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[klhitman]

how often do you clean your garage(sweep and dust)? and does you wife say that you are crazy and why don't you help to do that around the house???

 

[blue dog]

how often do you clean your garage(sweep and dust)? and does you wife say that you are crazy and why don't you help to do that around the house???

a few times a week, as far as the wife, what is that?

 

[Concrete B]

when I finish a project. I was working on a car outside, and it got way worse than usual inside. Still paying for that.

 

[abrahamfh]

I might be kind of crazy but I sweep out the garage at the end of the project working day. I enjoy walking into a clean garage in the AM with my cup of cafe.

 

[ddawg16]

The leaf blower is your friend....I find the cleaner I keep it, the better I feel...and the easier I can find my tools...

 

[MarkIowa]

At the end of any day that I work in the garage I sweep or vacuum and put away all of the tools.

I am restoring a 48 Dodge 3 window coupe. I am a naturally messy person, but, I have become diligent in cleaning up every day. Makes the next day a pleasure to have a clean work area and knowing where my tools are.

 

[koditten]

Right before I start a project. I can't work until it is clean.

 

[slip knot]

When the trails thru all the junk get too narrow! OR when the piles get so tall I'm afraid to walk by them!

Both are usually when the shop gets a good cleaning out. I completed a major remodel this fall and everything from that house ended up in my shop, on the floor,right in the middle.

Wife and I spent a good part of the holiday weekend cleaning up and sorting thru the left overs. Took two loads out back to the burn pile and one load to storage. Can finally see the floor in @2/3 of the shop now.

The wife has a craft day scheduled for next week end with all the neighborhood girls and I'm starting on a major cabinet project after that so we will have it clean for a while yet,hopefully.

 

[Kevin54]

Probably a couple of times a week. Leaves from the trees always find their way in, and I seem to have dustwebs around, so I just fire up the leaf blower and keep the garage blowed out. Smaller nooks and crannies get blowed out with the air hose and a long extension on the blow gun.

 

[larry_g]

I clean in the morning. When a project is done I'm usually tired so the first 1/2 hour in the shop is cleaning. I use a gas powered vacuum to (looks like a push mower) to pick up the floor. I have found that any blowing of stuff in the shop only makes a dust storm that moves the dirt higher. I also have a rule that nothing gets swept out the door as it just comes back in with the next rig or wind.

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[bobemmerich]

Clean shop??? What's that? Seriously though I'm slightly lazy, so i won't do it until the stuff gets in my way of the project. Right now with the remodel of the house I've got so much **** in my garage my Mustangs are sitting outside. OUCH!

 

[crewchief888]

couople times a year i move (almost) everything out and sweep/clean up good.

otherwise, as i finish up part of a project, i try to make the truck movable so it can be rolled out and the floor swept up before i start the next "phase"

 

[Lkdelta]

When the trails thru all the junk get too narrow! OR when the piles get so tall I'm afraid to walk by them!

This sounds a bit too familiar...Wife wants to know why I do it the same way in the house

 

[nate379]

Maybe once or twice a year.

 

[930dreamer]

Two different types of labor.

 

[strnge]

couple of times a year

 

[russlaferrera]

The leaf blower is your friend....I find the cleaner I keep it, the better I feel...and the easier I can find my tools...

The Leaf blower is the way to go. I use a magnet to pick up any screws or welding rod ends.

 

[Jack Olsen]

A leaf blower between bigger projects -- maybe once or twice a month.

 

[mjb]

At the end of any day that I work in the garage I sweep or vacuum and put away all of the tools.

This. I find it makes it easier to start the next day.

 

[raggtopp72]

If I do a job then when I'm finished, and at least twice a year when I take the classic car out for a spin I'll do a major sweeping.

 

[99SVT]

well, I got 2400sqf, so it does not get done as often as it should, as it takes a whole day to get it done... and I only have two days a week when I can be in it, if I'm lucky. I think I've swept it out 3 times in the past year (it's one year old)

 

[bd8134]

I use an irobot Dirt Dog. It gets underneath the cars, benches and mobile tool boxes. I put it each day I work on my car. I have a quick look in its dirt tray for what I have dropped and missed. A leaf blower every few months to get the dirt and dust off ledges and tops of cupboards.

