Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?
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Just about finished my new double, we moved into the house in October last year and as you can appreciate the wife had a few things higher up the priority list than the garage. Not quite as clinical as some but I do a fair bit of work in there. Floor is interlocking rubber tiles, LED panel lights, recycled kitchen cabinets with bargain new worktops and a good coat of dark grey on the walls , oh and an old 42" flat screen and a discarded mini hi fi from one of my daughters
Tickle said:
Not up to the standard of some of the garages/showrooms on this thread, but this is mine.
It's a detached large single garage, and I assume it's the same age as the house at circa 110 years old. The garage is for the weekend car only, there are a couple of brick outhouses set behind for garden stuff and wood.
The garage was empty apart from dust, lots of dust when we moved. Over the last couple of months, between other house things I've done:
- Got all the dust and other s
t off the floor and walls
- sanded and oiled all the exposed wood
- wire brushed the brickwork down
- PVA'd the walls
- made a bench
- made a car cleanings stuff storage unit out of one found in an outhouse
- laid foam jigsaw tiles
- fixed rubber to the walls at door openings, and
- laid leftover jigsaw tiles on the mezzanine for hardtop storage.
Pleased with it, not the biggest garage but I can walk around the car and get in and out easily... well, as easy as possible to an Elise with the roof on!
Bit of a garage update, pretty much the same but now with an added music source. It's a detached large single garage, and I assume it's the same age as the house at circa 110 years old. The garage is for the weekend car only, there are a couple of brick outhouses set behind for garden stuff and wood.
The garage was empty apart from dust, lots of dust when we moved. Over the last couple of months, between other house things I've done:
- Got all the dust and other s
t off the floor and walls- sanded and oiled all the exposed wood
- wire brushed the brickwork down
- PVA'd the walls
- made a bench
- made a car cleanings stuff storage unit out of one found in an outhouse
- laid foam jigsaw tiles
- fixed rubber to the walls at door openings, and
- laid leftover jigsaw tiles on the mezzanine for hardtop storage.
Pleased with it, not the biggest garage but I can walk around the car and get in and out easily... well, as easy as possible to an Elise with the roof on!
Edited by Tickle on Sunday 25th February 17:33
I've unearthed and retrieved the hi-fi that I bought as an engineering student in 97 (the benefits of having a dad that hoards). This now accompanies the car I wanted when a student.
Speakers mounted on rouge bricks from behind an outhouse, thought about some fancier speaker mounts but these fit in with the garage.... and cost F'all !
New globe Edison bulbs put in too.
Tickle said:
Jazzy Jag said:
Flag needs Ironing
Get the good woman to give it a quick once over
Get the good woman to give it a quick once over
I did actually add some elastic shoe laces to the flag to pull it tighter. Maybe it will sort it. No chance of my wife ironing it, to many spiders up there and most importantly she is s
t at ironing.DoubleD said:
Tickle said:
Jazzy Jag said:
Flag needs Ironing
Get the good woman to give it a quick once over
Get the good woman to give it a quick once over
I did actually add some elastic shoe laces to the flag to pull it tighter. Maybe it will sort it. No chance of my wife ironing it, to many spiders up there and most importantly she is s
t at ironing.Iron woman is an instruction
I'm dead if she reads this
Accelebrate said:
I wanted a better way to organise my sockets, with a clear label. Started 3D printing some little custom trays, quite pleased with the way they've turned out so far...
Top frivolities but you didn't buy them, so does it count?
Now, if you had bought the 3d printer just to make those....
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