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Originally Posted by pdnesbitt
My wife and I are seriously considering moving the The Villages. We have looked at dozens and dozens of listed homes but none of them seem to have anything like workshops. With way over 100k residents and lots of clubs, like RC and woodworking, that require some place to work what does everyone do for a workshop?
For background, I am an avid RC modeler and build and fly planes as big as 10’ or more. In addition I love to occasionally do some woodworking. That said, I need a space big enough for work benches, power tools, painting, etc… It doesn’t have to be a huge space but it needs to be a couple hundred square feet or so.
I know I could probably convert one bay of a garage, but I would still need two bays for cars and one for a golf cart. That would mean a 4-car garage. It that what others do?
Thank you
Paul
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I also like building and flying large RC planes, as well as doing wood working. When we had our house built, we extended the garage. So I use the golf cart garage as my workshop. I never had a huge workshop back up north, so I got used to working in a slightly confined space. It sounds as if you like to have a LOT of room to work, so maybe a golf cart garage wouldn't be large enough for you.
The biggest problem I ran into was where to store the large RC planes. Up north I had 10' ceilings in the garage, and I used a rope/pulley system to hoist the planes up near the ceiling in the garage. My house in TV only has an 8' ceiling in the garage, so I can't store planes by hanging them from the ceiling in the garage.
If I do woodworking, I like to move out to the driveway to keep the sawdust out of the garage, so that reduces the amount of space required in the garage.