My new workshop in Florida

[scrollerpete]

Got to Panama City Beach Florida a week ago tomorrow, will be here until end of March. Here is my new workshop, nice to be able to saw outside, today’s temperature is 78. I always bring my scroll saw with me, not much of a beach goers. Played golf and scroll saw that is a perfect winter for me.

[jamieline]

A few months ago we retired to South Carolina from Vermont. Nice to be able to open the garage door and enjoy the sunshine in December. Even in the morning it's warm enough to be in the garage with the door shut to cut until it warms up.

Have everyone in the neighborhood stopping by to see what I'm doing.

[William Eicehelberger]

I wish I had my winter shop set up I have been sick for the past 8 weeks not much fun here cancer is not much fun.

ike

[old sarge]

3 hours ago, William Eicehelberger said:

I wish I had my winter shop set up I have been sick for the past 8 weeks not much fun here cancer is not much fun.

ike

Sorry to hear about you cancer. Saying a prayer for recovery. 

[dgman]

Small but sweet! I know there will be some great things coming out of that space!

[OCtoolguy]

We may be moving to Florida so these posts interest me. Happy for you.

[Woodmaster1]

My winter shop is 68 degrees 24/7 it doesn't matter how cold it is outside. I don't plan to move, I live in northeast Indiana it's easy to go anywhere without a lot of traffic and I am too cheap to move because everything is paid for. I have a nice shop 30'x20' when the car is not in the garage and 12x20 when the car is in. Three different woodworking clubs and one has a shop for me to go to, it's more socializing than woodworking at the shop. So have fun in the sun, sometimes in the winter and it's below zero I think about a Florida  vacation. Nice winter setup.

[Chiloquinruss]

Not quite 78 here but that's OK.  It just means I have more shop time as the outside work has to wait!    Russ

[wombatie]

We have a summer Christmas every year, 50 years worth of them and I still can't get used to them.  Christmas to me should be cold and maybe a bit of snow.
Enjoy your winter retreat.

Marg

[FrankEV]

Peter,

Welcome to Florida for the Winter.

I'm a little further South in Ormond Beach (Just North of Daytona) on the East coast of Central Florida.  

I have a very small shop also.  Just 8'x12' in an outdoor shed.  I do not have a garage so this was the best I could manage on my very small piece of property.

After being here in Florida now almost 8 years and dealing with very warm temps for most of the year, when the temps drop into the 40's F, it feels really cold.  However, a small electric heater makes is comfortable and lets me work in my shop all winter.  Of course I also had to instal a small AC unit for those hot summer days. 

 

 

[timelett]

Put a sub floor in shop last spring, found a deal on a pellet stove,bring on the cold! North west Indiana. 

It keeps the neighbors from being noisy out side with their mowers.

Enjoy your Florida time.

[Norm Fengstad]

Enjoy Florida, I dream of such things but not to often. Right now at 7:00A.M. in Nipawin , Saskatchewan Canada there is lots of snow, -20 as I wait for the sun to rise in 2 hours from now. my truck is outside, plugged in as there is no room in the heated garage. Nice thing about winter here is no grass to cut, or plants to water things that disupt a person's scroll sawing 

[OCtoolguy]

7 hours ago, Norm Fengstad said:

Enjoy Florida, I dream of such things but not to often. Right now at 7:00A.M. in Nipawin , Saskatchewan Canada there is lots of snow, -20 as I wait for the sun to rise in 2 hours from now. my truck is outside, plugged in as there is no room in the heated garage. Nice thing about winter here is no grass to cut, or plants to water things that disupt a person's scroll sawing 

Norm, after living in Colorado at 8500 ft elevation, I have experienced the cold weather. That's not the part that I don't like. It's the fact that once it sets in, it's there for far too long. Give me a very short winter season or better yet, none at all. We are looking hard at Florida for a multitude of reasons. Love their Governor.