 

[PaulR]

how often do you clean your garage(sweep and dust)? and does you wife say that you are crazy and why don't you help to do that around the house???

I do help around the house, if I don't do that I don't get to go to my garage. Not that she has a leash on me and forces me, but...we got 3 kids, two in daipers, so every night a sh!t ton of cleaning around the house has to be done or no one gets any free time, it's either help clean and get it done or the house goes to hell cause mom can do it all herself.

WRT the garage, I usually wreck it for a few days then clean it all up. Got that Black Friday Home Depot shop vac this weekend, it's a piece of junk, clogged it in the first 10 minutes.

 

[hh76]

I try to clean up the last 5min of every day I'm out there. If it's a mess and I'm less than motivated to start, there's a better chance that I'll turn around and do something else.

I try and do the same in the house, but wife keeps reminding me that there's a difference between garage clean and kitchen clean.

 

[eldirector]

I'll clean up tools and such after a project is over. Sweep after doing anything messy (woodwork, for instance), and mop 1-2 times a year. I'm on a organization kick before I start my winter projects, so have been "cleaning" 2-3 times in the last week. I have gobs of junk to either sell, trash, or scrap. I like a clean, organized shop, but that isn't exactly "natural" for me.

 

[bill9860]

as needed - I do like to keep it fairly neat

 

[sberry]

Almost daily, at least some.

 

[Scout Driver]

At the end of any day that I work in the garage I sweep or vacuum and put away all of the tools.

Same here. Otherwise, the garage gets at least a quick sweep every couple of days. Dust and the occasional leaves do a good job of sneaking in. A couple times a year, everything under the shop bench etc. gets pulled out and the tight spots get cleaned.

Scott

 

[A_Pmech]

At the end of every day.

 

[Chuckw]

Only once since I started having it semi set up and sing it. Kinda messy but the projects come in faster than I can get them completed.

 

[APEowner]

I sweep up whenever the floor is dirty. If I'm running the machine tools, welding or grinding then that's several times a day. Otherwise it varies from once a day to a couple of times a week. My shop is 24 x 40 and is laid out in four separate work areas. I try to do a thorough sweep and mop in at least one area a month rotating through all four.

 

[dabirdguy]

When I can't stand the dirt. This varies upon project, projected visitors and how many tools are missing.

 

[drmoonshine]

After every big project, it helps me great prepared and organized for the next project.

 

[1Garageman]

Every second Tuesday of next week I clean it!

 

[Groovy]

Between projects but there are always multiple projects going on. Sweep or Wet vac and air hose with blower depending chunk size. Wife never ever allowed to even think about cleaning that area.

 

[z28snksknr]

2 or 3 times during a day's work I'll stop, collect all the tools strewn about, sweep up the floors, and get organized. But I never have any deadlines.

I had a friend help me one day and he was breaking my stones about sweeping so often, so I stopped. 30 min later, there was a bunch of dirt / grease on the floor and we couldn't move the floor jack around in the pile of dirt and ended up dropping the engine block off it. He turned to me and said "I guess this would have been a good time to sweep the floor". I just gave him a look and started cleaning up the dirt / grease/ oil / antifreeze mixture on the floor.... for the next 30 min.

 

[A1an]

I typically only sweep or vac if I make a mess or if rogue leaves somehow find their way into my space.

 

[djd99]

Usually before every big project and in between If your doing bodywork. I just cleaned my 30x40 this summer and with all the new floors i've been redoing in the house everything is covered with saw dust. I won't be cleaning this again till spring, there's no insulation and way too cold to work in there now.

 

[cowboyjosh]

My garage is fixing for the floor to get a scrub down this week when it warms up to the 50's to get rid of the road grit that came in with the car; I'd wash the floor down and clean up the garage today but even with a heater I reckon 36 degrees is still a bit too cold to be playing in the water.

 

[matty d]

as needed to make it look clean. Spot clean/sweep as needed. Maybe once a week if actively doing projects, every other week if not active.