Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[mgst170]

Peter Vardy Edinburgh?

Bungleaio said:

PositronicRay said:

Timbergiant said:

Yeah, inspiration taken from the BMW hand over bay when I picked up the car

Nice prompt for the inevitable customer satisfaction survey on the back wall.

Obviously not a Sytner dealer then.

[Big E 118]

We had a new garage built in March. It's an oak framed garage and we had to keep it fairly small and with a low pitch as it is in front of the house and we were concerned about getting planning. There was a precedent set on the road though as all the houses are detached and several of the older houses were built with garages in front of the houses.

I need to get a couple of photos of the completed garage.

Ground works and frame erected, the frame was complete in 1 day!



Cladding done and doors on, log store to the left



Test fit for the car, no roof tiles on yet!



Electrics in, floor now sealed and painted, just laying down some cheap tiles as an idea to stop hot tyres pulling up the paint. (Yes I know I haven't finished tidying up the edges of the floor paint yet!)



Next job is to get some racking and shelving for the back and sides of the "non-car" side of the garage.

[Timbergiant]

mgst170 said:

Peter Vardy Edinburgh?

Bungleaio said:

PositronicRay said:

Timbergiant said:

Yeah, inspiration taken from the BMW hand over bay when I picked up the car

Nice prompt for the inevitable customer satisfaction survey on the back wall.

Obviously not a Sytner dealer then.

Cooper Teesside, they failed spectacularly in all of their goals that they claim to strive for

My lack of shelving and "garage stuff" is down to the main reason for doing my garage, is a place to wax the crap out of cars inside away from dust and dirt, it's like a clean room as that's what I want for detailing.

[Olf]

PositronicRay said:

Timbergiant said:

Yeah, inspiration taken from the BMW hand over bay when I picked up the car

Nice prompt for the inevitable customer satisfaction survey on the back wall.

Shame about the punctuation!

[Faxo]

Well this is my work in progress. Mine is actually used as a garage, as I'm a technician by day, so I get a few guvvy jobs for beer money. This is how big it was, apparently very slightly bigger than a standard single



This is mid build, you can see it's now not a double, but is as wide as I could go. It's also quite deep



And as she stands now. I've treat myself and ordered a Hormann Rollmatic garage door, and I'm contemplating a mini ramp, but the roof trusses are quite low so I need to see how much clearance I've got



The floor is being raised by an inch to stop water ingress from the drive, and I think I'll just leave it concrete - tiles will crack when using jacks, and I think paint needs a lot of maintenance. Lights wise I'd love a lot of lights, but unsure which it where to look tbh - if anyone can recommend I'd appreciate it, they'll be ceiling hanging. Storage, again any recommendation? Had wooden homemade racking before, but want something not as intrusive this time

[phazed]

Use a concrete "Duststop".

It is clear and seals the concrete. It stops the surface breaking down and constant cement dust forming.

[buzzer]

Faxo said:

The floor is being raised by an inch to stop water ingress from the drive, and I think I'll just leave it concrete - tiles will crack when using jacks, and I think paint needs a lot of maintenance. Lights wise I'd love a lot of lights, but unsure which it where to look tbh - if anyone can recommend I'd appreciate it, they'll be ceiling hanging. Storage, again any recommendation? Had wooden homemade racking before, but want something not as intrusive this time

For a working garage, I prefer paint. seal the floor with some concrete sealer and leave it a few months. Then give it a coat of single pack floor paint but use a roller and really spread it out, just enough to cover. the thinner the coat the better. The mistake people make with floor paint is they put it on too thick, it then takes weeks to through harden as it dries by the evaporation of solvent. In realty what happens is it skins over, and solvent is trapped in the layer below, this is then easily lifted by tyres as you drive over. it also chips easily when it is dry, and tends to lift.

A thin coat, will last a long time, and when it needs doing again, its a five min job to pop another very thin coat on top. Two pack paints are OK, and can be applied thicker as they dry by chemical reaction, and therefore through harden very quickly, but I still prefer a thin single pack coat in a working garage.

A mate has had his garage floor epoxy coated with the stuff they use in warehouse's... now that is durable and looks superb!

I have the same height issues, but have found a mid height lift is just the job.

Edited by buzzer on Sunday 17th May 16:14

[Eleven]

buzzer said:

For a working garage, I prefer paint. seal the floor with some concrete sealer and leave it a few months. Then give it a coat of single pack floor paint but use a roller and really spread it out, just enough to cover. the thinner the coat the better. The mistake people make with floor paint is they put it on too thick, it then takes weeks to through harden as it dries by the evaporation of solvent. In realty what happens is it skins over, and solvent is trapped in the layer below, this is then easily lifted by tyres as you drive over. it also chips easily when it is dry, and tends to lift.

A thin coat, will last a long time, and when it needs doing again, its a five min job to pop another very thin coat on top. Two pack paints are OK, and can be applied thicker as they dry by chemical reaction, and therefore through harden very quickly, but I still prefer a thin single pack coat in a working garage.

