I used carpet tiles and made a bench on casters . Perfect height for working on bikes and can move around the garage
I used to use something similar I built years ago. The advantage is the huge amount of storage underneath, but I couldn’t now be without my lift bench. It’s so much easier to put a bike on and off, The adjustable height is useful, and I also use it for other projects like when I’m building sets for Lady Nasher’s school plays. And if I’m really stuck for space I can move it over to the other half of my garage and park my Discovery over it. I do however still have the Wooden one in storage should I need it. I’ve had a message form another member on here regarding my posts about lighting and power sockets. I Assume they don’t want to ‘get involved’ in public. I’ll mention here that of course you can’t just go adding additional lighting and sockets without doing it properly. I’ve installed a separate consumer unit in my garage, fed from a separate breaker in the house consumer unit. It has separate fuses for the Lighting Circuit, Power Ring Main, My Lathe/Mill, Plus a separate Breaker for the sockets I use for welding.
I’ve gone with Duramat flooring which I’m really happy with. It was a bit of a pain to fit but I think it was me that was the problem lol. I ordered a Valtermoto race table from Shropshire Road and Race which I was told would take a few weeks to arrive. I contacted them quite a few times and they assured me it was in its way but I didn’t believe them so I contacted Valtermoto direct and they told me the company had made and order and that it was not paid for but SRAR assured me it was in Transit with a courier in Germany! Opted for a refund via PayPal in the end. Would never try and buy from them again especially after looking at their finances on companies house. AlleyKat race tables are good and it’s probably what I will get.
The other good thing about a lift bench of course is that you can be creative when doing things like completely removing the front end. Lift it a bit, support it, then drop it a little to support the weight.
Thanks for the comment. It was over twenty years in the waiting, two years in the making, a lot of hard work but well worth it.
I hate these threads - I'm always perfectly content with my garage until I look at them and then collapse with garage envy.
Id love to have a garage again. My bike lives in a lean too and shares the space with a leaking roof... Natural day light is nice though
I just want a lot larger garage so I can increase the size of the chaos although tbf the only way to work in there is to (try) to keep it organised. I do know where everything is, honest
Hi. Not sure I know what you mean but you can use either use a headstock front stand or a normal front paddock stand for under the fork leg bottoms. Hope this helps
We relocated just over 2 years ago and the reasonable sized shed looked pretty good at first glance....until you parked a couple of cars in it. All my bike crap (and more) was piled on shelves between cars and lining the walls which made for some interesting limbo-type moves getting in/out of the vehicles, with my work area a narrow strip at the end. You always grabbed 2 beers from the fridge 'cos you'd finished the first by the time you completed the obstacle course getting back to the door. We finally sorted some new accommodation for the veehickles and I could run amok with the old shed. I had the shits with the slightest dribble of anything bar water staining the concrete so went for solid plastic floor tiles. The concrete slab has a slight amount of efflorescence in Winter, so trace amounts of moisture, which limits options: My good lady very much enjoyed belting/locking the tiles together, with my name muttered more than once under her breath. It's quick stuff to lay, only the trimming in takes much time, we knocked out the double garage in a day and a half. Worst part was moving all my crap around to clear the floor. Doorways/edges can be easily/nicely trimmed: And when you've finished trimming in around the framework etc it looks fairly decent: No, I haven't really got this much room, but the space was soooo nice for the week it lasted. The ball-sack was fair swimming in our Western Australian Summer (low-mid 30's degC in the Southwest)) with this sort of heat radiating off the unlined roof and North wall, but some radiant insulation (that bubble wrap/alfoil stuff) was fitted which made a BIG difference. That was improved again lining the North wall with 19mm chipboard flooring, it's as cheap as anything else (down here, anyway) and is stronger than most so you can hang shit off it even with minimal supporting frame-work. The North facing window heat was knocked out with a $25 venetian blind picked up in a 50% off sale. The repurposed ancient outdoor table, topped with offcut flooring is proof you get exactly what you pay for (cost $0): it's so ugly....but it does the job. The lighting is better than it looks from the over compensated photo, with the cheapest Chinese LED hi-bay lights I could find that met my requirements = $25AUD each. There are a heap of online lighting calculators (lumens/sqm) and it doesn't cost much for a pretty decent result.
Ive nearly finished mine and used Sealey pro modular units, they are expensive but hope they'll last until I die!! Power only just connected and still bit of fettling to do. I had priorities: 1 Warmth - built with sips. 2 Light 3 Storage 4 Space as much as I could - went to land boundary ended up 7.5m x 3.5m. Didn't just build this, there is a huge loft storage space above and new utility room up the stairs. I do like the resin floor - that was worth it. Retirement here we come !!! PS ignore the Kwacker its my sons bike.....
That's a great space, will look primo when dressed with the bits and bobs you have there ready to hang. I'm in the same position, retirement around the corner, trying to get properly set up now because I know none of this stuff will be possible once the income stream dries up. Yes, epoxy is definitely the go if you have the right conditions; I explored doing the same but moisture in the slab is the #1 source of failure and I knew I had traces. I considered sealing, but it's too big an investment in time and money to risk failure so I chickened out. "Book-book-bookerk!"
