Mike and Louise organized the remaining cartons of things to be unpacked. Here's a photo of the shop with most of the "stuff" put away. More white wall cabinets are out of sight to the left. We bought and assembled base cabinets, and placed them beneath the pegboard.
We installed two three-drawer base cabinets, a wall cabinet, and a couple of shelves in the machine shop, then Mike set up the lathe and milling machine, and put away the many accessories that go along with them.
With help from Louise and Miranda, Mike built and installed a framed pegboard that ultimately will hold most of the shop tools.
Mike is making good progress setting up the workshop. The woodworker's bench, purchased nearly a year ago, is assembled and in use. A new (since our former house) table saw and bandsaw add much functionality to the shop. The dust collector inlet manifold secured to the wall is a big improvement over the former arrangement.
This photo compares our small old shop with the spacious new one. Not visible in the new view is the copious floor space behind the photographer – more than ample for the air compressor, shop vac, and the red roll-around tool cabinet.
The shop floor is tiled! Here's Mike placing the final piece in a corner of the shop closet.
Tiling the shop floor is nearly complete. It takes two hours to clean and mark 30 square feet of concrete floor, cut the end tiles to meet the walls, spread the adhesive, and lay the tiles. (The shop has 395 square feet of floor space.)
We began laying floor tile in the shop – slow going, but steady progress.
