Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[custardkid]

Craikeybaby said:

Made some progress on garage:
-plaster boarded the roof
-boarded the loft
-added down lighters
-tiled the floor
-some old kitchen cupboards, painted black (in the corner)

all in about £300, the tiles are wickes cheapest, but good, have jacked up a car on them already with no issues

a nice clean dust free, and warmer garage for projects

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Did you plasterboard the ceiling before all the door mechanisms were fitted? I'm trying to work out if I can wait until after the door is fitted to board the ceiling on mine.

The garage already had the doors so plaster boarded after, the mechanisms are small fry compared to trying to get 2.4m long wobbly, brittle boards 2m in the air, interesting even with 4 of you.
Plaster board also has low rigidity so bows at the ends or in the middle, if doing it again, I'd use ply. Or get a proper builder in to cross batten etc and skim the edges

[illmonkey]

Or use a plaster board lifter...

[Craikeybaby]

Thanks! I'm aware of the joys of plasterboard, having done my living room, but there were only cables for lights & smoke alarm to worry about - so a bit easier.

[sjj84]

custardkid said:

The garage already had the doors so plaster boarded after, the mechanisms are small fry compared to trying to get 2.4m long wobbly, brittle boards 2m in the air, interesting even with 4 of you.
Plaster board also has low rigidity so bows at the ends or in the middle, if doing it again, I'd use ply. Or get a proper builder in to cross batten etc and skim the edges

You need to try harder, I plasterboarded the ceiling of my garage on my own. Still got to attempt to tape and skim the joints though.

[custardkid]

sjj84 said:

You need to try harder, I plasterboarded the ceiling of my garage on my own. Still got to attempt to tape and skim the joints though.

I may have made the mistake of using 18mm rather than 24mm plaster board??

[sjj84]

I used 12mm to do mine, they were heavy enough. No wonder it needed four of you to lift 18mm!

[custardkid]

custardkid said:

custardkid said:

New house ... New project

Made some progress on garage:
-plaster boarded the roof
-boarded the loft
-added down lighters
-tiled the floor
-some old kitchen cupboards, painted black (in the corner)

all in about £300, the tiles are wickes cheapest, but good, have jacked up a car on them already with no issues

a nice clean dust free, and warmer garage for projects

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Edited by custardkid on Sunday 9th February 13:14

Edited by custardkid on Sunday 9th February 13:29

Edited by custardkid on Sunday 9th February 18:26

A small update, which should make working on the car a bit easier and safer

[custardkid]

At c 500kgs, getting it off the car trailer, into the. Garage and in position was "interesting"

[Craikeybaby]

That looks good!

Mine is currently a work in progress:

Garage progress after the sixth day by Lewis Craik, on Flickr

It will be 5.5m x 4m with a 3m wide insulated sectional door. I'll post again when it is done, but in the meantime there will be updates on my build thread.

[buzzer]

custardkid said:

At c 500kgs, getting it off the car trailer, into the. Garage and in position was "interesting"

I helped a mate get the same lift into place recently! I thought we were going to have problems as his garage is at the back of the house and we had to get it 10 meters up the drive and then 30 meters across grass... we did it with three scaffold poles, rolling it on two, and keep replacing the other! it was surprisingly easy!.

One thing... make sure you go around all the nuts, bolts, screws and pipe fittings as many of his lift were quite lose...

[oldnbold]

Well I've finally finished the internal fit of my garage extention after 3 weeks of full time work on it.

[M3John]

oldnbold said:

Well I've finally finished the internal fit of my garage extention after 3 weeks of full time work on it.

That's ace !

[oldnbold]

M3John said:

That's ace !

Thanks I'm pleased with the result, took a lot longer than I anticipated though.

[Lynch91]

oldnbold said:

Thanks I'm pleased with the result, took a lot longer than I anticipated though.

Looks really smart, what floor tiles are those?

[QROPS]

JenniferA said:

I use the Golf R as a general purpose / everyday vehicle and the Merc ocasionally. Hope I can take them with someday when I emigrate :

Why only use the Merc occasionally?

[oldnbold]

Lynch91 said:

Looks really smart, what floor tiles are those?

After a lot of research and with a wife imposed budget, I found these to be the best value.

http://www.horsematshop.co.uk/210-the-stud-tile-50...

To be fair I found porcelain tiles at about the same cost per square metre, but because the original part of the garage had such an uneven floor I would have had to put down a self leveling compound on the entire 30m sq. This with the cost of tile adhesive and grout etc would have added another £200+.

The tiles I used went down in a day, are really easy to cut with a stanley knife and look good. I would have prefered another colour but coloured ones are double the cost. The black ones are made from recyled material and therefore the colour throughout is slightly inconsistant. Tiles, ramp edging for the enterance and delivery came to £318.

Edited by oldnbold on Wednesday 11th June 09:27

[gifdy]

I took a timelapse of my garage being built last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7Kcgq_pxU&lis...

Gets used constantly but ran out of money to do the inside. That's this winter's project.

[benters]

good price on the tiles Oldnbold. . .

[Pixel-Snapper]

Now thats a garage Gifdy.

[edo]

gifdy said:

I took a timelapse of my garage being built last year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7Kcgq_pxU&lis...

Gets used constantly but ran out of money to do the inside. That's this winter's project.

Very nice! Quite similar to mine although I couldnt have such a high roof on mine, and I went for automatic doors as a)I am lazy, and b) I need to get in quickly to get out of the way of the traffic in the lane!