show your garage/workshop setups

[ocatoro]

we're moving house shortly and I'll have a garage again, one house we saw had a really nice bench and storage setup with a little leathers wardrobe bit at the end all built in nicely with ply.

it's got me planning what to do in our new garage, and wondered what sort of setups you dudes have...

anyone care to share pics?
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Ok, I like this thread idea (Performance Bikes magazine does something similar) but it's like saying here's stuff worth nicking. Still, it's a fairly obscure, secure location and I've recently given it a lot of thought, so...

The first picture was my set up before I had to move to a smaller garage without 'leccy or light. It was good enough for a wheels/swing arm/bodywork-off refurb on an Abba Stand after a long period of disuse and outside storage. You can see a Halfords tool cabinet and chest (discounted around New Year) which brought order to the previous random, scattered collection of tool boxes. On each side of it there is 4-shelf steel racking from B&Q. One contains mostly LPs, the other has cleaning products and power tools. The small workbench at the back consisted of a wooden board on a zig-zag style, folding ladder. There is a good DeLonghi oil-filled, portable electric heater but I never used it in the garage. If it was too cold I didn't work, which is why the refurb took so long. There was space behind the Kawasaki for the R1 to park.

I've since had to move to a slightly smaller place but the Kawasaki is no longer static, its ready to go. I've kept the front of the new garage (second picture) clear so the two bikes can park side by side, although this does mean everything else gets pushed to the back wall. I bought a 'Halfords Jump starter with USB Socket, Inverter and Tyre Inflator' as a partial workaround for the lack of mains electricity. I've used it with a charger to top up the bike battery in-situ. I've also got two rechargeable LED workshop lamps. I'd love a project but I don't have the space so I don't expect to do much more than chain lubing here. I've put long-term storage items into the rafters on white-faced fibre boards to reflect a bit of light downwards. Two bicycles hang close to the walls, hooked over the rafters by their seats. I've put workshop hooks up where the roof meets the walls so I can keep a broom, ladder (damn, looks like I've boxed it in), buckets and an electric lawnmower all accessible while maximising precious floor space. Paddock stands hook onto the top of the wall or over rafters. I was pretty tough in my clearout during this latest house move but the garage still needs more de-cluttering.

Lastly, I have a 'Ltl Acorn' camera-trap which can transmit images to my phone in lieu of hard-wired CCTV.

[nowhere.elysium]

I have one of those townhouse type places, so my garage is L-shaped. I don't currently have photos of it that explains what I'm describing all that well (plus it needs some serious tidying, so photos won't appear for another day or so), but I'll give it a shot.
Opening the roller shutter, the bikes are arranged across the front of the garage facing out. One the left wall I've got a disassembled bike trailer hanging up. Behind the bikes is the wider bay that has the metalworking kit (lathe, mill, workbench, bandsaw and grinder from left to right). However, at the moment it's full of crap from clearing out my flat, so not the most usable of spaces.
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[ADSrox0r]

Big pics inbound alert!

My mancave, well half of it. Finished the main build earlier this year, took me a good few months from the ground up after flattening a shitty old asbestos thing. The other half goes another 12ft back behind the far wall and is just racked out 'storage'. It's a work in progress, looks a bit spartan just now needs more titty calendars and other manly things but it's functional.

The red plate on the floor is 5mm plate diamond steel to take the load of the Abba Skylift without going through the floor. The VFR is also sat on a spinning turntable I welded up and has room to do a full 360 degree spin which is great for ride-in ride-out every day. The whole building is raised on a 2x4 frame and veintilated underneath into the workshop with fan ventilation pulling through. Aircon is a blessing and it also has automatic dehumidifying (everything is on wifi plugs and controlled though 'internet of things' type recipes to balance the inside atmosphere and keep it warm and dry)

Fully insulated with 50mm Kingspan throughout and automatic oil heating so nice and toasty in winter. Still a lot to do though; at some stage I'll plumb in a sink and cold water tap since the building sits over the sewer run. Needs more ventilation (!) so I'm thinking of some Velux windows. Want to do more nifty storage racking above with the trusses. Yet to finish insulating and lining the doors, must get it finished before winter.

Oh and before anyone asks, the chain on the VFR goes down through the floor into a rather 'custom' ground anchor setup in the concrete base underneath. Suffice to say it's not coming out....ever.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I meant to add, unless the clothing locker in the garage was hermetically sealed I'd be thinking about spiders every time I togged up.

[ADSrox0r]

[BTTD]

[ADSrox0r]

[Hawkeye1250FA]

I'm the same, garage for tools and bikes.

House for kit.

Spider at 90 = definite crash. 😳
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[Tracer1234]

Tis a nice set up you have there ADSrox0r, Good work.
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[pompousporcup...]

ADSrox0r that area is so clean

Very good work. Mine is constantly littered with tea cups, beer cans and despite having tool storage the tools like yours they almost never make it back

[ScaredyCat]

[ADSrox0r]

[NutsyUk]

ADSrox0r
D: Your garage is way too clean... *throws dust oil and paint everywhere splashing EVERYTHING!

Thats better

btw I have garage envy now... First it was bike envy now garage envy...
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[AshWebster]

I have about 1 foot each side of my car in my garage - and I still somehow manage to work on the Scoob. Looking to buy a house with a big enough garage for a car lift in it. Too much to hope perhaps?
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[G]

If you've got decent height; I like to build a large shelf/mezzanine above bike height at the back of the garage. Means you can have loads of stuff stored above the bikes; keeping the front half of the garage for workshop duties.

[stevo as b4]

[JonE]

Here's mine which as usual is a complete mess, I have a burst of enthusiasm every few months and tidy it up but it only stays like it for a week at most

https://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w445/JPee83/20170619_211224_zpsqh4bxq6t.jpg

https://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/w445/JPee83/20170619_211252_zps6kavibvf.jpg

[MarJay]

Mine is somewhere between JonE and ADSrox0r. Rather not post the actual pics... just in case.
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[Mawsley]

[MarJay]

[JonE]

[davethekwak]

Still a work in progress. Needs painting and something on the floor.
https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/DavidHNR/021_zpsrgsnvgrx.jpg
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[AshWebster]

[owl]

Mine looks quite similar to this at the moment

https://uploads.justpark.com/media/uploaded/listing-photos/5553788401706-normal.jpg
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