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[panelbeaterpeter]

If you're using MDF for shelves make sure you use lots of brackets, as it soaks up moisture in the air and goes all saggy!

[james753]

If you're using MDF for shelves make sure you use lots of brackets, as it soaks up moisture in the air and goes all saggy!

had that problem too but then replaced the shelves with ones exactly the same but varnished with tough yacht varnish! they do the job nicely!

[minimender]

16' x 20' and it's only just big enough.
Benches and a sink down one side and benches down the other.
The more space you get the more junk you find to fill it with

Cue junk..........

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[duncancallum]

ive got 22ft by 10ft at its too small its ok to store it or to have it as a workshop for both its a bit tight

however it is do able i just have to too much stuff

[biggles]

Currently I've got an 800 square foot unit, it costs me £300 per month. Got room for cars outside too. I don't know exact size, but its two cars wide (three if they're minis) and two cars long. I'm guessing about 20 feet wide by 40 feet long (ish).

Big enough to fit engine crane, compressor, workbench.... the lot.

Ric

[Jammy]

Maybe this is going against tradition, but I try and keep my garage as tidy as possibly now (should have seen it a few weeks ago - it was a complete tip!).

I've found that since I've organised and tidied it up I've had a lot more enthusiasm to do some work in there, because now I have room to work, and also its much easier to work because everything is easy to find, etc.

I think its very important to have regular clear outs of your garage/workshop, and to keep it clean and tidy. You'll find your life spent in there is 10x better if you do.

[Amy]

Maybe this is going against tradition, but I try and keep my garage as tidy as possibly now (should have seen it a few weeks ago - it was a complete tip!).

I've found that since I've organised and tidied it up I've had a lot more enthusiasm to do some work in there, because now I have room to work, and also its much easier to work because everything is easy to find, etc.

I think its very important to have regular clear outs of your garage/workshop, and to keep it clean and tidy. You'll find your life spent in there is 10x better if you do.

You sound so much like Simon.... I could list the colossal mountain of equipment he has in our garage, but if you walked in there now you would never believe it. He's like someone with OCD when it comes to the garage (house is a different story!).

Everything has it's place, it looks like something off American Hotrod now, perfectly clean and tidy, with room to work and he knows exactly where everything is all the time.... Since he organised it all his way he's got so much more done, he absolutely loves it!


And I get told off if I put somethng back in the wrong toolchest....

[Jammy]

To be honest mine isn't that organised YET. All my hand tools are just lumped together in a drawer, I have loads of Mini bits sat on shelves in no particular order, etc. But if every weekend I do a bit more organising then it shouldn't be too long before it becomes OCD world.

[duncancallum]

I go though patches of being really tidy and then it slowly creeps back to bing a hole and then i blitz it

normaly my work area is tidy but i pile my tools up on the bench rather than clean them and put them away asap

[Amy]

I go though patches of being really tidy and then it slowly creeps back to bing a hole and then i blitz it

normaly my work area is tidy but i pile my tools up on the bench rather than clean them and put them away asap

To be honest Dunc, with Monica Christa by your side, it'd be difficult to leave a mess anywhere for too long


(she knows I love her really)

[Shifty]

Well then if we're showing off our garages!!

Mines about 5.3mx 3.8m and its a concrete pre-fab, depenending on who you talk to they either need planning or don't!!

When its clean, theres plenty of room for welder/welding/workbenches etc.

Wasn't that expensive either.

[blacktulip]

shifty thats about the size im after

[Shifty]

I'm glad you like it!!

I got it from a place called ligget concrete, not sure if they still exist so try here as all this looks familar

http://www.premierco...egarages.co.uk/

From memory mine was £1600 errected, i had extra window/wide door/ rear door.

You will need to have a concrete base laid.

Quality wise, its not too bad, but its about £1000 cheaper than a Compton, so i've put up and shut up.

[mighty mini jack]

The pics of my workshop/shelter/garage thingy
its made out of a 12ft trampoline, the poles from the safety net and a massive tarporline.
I love it keeps the wind, hail, rain and snow out
Some one (nathansminis i think) asked for the pics so here they are
Enjoy..

Edited by mighty mini jack, 13 April 2008 - 05:02 PM.

[makka]

my shed is about 8m by 14m, my workshop, around 40m by 40m