Freestanding Workbenches

[ChilliGal]

I've newly received my lampworking start up kit but annoyingly can't get started because of a problem in our cellar, which means I can't affix a piece of worktop to the wall with a batten (we've had the cellar tanked and we can't make any holes in the tanking).  Can anyone recommend a decent freestanding work bench make that's stable and deep enough to keep the heat of the torch far enough away from the wall?

Thanks

[Krysia@No98]

I just have mine on an old ikea table.  nothing fancy  (it's even less fancy now with all the burn marks in it  )

[Kalorlo]

Kitchen table with tiles on, here. I think there's a metal Ikea table that's quite nice?

[paintboxcrafts]

I use Ikea metal kitchen units from the Udden range. I started out with the trolley for my kiln. The wire shelves for underneath are good and can hold quite a weight of glass.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/kitchen/series/08013/

[ARBeads]

The other thing your going to need to consider carefully is the ventilation.

If in a cellar you need to have extract at both you bench and floor height - Propanes heavier than air so if you have a leak it will sit on the floor of the cellar with no means of escape. You also need to consider a make up air supply to replace the air your extracting.

One day we're going to move our studio into our cellar 

[ChilliGal]

Thanks for the Ikea linky - I'll nip over there and have a looksee today.

I'm siting the propane outside the window - it's apparently illegal to store propane inside a dwelling, but as the cellar has external walls I will be getting around that problem by bringing it in via a tube. The cellar's pretty big, goes all the way under the house, with two decent sized open-able windows so I hope I'll be ok.

Thanks for all your comments  I hope to be set up within a week or so. (I'm hopping from foot to foot waiting to get sorted!)

[Nick]

It may be worth looking at ventillation from around the flame to remove any fumes and venting this through one of the windows you will have more of a chance of moving fumes with ventillation than by chancing the open window method.