The ChasR Manshed

It's good to see it's got a bit of conversation going!


Apologies for being away. I've been quite a busy chap! I'm still putting stuff away, and the garage has changed a little too. Well, slightly.




Damn, I may have already broken that one, albeit, it cane be moved elsewhere . With a shutdown week coming up, I plan on doing that.

Cheers.



Do you have a link to the kind of USB you used?

I was going to leave the walls as they were, bar maybe mount some memorabilia on with HD adhesives, and hang frames off the roof studs, thus, avoid drilling the interior.

The ventilation I was going to leave, as the chap clearly built the garage with ventilation in mind, so as to keep the cars he had there in good shape .

The mice I may well have to consider. It doesn't look like they have been here before but time will tell. Interesting to see all of the suggestions around how to deal with them, in addition to issues arising from it.



Nah, I'll be living in this!

But in all honesty, there is indeed a house on this. I've deliberately left the shots out of the house for semi-obvious reasons. While I'm sure folks on this forum are fine, it's the folks outside of this place whom concern me.



The last guy and the neighbour put in a decent amount of effort.

The last owner knocked down the previous garage and put this workshop in its place. I'm quite surprised he kept the construction similar to what was there before, and even the pebbling outside.

I'm told that outside of the garage, it was just a mudpit. At the same time the garage was done, the last owner and the current neigbour dug out the back and put in the stones and hardcore, which should help in the future .

As said, I never planned on moving into a place with a garage, or even this area! But when I saw the place, I knew I'd have to try putting in an offer, and rustling together some monies.

So, what have I been doing?

Firstly, I have actually started doing more work inside it. However, with no lights, I was going to struggle!

As a result, I got myself a single LED Batten. I know I know. In my defence, I am trying to keep some cash aside for sorting out of the floor, for the reasons Bstardchild alluded too. It will be very hard to sort out once I have alot of stuff in there. I am considering either self-levelling compound or polishing the floor. The Breathable tiles look like a good idea and get amazing reviews. However, I do worry about losing small things down them, hence my reluctance to go with them. We'll see what I decide on, which will be soon.

At least I could see what I was doing at nighttime, which allowed me to do some work for one of the cars. I'll update this soon in the relevant thread.

Furthermore, I have my first car inside it! It's not the one I expected but life sometimes works out that way. At least nothing is in place permanently yet.

As you can see, I have the one batten in place. I'm planning on placing that up top, but am looking into options of moutning them on the ceiling without drilling into the beams. This would involve somehow securing them to the beam fixings which are midway down the beams.

Yeah leaving photos off is cool and I’d hoped that was the case I was just impressed for a first house you’ve found one with such a massive garage space!