[Ducati] Re garages....

[HOPPER ELDRIDGE]

I'm still in the process of moving into a new "old" house, literally next door (my moving van is a flod up flat bed trailer and a riding lawn mower!), which I thought would be my poorboy dream bike house...a large attached two car garage and a bit smaller detached two car garage with two leantos attached to it. Well..still haven't moved out of the old one car garage and I'm outta room!!! Talk about stacking it high and stacking it deep in the old house. My addictions..err hobbies, are collecting olde gunnnes, olde militaria and artwork, olde British bikes and now have adequate storage for them...but now no room to work on them! The back small bedroom is my gunsmithing room along with the garage but I've run out of work bench space in the garage. As soon as I have a garage sale..make that a yard sale, I'll have more room...maybe..hard to get rid of such "neat stuff"!  <LOL>
   
  Definitely go for all the room as you can build to, have an accessible loft/attic for storage, lots of electrical outlets, both 220 and 120VAC, and if you get some heavy equipment and have three phase accessible to your area, go ahead and get that although the extra phase motors for the third leg are more than adequate. Have hot and cold water and at least a urinal, drains in the floor at several places, LOTTTSSSS of lights, insulate it to the max, both for noise and for comfort. As for noise, I figured I'd put some furnace flue ducting in a wall and fun it to a large muffler on the roof so that you can hook up your exhaust and run the engine with out disturbing the tranquility of those lesser mortals that do not recognize sweet music when they hear it. Keep secuity in mind too when you get doors and windows. Also have a large entry as well as a smaller entry. 
   
  Oh..and if you do decide to go with the heavier tools (lathes, mills etc) beam the foundation a little denser where you'll put them on the floor plan. 
   
  And lastly...convince your bank manager to buy a Duc and you'll help him  do his first valve job!
   
  'luck!  Hopper