It’s windy round here and big wooden doors flailing around in the wind next to the precious cars is not good! So I had drilled a couple of holes in the concrete drive to stick the doors drop bolts in when I open them and keep them from swinging into things. The problem with a […]
When I drew the plans for the extension of the garage I could see that the increased roof height in the rebuilt section of roof would be fine for shorter cars like the Mini but the joists of the original roof structure would be an obstruction to lifting average length cars like the Evo. I didn’t […]
There was a step up of about 100mm from the drive to the garage floor. That’s quite a lot for very low cars so any ramp would need to be quite a gentle gradient to be able to get anything low in and out without too much fuss. We’d been using some old bits of […]
I’m not entirely sure what my long term plan for the floor is. I might yet cover the whole floor with industrial PVC tiles but, if I do, it’s still a fair way down my to do list. The problem is that, despite the garage not being quite finished it is still in use though […]
Time to make the most of the space behind the new door. We kept all the old roof timbers and any decent length off cuts from building the new roof and most of the pallets stuff got delivered on so I had plenty for building the structure. I just bought a few sheets of 18mm […]
The garage extension was always going to leave a bit of land that would be very difficult to access so I had in mind that I’d wait until the extension was built then figure out a good place to fit a door allowing access to the space. Then I could build a wooden structure to […]
Having got the ridiculously heavy thing up the drive and into the garage the next job was to carefully plan where the platforms should be. The roof space to lift larger cars into or ones with stupid spoilers like the Evo’s becomes a bit tight so I needed to get this right. With some cardboard […]
Yes! The lift arrived! But….. now it was stranded at the end of the drive and I couldn’t even lift the top box on my own to carry it up to the garage. So if the box on the top was that heavy, how heavy were the bits underneath going to be?!?! My mate […]
The new floor needed sealing before I could even think about any car jobs being done, getting the concrete soaked with oil would mean paint would never stick properly. Also the lift couldn’t be installed until I had a level floor. Started by chipping off all the bits of mortar dropped when bricklaying. New […]
I have spent a lot of my spare time playing with cars ever since buying my first Mini and I don’t expect that will change much in the future so the whole garage extension was not only about providing a space for Jem’s Mini but also a decent workshop for me to play cars […]