Just realized most people in here are calling any old box truck a 'builder's lounge' and it's driving me nuts
I've been reading through this forum for about 4 weeks now and I keep seeing folks use the phrase "builders lounge" for literally any setup with a trailer and some plywood walls, which is not even close to what it means. A true builders lounge is the dedicated on-site space where the crew eats, plans, and stores gear off the weather, and it has to be a fixed structure or at least a real enclosed unit, not a tarp strung between two ladders in a Fargo parking lot. My old foreman on a 14 unit job in Boise would have lost his mind if someone called our tarp setup a lounge, he made that distinction clear on my first day. So what actually counts for you guys, does it need a roof and a door, or is a screened tent with a coffee pot good enough?
A real lounge needs walls and a roof that actually shut, a screened tent is just a fancy break area with bugs. Sounds like your foreman had it right, coffee pot alone does not make the cut.