shop layout suggestions wanted

[mk162]

sams club and home depot have both brought in some really nice industrial type shelving.  I would have purchased that instead of building my own since those are adjustable and they look a little nicer than wood.

Worst case you can just build cabinet boxes and leave them open, they are easy to build and is you use plywood they are sturdy as hell.

[alan802]

Here is what I whipped up really quickly to show how we've set our shop up.

[alan802]

Whoops, PDF is not oriented right, my bad.

[ZooCity]

Here's what I've tentatively settled on for our space.  A square would def be nice, I'm wondering how much exercise I'll get running films from the office to the darkroom every day with this.

[Shanarchy]

Thanks for the layouts. You two have some pretty big spaces!

Here's what I have in mind so far. Let me know what you think.

[chubsetc]

I have a pretty tight space and like to try to keep my inks on the opposite side of the press than the blanks.  I think of it as a clean side and a dirty side.  When I don't stay on top of cleanup my inks tend to migrate to the clean side and every once in a while I have an issue.  I would suggest maybe putting the ink on the wall between exposure/washout and the vinyl area.  If you run a super tidy ship it may not be necessary.

[Shanarchy]

I have a pretty tight space and like to try to keep my inks on the opposite side of the press than the blanks.  I think of it as a clean side and a dirty side.  When I don't stay on top of cleanup my inks tend to migrate to the clean side and every once in a while I have an issue.  I would suggest maybe putting the ink on the wall between exposure/washout and the vinyl area.  If you run a super tidy ship it may not be necessary.

Yeah, that was one of my thoughts was making sure the ink does not get to close to the blanks. I may put a pallet rack on the left and right of the garage door, and use the one on the right (towards the corner) for incoming work. These should just be unopened boxes, but definitely a good point to keep the clean stuff away from the messy stuff.


Also, my dimensions got cut off. It's 50" across the back wall and 50" deep. The stairwell on the left cuts in 8'6" and goes back 24'. I have a loft type area above it that I can store stuff.

Keep the suggestions coming!

[ZooCity]

Looks good to me. You have room for a larger dryer without moving everything else, seems like a solid layout.

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[Inkworks]

Here's what I've tentatively settled on for our space.  A square would def be nice, I'm wondering how much exercise I'll get running films from the office to the darkroom every day with this.

I'd move your incoming table to back by where you have your inks or at least back by your loading dock somewhere to get a better workflow. Draw the path a load of shirts would take through your shop and you'll see what I mean, you can do the same with films - screens and reclaiming, but those look pretty good. you might be able to shift the printers and dryer to the right a bit and open up the shop floor too.

My Shop layout attached. Grid on the floor is 1' x 1' and we have the same size linoleum tiles down that are great for accurate placement etc. As you can see we are really crowded, the plan is to move the entire tool/workbench area out to a new covered area and move all the incoming and product sorting to the bottom left corner.... oh and shoehorn a bigger dryer in and move the old dryer and padprinting/rotary screenprinting equip. to where the orders ready to print area currently is, then build an addition and move embroidery and sign making out there with an install bay for vehicle graphics.

Sigh.... I ain't moving shops again....

[tonypep]

Can't show ours but think about putting wheels on everything that makes sense. Screen racks, pallet racks, tables, staging carts, ink carts. Ours in constant state of change and we can reconfigure on a dime.

[Shanarchy]

Inkworks, your layout blows my mind for the attention to detail put in the actual images! I'm trying to keep the work flow in some sort of a line. The black rectangle on the lower right is the garage door. I'm thinking of making it in a U. Shipments come in through the garage door. I think I still may need to do some fine tuning with it.

Tony, great idea with putting things on wheels. This would be a good time for me to start doing that.

[tonypep]

Consider this for example. The designated mobile staging area.

[Shanarchy]

Very nice!

[mimosatexas]

everything but our washout booth and a few of our tables that hold stuff like heat presses is on casters.  VERY helpful.