Not taken — the garage was chosen. On 30 October 2026
John decided to stay in his garage with two machines. This page stays published for reference; the
final layout is on Garage Print Lab.
Alternate location · 8 McLaren Suite E · revised for the doors
If he took 8 McLaren, Suite E
John read the first version of this page and wrote back one line:
“The doors to the rest room and office are blocked.” He was right, and this is
the revision. Both doors are now drawn with their swings, both are kept clear, and the
question he actually asked — do four machines fit, with room for a
metal printer — still answers yes.
The garage plan has not changed. This is still the “what if he took this
place instead” version, meant to be read against it.
What was wrong
The first version never drew the two interior doors. They are on the brochure plan —
two small quarter-circle arcs — and because I had not transcribed them, I parked the
wash bench and the waste drums exactly where they open.
Measured, not guessed. The waste drums landed
inside the office door’s swing, at 15.49, 25.13 ft. The ultrasonic tank
and the drums together covered the approach to the restroom door. Running the old layout
back through the clearance check used on this page reports three separate blockages; the
revised layout reports none.
The printers were never the problem. They stop at 17.6 ft from the front
wall and the restroom wall does not start until 20.4 ft. So the machines did not move at all.
The post-processing did — the sink to the restroom’s outside corner, the tank into the
middle band, the drums up beside the sink.
The short answer
Yes — four still fit, with both doors fully clear. Four service
envelopes take 330.8 sq ft of about
782.2 sq ft of warehouse floor, two across and two deep. Everything
else John listed has a place, a reserved bay is held for the metal printer, and
351.6 sq ft — 45% of the warehouse —
is still floor you can walk on.
Office door — its full quarter-circle swing into the warehouse is
drawn and empty, with a 5.0 ft approach in front of it.
Restroom door — it swings into the restroom, so its arc was
never the issue; the approach on the warehouse side is now clear to 4.0 ft.
Getting out — the narrowest point anywhere on the route from either
door to the ground-level door is 3.1 ft, measured, not assumed.
And no — that is not the only way this works. John asked. Below the
revised plan there is now a second arrangement, Layout B, that pushes
every machine and every wash station out to the walls and keeps one straight
6.5 ft walkway down the centre. Four machines fit in that one
too, both doors stay clear, and there is 383 sq ft of
walkable floor against 340 here. It costs a longer plumbing run and
the reserved metal-printer bay. Pick on how the room should feel; the numbers for both are
below.
Layout A — the revised plan
Layout A — machines grouped, post-processing across the middle. Orange hatch is floor kept clear for the two doors;
the quarter-circle arcs are the door swings themselves. Dimensions in feet. On a narrow screen the plan scrolls sideways rather than shrinking.
Layout B — everything against the walls
Same suite, same four machines, same two doors. The difference is where things stand.
Layout A groups the printers and runs the post-processing across the middle of the floor.
Layout B puts the four machines in two columns hard against the side walls, turns the wash
line into one continuous run along the west wall in work order — rinse, ultrasonic,
waste — and leaves the centre of the room as a single straight walkway with nothing
standing in it.
Layout B — perimeter-first. The dashed band down the centre is
the walkway, dimensioned where it is narrowest. Dimensions in feet. On a narrow screen the
plan scrolls sideways rather than shrinking.
The two side by side
Layout A
Layout B
Machines that fit
4
4
Clearance check at both doors
0 blockages
0 blockages
Walkable floor, flood-filled from the ground-level door
340 sq ft
383 sq ft
Straight central walkway
3.2 ft aisle
6.5 ft, clear for its whole 18.2 ft run
Narrowest point, office door to exit
3.6 ft
4.6 ft
Narrowest point, up the centre to exit
3.2 ft
4.4 ft
Wash line
three islands in the middle band
one continuous run on the wall
Plumbing tie-in to the restroom
short — at its outside corner
about 14 ft across the floor
Reserved metal-printer bay
yes, 4.85 × 8.0 ft
no — see below
Service-envelope edges flush to a wall
4
6
Crate fits the finished walkway
no — install order is forced
yes, 0.6 ft to spare
What Layout B gives up
Three things, and none of them is hidden in the drawing. The plumbing run.
