Postby Perry » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:43 pm
Thank you your comments. My workshop is in a building halfway between where I work and live. It's about 2 km between the two extremes, so my workshop is about 1 km from both. Fortunately, they're more or less in a straight line.
No one lives in the building now where I have my shop. It has six floors with an "illegal" seventh floor--illegal because it was an add-on. At first, I had my shop on the seventh floor, but several years ago a new landlord asked me to move down to the sixth. I didn't have as many machines at that time, so the move was not difficult. It took me about a month, however, to repaint what was to become my workshop. It previously had green, orange, and blue walls, and the ceiling was painted a light purple. The building does not have a working elevator, which means that any machine I buy has to be carried up the stairs, which turn in a kind of irregular circle.
The building is in an area of Taichung which has the most popular night market in the city. There are more people at night in this area than there are during the day--and at high traffic times during the day there are a lot of people.
I haven't done any spraying. I don't have the equipment at this time. It would be great if I could do that, though. Right now I'm limited to oil finishes. Recently, I bought new finishing products, and I am interested to know how those will work out.