Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?
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Not sure is this is the place for this one but...
Chaps, one of my cars is away for a few weeks fettling meaning for once I have space to tidy all the crap off the shelves and give it a good clean up. So, I thought I'd re-paint it and do a bit of a job on it. On question is that the builders fitted a proper plasterboard ceiling and even Artexed it (gee thanks) but because they didn't plaster the walls there is a gap where the plasterboard ceiling meets the walls. All manner of dust and spiders fall out of this so I want to seal it properly. I thought about getting some really cheap polystyrene coving from B&Q and gluing it and a mate suggested sticking a run of Duct tape around the room but does anyone have any other ideas? And don't say plaster the walls, I'm not up for that
You can just about see what I mean in this picture, there's a gap between the wall and the ceiling above the Castrol posters.
Chaps, one of my cars is away for a few weeks fettling meaning for once I have space to tidy all the crap off the shelves and give it a good clean up. So, I thought I'd re-paint it and do a bit of a job on it. On question is that the builders fitted a proper plasterboard ceiling and even Artexed it (gee thanks) but because they didn't plaster the walls there is a gap where the plasterboard ceiling meets the walls. All manner of dust and spiders fall out of this so I want to seal it properly. I thought about getting some really cheap polystyrene coving from B&Q and gluing it and a mate suggested sticking a run of Duct tape around the room but does anyone have any other ideas? And don't say plaster the walls, I'm not up for that
You can just about see what I mean in this picture, there's a gap between the wall and the ceiling above the Castrol posters.
Dependent on budget and tastes, you could try and find some modern coving, but it can be expensive on the site I went on or buy this cheap Homebase stuff.
http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servle...
http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servle...
blackstang66 said:
StyleTechnik said:
Saw this being built had no idea was so big.. seen the Mustang before its very nice. I live just off bell lane so just up road.
Drop in and say hello some time......the kettle is always on for fellow petrolheads. 
Not sure what the prize is but I didn't realise spray foam was such a big business http://greatstuff.dow.com/
p.s. Anyone used an airless paint sprayer? I want to paint the battleship grey doors a lighter colour. I wondered about using one to spray them white?
p.s. Anyone used an airless paint sprayer? I want to paint the battleship grey doors a lighter colour. I wondered about using one to spray them white?
The Big G said:
RichB: If you use foam buy the proper stuff - a GreatStuff foam gun and some low expansion foam.
It cuts easily after hardening. Bear in mind that wasps can still eat through it though, according to my experiments last year.
Greg & Globs, thanks, I which case I will use the spray-gun to refresh the whole inside white emulsion. I've got spiders but not wasps fortunately. The lounge is on top of the garage so reasonably well insulated, just dusty.
Here's another view, you can just about see the workshop in the far corner. Unfortunately the large brick piers support the house so although obstructive cannot be moved so I work round them
Here's another view, you can just about see the workshop in the far corner. Unfortunately the large brick piers support the house so although obstructive cannot be moved so I work round them
Like the pictures 
Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
Globs said:
Like the pictures
Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
Thanks, food for thought. p.s. are you the chap who flies the Catalina with Rod Brooking? Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
RichB said:
Globs said:
Like the pictures
Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
Thanks, food for thought. p.s. are you the chap who flies the Catalina with Rod Brooking? Looks like you could replace that door with an electric roller one day and gain a little space.
Also those obstructions, talk to a structural engineer, there is always a steel based way to get rid of those. I know this having spent quite a bit on steel last year to avoid obstructions in my garage!
You should come along...
This is where we are going, despite the fact I should be staying at home building my garage
Right back to garages (from aeroplanes) - what do you chaps do with your car magazines? Chuck them away? Me, I keep certain ones, in particular Motorsport and Octane where I have been subscriber for years. My wife has me keep them in the garage because they take up a lot of space - fair do's I suppose? Guess I could make a feature of them on a set of shelves...
It's taken me a couple of years since we moved to the new place but I have now just about completed turning the old livestock barn into somewhere fit to store and work on the cars.
I started off on the area behind the roller shutter. I wanted to keep the mezzanine level to store all the junk and spare parts out of the way, but I decided that I would remove the staircase and use a loft ladder to get up there instead as this gave more space to get the cars in and I can just about squeeze two side by side if I have to.
After painting the walls, putting some lights in and laying some tiles it ended up like this:
I then moved onto the area next door. This doesn't have an opening big enough to fit a car in so it seemed a good place to put my tools and cupboards to tidy everything away in (and following on from the earlier comment about where to keep car magazines you can see my lot temporarily stored on the back wall!).
I managed to pick up some cabinets in Costco which suit a garage environment and were a lot cheaper than the Dura-type ones:
The larger space next door started off like this:
There was a massive amount of dust, cobwebs and muck up in the ceiling that fell down on the cars all the time, so I decided that I would have to fully board the ceiling with 8x4 plywood. This took me a good few months of work as each one needed to be cut to size for a good fit. White paint on the walls again and the rest of the floor tiles put down, plus a couple of cupboards from Ikea to hold my models and car books and a few posters up on the wall and it now looks like this:
I started off on the area behind the roller shutter. I wanted to keep the mezzanine level to store all the junk and spare parts out of the way, but I decided that I would remove the staircase and use a loft ladder to get up there instead as this gave more space to get the cars in and I can just about squeeze two side by side if I have to.
After painting the walls, putting some lights in and laying some tiles it ended up like this:
I then moved onto the area next door. This doesn't have an opening big enough to fit a car in so it seemed a good place to put my tools and cupboards to tidy everything away in (and following on from the earlier comment about where to keep car magazines you can see my lot temporarily stored on the back wall!).
I managed to pick up some cabinets in Costco which suit a garage environment and were a lot cheaper than the Dura-type ones:
The larger space next door started off like this:
There was a massive amount of dust, cobwebs and muck up in the ceiling that fell down on the cars all the time, so I decided that I would have to fully board the ceiling with 8x4 plywood. This took me a good few months of work as each one needed to be cut to size for a good fit. White paint on the walls again and the rest of the floor tiles put down, plus a couple of cupboards from Ikea to hold my models and car books and a few posters up on the wall and it now looks like this:
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