Moving the wash line to the west wall puts the sink about 14 ft
from the restroom, so supply and waste become a real run across the slab rather than a tie-in
at the corner. That is the main cost and it is a question for the landlord, not something this
plan can settle. The metal-printer bay. Region C is
12.49 ft wide; the workbench, the shelving, a
4.85 ft bay and a 5.9 ft crate
route need 13.75 ft. It does not fit, so Layout B does not
pretend to hold it. Clearance against walls. Six of the service envelopes'
edges now sit flush to a wall, against four in Layout A — more of each machine's
clearance is taken on the sides you can still reach.
One thing I tried first and threw away
The obvious place for the wash line is against the restroom wall, where the plumbing already
is. It was drawn there first. The strip north of the restroom is
2.83 ft deep and the sink is 2.5 ft,
which leaves 0.33 ft to stand in at the face you would actually
use. A station nobody can stand at is not a station, so it moved to the west wall and took the
plumbing run with it. That is why Layout B costs what it costs.
Ventilation is still open on both layouts. Neither drawing shows extraction,
and nothing here decides it.
The two doors, measured
Both openings were measured as gaps in the wall runs on the brochure plan. Which jamb each
door hangs on, and which way it swings, came from testing the four possible arrangements
against the drawn arc — not from reading the picture by eye.
Office / reception door
Restroom door
In which wall
reception north, y = 26.92 ft
restroom west, x = 16.30 ft
Opening (gap in the wall)
13.38 – 15.75 ft → 2.37 ft
24.30 – 26.51 ft → 2.21 ft
Leaf, from the arc
2.41 ft
2.46 ft
Hinged on
east jamb
south jamb
Swings
north, into the warehouse
east, into the restroom
Kept clear here
whole swing + 5.0 ft front approach
4.0 ft approach, warehouse side
In the first version
drums inside the swing at 15.49, 25.13 ft
tank and drums across the approach
The two doors crowd each other, and that is the building, not the layout.
Their jambs are 0.55 ft apart. The office door standing fully open reaches across the
approach to the restroom door. Both work; both at once is awkward, and no arrangement of
equipment fixes it. Re‑hanging the office door on the opposite jamb would swing it away
from the restroom and cost very little — but that is a change to the premises and a
question for the landlord, so it is offered here, not assumed.
The clear zones drawn are the generous reading: 5.0 ft deep on the pull side of
the office door and 4.0 ft on the push side of the restroom door. What actually applies to a
suite this size is the building department’s call, not mine.
Key elements, dimensioned
#
Element
Footprint, ft
Area
Why it sits there
1
Mimaki 3DUJ-553 × 4
9.4 × 8.8 each
330.8 sq ft
Envelope includes Mimaki’s service clearance; body is 7.42 × 4.92 ft. Two across, two deep, clear of both doors.
2
Utility sink + drainboard
3.0 × 2.5
7.5 sq ft
Set against the restroom’s outside corner — the shortest possible tie-in to supply and waste, and clear of the door below it.
3
Three-tank ultrasonic
5.5 × 3.0
16.5 sq ft
Takes the 20×20×12 in part John quoted. Sits on the north edge of the middle band, out of both door zones.
4
Wastewater drums, 2-drum spill pallet
4.25 × 2.17
9.2 sq ft
Beside the sink, so the wash line is short. SW-100 cannot go to sewer — these are collected and hauled.
5
Workbench
1.8 × 8.0
14.4 sq ft
West wall. Kept shallow on purpose: it is what holds the main aisle at 3.2 ft.
6
Shelving / material storage
1.2 × 10.0
12.0 sq ft
Lower leg, west wall. Shallow so the crate route past it stays open.
7
Metal printer bay, RESERVED
4.85 × 8.0
38.8 sq ft
Held empty. No model has been named, so this is floor set aside, not a design.
8
Electrical sub-panel
0.6 × 2.3
—
Position is proposed. The existing service location is not shown on the brochure.
Everything above
—
430.6 sq ft
Of 782.2 sq ft of warehouse. Leaves 351.6 sq ft to move in.
