Manspace Double Garage & Gamesroom

If it was £1600 in one lump it wouldnt have happened!!! It £40 here £100 there etc. £1600 would have bought the two sash windows on side (I'm not sure if that would have been fitted either?!) I'm not sure it adds value to the house I think extra bedrooms add value but it would certainly add appeal especially to the male members looking around, but thats never going to happen in my life time!

Looks the fun lumps love it!

Excellant work!

Well... the deal that was too good to be true, was! I hate being mucked about! After that dissapointment my old man was determined to change my mind and do a proper floor! S So while working he popped into B&Q and found some half price flooring! European Maple real wood flooring was £22 now £10 sqm! Handy! Waited until Wednesday for OAP 10% discount day and £320 later the car was loaded. I also had job and knock wed so I also got paid to go and get it I got it home and her dad was impressed and was also anctious to see how it would out so just before dinner we opened a pack to see what was what!? Every bleeding time a put skirting board on a project the goal posts move and we have to peel it off again! We allowed for a 7mm gap underneath only this flooring was 11mm and the underlay was 5! It says on the pack ideally leave the packets in the room its going to be laid in for 48hrs to acclimatise, well by 11pm we had half of it layed and by 7pm the next day it was done! 28hrs, I guess it will just have to get used to it Yesterday he had some friends popping round to pick up a door so he suggested then would also be a good time to abuse them by getting them to help lift the pool table in! using dollies and some sheets of ply we only had to carry it a short distance! I cut some pads out of the old carpet tiles and sue glued them to the feet as they were just metal bases. I glues the rubber to the metal so the carpet is on the wood and you can slide it about on the floor just about without marking it. Putting the legs back on I only had 6 of the remaining 8 bolts thats needed! I found two more in my might come in handy one day stash (took about 20mins!) Only to find that the inserts were missing anyway! So I screwed one end on, I'l have to find some more nuts and bolts later! I got the skirtig board back on gave it a clean, now all I have to do is re caulk it and touch up a bit of paint! I also need to level the table properly but a quick roll and its pretty good as is!





There plenty of room around it, i've pushed it nearer the end so theres more room by the entrance, now I can start filling it with the rest of my 'Junk'! The table also needs final detailing, polishing the feet up etc and giving all the chrome a once over.

Awesome work. I want one! To be fair, you're making me seriously tempted to build a timber extension on the back of my garage. I was tempted to get it block built, which is beyond my skills. However, seeing this, and knowing that I've built some stud walls and am generally handy with timber is making me really tempted just to go for it. I bet you wished you'd ended up getting the ceiling plastered - plastered finish seems to need less paint for decent coverage too. Where can you go with this next?!

That is brilliant! Well done!!

Just re-read this thread again.

My winner for build thread of all time.

I am going to send you a PM as well in a moment, I need to speak to you on a phone.

Well, after the last update, I can say that a whole load of changes have gone on in the various spaces Ashley has created.
I get the feeling he prefers to do stuff, rather than just talk about it. So posting updates are less important than actually getting out there and doing stuff.

I had a job interview in Portsmouth yesterday, about 5 minutes and less than a mile from his place.

So I took the torches I had made for him for the "manspace" over.....



When I got there at 10.15, I found the man busy in the kitchen.



Making some Bacon Butties.... and coffee.

These were quickly dispatched, Thanks a lot mate, they were rather good, in fact, very good.



Of course we went and had a good look at the garage, its contents, and his games room.

I have to say, the photos do not do any of the stuff he has made, any justice. It is as good as you can imagine.

While out there, he produced this book and gave it to me..... just how much better can a day get?



Ashley has also been collecting some number plates for me while doing his day/night job, and gave these to me before I left for the interview.



Included was this mini cab taxi license plate.



And possibly the most important sign ever.....

It will be going down the end of the drive at the garage, so then I can leave a sign on the house front door to say I am at the "back-END" if people come knocking.




So a great day out, meeting a cool guy and getting to feed both my belly and my hobby/habit.

Thats one nice manspace you have also you have the same Pioneer unit as me didn't think anyone had one this days as there big but do give of good crisp sound