaker panel is. I want to also keep the shop vac in there and figure out a way to have central vacuuming.

Pappy dropped his Ducati in my yard lol. The neighbors across the street just stared. I waved and they didn't. Guess I'm setting a good first impression :/



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nice looking set up..wish I had that much room !!

The space is nice. It's actually smaller than my last (3 car garage) however the difference is that there won't be any storage in here. Just a single project, beer and tools haha. Everything else will be stored in the main garage attached to the house.


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Congrats man that kick ass!!!

VERY NICE!!!

If that had a toilet and shower, I would never go in the house. lol

4eyes said:

VERY NICE!!!

If that had a toilet and shower, I would never go in the house. lol

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There is a toilet, its just not inside the building.. its pretty much anywhere outside the building you want..

No new progress today. I may have over did myself with the move and jumping right into this project. I'm starting to feel weak and sick. Maybe tomorrow I can get back out there. I need to clean and lay some polish on the flooring. Then I can start loading things in.


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JSJamboree said:

There is a toilet, its just not inside the building.. its pretty much anywhere outside the building you want..

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Not this boy.

A friend of my neighbor had a few buds over to wrench on bikes, drink some beers. They were pissing in the bushes at the edge of his property, and an ASSHOLE neighbor took a pic and claimed his young daughter had witnessed it.

Dude is in a sex-offender registry, even though he spent everything he had (and then some) fighting it in court.
Everyone has a camera now days, and quite a few folks are assholes.

Sounds like there's more to that story than what they told you.


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No new progress today again. Instead I tossed together a quick burn pit and burned shit for roughly 4 hours tonight.

Here's the floor all finished.



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^^^^^^^purdy^^^^^^^^^^