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[quote user="Tom Curtin"][quote user="SpaceMouse"] That is the figure put forth in the MAR 07 MR. That is a 15 x 15 room. I don't know if that is room size or the layout square footage. Either way it seems on the large size to me. Is yours bigger or smaller.My current layout is 40 sq ft. The one I'm just starting is room size: 88 sq ft--add staging and it is 106 sq ft. Actual Benchwork sq ft. 44 sq ft--with staging  56 sq ft.  [/quote]I got intrigued by this, as I tend to be by claims of "average."  Yes, it is 15 x 15, which is a respectable-size (very respectable!!) "spare bedroom."  It is also 20 x 11, which might fit in a spare garage bay.  It's also well less than 1/3 of the basement dimension of a typical 25 x 40 foot "garrison colonial" house of the style common here in the northeast US.Now . . . if you think of the "minimum" as 4 x 8, that's 96 sq ft.  The claimed "average" of 225 sq. ft. is 129 sq ft. more than that, or 2.3 times the area of the 4 x 8.  Expressed slightly differently, the "average" is 2.3 four by eight plywood sheets.Well, anyway, those are my thoughts/ [/quote]Maybe my education is sub-standard; however, where I went to school, 4 x 8 = 32 not 96.  That makes the "average" layout about 7 sheets of plywood in overall size.
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