A mate has had his garage floor epoxy coated with the stuff they use in warehouse's... now that is durable and looks superb!

I have the same height issues, but have found a mid height lift is just the job.

Edited by buzzer on Sunday 17th May 16:14

Nice.

Is that an extending airline and does it work okay? I am planning to pick one up from Tool Mart but my only experience of extending airlines is that they aren't terribly reliable. Or is that just a regular hose on a reel?

[buzzer]

Eleven said:

Nice.

Is that an extending airline and does it work okay? I am planning to pick one up from Tool Mart but my only experience of extending airlines is that they aren't terribly reliable. Or is that just a regular hose on a reel?

yes, its an extending reel... works OK and has been reliable. Aldi or Lidl have them in sometimes for not a lot of cash. What I do find however is that they tend to have fairly small diameter hose, and as they are quite long, this affects the volume of air that can be used. I find that if I have a very tight nut, say a crank pulley, that I have to use one of my big hoses plugged directly into the compressor if I am using an air wrench.

The reel is OK for spraying, small air tools and the like. if you buy one, look at the hose size!

[Steve H]

I used an epoxy paint on mine, rollered on with about five coats which was a pain but it's pretty much bulletproof now no matter what you drop or spill on it.

I got LED tube lights from PHer E36GUY, nice crisp light with a good spread and minimum shadows etc.

I got one of THESE which worked well enough that I later added the power cable equivalent from the same range.

Edited by Steve H on Sunday 17th May 18:08

[Eleven]

buzzer said:

Eleven said:

Nice.

Is that an extending airline and does it work okay? I am planning to pick one up from Tool Mart but my only experience of extending airlines is that they aren't terribly reliable. Or is that just a regular hose on a reel?

yes, its an extending reel... works OK and has been reliable. Aldi or Lidl have them in sometimes for not a lot of cash. What I do find however is that they tend to have fairly small diameter hose, and as they are quite long, this affects the volume of air that can be used. I find that if I have a very tight nut, say a crank pulley, that I have to use one of my big hoses plugged directly into the compressor if I am using an air wrench.

The reel is OK for spraying, small air tools and the like. if you buy one, look at the hose size!

TBH I don't think my compressor is man enough to run air tools. I generally use it for tyre inflation and blowing.

[bitwrx]

Looks nice. The kind of thing I'm aiming for. Can you tell me a bit about the ramp?
How much, where from, what services (air, elec) etc.

[riosyd]

Here's my garage, cleanest room in the house
(it's not quite finished - more painting to be done)

[Faxo]

buzzer said:

For a working garage, I prefer paint. seal the floor with some concrete sealer and leave it a few months. Then give it a coat of single pack floor paint but use a roller and really spread it out, just enough to cover. the thinner the coat the better. The mistake people make with floor paint is they put it on too thick, it then takes weeks to through harden as it dries by the evaporation of solvent. In realty what happens is it skins over, and solvent is trapped in the layer below, this is then easily lifted by tyres as you drive over. it also chips easily when it is dry, and tends to lift.

A thin coat, will last a long time, and when it needs doing again, its a five min job to pop another very thin coat on top. Two pack paints are OK, and can be applied thicker as they dry by chemical reaction, and therefore through harden very quickly, but I still prefer a thin single pack coat in a working garage.

A mate has had his garage floor epoxy coated with the stuff they use in warehouse's... now that is durable and looks superb!

I have the same height issues, but have found a mid height lift is just the job.

Edited by buzzer on Sunday 17th May 16:14

Is your lift the same as the ones listed on ebay, for around £1200?

[gubbabump]

stain said:

that ladder right next to the Phantom... would worry me somewhat

[RichB]

riosyd said:

Here's my garage, cleanest room in the house (it's not quite finished - more painting to be done)

Looks like you'll be keeping the corpses in those cabinets ready for some impromptu autopsy.

[buzzer]

Faxo said:

Is your lift the same as the ones listed on ebay, for around £1200?

I bought mine from this company, at around that price. Best bit of kit I have ever bought :-)

http://www.automotechservices.co.uk/products/as-75...

[aww999]

riosyd said:

Here's my garage, cleanest room in the house
(it's not quite finished - more painting to be done)

YES! It's like something out of the Matrix, I love it The perfect place to start chopping the rust out of an old Camaro.

[bertie]

buzzer said:

Faxo said:

Is your lift the same as the ones listed on ebay, for around £1200?

I bought mine from this company, at around that price. Best bit of kit I have ever bought :-)

http://www.automotechservices.co.uk/products/as-75...

I had a 3 tonne full height lift one from them which I've recessed into the floor so it's flush when down.

The product itself is OK, but bear in mind whoever you buy from they all come out of the same Chinese factory.

I had an issue with mine and wasn't impressed with the backup.

[Faxo]

Floor to bottom of the trusses is approx 2.5mtrs, so looks like I have enough room for a mid lift ramp

I'm looking at this one http://www.automotechservices.co.uk/products/as-55... but wonder whether the centre bar will get in the way

Edited by Faxo on Monday 18th May 21:19