Garage furniture

Just remembered what I was going to look at at the NEC. I saw a stand
with workbenches and the like. Anyone know who it was?

Any other pointers for kitting out a garage?

I was planning to paint the walls and floor, get some good lighting put
up, have lots of shelves, a decent workbench and a radio and a kettle.

 

A pair of railway sleepers [1] make a really decent bench.

[1] you have to make some legs of course.

 

Ben Blaney said....

You forgot the obligatory beer fridge

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Old kitchens work well, but that's quite expensive
if you don't have one handy...

Nice. Flouro lights are under a tenner from B&Q
and can be fitted in minutes. Running a spar between
sockets is piss easy too and very cheap, even if
you buy 20m of cable from B&Q.

Let me know if you need a hand and I can pop over.

 

Girlie calendar, with girls in overalls or on a beach. More traditional
than pop star. HTH

 

Machine mart
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/

Benches can be made from 4x4 fence posts and topped off with pallet
wood/floorboards and the like. Secondhand dexion is usually pretty cheap
and easily available.

The important things are storage, light, cleanliness and ease of
cleaning, storage, decent benches, under bench storage, tools near
worksurfaces, shelves, more decent lighting, did I mention storage.

A radio is good. Although I find some elements of R4 distracting and I
pay more attention to how I'd like to ram the screwdriver through whoever
is speaking's head rather than on the job.

How not to do it
http://www.sweller.co.uk/sob/images/bench.jpg

HTH

 

When I get my kitchen done I'll put my old fridge in the garage.

 

Well I'm getting my kitchen redone soon-ish, but it's too shit even for
the garage.

I'm going to get my next-door neighbour to do this - he's a spark.

I might call you for other assistance.

 

On the list.

 

I saw some benches at a stand by the way on my left as I was walking
from the Ducati end of the NEC to the MCN end. Looked good, solid, and
made out of some sort of metal. Made a mental note to go back later.
Forgot.

I think I've got most of those covered.

I'm hoping that having a radio in the garage will prevent me from giving
up on whatever I'm doing to go inside to catch The Archers, or ISIHAC,
or whatever.

I can safely say that I will not do it like that!

 

I've got another bench, but I can't find it.
http://www.sweller.co.uk/sob/images/works.jpg

 

in message

Electric sockets all over the place. I also have an old b&w telly that I
was given. In the garage this a.m. sitting on a stool (one of those short
things with wheels and a tool tray in the bottom) with the bike up on the
jack (one of the best £125 ever spent), cleaning and polishing away watching
our boys stuffing the Frogs - happy as a pig in shit.

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to a tractor)

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From that point, the world is your mollusc.

You can't have too much good lighting - well, up to a point; if you
install 3MW of floodlighting you'd be overdoing it a touch.

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That's a fucking pigs...

<looks at own workshop>

Hurmph... carry on.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

You can still see bits of bench! 6/10 Must try harder.

 

And from this place of hell come those finely crafted and restored MZs?
Incredible.

 

Beer fridge
Comfy chair
Angle lamp
Carpet under the chair
Peddle bin

 

Erm ... dunno! I do know that the B&Q site is useless though.

I bought a "short" flouro, with tube, for about 6.49 (it was 6-quid
something) when I did the garage. It's not great but much brighter
than the original bulb in there. For this you only get the mount,
tube and starter thingy, so you get no protective cover/lens or grill
as they were more expensive. The longer ones started at 8 or 9 quid
IIRC, and got more expensive again with the covers.

 

Ben Blaney says...

make sure there's still room for Lozzo's merc

 

Heater.