3 Questions for all Garage Owners

[28HopUp]

1. Electricity - Let's face it. Our best toys need juice to work, and we've got to have enough light in order to see what we're doing.
2. Clutter - Stuff always ends up getting placed in there. But because of this forum I've done a good job of going through my stuff to see what I want to keep, move to the basement (no shed), or toss. I get great satisfaction from hauling sh!t to the dump.
3. What's Missing? - Since I cannot make the space bigger, I'd love to have a few (folding) chairs to rest my weary *** while taking a break and enjoying a cold Corona/MGD/Yeungling from the fridge I moved up from the basement. Since I started re-doing my garage, I now have more stuff in it than when I started, but the space is better organized and much more pleasant to be in. When holding only one car, my garage is a new-found room for the house where people now hang out.

 

[knucklebusted]

To all the garage owners on here I have 3 important questions for you:

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?

toilet/sink

2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?

windows

3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

two post lift

 

[HotRodKush]

1. HEAT!
2. Small "room" in the corner built as a workshop but rarely used as such.
3. A lift - I work on and restore cars in my spare time and a lift would definitely make that process MUCH easier.

 

[MrNVB]

1. Concrete Floor
2. Lack of insulation
3. Electric

 

[Wingnut65]

1. A Workbench that I can sit at and spread stuff out to work on. Cable TV is a close second when using the first.
2. Fertilizer spreader. Its hanging on the wall and hasn't been used in 5 years. Its outta here soon.
3. A/C.

 

[Fubar]

1: Waste oil burner (Crank it up)

2: The neighbors...they ****

3: A winning lottery ticket..

 

[zmotorsports]

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?
Nothing. Every tool has a specific job. If I didn't need it I wouldn't have it.

2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?
The coolant exchanger that I just purchased. I don't use it as much as I thought I would.

3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?
Two post lift. I would love to have one but I just don't think I have the room for one.

I know I kind of contradicted myself with the coolant exchanger. It is nice to have but I have lived without one for a while and could probably get by without it. "When" I use it though it is nice due to the less mess it makes. Mike.

 

[Auzivision]

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?
2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?
3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

1) Sink
2) robo grips
3) lift

 

[02hawk]

1)could not live with out
air compressor or lift...toss up

2) wouldn't miss....the garden **** and my wife's car in the winter

3) MIG welder

 

[Walterchang]

1. Storage racks from costco. Awesome for the price.

2. My water heater, I want a tankless system.

3. About 1,000 square feet.

 

[crewchief888]

To all the garage owners on here I have 3 important questions for you:

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?
2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?
3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

"Item" could be anything from a tv, to a bar fridge, to a specific tool, to a vehicle, etc... No restrictions.

1. mig welder
i have tools and an air compressor in my service truck
2. tube notcher , wifes car (in the winter)
3. theres no such thing as perfect, but i could use more space than a 19x22 even 24x24 would help

 

[Jazz]

1. Compressor
2. Wife and kids junk (Soon to be removed)
3. 4 post lift (maybe next year).

 

[Vern X-100]

I must have a floor jack.

I don't need 4 baseball bats.

I would love more CDs...death metal, classic country and some Creedence.

 

[bill9860]

1) Pull down stairs to attic storage
2) Nothing - I spend a lot of time thinking before I add anything
3) make my 26 x28 3 times that size but that was all the room I had for tehbuild

 

[Andy Griffith]

To all the garage owners on here I have 3 important questions for you:

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?

2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?

3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

1. The plumbed-in Compressed air system (air drops every X feet, hose reels etc)

2. The 10 Schlitz beers still in the fridge that somebody brought over one day.

3. Leather recliner to sit in while watching TV or surfing the internet.

 

[fflintstone]

1 OXYGEN (we do need to breath)
2 the property tax assement for the barn.
3 a concrete floor would be the first thing I need. After that insulation, lighting and whatnot, then maybe a rotating array of lascivious young females with father issues.

 

[shorin]

1. Could not live without?
horizontal band saw - best shop purchase ever...

2. Wouldn't miss?
Other people's projects...

3. Missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?
It will never be "perfect", but a bigger shop would be a great start... Then a bigger mill, and a bigger lathe, and a lift, and.....

 

[e-tek]

Could not live without?

Several "nannies" (OK, nubile 19-20 year olds) coming in and out to report on happenings in the house and bringing me snacks.

Wouldn't miss?

R U KIDDING ME?????????


Missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

Hmmm....a FORD GT40, 69 Vette, Porsche Carrera GT.....

 

[Quik208]

1. The fridge that hold all the cold beer and soda.
2. Clutter. It always seems to sneak up.
3. A lift.

 

[65Stang]

1. The attached shop. Having the garage and shop separate is great.
2. Wouldn't miss the deck furniture and wife's car. Typically aren't in the shop.
3. Lift... or computer/Flat screen, but I will be getting that in their soon.

 

[freakboy]

1. What is the one item currently in your garage that you could not live without?
2. What is the one item currently in your garage that you wouldn't miss?
3. What is the one item missing from your current garage that would make it absolutely perfect?

1. Mig welder..
2. All the clutter brought on by my dads missplaced tools and other stuff.. if i can keep my tool box nice and clean he should be able to..
3. Tig welder More space oxy accet torch..

 

[Rickster]

1. could not live without? Tools & Toolbox.

2. wouldn't miss? Wifes garden stuff.

3. make it absolutely perfect? An addition that would double its size.

 

[bobadame]

1. Gotta have a flat, smooth uncluttered floor.
2. Could do without anything not shop related. The shop space is premium space. No need to keep lawn mowers etc. in a heated space.
3. Would be great to have more time to work in my shop, to spend with my sweety pie, to sleep.

 

[Ben Iv]

1. unfortunatly the washer and dryer, i just got some new stackable ones so its not as bad.

2.extra junk

3.a huge pile of cash... or a water cooled tig, either way.

 

[W-Cummins]

1: All the **** in there

2: All the **** in there :-( And the mice

3: More **** out there ie. a 1/4" X 10' shear, a 200 ton 10' CNC press brake and a 5'X10' 1/2" capacity CNC Laser.

William....