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I was going to put a thread in DIY but since the workshop will be exclusively for housing and working on bikes, I thought I'd add content here. Also I didn't want to hijack that other guy's thread. We bought a house a few months ago, and even though a garage was one of the must-haves we ended up buying somewhere without. As I've been furloughed for a while and anyway don't have to work during school holidays I set myself the challenge of building it from scratch. Due to local planning constraints and the size of our drive, we're limited to <15m³, <2.5m total height. In order to keep the local conservation officer happy, it also has to be in keeping with the local character. Today I finished the subbase for the concrete slab. Family and friends are coming by on Saturday to help pour it in exchange for beer.  There's going to be a 3 brick dwarf wall, traditional oak frame and slate roof. I have no experience.
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Feb 22, 2021 18:49
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 garage journal is probably one of my favorite forums on the internet so I am pumped
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Feb 22, 2021 18:52
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bike shed bike shed bike shed
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Feb 22, 2021 19:03
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What're you planning to do inside?
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Feb 22, 2021 19:03
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ball pit The interior space will be around 2.5 X 4m. I've yet do do more than sketch mockups but I think I'll be putting a lift in the center with clear space around it for a stool, and a deep full-width workbench along the back wall, with shelves above and below. I may put some small surfaces to rest tools and mag trays either side of the lift, but the objective is to make it pretty open to move around in.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:13
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Shelvocke posted:I have no experience. me neither, but the new place I got has a garage that pools condensation under items that lay flat against the slab so make sure you put a vapor barrier down before pouring the concrete.
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Feb 22, 2021 19:20
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GriszledMelkaba posted:me neither, but the new place I got has a garage that pools condensation under items that lay flat against the slab so make sure you put a vapor barrier down before pouring the concrete. I've been going back and forth about the damp membrane, and I think I've decided to do it this way, with the concrete below -  The only bugbear I have is about anchoring the frame to the masonry without puncturing the wall damp proof course. I'm thinking about threaded rods in the wall cavity but they too will be going through the membrane.  This is all I have for layout so far. I want to keep it mostly open and clutter free, but I guess it's inevitable that eventually it'll fill up.
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Feb 23, 2021 09:33
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This is looking awesome. Will you accept alcoholic beverages for goon friends to occasionally come over, hang out, perhaps use the lift?  I would legit roadtrip down to do that, bringing along some storied Scottish beers.
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Feb 23, 2021 09:37
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where is the beer fridge
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Feb 23, 2021 12:29
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Will it have power? If not, what are you doing for lights?
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Feb 23, 2021 13:06
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Not currently planning on running power out, our house is old and doesn't have anything tappable our front, so running a cable would wash out the budget. I plan on working in there during the daytime and the windows are south facing so should provide enough light. That said, I'll be putting up some 12v led work lights in corners that will only draw around 8-10 amps, and I can run them off either the 280ah Lifepo4 battery or run a cable out if I'm working into the evening. I can carry the battery inside to charge every now and again. Steakandchips posted:Scottish beers. Remind me to get a lift rated for a Fat Bob
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Feb 23, 2021 14:09
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Shelvocke posted:Remind me to get a lift rated for a Fat Bob This looks decent: https://www.sealey.co.uk/product/5637192322/680kg-airhydraulic-mini-tractorquadmotorcycle-lift
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Feb 23, 2021 14:21
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Shelvocke posted:Not currently planning on running power out, our house is old and doesn't have anything tappable our front, so running a cable would wash out the budget. Love garage threads. You may want to rethink power. For an idea on cost and labor, I replaced my line going out to the garage bumping it up to a 50A circuit for a 220V outlet and several more 15 and 20 amp outlets. This required a 6 gauge wire, run was about 45 feet, wire was $2/ft at the time for underground cable. I also added a sub box, but that was donated. Outlets, hardware, and termination equipment comes out to around $5 per 2 outlets, double or triple that if GFCI. You wouldn't need 50A but a single 10 or 12 gauge line would be far far cheaper than my 6 gauge especially if your run is shorter and would support a 20A circuit. Of course, if you can't tap into your power from the front of the house you'll have to figure out some way to get the wire into your box. I would run the cable and terminate it to a single outlet or small sub box even if it's going to up your cost a bit. I can never get enough power outlets, never get enough light.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:00
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You will 100% want power. I’ve worked in a daylight only garage with no power and you’ll make it about 20 minutes before you run into something that needs power. In my mind order of importance is 1) Power 2) Light (only #2 because it requires #1) 3) work space (bench/lift/seating/etc) 4) storage 5) square footage You can be in a poorly lit power-less airplane hangar with every tool on earth and it will be way worse than being in a well-lit 10x10 shed with lots of outlets. I’m not sure where you live but it won’t be too fun to have to gently caress off at 4:30pm on a Saturday in the winter because the sun is down. It’s also nice to be able to run a fan or a heater if needed, plus all the other advantages of power It’s your build, you do what you want/can afford, but speaking as someone who has wrenched in a ton of different garages, including bare bones 5x8 storage units with no power or light in the dead of winter, I can say unequivocally that that stuff is super important. Jim Silly-Balls fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Feb 23, 2021 15:13
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I'd definitely love power out there, but there's a few hitches. The water mains for me and my neighbours runs under the front of the house about 1m out, too shallow to allow wire over the top. I could run the cable along the wall shared with neighbours but once it's at the front of the house, the wall is around 90cm thick of solid brick (150yo). The power enters the property from the rear so the consumer unit is behind two more walls. I'm not ruling it out for the future but it's definitely in the realms of getting an electrician in with complications and then passing an inspection.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:16
