Show us your garage

[cianh91]

Formerly a garage now my workshop still has 2 post lift

 

[Mick Annick]

I would duly like to resurrect this fantastic thread.

Lot of old members names too.

Show us how your’s is looking then Mat

 

[Barking Mat]

Darn tablet, scroll down this may make sense, I failed on chronological order, second photo some two years later.

Great thread this, I do enjoy seeing other peoples workshops / garages, great for ideas, here's mine, certainly a contributory factor to buying the house (for me), although it came with a huge cider press concreted into an earth floor, spreading A frames which I have since braced, I'm one day hoping to have the time and money to put in an inspection pit, and if you look carefully I've only dug out and levelled about 60% of the floor and put a thin cement scree over it, the dry earth floor was a nightmare for losing things and working with air tools.

Important things I have found have been, lots of lighting, lots of storage, I find if I put things in drawers I forget they exist, so I prefer to nail things to walls, or failing that boxes clearly marked, well that's the idea. Heating will hopefully be plumbed in this year I have a huge woodburner with a backboiler on it which if I win the lottery I would love to put in underfloor heating but that's a question of putting in the pit properly and sorting that out, only a question of time and money,(doh). Mid winter it's as bad as where I work and there is just no pleasure freezing your bits off.

I built the workbench from bits from the scrappie, and the bench grinder and piller drill stand are from old street lamp columns recuperated from some friendly town council workers, as is all the shelving which I was given, but sadly lacking the vertical bits which it would have all slotted into, so I found an alternative way, to weld it together, although it does partially dismantle.

Final photo is how I wired up my three phase and 220 system, its not finished it's still kind of extension cables from the fusebox, but its better than running a triphase extension cable through the kitchen and out the cat flap (really).

So this is my old workshop, 9 years ago, I then bought a lathe, huge ancient bandsaw, a complete selection of welders, plasma, cold cut saw, o/acetylene, big bench grinder, pillar drill, and alot of other stuff over the years.

Then nearly 5 years ago we moved to cold comfort farm, big 'Longere' (long house), workshop and barn. Joy!

But not allowed to do workshop til house was liveable in. (Wifie).

Well nearly 5 years later, we need to sell our old house, which we still own, move the workshop over here, and continue.

But the future workshop, needs, well, floor, garage door, back door, insulating..... You get the idea... Everything.

But it exists and getting emptied, still need to remove the cider press.

Let's find some photos of the new (future), workshop.

I'll try to put them in chronological order, but no guarantees.

 

[Barking Mat]

Show us how your’s is looking then Mat

Hang on, it's still an earth floor mess, but I've got the green light.

Still digging through years of photos. Here's my old and current workshop, except it's full now...

Page 31 of this thread post #607.

Then it filled up, still full.

 

[Revs1972]

Finally finished making the outside look pretty. Now got to tidy up the inside
From this

To this

 

[Barking Mat]

Finally finished making the outside look pretty. Now got to tidy up the inside
From this
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To this View attachment 270902

That 's looking really nice, good job.

Where 's the interior shots?

Love the roller shutter, one day....

 

[jordhandson]

Here’s my garage its been the family games room for many years, I have spent most of this weekend clearing it and have got it almost empty, it’s not for a workshop, as parents have said I can have it and convert it to an apartment if I fund the costs.



I have been looking round the workshop to see what equipment I don't need and raise some funds so will be getting rid of some kit. Father said what ever I sell the pool table and the fruit machine for I can put towards the conversion fund.

I have measured it up and its big enough for my needs, I have been playing with a design program and I am hoping to do something along these lines.



It will be great to have my front door, and with mother next door me washings sorted.

I know its not workshop related but If I get time I could do a progress post if anyone is interested

 

[Arc Tourist]

To simplify your plumbing and drains, try and configure your kitchen sink back to back with your bathroom wall.

 

[jordhandson]

To simplify your plumbing and drains, try and configure your kitchen sink back to back with your bathroom wall.

Good point I will have to do a seperate post with so much knowledge on here

 

[AVI_8]

Nearly finished