[modeleng] Workshops

We are considering some building works at Rickard Heights.

The workshop is currently in a 1920's garage which is single skinned 
blockwork construction with a pitched tiled roof. It is cold and a little 
damp in the winter and I have to share it with a couple of the Frau Doktor's 
bikes and assorted rodents. I also have a "pigsty" or study which is warm 
and well lit so that I can do some assembly and minor handworking jobs 
there. it is on the first floor by english reckoning ie up some stairs. 
Complete locos are not welcomed there, even if I could drag them up there, 
certainly once they have been run and since there are also a couple of beds 
in there swarf generation is not conducive to visitor sleeping comfort (but 
since that encourages 'em to go 'ome I don't mind that much).

In the garden we have a derelict shed I think it is about 12' x 6' also home 
to large numbers of rodents and bicycles. It has a decent looking concrete 
float.

(When we bought the house 12 years ago the surveyor reported on the various 
outbuildings in the garden and mentioned this one and pointedly said it was 
of no mortgagable value. I've been waiting for it to fall down in storms 
ever since but I may have long wait. Someone knocked at our door and said 
that she used to live in the house 40 years ago and could she look round. 
She saw the shed and laughed saying it had looked like that 50 years ago.)

One plan is to demolish the shed and have a new workshop constructed. What 
form of construction is recommended? I don't want to pay stupid money of 
course but the options, relative merits and costs would be very interesting.

We are considering also have a loft conversion and it maybe that my sty will 
migrate heavenwards. Has any one any experience of that for light model 
making and in particular for using a very small lathe which I have for 
turning up fittings and bits when I don't feel like being St Wenceslas? Is 
there anything to look out for when devising a loft conversion?


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