so you are going to get a 500KG slate bed down, but not bikes UP? Bikes can't be more than 200kg tops......
I would find an old scissor lift and sink it in the floor you can get one for a few hundred? hi by the way just joined you cant beat a good man cave.
Looked at that option, but plan in place to get bikes in and out, 500kg chain hoist with soft slings and seperate opening for the bikes.
project grown arm and legs The daughter wants to fill it up for a swimming pool. Upstairs now getting full rewire and re-plaster, wall come down, floor and joists now gone. and no i'm not a manU fan
Right with one thing and another, slow going but more progress, all new joists and floor now fitted, cellar has been rewired and has some nice lighting over the pedestals where the bikes are going. There are two hatches, one will be on hyd struts for the stairs and the other will be a flush fit hatch door (removable)where the bikes will be able to be lowered down or taken out. (both heavy duty fire doors) I've solved the problem with getting the bikes in and out quite easily and simply. Using a Rescue tripod and chain block. Managed to pick one up from ebay a few weeks back SWL 250kg with a safety factor of 6-1 RT3 - Two Person Rescue Tripod The floor was 5" out of true, the house has moved that much, imagine looking at the steel beam and the far end has had to be lifted 5". but new floor level now. I'll post some pictures when I can....so much left to do, so little time to do it. The missus wants the front room back b4 Xmas
The term 'Man Cave' led my mind elsewhere to where in fact the truth lay. I'm not sure if I am disappointed or relieved.
I was kinda lucky. Dug about 20 tons out of my basement by hand I might add....all the walls were there..just underpinned, wired, plumbed and plastered.....just on the last room in the house, the bathroom which was payback for the wife for letting me get an 1100 evo hyper. 10 years of hard labour...almost there...
all the wiring in the cellar is now in place, plumber sorting out new central heating boiler and rads. Hatches are in but no struts or stairs yet. Ceiling upstairs now being lowered.
I've spent the last 3 months sorting my garage out. Its been a hard slog , but now its just about done. It's my first house , and I've not touched anything else yet. Work on the rest of the house starts on Saturday. These pics were a week or so ago, but now it's had the ceiling above where my bikes are going to sit fitted with plasterboard. My garage is below he house , but still as it's 3 storey I've got doors too. keep going and it'll be done before you know it.
I'm just in from laying a floor in garage to keep the cold down a bit. Will try and insulate door next with foam. http://www.ecotileflooring.com
Once my cellar is complete, work starts on the garage, Because i'm removing the old boiler from the garage (moving it upstairs), I've asked the plumber to install a radiator on the garage wall. Going to fit a nice work station and bench in there.
Nice to see all of these pics....and I thought I was the only heavy renovater (if that's a word) - 4 Storey house....started off as a 2 storey but went into the loft and dug out the basement - 10 years so far and im just on the last room - the bathroom which my wife forced my hand as I got a hyper 1100 4 months ago or so - bathroom renovation was the deal clincher....its a shame but my garage has not scope for extention its kinda jammed between our house and the next door neighbours house. Its an old 40's style garage -from a size point of view you could get a ford focus in there and not much more but ive got my hyper, rsv4 and my mates tuono in there along with a fridge freezer a shed load of power tools, roof box, kids bikes etc etc every bit of space is used...
well, there was technically half a basement there ie - I could almost stand up and the back of the house and kneel up at the front (we're on a steep hill)! - the loft was half done but crap so I had to rip it all out and do It again....which was pretty well the story for the whole house. it was a right nightmare....skirting board nailed to ceilings, live electrics running outside, blown double glazing - junction box covered in black marks where the old cartridge fuses had blown - lost count of how many bodges I uncovered during the years. If I could have met the bloke who I bough it off of again id punch him in the mouth....plus he was an ex copper as well....so I heard he didn't have many friends in the road (used to go up and down checking tax discs apparently)
