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Setting up a workshop right!

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aviast

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Brisbane, Australia
Hi all,

I have the great fortune of having recently bought a house which came with a 2-car shed which will be the workshop for my impending Thatcher CX5 project. The shed is in decent condition; concrete floor with some oil drips and paint splashes, workbench down one side and a pegboard on the back wall (the previous owner had a business repairing carpet shampooers). I'd like to get it set up in a way that will make it easiest to work on my project and to keep tidy, but having not gone through this process before I have no idea what I would need to do to achieve that.

Some things I would like to do just to start:
  1. Paint the floor white - nothing fancy, just the concrete paint from the hardware store. I'll probably get a rubber "anti-fatigue" mat to throw down on this.
  2. Set up some storage to keep all the tools, materials, and bits'n'bobs in order. Not sure what sort of storage I'd need (have only just started acquiring tools).
  3. Wire up a powerpoint from the ceiling to remove one source of trip hazard and make it a bit easier to use power tools in the shed.
Any ideas, suggestions, "lessons learned", or workshop tales welcome!
 
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