I'm looking into building an RV-10 and I have two spaces available: the main workshop is a 21.5'x18.5' room in my basement with an adjacent 19'x12' room I can use for overflow/storage. And the second is the garage at 21'x32' (3-car).
I'd like to use the workshop as much as possible since it's heated and keeps the cars in the garage. I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is large enough though. I know I can't assemble the whole fuselage in there since that ends up at 24' OAL but is it big enough to do all the major sub-assemblies and join up the fuselage to the tailcone and hang the engine (minus the empennage)? I would think the wings would need to be fitted in the garage, driveway, or at the airport. I don't think there would be enough room even with the fuselage pushed against the wall in the workshop?
If needed I could open up the wall in the basement to make for one big L-shaped room but that would take some engineering as it's a load-bearing wall so I'd like to avoid that if possible. The rough on the door is 38" so I could push the tailcone into that a bit if needed as well.
I would hang completed sub-assemblies in the garage most likely.
I'd like to use the workshop as much as possible since it's heated and keeps the cars in the garage. I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is large enough though. I know I can't assemble the whole fuselage in there since that ends up at 24' OAL but is it big enough to do all the major sub-assemblies and join up the fuselage to the tailcone and hang the engine (minus the empennage)? I would think the wings would need to be fitted in the garage, driveway, or at the airport. I don't think there would be enough room even with the fuselage pushed against the wall in the workshop?
If needed I could open up the wall in the basement to make for one big L-shaped room but that would take some engineering as it's a load-bearing wall so I'd like to avoid that if possible. The rough on the door is 38" so I could push the tailcone into that a bit if needed as well.
I would hang completed sub-assemblies in the garage most likely.