What a ballache.
Cleaned out a pile of 'useful' bits of wood that was much too large to be useful, cleaned up all the rubbish and junk on the floor, organised all the crap lying on the floor now there's space to work. Just tidied up the workbench too. Far too much useless crap in storage boxes around the place though so I need to empty it out and reorganise everything so there's space to put all the stuff I've bought in the five or so years since I last did this.
On the plus side though I might need to buy some more organisational stuff.
You will need that wood next week.
Fact.
"You will need that wood next week.
Fact."
+1!
Ive still got to build my workbench, if can find the bits under all the crap in there
Did a little this afternoon too. Rain stopped a lot of the work as I needed space to sort!
Every time I go in there to work on the bikes I moan to myself about the fact that there's no room on the work bench and I can't find anything. Do I actually tidy I though....
I actually piled more stuff on there the other day and am now staring to build a new bike.
JUST ****ING TIDY IT ADAM!!
Right. Decided to get rid of the table saw and I bought a huge storage box to go where it was. In that goes all the power tools and the car jack and axle stands. Not super happy about them all in there but not sure what else to do.
Then another set of mini drawers for the gubbins, and a storage tray for all my fasteners.
Re purposed an old toolbox for the tools that are in baksets on the shelves. Will rearrange the bins on the wall so I can fix commonly needed tools to a board. Must get some peg board.
car jack and axle stands
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Then another set of mini drawers for the gubbins, and a storage tray for all my fasteners.
These in store last week... worth a look if you've got a local one
https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-33-draw-organiser/p/093954097084600
https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-17-drawer-organiser/p/093954123949201
or
https://www.aldi.co.uk/store-plus-set-p43/p/093804070795500
Blokes should NEVER 'tidy' things. Particularly garages, sheds and the like. Everyone knows this. These places develop their own chaotic ecosystems over the years that you interfere with at your peril
Blokes should NEVER 'tidy' things. Particularly garages, sheds and the like. Everyone knows this. These places develop their own chaotic ecosystems over the years that you interfere with at your peril
'turns out it's the most efficient way of working....
(just need a computer to catalog all those pieces of wood and 26" tyres and ISIS bottoms brackets)
Already bought the organiser, but that Aldi one does look good.
Re the axle stand wall thing - no room on the walls, it's all covered. I may post a pic when it's done.
Mines a tip too. I will tidy it...... one day.
My toolboard in my OCD garage.
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Will it look like this when you are finished.
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Merak, people like you scare me a little bit.
Anyhoos, where is your vice? A tidy garage is still a useless garage without a vice.
My wife threatened to tidy my garage the other day. How I laughed.
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Why have you got a small elephant under a large tea cosy in your garage?
My garage needs to store too much other stuff to look neat like those. Several bags of beach toys for the kids, for instance.
That's the way to do it Merak, almost as tidy as mine. What's the insulation on the door, has it made any difference?
Every time I tidy mine the wife decides to empty all the shite she's accumulated in the house since the last time I cleared the shed of the all the crap she put in there the last time and piles it all in the shed.
Like painting the Forth bridge, I've given up
You've only got two, molgrips. Try beach toys for eight! That defines creativity.
Try moving house, the messy garage and the loft with all that stuff you didn't want to throw away !
Try beach toys for eight!
I honestly cannot imagine. I was going to say that kids grow out of them but they probably grow into body boards and power kites and whatnot.
Blokes should NEVER 'tidy' things. Particularly garages, sheds and the like. Everyone knows this. These places develop their own chaotic ecosystems over the years that you interfere with at your peril
This.
Not so bad if you tidy up yourself but if anyone else 'tries to help', you'll never ever find anything you need,
I think I may be the antimerak
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There's actually a kit car in this side: 😳
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A cluttered garage is the only way to keep the wife out. Fact.
kcr - Member
Why have you got a small elephant under a large tea cosy in your garage?
Properly made me chuckle that 🙂
Scaredypants !! You are me and I claim my £5
Every time I tidy mine the wife decides to empty all the shite she's accumulated in the house since the last time I cleared the shed of the all the crap she put in there the last time and piles it all in the shed.
Bags of old clothes which she'll take to the charity shop next week!
I'd love a tidy garage, but whenever I try to tidy it more crap appears. Had to change a tyre on my commuter today and ended up doing it outside under the open garage door just to have a bit of elbow room.
Also dropped a bolt from my roof rack on Saturday, found a very large dead spider and the end of a park tyre lever.
Merak - Member
My toolboard in my OCD garage.
Top row, second in from the left - spanner (at the back) is around the wrong way....
I need to tidy my cellar up In time for getting it carpeted..
We've knocked through the dining/ living room, and ALL the dust and shite has found its way down there...
It looks like there's been a sandstorm 🙄
There's actually a kit car in this side
Obviously a seven. Would have gone with Caterham from the shape but seeing as you said "kit" I'll have to guess locost?
Top row, second in from the left - spanner (at the back) is around the wrong way....
And the ratchet spanners are all over the place.
mark90 - Member
Top row, second in from the left - spanner (at the back) is around the wrong way....
And the ratchet spanners are all over the place.
Jesus - how did I miss that!! Probably explains why my garage looks like a car boot sale.
I'm going Westfield or even a Dutton depending on how old you are... (I built one, what an agricultural thing it was too although it's all I could afford to do with the rusting Mk 2 Escort it started out as)
My definition of cathartic is the feeling you get driving away from the tip having emptied a van load of stuff that could come in useful some day.
The fact the garage doesn't look any different when you get back is a bit of a downer.
It is a Caterham - do they not do kits any more ?Obviously a seven. Would have gone with Caterham from the shape but seeing as you said "kit" I'll have to guess locost?
You store a [i]Caterham[/i] underneath piles of cardboard boxes and shite? Jeez almighty. When I'm in charge there'll be special punishment for your kind 😉
I love the Meraktastic garage , & even he has saved some random wood.
Is the "secret" cellar underneath the mat in the foreground ? 😉
Scaredypants ,that makes me feel better about my life - like Jeremy Kyle therapy.
😉
Mine's almost like scaredypant's - 2 things stop it being quite as much of a bombsite - the magnetic tool holders I found in TK Maxx - just slap the tools back on, and a desk 'pen tidy' thing to chuck allen keys in after use.
If I didn't have these, the place would be scattered with used toolage.
Progress so far:
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Bench area still needs tidying up of course. There are loads of little bits and pieces of brick-a-brac in those boxes on the first shelf that need to be gone through. The table saw on the right is going on eBay, also need to shift those smaller kids bikes on the wall.
Merak that's a really nice finish. What was the method/product? Think I need to make an effort now that the weather will be on the turn.
