Good Morning Folks.
Well I appear to have an hour or so spare, and no motivation to do anything in the garage having just run out of milk and therefore no more coffee until I cba to go to the shop.
So unfortunately my procrastination leads me to this thread. I wish to detail my wee garage from the day I moved in and how it has progressed.
So lets begin:
We moved in in December and the garage was rammed to the doors with all the stuff for the house and we slowly sifted through everything and brought it into the house as required. My the time february came round there wasnt much left, so it all got piled into a corner and the work began.
I had lost my 3000sq ft workshop on the 10th February and all of my stuff was then hauled back to the house, this was my first attempt at fitting all my **** in the wee garage.
3 hours later it looked much more like this, better, but absolutely no use if i wished to bring a car into it.
Well all the stuff got rearranged, and another pile of **** got sent to the refuse dump but unfortunately no photos of said organistation.
In April I managed to get myself back into gainful employment and with this came a company van
As such I didnt really want my wee MG ZR sat out in the driveway for weeks on end and instead rearranged the garage once more to allow enough room to fit the car in.
You can just about see what I had done here:
Now, with work being completely non-car related, I recently got the old desire back to just man up and get on with making the garage usable in the evenings and weekends. Unfortunately funds are tight as we are saving for our wedding, a house purchase, the honeymoon and I wish to have a few quid to one side to help get the Midget project on its way.
A friend and his dad were clearing out their garage and literally scrapping everything in sight. He dropped me round this top box, which although has no stamps, markings or badges is a really tough wee cookie and is in great condition seeing as its maybe 30 years old
Im guessing it is late 70's/early 80's judging by the 1983 British GP sticker under the lid. Thats as much as I know about it.
Well this was my trigger to just get on with the rest of the garage.
I managed to acquire 4 lengths of 2x4 and 4 lengths of 2x2.
Anyway, no scribbles, no drawings, 4 hours and a borrowed wood saw.
With my proposed surface for the top of it, it will be level with the top of my current roll cab. Is just tall enough to accept 3 of my work's projector boxes which are surplus to requirement but strong and useful in place of storage bins until i sort the attic out.
Its 6' long and 32" wide as the worktop thats coming is 33" wide and i fancied a little overlap.
I also liberated 2 server rack drawers from work that were heading for the skip and mounted them at the far end, really heavy duty ball bearings and the rollers extend far enoug to allow the drawer to extend clear of the front of the bench.
All cut by hand and thrown together using 3" 7mm wood screws sent home by my DeWalt 18v beauty.
Anyway, I am proud as it is my first ever attempt at any form of woodwork.
And a huge thanks to those who posted theirs on here, it gave me the ideas for notching the 2x4
The front edge of the bench is also built to take the doors when i get the ply and alloy together to make them and sit flush with the outside edge.
Jenson decided he should inspect the work carried out and determine whether or not it was up to his mediocre standards
Today I had two sheets cut for the top, 3/4" MDF and 3/4" Marine Ply. The rear edge is 2" shy to allow me to caulk in the edge of my dado trunking as and when i decide to fit it.
Definitely a solid piece f workshop furniture now.
Also put my laptop (with broken screen) into the top server rack drawer and ran the cables through spiral flexible conduit up to the back of the bench where my screen is. unfortunately I didnt have a USB keyboard to hand, so havent wired it in yet, but that will be complete before the weekend is over.
and of course the overview.
Garage is very slowly starting to take shape and become a usable area where I can actually enjoy working on my toys.
Well I appear to have an hour or so spare, and no motivation to do anything in the garage having just run out of milk and therefore no more coffee until I cba to go to the shop.
So unfortunately my procrastination leads me to this thread. I wish to detail my wee garage from the day I moved in and how it has progressed.
So lets begin:
We moved in in December and the garage was rammed to the doors with all the stuff for the house and we slowly sifted through everything and brought it into the house as required. My the time february came round there wasnt much left, so it all got piled into a corner and the work began.
I had lost my 3000sq ft workshop on the 10th February and all of my stuff was then hauled back to the house, this was my first attempt at fitting all my **** in the wee garage.
3 hours later it looked much more like this, better, but absolutely no use if i wished to bring a car into it.
Well all the stuff got rearranged, and another pile of **** got sent to the refuse dump but unfortunately no photos of said organistation.
In April I managed to get myself back into gainful employment and with this came a company van
As such I didnt really want my wee MG ZR sat out in the driveway for weeks on end and instead rearranged the garage once more to allow enough room to fit the car in.You can just about see what I had done here:
Now, with work being completely non-car related, I recently got the old desire back to just man up and get on with making the garage usable in the evenings and weekends. Unfortunately funds are tight as we are saving for our wedding, a house purchase, the honeymoon and I wish to have a few quid to one side to help get the Midget project on its way.
A friend and his dad were clearing out their garage and literally scrapping everything in sight. He dropped me round this top box, which although has no stamps, markings or badges is a really tough wee cookie and is in great condition seeing as its maybe 30 years old
Im guessing it is late 70's/early 80's judging by the 1983 British GP sticker under the lid. Thats as much as I know about it.
Well this was my trigger to just get on with the rest of the garage.
I managed to acquire 4 lengths of 2x4 and 4 lengths of 2x2.
Anyway, no scribbles, no drawings, 4 hours and a borrowed wood saw.
With my proposed surface for the top of it, it will be level with the top of my current roll cab. Is just tall enough to accept 3 of my work's projector boxes which are surplus to requirement but strong and useful in place of storage bins until i sort the attic out.
Its 6' long and 32" wide as the worktop thats coming is 33" wide and i fancied a little overlap.
I also liberated 2 server rack drawers from work that were heading for the skip and mounted them at the far end, really heavy duty ball bearings and the rollers extend far enoug to allow the drawer to extend clear of the front of the bench.
All cut by hand and thrown together using 3" 7mm wood screws sent home by my DeWalt 18v beauty.
Anyway, I am proud as it is my first ever attempt at any form of woodwork.
And a huge thanks to those who posted theirs on here, it gave me the ideas for notching the 2x4
The front edge of the bench is also built to take the doors when i get the ply and alloy together to make them and sit flush with the outside edge.
Jenson decided he should inspect the work carried out and determine whether or not it was up to his mediocre standards
Today I had two sheets cut for the top, 3/4" MDF and 3/4" Marine Ply. The rear edge is 2" shy to allow me to caulk in the edge of my dado trunking as and when i decide to fit it.
Definitely a solid piece f workshop furniture now.
Also put my laptop (with broken screen) into the top server rack drawer and ran the cables through spiral flexible conduit up to the back of the bench where my screen is. unfortunately I didnt have a USB keyboard to hand, so havent wired it in yet, but that will be complete before the weekend is over.
and of course the overview.
Garage is very slowly starting to take shape and become a usable area where I can actually enjoy working on my toys.
....great to see some more irish peeps on here...im based in wicklow myself....i should get some pics of my shack up really....some of the garages on here are just so amazing and the use of sapce is savage 
