[Closed] Help Wanted - Garages how to smarten them up

what is your goal?.. to keep it as a garage, but brighter, or a new room?

If you just want a garage then:

[list=1][*]Paint the floor with Garage Floor Paint[/*]

[*]Paint the walls with white emulsion[/*]

[*]Install some lights[/*]

[*]Repeat step 3 until happy[/*][/list]

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what matt said. Buy some storage as well - shelves and some boxes (Solent Plastics for the used crate/box win). Make a work bench from Wickes laminate worktop (£20 for 2 metres) and a few quids worth of timber and coach bolts. Fluoro lights for best light.

Make one of those boards with the outlines of tools painted on it. You'll never look back. 🙂

dont forget:

Workbench with storage for bits

some form of stereo

mine has a fridge for cold drinks and snacks

i went for a garage mat after painting as i think it looks better and keeps any dust down

Make a work bench

Tick

I made my own with these instructions:

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Make one of those boards with the outlines of tools painted on it.

Tick

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I think you need to check your frame's rear triangle alignment there.

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Mine

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Chucky - the handle on your vice is neither horizontal nor vertical and the lights are not fitted centrally in the ceiling, C+

the lights are central, it's the photo thats on the pi$$.

good point about the vice, ill sort it

for bargin storage and work benches etc:
http://www.bigdug.co.uk/

Chucky

Your tiles could do with a polish as well.

have a butchers at these garages..........hope you have deep pockets 😆

http://www.luxury4play.com/automotive/36568-worlds-most-beautiful-garages-exotics-insane-garage-picture-thread-50-pics.html

My shed below, As above, paint the floor, white walls, plenty of light, but the key is the black skirting/kick to stop grubbification. Filing cabinets and Stainless bench tops from building salvage are ace too.

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Here's mine:

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Lights and power, a good solid bench, workstand and whenever you have a job to do - buy the tool(s).

so jealous of some of the garages pictured I really need to get mine sorted out somewhere near to those of chopper/chucky.

guess it won't cost much to do.

Mine is damp though as it's single skinned any ideas how to rectify that cheaply?

mines always a mess with three kids and a wife who use it as a dumping ground, pic below of my litte corner:
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valleydaddy, my shed is steel over paper, now lined with 10mm ply, nice and strong, and you can nail/screw directly to the wall anywhere you want.

mate of mine has this stuff in his garage 😯

http://www.dura.co.uk/

Never mind the garage clunker, that's a fine collection of steel you've got there - particularly admiring of the DogsBolx. 🙂

Like the look of that alfa chopperT.

That Alfa is currently spread all over the shed, and only slowly going back together! I should post a pic or two for the STW piston heads.
You thought bikes took some looking after...

here's some old pics of my workshop - tis been updated a fair amount since

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I've got a nice piece of black Duropal kitchen worktop about 1750mm long by 600mm width. Never used, looks similar to that above actually.

£20 (collected of course) W Midlands based.

You people with garages make me sick!

Especially clunkers, he has a child in his!

Some serious OCD cases there - although the Alfa owner is excused...

Here's mine..

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I'd consider a phone in there too. We have one which saves me missing calls and also the Mrs can use it as an intercom to call me in.

Oh and for a workbench I got an 8ft length of kitchen worktop from Ikea's bargain section for about £5. No-one wanted it because it was bright bright yellow (can't imagine what was in the mind of the person that ordered it) but it's actually really handy for a garage bench because it's really easy to see small bits.

Although, to give you an idea of how messy my garage is: rather than tidy up the bench to replace the previous worktop (which was about half the size) I lifted it up and had someone slide the new worktop under it, then I dumped the old one onto the new one. All the junk was then roughly in the same place!