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I'm finally going to get round to refitting my garage, currently a prefab concrete lock up size box with concrete floor. Before getting the shelving and bike racks and wot not in is it worthwhile painting the floor or walls? Or a floor covering? It'll be used as a store/workshop.
I'm also thinking of LED panels for lighting and a few double sockets. I have a consumer unit already fitted. I need to consider options for cable containment? To bother or not, plastic or galvie. One wall will likely be framed out to have bikes hanging, I could use this for cabling too. Also I was thinking of a proximity sensor for the lights, would tidy up the cabling a fair bit.
And what is the best method for fixing to concrete? The walls aren't the thickest.
And anything else worth considering before I start?
And any burglar alarm kits or solutions?
Concrete sweats dust. I'd paint the walls with masonry paint to stop them making everything dusty.
Flooring.. on mine I did garage floor paint and then used stable matting (12mm thick) to create a gym/workshop floor. Its stinks.of rubber to high heaven for about 8 weeks and then the smell goes completely.
how big a project do you want? a friend just bought some more sections of fleabay and rebuilt his one panel wider and one deeper + new roof then lined it with studwork and insulation.
worth having several lighting circuits one for general lighting and one for the task lighting
Are you gonna brick up that up n over to stop the sea air getting in?.
chilled, any problems with painting the floor? I always notice painted floors looking a bit rough after a while, but the mats would help combat it I suppose.
t1000, I'm maxed out space wise, I had room at the back but have built a shed which now keeps all the gardening stuff in. I'm wanting to keep costs down too. Good idea with the lighting circuit. I've been thinking about it and a proximity sensor and two led panels or even panels with built in sensors would work. Tidy up the cabling no end. Task lighting could be run of the sockets.
Are you gonna brick up that up n over to stop the sea air getting in?.
No, I'll need it now to get the motorbikes in and out.
Yes plenty of problems with painted floor despite using proper garage floor paint.
I ended up doing it a second time as the first started to scuff and sweat concrete. That's when I put the stable matting down. I also sourced.from gumtree a load of old mirrored sliding wardrobe doors and mirrored the entire gym side.
You can see what the stable matting floor looks like here....
incidently that GT is for sale.for £40
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Is that dumbbell weight stuck to the seatpost? How good are you at manuals without the extra weight?
No it's a barbell. If you look it also has a similar weight near the handlebar. Its to give everyone else a sporting chance of climbing with me.
Need to up the weight though as I overtook a guy on an ebike today going up a 1 in 4 gradient. This was after only 150 miles in the saddle though so I was pretty fresh still.
^lol
Painting the walls and ceiling white will make it feel lighter.
I'd fix OSB to the concrete sections for fixing tools to. For cupboards, shelving units and bike racks I'd fix a couple of planks to the concrete and then use these to fix into.
Some sectional garage panels have holes in top to help with lifting and putting coach bolts through these to fix planks to can make a solid start to anything you want to screw down.
I also sourced.from gumtree a load of old mirrored sliding wardrobe doors and mirrored the entire gym side.
wow!
that plus the leopard print throw, smooth !
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The leapord print blanket has been a source of much contention in our house. It used to live in the lounge (I inherited it when I married my wife). She would often wrap herself in it like some sort of human burrito in an evening when watching telly if the ambient temperature fell anywhere below about 22.6 degrees exactly. Strange behaviour!
It's now in the garage to be put on the floor when working on muddy bikes... much better. The new burrito style wrap is a much more amicable plain cream colour. God knows how she still has cold feet when she gets in bed though???
I think I'll opt for something zebra'ish rather than the leopard, it would dictate the tone too much IMO.
So I'm going to go for painted walls and leave the floor. Two LED 600X600 panels and hope this is enough. I'm considering a motion detector as this would help with wiring. Any thoughts on problems with this?
Just measured up and I have a 5mX3m (and some change) space. The concrete sections have no holes or attachments for fixing so I reckon I'll frame it out a bit.
I would recommend you double plan how you are going to lay it out.
this is mine, I wish I had put all the bikes up the back and then had the side walls as the work bench.
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That said the Pedal brackets save loads of space and look cool as, if not a little awkward to use.
I may swap it about again in the future but its a lot of upheaval.
What is your footprint there nwmlarge? Doesn't look too far away from mine.
5.5m long 2.5m wide walls are 2.5 high.
Incidentally I painted the wall using masonry paint from Screwfix with a masonry roller, it is a mixture of breeze block and brick.
I really should have sealed the floor ages ago before I moved everything in.
The workbench is the cheapest one from B&Q and them baton on the wall, its not supported by the cabinets.
I have 3x 5ft tubes in there one is above the door which you can't see when it is up. Get covered lamps, I went for expose tubes for some reason and now keep whacking the lamps