prrjim posted:You could avoid the duckunders (save arthritic knees) and get broader curves if you them, by going around the walls instead of an island layout with acess hatches. build the whole thing 30 inches wide (or however far you can reach) around the outside of the room and maybe a peninsula up the middle if you have enough room. 24 inch aisles are wide enough for one guy operation. 30 or more if multiple operators.
Jim,
Your idea would have been my preference except for some problems with my room. The entry from the rest of the basement is a door at one corner, which is good, but the adjacent wall has a sliding glass door with the opening at the far end only 2 feet from the far corner. I needed to keep that open for traffic, so in effect my 11' 6" x 11' 4" room has about two feet chopped off the one side. At the beginning of this topic we discussed an idea I had of having a loop go the whole way around with a lift-out bridge in front of the glass door, but I finally decided against it. The duck-unders came as a concession I didn't want to make at first. I talked about the problem with my wife, and she even suggested I take the glass door out and put a wall in it's place, which wouldn't be that hard to do, but the way the rest of the basement is constructed, I decided against it.
Nothing is etched in stone yet, so I won't rule out that once I get building benchwork I may change my mind on this. Time will tell. Thank you very much for your suggestion!!!
