Where do you reload?

Where do you reload?

  • Basement

    Votes: 69 35.6%

  • Garage

    Votes: 48 24.7%

  • First Floor

    Votes: 26 13.4%

  • Second Floor

    Votes: 13 6.7%

  • Attic

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Shed / Outbuilding

    Votes: 19 9.8%

  • Apartment

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 11 5.7%
  • Total voters
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Daylight basement, I have about 300 sf to myself. Looking to move soon tho, not sure how that's going to work out. Hope I can get another setup as good as this one. It's too cold here to do anything without a heated space in the winter.
 
I have a 28" wide bench in my office. That's where the presses get swapped on and off the benchtop.
Everything else is stored in various locations around the property.
Some things in the garage, some in the barn, some in the shed.

Some I forget where...
 
The bottom level of the house is finished out. The bedroom portion is where all the loading gear and firearms live. Looks like the rest of the space is going to be given, less a small utility area, for reloading etc. There's a bathroom plus a microwave and small refrigerator. One can stay down there for days. World's way to crazy for me these days.
 
Obturation said:
Ones a jumper the other is an attention fiend, love them but theyre needy.
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Hi...
I have the exact same situation.
Two very needy Labrador Retrievers that I cannot break from jumping.
They are not allowed in my hobby room. Only person who ever goes in there other than me is my son. My wife looks in the door now and then but hasn't spent any time in there since she and I finished building it.

My son (25 years old) has just recently started reloading and he now spends more time in there than I do.
 
Now my reloading area is in a corner of the basement. But 40 years ago, we lived in a mobile home that had a fold-out on the back room that was the perfect size for a clothes washer and dryer set…or a loading bench. We had to move because my wife didn’t like having to go to the laundromat to wash and dry our clothes.:D
 
I wet tumble brass and store components in the garage. Everything else is done in the kitchen/breakfast nook using a Lee hand press. Wife of 45+ years likes me being close while she plays her ipad games and watches tv.
 
I started in the basement. As I got more and more into reloading, i have spilled into the garage.

finished another work bench project in the garage last summer.
Already planning a rework since i have began stepping up my casting.

seems like there is never enough room.
 
Toprudder said:
Started in a spare bedroom (wife's suggestion) but then ended up getting a 12x20 prefab building and finishing it out myself. Insulated, wired, walled and floored, I keep it climate controlled.

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Nice setup.....I realized I did not say where I am at....in the basement like most married men.

I like it fine down there.....I do have a shop but it is more of a car shop even if I don't play with cars too much anymore....thought of changing it out but not quite ready do to that....plus with 24' roof it would be a bitch to heat....changing lights in the summer is like walking into a blast furnace.
 
Have a dedicated room in the house for reloading . All cleaning (guns & brass) is done on a bench that I build for reloading back in 73 in the garage. I have no children or animals or distractions in my home. In this part of Florida people don't have basements the water table is too high other wise that's probably were all my cleaning would take place.
 
I managed to carve out about 4 feet of space on the storage side of the basement for a bench. It was supposed to be a temporary spot, but I'm still there and busting at the seems. Someday I'll get the other side or a spare bedroom ( when we get a spare bedroom).

-Jeff
 
We just moved into a larger house, one that finally gave me more stretching room in the basement vs our other house. Currently, I have my reloading area in a smaller corner of that area. Here sooner or later, we're going to build out the basement and I'm going to build a "proper" room that I can build all the shelves/benches that I need.
 
First two houses, I loaded in a detached shop building, next was an attached garage, then a basement in a house. This house, we built a 20x30 bonus room over the garage with it's own central heat pump system. It's all mine :). Home office in one end and 2 benches in the other. I still clean brass in the detached shop.
 
I have a heavy free-standing 2x4 and plywood reloading bench in a corner of the basement, next to my wood shop.
A shelf unit stores everything needed next to it. Powder and primers locked in separate wood boxes.
In a small spare bedroom, I also have my original RCBS JR3 bolted to the right end of a heavy old tubular steel kitchen table. It also serves as my computer station, desk, and light duty workbench. Supplies, dies, a spare powder measure, and a spare scale are stored in an old chest of drawers.
 
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