Show us your garage

[brightspark]

dont trip over the wiring to the socket u might hurt yourself regulation 567 paragraph 5 bs 584 section 2 .all cables under 4ft must be covered

 

[Dusty]

Wow some space on the bench! that's a rare sight.....LOL

 

[R BEADLE]

In light of the garage discussion on the jag thread I've started a new one. So lets have a look at your garage/workshop. Heres mine, Its a single sectional concrete garage perched on a pile of extra concrete panels (great choice previous owner!) When we bought the house it was derelict with just two bits of roof sheet left, broken beams and no door/windows. We reroofed it in that square proflile wriggly tin, put some thick plastic/perspex windows in and made a new door and frame. I then ran a good hefty cable out when we had a new consumer unit put in the house and put a small consumer unit in the garage and ran a ring main and lighting circuit. The cupboards are the old 1965 Hygena kitchen we ripped out of the house. I'd like to insulate the roof with some jablite as the tin causes bad condensation and the floor needs painting really.

It looks a mess as I'm in the middle of a big turf out and reorganisation

Big lockable steel cupboard bolted to wall for power tools.

Tool boxes

Shelving

Parts washer and garage tunes

The door end

No garage is complete without some US numberplates, I also have a big old enamel Texaco sign to go up soon.

i like the way you have strategically places objects around the floor to trip them burglars up lol

 

[Dereklee]

absolutely a cool garage.
although looks a bit mess, yet that's not important.
something significant is that you've got plenty of tools

 

[syborg]

lol, a tidy workshop is one that isnt used,lol or has been tidied for the photo,lol
love the anvil mate, id love one but with my dodgy back i dont think moving it would be easy..

 

[ghound]

Here's my garage, it's not that big at 30ftx20ft but it keeps me from taking on any big jobs
The last pic is an old poultry house i used to use when i was more into big jobs years ago. It was a good size of 120ftx60ft, but had a low roof.
It's now used to keep just about every kind of useless cra p you can imagine!

 

[syborg]

jesus dude!!!! i thought my 4ft x 2ft x 2ft coop for my 2 chickens was a feat of engineering,lol u could house half the population of my village in there, ever thought about gettin chickens again? lol

 

[Cyberprog]

Loving the pics of everyone's work spaces - there definitely seem to be two camps - the tools on the wall camp, and the tools in the roll-cab camp

At the moment my workshop is a bench in the cellar for the computers, and the rest is in the back of the landie! But looking at buying a bigger place out in the sticks with my Mother, and should hopefully have the space to get a decent sized workshop with a 4-post lift and office

Such a struggle working on the landie in the street - and no space for a garage on our street (unless you sacrifice a room, which some people have done).

 

[Vdub lover]

Here is my small garage

It's changed abit I now a 7' by 4' stainless steel welding table and a metal lathe pillar drill etc with just enough room to get a car inside.

I must build a gas bottle trolley now tho

 

[MG David]

Looking round the top of your walls it looks as if you may have raised the roof. What was that like to do?

 

[Vdub lover]

Looking round the top of your walls it looks as if you may have raised the roof. What was that like to do?

Yeah it was a flat roof single garage but I added 14ft on the back and almost 2ft on the side plus the apex roof.

It was an easy job to do but as soon as I had the old roof off we have very bad weather rained for days

I have some photo's of the build if need but it's quite simple brace the garage walls, remove the roof the add the side then the apex.

sides are just wood section bolted together felted then feathered and painted/treated.

 

[Welderpaul]

Thought i'd update the pictures of my 'garage'. Bit of a mess at the moment on account of us all being on site for the last month or so - Needs a good tidy!

 

[scarecrow]

the place looks full i see you still got your old murex 251 i just bought one

 

[Welderpaul]

the place looks full i see you still got your old murex 251 i just bought one

The only welding set that has a MB25 torch on. Used for gates and railings and fiddly stuff mainly! A nice machine. Never had any trouble with it.

 

[madkayaker]

you've had a tidy up paul

 

[malcolm X]

Without doubt there are some bonny sheds and workshops shown on here, as soon as I figure out how to upload a picture I'll show you mine.
Shed security is an important issue, after some thief in the night got into one of my sheds, I improved security so that now my workshop is like fort Knox, complete with alarms and 24 hour CCTV.

 

[Sam(GTD)]

This is my set up, the pictures here are of the middle of 3 garage bays i have.....the other two; one is filled up with materials, the other is a spray booth and makes for boring photos as it's basically an empty, white room.

-Engineering side,
-Electronics bench and compressed air side,
-Air tools cabinet.

I'm a big fan of air tools, they are much more versatile for my situation, there is about £5,000 worth of air tools in that cabinet. (Desoutter, atlas copco and the like)

My garage is still very much W.I.P

 

[brightspark]

This is my set up, the pictures here are of the middle of 3 garage bays i have.....the other two; one is filled up with materials, the other is a spray booth and makes for boring photos as it's basically an empty, white room.

-Engineering side,
-Electronics bench and compressed air side,
-Air tools cabinet.

I'm a big fan of air tools, they are much more versatile for my situation, there is about £5,000 worth of air tools in that cabinet. (Desoutter, atlas copco and the like)

My garage is still very much W.I.P

whats with the air tanks ??shell out and buy a compressor. unless u fill them and take them to jobs

 

[Sam(GTD)]

whats with the air tanks ??shell out and buy a compressor. unless u fill them and take them to jobs

My compressor is able to run the air tools for the level i need, the reason for tanks is so i can keep a ready supply of dry air without needing to turn the compressor on at night (it's very noisy) then i can do small quiet jobs late at night such as spraying, polishing, micro grinding, pop riveting (not solid riveting haha) ....with neighbours on 3 sides it's only fair.

They also provide very dry air for spraying, with a continous compressor delivery unless you have very efficient air dryers you will end up with water droplets in your spray gun.

It also allows me to do sand blasting for an extended period of time (about the only thing my compressor cannot provide enough air for continously, it's 12cfm)

 

[madkayaker]

are they converted propane cylinders? if so how do you fill them from the compressor