Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

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ds666

2,605 posts

178 months

Tuesday 29th January 2019
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Schmeeky said:
Looking good..

Is the side wall coming down to make one large volume?
Side and back walls coming down soon . Original garage was 6m by 6m . I'm adding about 7m to the side and 2 m along the whole back length ) roughly 13m by 8m ) . The new bit is " vaulted " hence the steel ridge beam to allow a couple of lifts at some stage , maybe .

oldnbold

1,280 posts

145 months

Friday 15th February 2019
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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






DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Friday 15th February 2019
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Top job. Thats a proper man cave.

oldnbold

1,280 posts

145 months

Friday 15th February 2019
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DoubleD said:
Top job. Thats a proper man cave.
smile

Earthdweller

13,428 posts

125 months

Friday 15th February 2019
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Lovely Space oldnbold smile

2 GKC

1,884 posts

104 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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What’s the Porsche? 996 something?

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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How come parts of the floor are so shiny? It looks like you've got a bit of a flood in there smile

oldnbold

1,280 posts

145 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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2 GKC said:
What’s the Porsche? 996 something?


Taken at my old place with an SL I had at the time. 993 C4 with factory aero kit.

oldnbold

1,280 posts

145 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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Doofus said:
How come parts of the floor are so shiny? It looks like you've got a bit of a flood in there smile
Haha, the floor was wet as I'd just done the final clear up after all the work and mopped it. smile

Tickle

4,879 posts

203 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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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 scensoredt 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
Bit of a garage update, pretty much the same but now with an added music source.

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.


DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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I love the brick work in that garage. Is it a single layer of bricks?

Tickle

4,879 posts

203 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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DoubleD said:
I love the brick work in that garage. Is it a single layer of bricks?
Thanks. It's a double layer. CBA to go and look outside, but looking at another pic of the outside it shows the width of the building.

Jazzy Jag

3,412 posts

90 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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Flag needs Ironing

Get the good woman to give it a quick once over wink

Tickle

4,879 posts

203 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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Jazzy Jag said:
Flag needs Ironing

Get the good woman to give it a quick once over wink
laugh

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 st at ironing.

DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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Tickle said:
Jazzy Jag said:
Flag needs Ironing

Get the good woman to give it a quick once over wink
laugh

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 st at ironing.
Well dont iron the flag directly. Put it under a bed sheet, then iron that.

Jazzy Jag

3,412 posts

90 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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DoubleD said:
Tickle said:
Jazzy Jag said:
Flag needs Ironing

Get the good woman to give it a quick once over wink
laugh

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 st at ironing.
Well dont iron the flag directly. Put it under a bed sheet, then iron that.
Iron Man is a Super Hero
Iron woman is an instruction

rofl

I'm dead if she reads thispunch

Tickle

4,879 posts

203 months

Saturday 16th February 2019
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Jazzy Jag said:
Iron Man is a Super Hero
Iron woman is an instruction

rofl

I'm dead if she reads thispunch
laugh

Accelebrate

5,244 posts

214 months

Sunday 17th February 2019
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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...


Jazzy Jag

3,412 posts

90 months

Sunday 17th February 2019
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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...

bowbow

Top frivolities but you didn't buy them, so does it count?

Now, if you had bought the 3d printer just to make those....

hehe

TR4man

5,207 posts

173 months

Sunday 17th February 2019
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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...

Brilliant! Start a production line and I'm sure many on here will buy them!