Show us your garage!

PardonTheWait · 6 Oct 2017 at 01:21

So I've just moved from a little flat into a proper grown up house, which means instead of a lock-up round the corner with no power, I've got an honest-to-goodness garage with actual lights and everything! Sadly my car's still up at Snetterton having, if I'm honest, a shocking amount of work done (pretty much everything between the wheels replaced), at least she'll have somewhere nice to come home to.

So here's my little garage. What are you guys working out of?

While I'm inordinately proud of the fact that I have a thing made out of concrete with a roof on to put my car in, what I'm really hoping for here is a nice thread of lovely garages to be envious of and to steal ideas from for the future. So hit me up, where does your beloved live?

PardonTheWait · 20 Jan 2018 at 22:50

Had a move about of some stuff because once I got the car in it felt too cramped. I've just gone and done £100 on stuff at IKEA because strangely enough their rack-mounted wall shelves are the best ones I could find for the money. Going to put that up tomorrow to the right of the tool board Hopefully won't encroach too much on the car's space and free up a fair bit of space. I want to ditch the filing cabinet too so I can stick the bin under there.

Really want to see some pictures of some flash garages, just normal people garages so far

Post 'em up!

PardonTheWait · 21 Jan 2018 at 19:30

Del Lardo said:
top quality mod to stop the door getting scratched!

There was already a rather fetching bit of carpet on mine, I actually quite like it! I wonder if it was in the house at some point?

Del Lardo said:
I live in pretty much constant envy of our neighbours double garage.

I would love a garage big enough to actually work on the car in with the door closed! One day. When we buy a place I'll really try and get a double garage but we might not be so lucky. My fiancee is amenable to it though. She wants a nice kitchen and I want a garage, outside of that we're pretty easy!

So my dad came over today and we got loads done, got my shelving up and got my rear parcel shelf done in the car. I used one bit of MDF to replace the 'worktops' on my bench with 18mm, put up some more board inbetween the empty shelf uprights to hang some more bits, and to do the parcel shelf in the car.

Still plenty of room around the car to get by which was my main worry. Don't want to be knocking a load of stuff of the shelves on to the car!

PardonTheWait · 21 Jan 2018 at 20:36

If my car was modern it wouldn't live in the garage, but they're so stealable it's ridiculous so she lives in the garage with a crooklok. Also she's not totally watertight, I'll be a long time looking for replacement rubbers, until then she is somewhat leaky. Doesn't actually leak leak unless she's moving, but still. Got to fight the rot.

Love the chair. That's definitely on my list... garage big enough for an armchair or sofa.

PardonTheWait · 21 Jan 2018 at 20:57

Malevolence said:
What motor is that? Looks like a Super Minx.

It is

PardonTheWait · 21 Jan 2018 at 21:41

Malevolence said:
Very Nice. Had many a trip down to Dawlish Warren in the back of one of those as a child.

Thanks

PardonTheWait · 21 Jan 2018 at 21:47

Gayjin said:
Here's my weekend sanctuary.

That's what I was after! Lovely. Look at all that space!

PardonTheWait · 12 Mar 2018 at 18:13

Muncher said:
My car is finally back in there!

Oh my! This is the kind of garage I dream about, amazing.

PardonTheWait · 9 Jun 2018 at 20:27

Had a sort out and added some stuff. The black shelves were just rammed with stuff so I got a kitchen unit from IKEA to offload some stuff into.

Just noticed the old picture didn't have the new bench either - my dad fitted out his garage recently and had a bit of worktop spare so he cut me a bit to length with the angle on it to get as much worktop as possible (as you can see I don't have a lot of space!), I put it in and made it quite a lot taller as I always get a bad back working over low benches, plus it meant I could move my intermediate tool chest below the bench, make a cupboard etc. Picked up another intermediate chest as well from Halfords for £45(!) to make space, been buying a lot of tools lately for various jobs.

So much better than it used to be, but this thread makes me feel very insignificant, some real fantasy garages in here imo. Makes me really look forward to when we buy a place - hopefully with a double garage or space to put one up. There's so many things that are so useful, not expensive, but require space - bench grinder/polisher, pillar drill, a proper substantial vice... Can't wait.

PardonTheWait · 10 Jun 2018 at 11:18

DXP55 said:
How many times have you walked into that vise

I haven’t yet, there’s more room than it looks as the worktop is angled away from the door. I definitely will now you’ve said that though, so cheers for that :mad:

PardonTheWait · 23 Aug 2019 at 00:43

Resurrecting this due to exciting developments, but out of interest (and I think we've spoken in another thread) how do you find the metal garage with condensation? I see you've had it through last winter. Is it insulated at all or is it single skin?

My exciting developments.. we're in the process of buying a house with no garage but a really nice plot for what we (I) want - a 40ft front garden and 100ft+ back garden with a drive that goes from the front to just past the house, which is where we're going to build the garage. I am 99.9% sure I'm going to go for a 4m x 7.5m timber log cabin style garage and I'm picking up bits to outfit it at the moment.

Bought some bisley tambour cabinets recently for £130 for 3, I've painted one up and plan to finish them all off at the weekend:

I've got the old Halfords Advanced tool chest stack - top middle and bottom and an extra middle, but I'm basically out of space in there. It gets a bit out of hand as I often need to buy imperial and metric versions of sockets etc due to having an old car as well as more modern stuff.

I get a discount on their gift cards through work, and I'm planning on using several base cabinets with a worktop on top to make a nice bech/tool storage area, but I've just found out a mate has a trade card and the base cabs are crazy cheap, so I think I will end up with three of their base cabinets built in, and my stack as a roll-around option for most commonly used tools.

The general gist of the built in section is similar to a 'steevo bench' but I don't have the welding skills to do it as nicely as he did. The plan is three cabs in a row beneath a worktop, with the casters replaced with levelling feet.

I was going to go with one base cab with both side extensions, another base cab next to it, but with my mate's discount I think I will end up with three base cabs plus the two extensions. That will mean I'll have an L-shaped bench that extends about 3m in both directions. Hoping to literally never need more storage!

Will update with pics as it progresses, but it will be a slowish process. Provided the house sale goes through, but it looks like it will at this point.