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Looks really nice. Have a look at fitting a stormguard Stormguard door seal to seal the gap on the bottom of the doors. What blinds did you use? PS get those gutters up  I reckon I will get one of those seals, it's so cold lately! Little oil filled rad struggles a bit. The blinds are just cheap ones from Argos, they're a bit curse word but fine for a garage. I am flabergasted at how expensive guttering is! Need to investigate a bit more thoroughly and see if I can get the price down. I will definitely do it though. Still need to seal and bitumen the bearers. Got the next two Wednesdays off using up holiday so I might have to get on that. I've got the bits. |
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I got my gutters from MKM builders merchant wasn't dear
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Had a little look today, not as bad as I thought - prices I'd seen were for 'kits' but clearly much more cost effective to buy the bits. Got my drill and rivet gun out today to rearrange the drawers on one of the cabinets so I can have sockets including deeps stood up in the top drawer in racks. Original layout:  Big boy drawer on top:  Would really like drawers halfway between these two sizes, but still happy with these for the price. The three cabinets and two side lockers were something like £400 or £450 with a combination of a mate's trade card and my work discount voucher. Would have been out of reach really to get so many of the 'ideal' cabinets. |
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Jan 14, 2020 22:14:41 GMT
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Haven't posted for ages, been a busy bee both in and out of the garage. I just typed out a long post and got an error so hopefully I'll remember what I said. It'll be a bit of a monster post(s) as quite a lot's gone on. I had my roll cabs, some shelves, a few tambour cabinets, and hadn't really settled on a layout. I knew I wanted to make a large bench out of the roll cabs so I got to that:    I was quite pleased with this, but had assumed I could fit the castors facing front to back... not so. The MDF top was soaking up everything that touched it (which I know is obvious but for some reason I thought everything would be fine. It made my vice look stupid as well. I was also getting loads of stuff all down the drawers because there was hardly any overhang. So more on those bits later. Because I couldn't settle on a layout I decided to get some more castors involved and made this:  So now I can have it in an L shaped layout or make a little mini workshop space at the back which is how I have it now. It's good that I can move it because the segregated area at the back is good for some things but would be in the way when I get to working on the car.  |
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Jan 14, 2020 22:22:12 GMT
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Next up was the vice problem. Picked up this on eBay from someone local to work:   Plan was to get it sorted and put some paint on it. Was expecting it to be a bit of a mission but it all came apart in about five minutes, and once I got to cleaning it up it was clear it was better than I'd expected.    Cleaned it up, stripped the paint, stuck it in some citric acid:    Decided not to paint it, I think it looks good as is so I've just greased and oiled it, at least for now. I think it looks the part though. I have put a bit of white on the lettering though. Made a box thing for my box things:  Now I can get one of them out without having to un-make and re-make the stack. |
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Jan 14, 2020 22:33:59 GMT
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So the MDF top was a curse word idea, and I didn't like the way the roll cabinets were all higgledy piggledy on account of the wheels being sideways and so on. Father dearest was down this way today, so I asked him to pick up a 3m length of proper worktop for me, and I've reused the old MDF top and some more timber to make shelves for the cabinets. There's little stoppers at the backs of them to keep the cabinets in place, and it's worked out well. Apologies for the state of the place, I was knackered after I finished this tonight so I just kind of half tidied up, got the car back in, and shut the door... It's got a bit of an upstand on it made of a bit of spare roof boardbut I did a **** job if it so I'll change it a bit and make it neater when I've time. It helped give me more of an overhang though. and will stop stuff rolling off the back of the bench and into nowhere.  What else have I done... mastic sealed around the bottoms of the bearers, which didn't seem to totally work at first, but now appears to be working? Maybe the whole building has settled further? No clue. Still need to bitument paint the bearers though and a couple of inches of the concrete which will hopefully finish that off, but it does seem to be working anyway. I've also fitted guttering, no pictures though. I picked up another one of the shelf units, and put castors on the last tambour cabinet so I can move it about. The last thing on the current list is to change how my pushbikes are stored, they're on a two-up stand that sits on the floor and leans on the wall, but I think I am going to put them both up high to reclaim some floor space. General plan is to put most of the stuff down the right hand side to clear the left hand side and give me a wider effective space. But again most of the stuff is on wheels so I've got some flexibility. I've got rid of the big halfords stack of toolboxes, sold to a mate, and the dishwasher's now actually in the house where it belongs. Now all the storage is pretty much in place I can have a proper tidy up. Dreading it...Will get some more pictures once I've had a bit of a go at it! The back bit as it stands:  When I got the MDF cut for my box thing I had some 200mm strips cut out of the spare as well, and I think I'm going to use them for shelves above the workbench. |
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