Shop Will Be Down For the Next Three Weeks Or So

While I cut and install new stone floor in the shop. Got real tired of the original concrete floor and ran across a bunch of 1 inch thick Vermont slate for free, about 328 SQFT, that I am going to use. Here are some BEFORE pics. I'll post others when done. Spent a couple of days cleaning out, you shure find a lot of stuff you forgot you had when completely cleaning out your workplace. Tools, parts, all kinds of chit.

 

Yes, I built the shop, I paid for my under graduate degree being a stone mason. The interior is 1338 3.5 inch quarter sawn doug fir bead boards all cut and installed by my wife and I.

 

I don't, my wife is the mysterious and legendary Ukranian 'cleaning elf'. She keeps it this way! If one must work there is no reason that it be in a chit hole! LOL!

I don't like working in a mess, it just transfers to the quality of your work. Perhaps that is foolish but I think it is part of the reason saws I do come out looking like they do, or my mother was Adrian Monk or perhaps Dexter and I are related somewhere way back when.

 

Nice looking shop. I wish I had one.

 

Huh......I wished I lived there! That's beautiful

 

Mike you can build one, I'll show you how. In the winter the shop is the warmest place in the hood. The Godin stove keeps it warm enough that, at the end of the day (around 8PM) my wife and I open a couple windows, drink wine and beer and cook our evening meal on the Godin.

 

If I had room I would. A real shop is going to have to wait until we move. I might be able to fit a 10x20' at the most.

 

Mine is 12x20, that is all the local building codes will allow. In the winter, my pro cutter friends/customers know they can come here after work get warm, shoot the breeze and get a couple of free Yungling beers or a Porter or two . It is great fun!

 

I was going to ask what are you putting slate in your shop!!! Then I saw the pictures!!! It will fit in!

Still dont see how you will keep those slate floors clean? Do you never have leaky saws? Never spill anything that will soak into the stone and stain it!!

Like I set a hydro splitter on my concrete carport. Came back a week later and looks like half a qt of fluid leaked out onto it

 

I use an industrial sealer on the concrete floor, and will use it again on the slate. Xerox used the same stuff on the plant floors, wears like iron and NOTHING gets through it! However the sealer must be removed with some really nasty stuff the sealer mfg provides, type-S morter will not stick to a sealed floor so I have to remove the old sealer before I can begin to set the new floor.

I have a tub system comprised of a rack with lots of litter boxes, saws go in the litter boxes if they are leakers the leak is confined to the litter box.

 

Then my leaky saw has kitty litter all over out. You should get those puppy pad things.

 

No, the litter boxes are empty (no kitty litter) they just serve to contain the chainsaw goo! Besides kitty litter is a PITA to remove

 

I second the puppy pads. I by them at big lots for cheap and use lots of them on the leakers.

 

But if he just uses pans he doesnt have the cost. I thought he was putting my $1000 saw down in pulverized clay...thats why I suggested the pads. Which work and are easy clean but are an added expense. The pans can just pour out into waste oil jug and then wipe out.

 

Actually I'll try the puppy pads in the bottom of a couple pans and see. Here in beautiful over taxed NY, it costs quite a bit of money to dispose of waste oil/gas! Terry, Clemsonfor where else besides Big Lots can I find these puppy pads?

 

anywhere pet supplies are sold. Also Walmart and most grocery stores have them as well. We have Doller General, and Smart Cents, and dollar tree for cheaper items. If you have a store like that with household supplies check there.