I thought I'd share my new shop progress to get some ideas for a small 1 car garage woodshop.

To start, I had a 1 car garage shop in my previous house. I had only started woodworking about 2 years before moving so it was never set up as a shop, mostly just cobbled together pegboards and makeshift shelves. I had to share it with the electrical equipment for the house, solar panels and Tesla Powerwalls. We also stored ramdom junk in it. So no mater what I did it always felt cramped.



We moved to a new house/country this summer and it also had a 1 car garage. However we were able to get rid of a lot of junk and the new house has a ton more storage thanks to a large basement. So, the garage is all mine! We thought I'd have to park the car in the garage in the winter so I had to make sure everything would fit against a wall. That requirement changed after a recall on my car came out with a recommendation NOT to park it inside. So the only other items I have to share space with is a garbage and compost bin and a 3 wheel cargo bike. I'm hoping to make a bike shed in the backyard this summer and get the bike out of there.

The new shop size is a smallish 12'X19' space. Rough concrete floors, new garage door with windows and insulated/finished walls.




The very first thing I did was buy 8 shop LED lights and mount them to the ceiling. This is a huge difference right away.


 
Since my last shop had so much clutter that I felt stuck with, I decided I wanted to try out some french cleats. As we are in a pandemic and most building supplies were in short supply I ended up picking up 12 sheets of 12mm BB plywood to cover my walls and 4 sheets of 3/4 BB plywood for the cleats themselves. Even though the shop is insulated and had drywall I like the look of wood everywhere I could manage.




I really was liking how the plywood walls were looking but there were two issues I was running into. The first was that my 4'x8' sheets left me with about 1' of bare wall at the ceiling. The other issue was the echo in the workshop was really pronounced. My wife suggested I try out some sound dampening foam to reduce the echo. As luck would have it a 12X12" pyramid sheet of foam fit the space perfectly. It also greatly reduced the echo. Win win!

Omg yes!
We definitely want to get a dog soon.  We had a wonderfully lazy greyhound that passed away a few years ago. We miss having a dog for sure.
Seems like a bad time to get one though. All the shelters are empty and wait time for puppies are half a year at least.
I'm also going to gave to fight my wife for who gets the dog. She wants it in her home office and I want it in the shop

Our old girl.


We are learning towards a doodle of some kind. One thing about greyhounds that wasn't great was their skin was so THIN! She'd regularly be at the vet getting stitches after a stick in the backyard tore her skin.

In your previous French cleat post, I was going to ask about the Sonex sound panels at the top of the wall...now I know the answer. 

Anyway, back to the workshop.

I wanted to pick up a tablesaw to do the long rip cuts for the cleats themselves. I wanted them cut along the whole 8' length of ply as I think the opposing grain directions of the wall and cleats look nice. Only problem was at the time I thought I'd be parking my car in the garage this winter during ice storms. I was determined to get a SawStop but just had to figure out what would fit. I laid out tape on the floor to see what the actual footprint would be and determined the only size that made sense at the time was the jobsite saw.



I started ripping down wide strips of plywood using my mft3 and extension table. After the very first cut the offcut of ply (which was most of the 4x8) fell onto the floor and dinged up the corner pretty good. I looked around town and found the wood dealer I bought the BB from had some STM's in stock. I called them up and they delivered it to my door about an hour later! This table works great! I love using it.




After I had all my strips cut I unpacked and plugged in my tablesaw for the first time (also my first time at a tablesaw). I cut the strips in half along the length at a 45degree angle to make my cleats.


I did not want to run cleats all the way down the wall to the floor in case I decide to someday build cabinets. I picked and arbitrary height from the floor, bought a laser level and started screwing the cleats into the studs with 3" woodscrews. I used 2 scraps of 2x4 as spacers so that the cleats are evenly spaced. On my first wall I tried to get fancy and offset the ends of the cleats from each other so you did not see a pattern. After that took way too long I said forget it for the second wall and just put them in as fast as I could.



I had 1 sheet of 1/2 plywood left over from my original purchase. I used up almost all of it building custom holders and shelves for my tools.



So far I'm really happy with the cleat wall and decided it was time to work on projects before making any more shelves. The only thing that has fallen was my ceramic space heater. The cleat itself stayed but the heater popped off of the screws it was hanging from. The whole thing smashed on the floor and shattered. I bought a new heater and just made a small shelf for it.

I left a few spaces on the cleat walls. These are where I will eventually get outlets installed. Right now everything in the garage runs off of 1 15amp circuit. Even the lights and garage door. Since we are in lockdown here I'm going to wait until spring to get an electrician in to do the work. For now I'm running an extension cord under the garage door to an exterior plug.

I also want to do something with the concrete floors since I'm no longer planning on parking a car in the garage. It can get cold here in the winter so I don't think epoxy will be sufficient. Maybe this summer I'll install some dricore and then some flooring on top of it. That is TBD.
 

Finally I'll show some of the tool holders in detail and answer some questions from my other table thread. I've tried uploading a big reply a few times now but the forum won't let me, so I'll split my last post up into several replies.

Cheese, you asked about the air filter being on cleats. I was worried about this too. When I first attached the cleats I put the air filter on the lowest row of cleats and shoved my garbage bins right under just in case something gave away. I left it overnight and in the morning nothing was on the floor so I figured I was safe to put it wherever.


