In considering the height of the walls for my shop...............So with my 12 foot high walls I can have a 8' ceiling over my office, engine room, machine room, head bench room, flow bench room and long work bench with 4 ft. high storage space above. I end up with as extra 562 sq.ft. of storage I don't have to walk around.
And yes even with that my shop is still a big mess. LOL
Doug that is a great idea and I did that with part of my last shop where I had two small rooms at the end of it. Sounds like you have a shop to die for.
One thing I'm surprised that hasn't come up in the posts is removing water in the lines away from the compressor and regulators to regulate the pressure.
I have water separators and a ..............
....... regulator at the ends of my PVC lines. I keep about 125-150 lbs. of pressure in the line to the regulator and then regulate that down to about 95 for my air tools knowing there will be some more drop in pressure at the end of the rubber hose. When painting I use a regulator on the gun itself.
I'll water separator above with one like this .................
................ one that I have on another line. It lets me regulate the the air pressure, have clean air before an oiler and provides an oiler for my air tools. You can see the drain on the drop at the bottom.
c ya,
Sum