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Honestly, get a big gently caress off extension cord and a beefy rear end power strip if you have to and run it from the main building. Just add 5 minutes of unrolling and re-rolling time to each end of your wrenching session. I just can’t help but think of the winter I had to pull a crank out of my F11-250 in the aforementioned 5x8 storage unit with the nearest outlet being 150 feet away behind a locked door Never again. Again, not sure where you are, maybe you don’t get wisconsin winters and it’s not as big of a deal as I think
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Feb 23, 2021 15:21
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Extension cable will work, I have a 200w 240v-12v power supply I'll hook up to work lights and plug it in from a window. I'll try and get permanent power later in the year so I can run a heater/dehumidifier.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:25
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Yeah at least having something you could plug in when you need it is going to make worlds of difference. It certainly wouldn't be code (UK, I think?) and would be hackey but you could bury a beefy extension cord or run it through pvc or conduit. How deep you would need to bury it would depend on climate.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:00
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I'd certainly vote for just getting a retractable extension cord on a reel that you can tuck away and unwind when you need it, over burying an extension cord, but that's just because I know I'd personally manage to burn something down by accident.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:07
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Aye, he could definitely run this back to the house no problem: https://www.screwfix.com/p/masterplug-hdct4513bq-4-xd-13a-4-gang-45m-cable-reel-240v/47295 And then use 1 socket in it for lighting, 1 for beer fridge and the remaining 2 for tool+dust extraction.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:08
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I have that extension cable. Can recommend. Although having said that only two sockets work after I got crud in the others. Now I actually have a double garage with power, I rarely need it working on my bike. Seems to be more useful for cars. A lift would be nice though and lighting is important.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:58
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Do what the previous owner of my weird offgrid house did and have an extension cable tied into the breaker box, spliced into another cable then zip tied to the metal carport frame, across the carport roof supported every few feet by duct tape, down one of the poles and into some conduit he made up out of water pipe, down the hill, across the path (double up on the "conduit" here, duct tape for the 90 degree corner where the conduit where it goes across the step and 20 years of foot traffic wore the shielding off the cable), and into the shed, where it'll run the loving grey water pump as well as the shed lights and about 20 "outlets" that are just power boards he spliced in and panelled over with interior "walls". I mean, if it didn't start a fire or anything for the 20 years it was like that for...
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Feb 25, 2021 07:32
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I think at this point you could get pretty decent lighting with only battery powered lights, but I've never found myself wanting less light unless I'm under a bike looking straight up at the sun. Really what I want is good lighting from many angles, although my current setup is not there yet.
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Feb 25, 2021 07:44
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Do what the previous owner of my weird offgrid house did and have an extension cable tied into the breaker box, spliced into another cable then zip tied to the metal carport frame, across the carport roof supported every few feet by duct tape, down one of the poles and into some conduit he made up out of water pipe, down the hill, across the path (double up on the "conduit" here, duct tape for the 90 degree corner where the conduit where it goes across the step and 20 years of foot traffic wore the shielding off the cable), and into the shed, where it'll run the loving grey water pump as well as the shed lights and about 20 "outlets" that are just power boards he spliced in and panelled over with interior "walls". That sounds significantly worse than mine. PO of my house ran an extension cord out the dryer vent hole, plugged the dryer vent hole with insulation, ran the cable thru some sort of metal conduit above ground, to a pair of outlets inside the shed out back. I wanted a working dryer so I cut the cord and removed the insulation, when I need to run a power tool in the shed I run an extension cord from the exterior outlets.
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Feb 25, 2021 17:55
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This week I bought the bricks and timber. For the sake of aesthetical appeal and keeping the locals happy, I went with reclaimed bricks from a local place, and green oak from a national lumber mill. Both were pricy but I think the longevity and appearance is a pretty vital part of the project. I also paid a little extra for planing the oak so it's ready for me to join - I have an electric planer and am quite happy with using it, but not on around twenty beams all planed on 4 sides. Some of them are in excess of 100kg too. Tomorrow we pour the slab, and it's blissfully dry for the first time in months. I'm back to work after next week so I'd like to get the wall up by then.
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Feb 26, 2021 09:23
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Perhaps put a conduit stub in for data & power now, then work out what where it goes later? Putting in a conduit now before you pour the slab is gonna be so much easier. Doesn’t need to have anything in it. Just a L pipe capped at both ends. You can dig it out and extend it later.
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Feb 26, 2021 09:45
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That conduit needs CAT6 and power laid into it.
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Feb 26, 2021 10:00
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Horse Clocks posted:Perhaps put a conduit stub in for data & power now, then work out what where it goes later? Definitely this. One thing that the guy that built my place got fantastically right was spare conduits under the slab.
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Feb 26, 2021 10:19
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This is a good idea. I'm doing a supply run today so I will pick up a bit of PVC tubing. E. Thinking about it though the oak is going to be exposed inside and out, so I can always bore through that way to have an above-ground access point.
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Feb 26, 2021 10:59
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We laid the slab today.  We started around 11 and finished around 3, and it went pretty smoothly, no drama. We thought we might run out of aggregate so I mixed in some of the coarse stuff I dug up but ended up with a little extra left over. Pretty pleased overall. Bricklaying will hopefully begin on Tuesday.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:10
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