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We are under construction of our new shop. This is a preliminary layout of the stone and solid surface shops, both under one roof. If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears.
Mory
I agree with Joe, we need a bigger drawing. The only thing I see on this that should be addressed is the size of the garage doors. Should really make them 14′ not 12′. Are you guys going to be getting more of those steel tables that you posted before? Do not get roller tables for fabricating on.
John
I copied and pasted to the desk top, then opened with windows viewer. Zoom in and you can make out most of the details.
Chris
If you guys are planning any retail, larger showroom would be nice.
Can you get a forlift into the stone side for machinery installation?
Got room to drop the solid surface pallets then grab them by the sides to set them in the racks?
How is the quartz slab A frame or pallets unloaded so the overhead crane can get to them?
Plastic strip barriers on the doors for loading and unloading trucks during winter?
Scrap storage, uh exucse me, on hand inventory storage?
Add a door by the solid surface cnc for cross ventilation during the summers, or is nebraska cooler than our hell on the plains during the summer?
How do you load finished tops on the truck or trailer, inside or outside?
Air compressors, inside and deal with the noise if it isn’t a screw compressor or outside where the darned things freeze up?
Forklift parking location, we have ten thousand square feet and ours is still usually in the way.
Which way can you expand in the future?
Oh, some make up for me, for I am green with envy, Mr. Ludwig.
Hey Mory,
Email me the drawing matt@custommarble.net
I used to sell production equipment and help design these type things in a former life. That, and I really like this kind of thing. But I can’t read all the small print even after saving to my desktop.
Be glad to take a look and see if I notice any issues.
Matt
Mory:
I thought Al’s excellent post damn near covered everything. When he mentioned the door in the stone shop it made me think a vestibule between the showroom and the solid surface shop would really save you some dusting. Either that or eliminate the door between the two entirely.
Joe
P.S.
I just looked at that print again and I think you should cut a door in on the south wall between the overhead door and the showroom. No vestibule and no door between the shop and showroom. If you want to enter the showroom from the shop, you’ll have to go outside and come in the front door. That should clean ’em off good.
The office and showrooms should have their own bathrooms too, inaccessable from either shop.
Mory, I was trained to think in terms of FLOW, or think like a race track. You want to avoid stops, slow turns and any added opsticals that you can. It would be good to draw lines over the top of your shop lay out that show the flow (start – finish) of the products, people, and supplies thru your new shop plan. If you come up with a drawing like this and want to email it to me I’d be happy to give my input any way that I can.
Hey Mory,
Try resending that email. Our mail server has had some poltergeists in it, I had to go manually delete some files off the server, yours may have gotten zapped, because I don’t have it.
Thanks,
Matt
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