I get to build a studio (kinda)

We are in the process of buying a house and it happens to be on 2 lots. So out plan for winter into next summer is to build a garage/office next door. so we looked up plans and we may go with a high 3 car garage building with a loft above it where I could keep a editing bay. Now the sort of comes from this is where our toolboxes and motorcycles will be as well.

What I was wondering from some of you guys with more experience think of the high roof. What are some of the advantages and some of the drawbacks? The plan right now is to go with a more finished structure, slab foundation, drywall etc. versus a quick and easy steel building.

I would minimum go 10 feet on the ground floor ceilings.

Don't mix any parts of the garage with vehicles that move in and out a lot with photo stuff, offices, etc. Garages are extremely dusty and it is difficult to control it. A separate entrance to the office is best but you can make a set of stairs inside. I would have them walled in with a door at the base and another at the top. If you build a metal building you are still going to have to frame the office to prevent dust. Even on the main floor I'd have a two door entrance system with a short hallway and an exhaust fan if the entrance is inside the building itself.

I'm no expert but I know how much dust is raised when I sweep the floor if I don't use sweeping compound. Every time you move dust is raised. Just a few things I'd be thinking about.

I did not take the dust into consideration, very valid point.

polish the floors and use something like this rather than a push broom.

http://www.uline.com …Pe9t4ap470CFaMc​OgodClkAcA

signed,
guy with the dustiest studio (kinda) in the world.

What is a sweeping compound?

digital paradise wrote in post #16834509
Don't mix any parts of the garage with vehicles that move in and out a lot with photo stuff, offices, etc. Garages are extremely dusty and it is difficult to control it. A separate entrance to the office is best but you can make a set of stairs inside. I would have them walled in with a door at the base and another at the top. If you build a metal building you are still going to have to frame the office to prevent dust. Even on the main floor I'd have a two door entrance system with a short hallway and an exhaust fan if the entrance is inside the building itself.

I'm no expert but I know how much dust is raised when I sweep the floor if I don't use sweeping compound. Every time you move dust is raised. Just a few things I'd be thinking about.

You can buy it at Home Depot, etc. It is a powder you spread over the floor before you sweep. It really keeps the dust production down quite a bit but does not get all of it.

ah, live and learn. Never heard of that. I use a blower to clean my garage floor. Talk about dust. But I have no room above it.