Power
The brochure lists 100 Amps, 120–208V, 3 Phase under the
property highlights, and adds its own (verify). At 100 A and 208 V three-phase that is
about 36,027 VA.
Load
Qty
Watts each
Watts
Of service
Mimaki 3DUJ-553
4
1,630
6,520
18.1%
Ultrasonic support removal, heated
1
~1,500
1,500
—
Bench, lighting, small tools
—
~1,000
1,000
—
Printing and finishing
9,020
25.0%
Extraction — only if the filter option is taken
2
~370
740
—
With extraction
9,760
27.1%
Headroom is not the constraint here. The figures for anything other than the printers are
estimates and should be replaced with the nameplate of whatever is actually bought — and
the service itself still needs the verification the brochure asks for.
Air — still open on this plan
No decision is made here and no extraction is drawn. The garage page shows
one option; whether this suite gets filtration units beside the machines, a ducted extract, or
something that uses the 14 ft height, is still open. It changes the power line above by about
740 W and nothing else on this layout — the equipment positions do not depend on it.
Post-processing and waste
This part of the plan comes from John’s own list, not from guesswork:
A heavy-duty sink, commercial wash basin, or ultrasonic bath able to take a
20×20×12 in model — shown as a three-tank ultrasonic plus a
utility sink, placed for the shortest plumbing run.
Wastewater containment — dissolved SW-100 must not go into the sewer,
so collection drums sit on a spill pallet beside the wash line, where they can be reached and
hauled out without crossing the machines.
Safety gear is the operator’s to provide; it needs storage, not floor.
Getting a crate in, and in what order
A crated 3DUJ-553 is 5.9 ft across its narrow face.
The ground-level door scales to 6.4 ft. That is the single most important
number on this page and it is the one I trust least — see below.
The permanent corridor past the shelving and the reserved bay is 6.1 ft,
about two inches of margin on the crate.
The main aisle finishes at 3.2 ft, narrower than the crate. So set the
east column of machines first, then the west.
Bench, shelving, drums and the reserved bay are all fit-out: they follow the machines in.
Measure the ground-level door before ordering anything. 6.4 ft against a
5.9 ft crate is six inches — and that 6.4 is scaled off a leasing brochure that carries no
door dimension at all. A door symbol on a brochure is drawn to look right, not to be measured.
Clear width and clear height, on site, with a tape.
What is published, and what I scaled
Only a handful of numbers here come from the landlord. Everything else is measured off the
drawing, and is labelled as such.
Published by the brochure
Scaled off the drawing by me
±972 SF (Suite E)
every wall, room and door position
14 ft minimum clear height
24.1 × 41.65 ft overall
ground-level doors
ground-level door 6.4 ft wide
100 A, 120–208 V, 3 phase (verify)
both interior door openings and swings
The one check worth reporting. The scale was set so the suite outline
closes on the published area. Drawn from the measured walls it comes out at
972.8 sq ft against a published ±972 — warehouse
782.2, restroom 50.6, reception 140.0. That agreement is what makes the rest of
these numbers worth quoting. It does not make the door symbol trustworthy.
The three property figures above are listed for the whole of Irvine Business
Center — six suites across several buildings — not for Suite E specifically. The
brochure also states plainly that nothing in it is an offer or a warranty.
The garage and this suite, side by side
The garage
8 McLaren Suite E
Machines it takes
2
4, + a reserved bay
Clear height
domestic
14 ft published
Getting a crate in
tight, and his own driveway
ground-level door, 6.4 ft scaled
Plumbing for the wash line
new run to the garage
existing restroom, a few feet away
Water heater / furnace in the room
yes — backdraft matters
no
Cost
fit-out only
rent, ongoing
The honest difference is not floor area, it is that the garage is his and this is not.
Before signing anything
Measure the ground-level door, clear width and clear height.
Confirm the electrical service — the brochure asks you to verify it.
Ask what the restroom waste line will accept, and confirm the
wastewater route for the SW-100 drums with whoever will haul them.
Ask about the office door — whether it may be re-hung to swing away
from the restroom door.
Check the lease terms against doing this at all: the listing is a lease,
and equipment of this weight and a wash line are both things a landlord will want to know about.