Other heavy things I've attached to cleats include my new Ridgid sander and shop fan. Both are holding up just fine.

The next big shop project for me is a hand tool workbench. I bought some hand planes and hand saws for my last project and the mft3 was way to wobbly.



I just finished reading the anarchist workbench and will be coming up with some plans in the near future. I also gave up my large 60"x30" router table from my old shop. I still have the insert, router and incra fence but have not decided if I want another router table or what kind I would build/buy. I'm just using my OF1010 in the meantime. I'd also like to one day soon get a drill press and bandsaw. Maybe once I get those I can settle on a layout I like.

Thanks for reading this thread. I'm still learning a ton from everyone here everyday and thought someone might enjoy my thought process in setting up a small woodshop. If anyone has ideas for me, please let me know.

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I really like how easily I can alter my shop layout with cleats.
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Is there a tutorial you liked for the cleat layout?
Having the pegboard on the cleats is a nice touch.

wow yer new shop is coming slong great please keep posting I need ideas for mines

Thanks! I'm all out of good ideas so I'm watching your shop build thread for my shop

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I really hated the pegs that you get with a standard pegboard. They were always coming off when I picked up a tool. The last straw was when I grabbed a hammer and the peg and the hammer both came off the wall and made a nice dent on one of my table legs. I've now replaced all the standard pegs with wall control pegs. These are slotted and do not come out easily.

Most of the ‘standard’ pegboard hooks I use now are from Talon:
https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/hardware/hooks/tool/50353-talon-hook-sets

Looks like there are some different tool holders that only come with the Wall Control system.

You can omit the lower cleat from the fan mount.
It’s lifting the upper cleat off the rail.

If worried about the fan climbing off the rail when spinning you can stick a long wedge above the cleat.

Thanks Michael, good eye! Even though I used spacers for all the cleats, some are not perfectly spaced. I just moved it down one space and the top cleat now bears all the weight. I'll see if I need a spacer when it warms up (it is -15C today and my shop is only 6C, so don't want to turn the fan on).

Here is my latest tool holder. Just a simple shelf for my Festool sandpaper boxes. It has all been living in a tupperware box that I've been tripping over for months. Now it is nice and neat and out from under foot. I can't wait to use up the rigid 3M sanding sponges I've got there and get some more Festool sponges. The Festool ones hold up way longer! I guess you get what you pay for.

Thanks nicholam77, will do.

Little update, I made a charger holder. Second attempt. First one did not go so well with fancy mitered cleats. I ripped them off and just put screws into the holder itself. I've got room for one more charger. Not sure if I'll put another one I already own or maybe keep it open in case I get a Milwaukee charger at some point.


I've decided that my workshop is just too darn chilly in the winter. This morning it was about 6C (42F) and the concrete floors just drain the warmth in the room. My next big shop update is to install new flooring! My floor has a slight slope out to the garage door but I'm not worried about making it level. There are just a few areas that dip but it isn't too bad. I've also noticed one long crack going across the floor but it doesn't look like it has gotten worse. I think the plan is to buy some insulated Dricore and lay it down on the concrete. Once that's done I'll at some point put down some plywood sheets. Maybe in the spring when we aren't in lockdown I'll pick out a flooring to go on top. I think a minimum of insulated Dricore should really help. I'm not sure what to do about the concrete that goes up the wall bellow the drywall and plywood walls. Maybe I'll glue some rigid insulation then cover it with more ply. Any suggestions?

We have a finished walk out basement. The concrete floor would get very cold in the winter. The floor had a heavy carpet & pad, but that did not help with the cold. About 11 years we remodeled the basement. I put down 6 mill visqueen over the concrete. Then laid 1" styrofoam over the plastic & then laid laminate floor over the styrofoam. It made the basement very comfortable. I would have liked to used thicker styrofoam, but I had 2 exterior doors that limited the thickness of the foam that I could use.

I would think that the same process would work on your shop floor.

   

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The floors are also a bit uneven and I doubt I could cleanly level it with a full garage and outside temps at -20C.
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Oddly home depot will deliver all my dricore for free but all the other stuff would cost $70 to deliver.
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You would probably have to scribe 2x4’s to the floor, cut, and fasten with Tapcon screws. At that point, the more appealing option is DriCore panels with some of their shims to true-up low spots.

The size of DriCore panels makes them easier to ship through FedEx or UPS. Whereas the other materials need to be loaded and unloaded on a truck.

Not sure what plywood costs in Canada right now either. Around me, a piece of subfloor plywood is going for $40-$50 per sheet and 1/2” foam board is $13 per sheet. An equivalent amount (by size) of DriCore R+ would be $64.

Good ideas and great work.

You might want to take a look at rubber flooring as well. Sometimes called horse stall mats or stall mats. It comes in different thicknesses and either tiles or rolls. It's a nice softer surface and is designed to give the horses some cushion as well as to keep them off a slippery concrete stall floor. You can get them online but most farm supply stores either have them or can order them for you.

Here's a Canadian link to give you an idea of what they look like.

https://perfectsurfaces.ca/shop/longhorn-animal-agricultural-surfaces/equestrian/

Ron