Show us your Garage

[billwill]

In an off-topic sequence in another topic some garage photos were published and Alan Thomas said:
"Can we have some more garage pictures I really like Bob's 3 door garage with upstairs mezzanine, a lot of houses in the Uk are smaller than that Bob! It looks squeaky clean and new, almost not real in that photo, get the doors open and show us the contents "

So lets have a topic properly for it here with a sensible relevant title.

Perhaps Bob (rdssdi) would like to re-post his picture & description here.

[billwill]

My own garage under my bungalow can be seen here, this picture was taken just after I had completed fitting new wrought iron railings to a freshly re-built front yard, steps and side ramp, but before I had completed painting the railings white.

BillWill's Front Yard & Garage

[Spyder fan]

Bill,
Cool topic I'm getting close to 5 gears, so please forgive me jumping on the bandwagon for every post, only 9 to go, or is that 8 now?

This is a concrete sectional garage built on the plot behind my beach house it's approximately 20x24 feet. It took 2 burly Yorkshiremen just 3 hours to build from a kit of parts, all they needed was strong tea and biscuits.

The base is a reinforced concrete slab that took a little longer to build than the garage at 5 days including removing the old tiny garage (just fitted the S4) and busting up it's base, 2 weeks later the lads arrived with the kit.

Electrics were fitted last week whilst I was at the NEC, I'm looking forward to getting my compressor and air tools hooked up, then it's time to christen it with a few beers for the lads.

[twincamman]

where all the magic happened -.........SPREAD OUT !!!!!ed

[twincamman]

and Bella the wonder cat from next door with the x ray eyes ----he can see your soul---and is a fine judge of character -but not a very fast sprite driver -ed

[uglyduck]

Here is my little garage...during reno and filled. Will be installing a single side post left hopefully in the near future

[twincamman]

Ugly --you are a brave man ---not a 'drip tray ' in sight ---- ---ed BTW there is a 1971 for sale on kijiijii for 20 k in the Kawartha region ----no interest just saying

[uglyduck]

Ugly --you are a brave man ---not a 'drip tray ' in sight ---- ---ed

yup...no drip tray because no drips..... well, lets be realistic...just a few drips. The tiled floor is great for clean up, no worries about the paint peeling when I spill brake fluid on it or loctite.

[Jon.ford]

This is my garage I am sure I have an Elan some where behind all those boilers.
Just need to fit them and I can get to my car.
Jon

[Jack Olsen]

I do not have a Lotus. And I'm from the United States. But if you can get past those two issues, I have a pretty well-worked-out garage, relative to its size. I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did all the work myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. So this isn't an expensive garage. The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than US$3,500. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com

(This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)















Work benches that fold down from the wall:





There is no 911 that's been lowered too much to fit on this lift. And there's nothing to trip over when the car is out.





And it's got its own a video:

The 12-Gauge Garage Video

And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:

My Garage Lift

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.



But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that.

[Jon.ford]

That garage makes mine look a disgrace I think I will spend the weekend tidy up and re planning, to many cars and not enough space . Anyone want to buy a 205 gti or two
Jon ford

[69S4]

I know what you mean about too many cars - or in my case bikes. The Elan has to share the available space with seven of them at the moment. Plans to solve the problem by extending the garage into the garden have fallen on my wife's deaf ears as she saw the future when we visited some friends in New Jersey last year and looked round their barn sized garage. They've got over thirty bikes sharing the space with a couple of cars.

This was back in the summer -

[Spyder fan]

I do not have a Lotus. And I'm from the United States. But if you can get past those two issues, I have a pretty well-worked-out garage, relative to its size. I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did all the work myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. So this isn't an expensive garage. The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than US$3,500. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com

Work benches that fold down from the wall:





There is no 911 that's been lowered too much to fit on this lift. And there's nothing to trip over when the car is out.



And it's got its own a video:



And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:



Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.



But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that.

Jack,
That's a nice post and good pictures, thanks for sharing those with us.

No need to apologise for being from the United States, apparently there are at least 200 million others with the same affliction

Regards

[PeterK]

I think that the polite phrase would be bijou, but at least I'm using it

[Jon.ford]

I think that the polite phrase would be bijou, but at least I'm using it

That's tight for space in your garage, out of interest did you have to cut front cross member for pulley clearance I thought spyder would have made provision?
Jon