What's YOUR garage look like ???

[zedmeister]

Heres my little piece of sanity

[2kwacks]

It'll suffice for the time being. We are looking for a new house and I've stipulated a double garage at the absolute minimum!

mine use to be a double garage now all that's double, is the elec door! the wife got her own way eventually, been on at me for years to extend the kitchen into the garage. still room for my 2 bike's and the car "just about" with all rubbish removed that is! and as soon as my daughter moves all her rubbish out, the wife most likely will move more of her rubbish in so I will be no better off

[Boomer]

Ella once asked me what my ideal house would be.
Well, imagine a garage 4 cars wide (4 large American cars), and 2 (large American) cars deep.
Now, park all cars 2 of the front spots for parking cars and 2 for parking bikes.
2 or the rear spots for machine tools (CNC mill, CNC lathe, FloJet, etc) and the other 2 rear spots for workbench and the bike lifts.

Upstairs build an apartment. Don't care about the layout so long as it has a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen.

[O.C.]

Ella once asked me what my ideal house would be.
Well, imagine a garage 4 cars wide (4 large American cars), and 2 (large American) cars deep.
Now, park all cars 2 of the front spots for parking cars and 2 for parking bikes.
2 or the rear spots for machine tools (CNC mill, CNC lathe, FloJet, etc) and the other 2 rear spots for workbench and the bike lifts.

Upstairs build an apartment. Don't care about the layout so long as it has a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen.

That sounds ideal and perfectly reasonable to me George 

[Martin#30]

Ella once asked me what my ideal house would be.
Well, imagine a garage 4 cars wide (4 large American cars), and 2 (large American) cars deep.
Now, park all cars 2 of the front spots for parking cars and 2 for parking bikes.
2 or the rear spots for machine tools (CNC mill, CNC lathe, FloJet, etc) and the other 2 rear spots for workbench and the bike lifts.

Upstairs build an apartment. Don't care about the layout so long as it has a bedroom, living room, bathroom and kitchen.

Oh yes, with you on that one. Don't forget the four post ramp in there somewhere too.

My garage is an utter mess, always is, and always will be due to my pathological inability to tidy it. This picture is a fair few years old now, but it looks just the same these days except with different bikes.

Martin.

[viper]

on long way down they rented that unit in olympia , now that would be perfect with just a little batchelor pad upstairs

[O.C.]

on long way down they rented that unit in olympia , now that would be perfect with just a little batchelor pad upstairs

They would need plenty repair space for a fleet oof BMs 

[Lonewolf]

The question is, What  does your garage look like?

Its not pretty I can assure you of that!



But its functional, just!   Looks worse on the photo than it does face to face. 

[Ubertours]

The question is, What  does your garage look like?

Its not pretty I can assure you of that!



But its functional, just!   Looks worse on the photo than it does face to face. 

How on earth do you get your bike against the back wall?

[Lonewolf]

I reverse it in and then just park it. Simples. 

[2kwacks]

I reverse it in and then just park it. Simples. 

you may find either of theses 2 lift movers dam sight easier. and less costly if you ever go head over tit the second link of the "tail swing" seem's exactly what you need
http://www.mandp.co.uk/productinfo/525125/Workshop/Bike-Movers/Telefix
http://www.mandp.co.uk/productinfo/548818/Workshop/Bike-Movers/Tail-Swinger

[Lonewolf]

2kwacks, the garage floor is so uneven I dont think either of those would move easily. I quite simply just reverse the bike in and then do about a five point turn in reverse to tuck it in nice and close to the rear wall.

I've done it so many times now it's second nature. 

[Rusty]

Mr Wolf ... that looks like the black hole of Calcutta !! But, as you quite rightly say .... functional !

Martin ... i don't want to preach or appear job pissed and I know that picture is a few years old as you say but please please please GET THAT LOCK AND CHAIN OFF THE FU****G FLOOR .... that's probably £100 'ds worth of security you have there and the lock is on the floor, a lovely hard concrete floor .... giving Mr bike thief the ideal hard base on which to smash your lock with a sledge hammer and crack it off in 2 or 3 blows .... if you are going to use such stuff then wrap the chain around the wheel or up over the seat or however you want to do it BUT LEAVE THE ACTUAL LOCK up around the top of the tyre or tight around the side ... anywhere other than on the ground so it just makes it so much more difficult to gat the bastard thing off .... it might just put him off altogether ! There ... rant over .... just a bit of crime prevention advice ... hope you don't mind ! 

[Martin#30]

Martin ...  ... hope you don't mind ! 

Not at all good sir, wise advice indeed.

Martin.

[viper]

Well I suppose its only right and proper I put pics of my nest on here, started life as a side garage but when i extended the house i made the garage double length and put bedrooms above, so it became internal with a door from the utilty room. As a bonus i was able to put a wood floor down , plasterboard the external  walls and run a nice big double rad in there and connect the power up to the house ring main. I tend to keep it at 18 degs as i do a lot of project work out there in the evenings .
The last pic is of my charging point for the bike, after having a bad experience with a trickle charger i just monitor the residual volts and when they dip below about 11.5 volts i plug my charger into the loom., which actually is only about twice through the winter .
Security is by way of two thatcham ground anchors and chains with the padlocks off the flloor or difficult to strike at (     ) and a disc lock,







all biking gear in wardrobes