Is more like a second home to me and whilst its very well built it has suffered massive heat loss for years due to complete lack of insulation, and it would have been totally uneconomical to even try and heat it, I'd probably have ended up heating half the village :laugh:
Soooo, I decided to take the plunge and fit a suspended ceiling with 2" thick insulation boards for the ceilng. this has meant installing extra joists on hangers etc., before the insulated boarding can be attached.
It will lower the ceiling from its original pitch height down to a more comfy 10 feet or so, which will improve insulation and also light (I hope).
I also managed to get a contribution towards the cost of cavity wall insulation for my 'Rev Shed' and within a couple of weeks that work will also be carried out
Maybe I could now actually move out there full time instead of only popping in now and then :mfr_lol:
I'll post some pictures of the work when its all completed.
Work started this morning on the ceiling and should be completed by tommorow
Ah see now i did this when i built the bike shed, (20x10) ceiling, walls and floor are insulated and i have a nice heater in there set to low, just enough to keep the chill off, you'll find once you get the work done there will be no condensation probs.
Currently hibernating in there under dust covers is an aprillia Tuono, Suzuki bandit 1250, the GTR and a gixxer 750, and there is still plenty of room to tinker :rolleyes:
Hey come on Coney ... lets have some pictures as you go ... watch your progress etc, see the change, appreciate your hard work ... get the idea ?? :laugh:
If there's one thing I regret my house doesn't have it's a double garage which I could turn into a small workshop. When I next move, that'll be a must.
My wife nicked my garage, and turned it into a dining room.
Quote from: Lonewolf on February 06, 2012, 08:44:27 PM
If there's one thing I regret my house doesn't have it's a double garage which I could turn into a small workshop. When I next move, that'll be a must.
+1
That's one of the main criteria when I look at a house. Does it have a double garage
I live alone in a 6 bed house bought just for the double garage!!!!!
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Quote from: Kwikasfuki on February 06, 2012, 09:12:37 PM
+1
That's one of the main criteria when I look at a house. Does it have a double garage
+2 here here
Quote from: Rusty on February 06, 2012, 07:28:54 PM
Hey come on Coney ... lets have some pictures as you go ... watch your progress etc, see the change, appreciate your hard work ... get the idea ?? :laugh:
Ermmmm yeah, I can take a hint Rusty :yes:
Its not too easy to get any perspective cos the photos are taken looking up into the roof area, plus I'm a :shit: photographer, bear with me and I'll show you what I/we got done today, which was alot more than expected.. dropping the lighting was a pain in the arse, but got done.
First picture shows view looking up into roof space from the rear towards the front with the subframe in place and some boarding attached
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/WorkshopInsulation007.jpg)
First we constructed a frame within the existing construction to which we attached the insulated boards... photo shows my mate resting...lazy bugger :mfr_lol:
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/WorkshopInsulation004.jpg)
This photo shows the finished job...well... half of the total job
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/WorkshopInsulation006.jpg)
Another of the same section
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/WorkshopInsulation005.jpg)
The job should be finished tommorow.
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Old Boy .... they are good pics... thank you ... Now we can see the size of the job etc... that will be really good when it's done and you can put in all your sockets and taps and lights etc just where YOU want them ... great stuff ... we shall all be very jealous !!
My garage is good, integral part of the house but I wish it was double skinned and had a heated floor and had a coffee machine and a sofa and a TV on the wall and .......... :laugh: :laugh:
well the jobs about 90% done, there's just some fiddly bits to finish off,
The temperature outside herethis morning was -2 C and inside tghe Rev Shed it was +2C which demonstrates that some improvement is evident...at this stage I have not turned any heating on out there, soooo I'm very pleased with that.
The Cavity wall insulation will be 'fitted' in about 10 days time and that should help even more
Here we are yesterday fitting the final 'subframe' ....it was so bloody cold that the nail gun gas was 'freezing' which was really pissing us off :oops: as you can see from my mate :mfr_lol:, any way we finished up last night at about 5 pm...
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/002.jpg)
and almost finished now apart from a few bits & bobs
(http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n326/oldeconey/004.jpg)
My single garage has sockets aplenty.
I fitted 3 double sockets and then ran a 6 way extension off of one in each pair.
Gives me 18 sockets for low current stuff (chargers, etc) and 3 high current (up to 13A) sockets.
The whole garage runs through it's own mini-consumer unit with a 32A 30ma RCD and 2 separate circuits for the lights and sockets. The 3 double sockets are on their own ring-main as is the lighting.
The garage is carpeted with 2 layers of underlay (salvaged when we carpeted the lounge) but it still gets pretty cold as it's single thickness brick and the roof isn't insulated either. Neither is the garage door.
In there I have a proper workbench and a computer bench (6 year old PC).
The workbench is made from 2 Mainframe computer packing cases (1970s vintage) with a kitchen counter top.
The computer bench is a standalone double kitchen unit with some more counter top.
(http://gtr1000.com/graphics/photos/Boomers_Garage.jpg)
It is rather full with 2 bikes, a skeleton of another GTR1000 and LOTS of storage and LOTS of GTR1000 bits.
I also have a shed in the back garden that has lots of GTR1000 bits.
I really need to start getting rid of most of my GTR1000 stuff as I'm not likely to use most of it.
When I bought the house I was single and my MAIN request of the Estate Agents was that it MUST have a garage.
A friend suggested that I could buy a house without and live upstairs and keep the bikes downstairs.
I don't think the insurance companies would have liked that much. :no:
Quote from: Rusty on February 07, 2012, 09:03:39 PM
Old Boy .... they are good pics... thank you ... Now we can see the size of the job etc... that will be really good when it's done and you can put in all your sockets and taps and lights etc just where YOU want them ... great stuff ... we shall all be very jealous !!
My garage is good, integral part of the house but I wish it was double skinned and had a heated floor and had a coffee machine and a sofa and a TV on the wall and .......... :laugh: :laugh:
Rusty...sorry...I just read your post properly .DOH
The Rev Shed already has sockets, benchs, drills, a lift etc., and loadsa crap which I don't seem to be able to part with...including an unbuilt bike which I've now got absolutely no effin excuse not to get on with...cos it should be warmer :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
I'll post a pic when I get chance :whistling:
Cavity wall insulation was installed yesterday.
Last Night I ignored my thrifty Yorkshire attitude and left a couple of oil filled rads on full blast
This morning the first job was to take a peek at how fast the leccy meter was spinning :mfr_lol: followed by a visit into the Shed, where the tepmperature was/is a balmy 12 c :clap:
a cue for a good thread, whats your bike storage /garage look like ?
Nice idea Mr Viper .... start a new thread and lets get the camera out ..... stand by ..... :smiley: