Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?
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StoatInACoat said:
The roof is (mostly) a charming mix of asbestos and moss with a small section of corrugated Perspex where my ever helpful neighbour fell through my roof whilst "fixing" his own. The walls are sectional concrete panels which I have decorated with slightly panicky looking oily handprints from previous "Oh s
t I'm trapped under the car/in the engine bay" incidents and I have accessorised with some rugged brown carpet that helpfully doubles as a handy surface to bounce doors off and lie on weeping in the dark saturated in power steering fluid clutching a spanner with a broken bolt trapped inside it.
Don't knock it.t I'm trapped under the car/in the engine bay" incidents and I have accessorised with some rugged brown carpet that helpfully doubles as a handy surface to bounce doors off and lie on weeping in the dark saturated in power steering fluid clutching a spanner with a broken bolt trapped inside it. I had a similar garage in a separate block away from the house. No lights, no power and completely lined in asbestos sheeting. The house was right on the £250K SDLT threshold so I decided to try and sell it separately. I printed flyers and posted them through neighbours doors, got a phone call within 30 mins and sold it for £12K and got £249,999 for the house
FalconWood said:
Just completed a rebuild and rejuvenation of some barns. The guys have done a great great job.
This is "Mans workshop"
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This is a general garage created from a room filled with steel and rocks, broken walls and very leaking roof!!
And here are the two garages now completed!!!
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Very pleased with the results!!
/ThreadThis is "Mans workshop"
This is a general garage created from a room filled with steel and rocks, broken walls and very leaking roof!!
And here are the two garages now completed!!!
Very pleased with the results!!
BugLebowski said:
StoatInACoat said:
It leaks, is not attached to the house and has no power so I have to guess which tools I might need then lug them to the garage and make many, many trips back and forth to the house to get random sockets, bits, coffee, cigarettes, springy whirlything tool that was bought 20 years ago for a very specific job then instantly lost etc etc....
For every single mechanical job I ever do, at least 50% of the time is spent looking for that one specific fEdited by StoatInACoat on Wednesday 11th February 12:50
king tool! 
It is a stunning garage now it's finished. I did all the stonework on the lean to walls that we rebuilt on the barn last year. The best placed I've worked at seeing some great cars and you couldn't work for nicer people. Still waiting to go out in the GTO Falconwood . Here's a couple of pics of the new walls.
The workshop side
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The general garage where Falconwood is kindly letting me keep my DC2 there for the winter
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. Here's a couple of pics of the new walls.The workshop side
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Edited by Dicky88 on Wednesday 11th February 20:51
grkify said:
falconwoods garage is stunning. love that sort of thing always fancied converting an old church in to a garage / workshop but id never be able to put the money together to afford it
There's an old church in the centre of Perth that is practically falling down, that would make an awesome bachelor pad if refurbished as a garage, with living accommodation upstairs. FalconWood said:
Just completed a rebuild and rejuvenation of some barns. The guys have done a great great job.
This is "Mans workshop"
This is a general garage created from a room filled with steel and rocks, broken walls and very leaking roof!!
And here are the two garages now completed!!!
Very pleased with the results!!
As you have loads of tool storage, I presume you have tools in them and use them...This is "Mans workshop"
This is a general garage created from a room filled with steel and rocks, broken walls and very leaking roof!!
And here are the two garages now completed!!!
Very pleased with the results!!
So where are the ramps ?
aww999 said:
Genuine LOL at work Have you ever wished you didn't like "interesting" cars and had bought a sensible Daewoo with 10yr warranty instead?
I can definitely see why people drive "white goods" cars on lease and I wish I didn't care about cars enough to be one of them sometimes! Have you ever wished you didn't like "interesting" cars and had bought a sensible Daewoo with 10yr warranty instead? The hassle of keeping something on the road that shows complete unwillingness to cooperate can be frustrating but rewarding when you get it right. I like getting my hands dirty and have fiddled with or partially disassembled every car that's passed through my hands and even with something brand new I would still moan about paying somebody else to do an oil change when I can do it for a third of the price.
FalconWood said:
Looking to source a short height ramp for the general garage. The separate wiring is all ready just need to find the ramp!!
How about something like this. Added benefit you can drive throught it so you can store a car underneath I belive.I was looking at one supposedly the best ever nit the one in link but same type thing . Comes as an assembled unit. You just cut a slot in the floor but if concrete then slot the whole thing in.
http://www.straightset.co.uk/slift-dv40-19kx35-in-...
You can have them fit flush with covers so it just looks like a big H on the floor
Edited by Pesty on Thursday 12th February 20:45
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