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Well it's been a busy day in the Mews Garage - today I've removed the drawer from the workbench as it had become a junk drawer and this allowed me to add two more thin organizers, so the remaining two odd sized organizers could be cleared: Really getting it sorted now!

Hey JB3 - our posts crossed, so i just saw this. Yes it would have been exposed brick when originally built. But in the 60s and 70s, it became common to render older buildings rather then re-point the brick work. But this would often hide serious issues. Because the lower part of the house had...

June 2016 To try to clear the space over the workbench, I've been shuffling items around: Move the Bosch folding bench to the old doorway where the shelves were removed previously: This then frees up this space next to the Bosch shelves, so that the telephone shelf can move to here:

I've updated all the missing picture files now - some are lost so the appropriate text has been amended to suit. Mostly around page 5-6. Cheers Ian

As Image Shack deleted all my pictures - here is mine again.... Before Via After

Any updates?

I'm amazed how well T-cut restored that yellow paint on the fire engine! Top marks! Cheers Ian

The front of the property was in better condition, but this dates from much more recently, I believe it was extended in the 1960s. Up goes the scaffolding, and we see the beginning of the scratch coat which has been put over the insulation, which you can see on the lower part of the cottage...

At the rear of the house, we can see the rear of the garage, and the rooms above. As mentioned before, the downstairs was a stable, and here you can see the old doorway that led into the public house rear yard, now my next door neighbours garden. He and his wife were most understanding when all...

Cheers chaps - your kind words are most welcome - it has been quite a journey! Working abroad and getting home occasionally means I have to trust contractors and workers to translate my wishes and desires into reality. Only once did I have to ask them to knock something down and do it over, so...

Guilty as charged!!! :lol_hitti

One solution is to build a full depth garage at the far side of the yard and link this with a less deep building for smaller cars. But this would make swinging a car into the existing garage difficult. Another solution is go max, and build past the existing garage doors: Personally I like...

I mentioned an issue with building a garage extension, which I really want to do - as I have too many cars! One is outside in a Carcoon, and I would prefer it inside. But here is my issue: The space to the right of the existing garage door is only 4.4m, and not deep enough for a garage...

jb3 - Many thanks - I think it's beautiful too - it's a great place to be. I could see the beauty that the cottage could become - it's just taken a fair bit of work to restore it as it should be. I would love to add that second garage door - but I am concerned how I would pin up the structure...

The Fence. I have found a number of pics that I had not previously posted - I hope these are of interest also. Whilst tidying up the outside of the property, my attention had turned to the fence and wall that enclosed the yard, you can see the original drive here as well and my temporary...

Update of drive work Earlier when updating all my photos due to ImageShack, I realized I had not fully explained the two stages the drive had gone through to get to where it is now. At first I just widened the drive, and paved the area outside the door, and where the old greenhouse had once...

As you can see the telephone desk is projecting over the workbench and restricting me to work at the right hand end.

Cheers 1/2, its really coming on. Next steps: 1 - Consider soffitt storage and how to do this. 2 - Move the Bosch workbench into the old doorway. 3 - Move the old telephone desk to where the Bosch workbench is presently. This will make the Wooden workbench more usable. One thing I really...

1/2, thanks for the encouragement - feedback is always welcome! On that point, I sometimes see people on forums not getting responses and taking this badly. However, I note that the 'viewed' column on the index page is steadily climbing for my thread - so I'm grateful you are viewing.

Thanks for your kind words Cris. So I've just spent 3 hours fixing all the links to my pictures, as I had hosted these on Imageshack. I chose Imageshack as the Garage Forum is a US site, and I thought it made sense to keep them close. Sadly Imageshack have changed their business model, and...