Kitting out a garage

[Boopop]

Morning all,

Just played with my newly bought ParkTools DAG 2.2...both bikes now shifting flawlessly, I'm rather pleased.

Anyway, it got me thinking, I've bought enough tools and bike bits that my garage needs an upgrade. Currently I have 3 old kitchen chairs in there, two of which are propping up an old door as a makeshift table. Yes, it's rather spartan.

So the question is, what would you suggest I get as some sort of work bench I could attach a vice to? Also what about tool storage? Cheers

 

[pablo666]

Morning all,

Just played with my newly bought ParkTools DAG 2.2...both bikes now shifting flawlessly, I'm rather pleased.

Anyway, it got me thinking, I've bought enough tools and bike bits that my garage needs an upgrade. Currently I have 3 old kitchen chairs in there, two of which are propping up an old door as a makeshift table. Yes, it's rather spartan.

So the question is, what would you suggest I get as some sort of work bench I could attach a vice to? Also what about tool storage? Cheers

Build one that you like. Plenty of designs on line. Would be a fun winter project.

 

[ChrisV]

 

[Smokin Joe]

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That looks disgusting. A garage isn't a garage till it looks like a tip with tools and bits and pieces scattered everywhere.

Half the fun is spending all morning looking for something you need urgently.

 

[ChrisV]

I've got tools and a table and a work stand.

Is it relevant that all I can do is change tyres?? Anybody else in that boat?

 

[Boopop]

Can I fix a bike or a computer? Yes. Do I have any carpentry skills? No! I'm afraid purchasing something or another is the option I'm aiming for

 

[steveindenmark]

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That's not a garage. Its an American cafe.

 

[screenman]

Most of you have seen mine.

 

[gareth01244]

I picked up a standalone kitchen unit from Ikea in a sale a while ago, it has a metal top so cleaning up oil and bike grease is easy but Im sure that any freestanding table or unit would work, kitchen worktops etc make for study tops and offcuts are usually cheap. I have put up a stud wall with a salvaged door in it across my garage about a third in to block off the drafts from the up and over door and to give me a dedicated area to work in. I keep the small section behind the up and over door for general storage and car stuff and the remaining 2 thirds for my bike stuff. Makes it easier to heat as well

 

[screenman]

Just tried to find a few more and I have lost them, will take some more and put them up to give you some idea's.

 

[screenman]

I picked up a standalone kitchen unit from Ikea in a sale a while ago, it has a metal top so cleaning up oil and bike grease is easy but Im sure that any freestanding table or unit would work, kitchen worktops etc make for study tops and offcuts are usually cheap. I have put up a stud wall with a salvaged door in it across my garage about a third in to block off the drafts from the up and over door and to give me a dedicated area to work in. I keep the small section behind the up and over door for general storage and car stuff and the remaining 2 thirds for my bike stuff. Makes it easier to heat as well

Get some polystyrene for the garge door and cut and fit, the difference in heat loss is huge.

 

[gareth01244]

I used insulation in the stud wall to achieve the same effect

 

[robgul]

This works for me - the garage has a stud wall (with bikes hanging on it) to create a 1/3 size area as storage in the house - and the up and over door is lined with insulating biscuit. It's all been re-arranged slightly since the pictures as I've acquired more tools and pruned the bike stock (slightly)

The bench on the right (under the tool board) is a family heirloom . . . it was originally in an engineering factory that my father bought in 1960, and it must have 30 years old then - the steel drawers had long gone but it now has plywood shelves, drawers from some old kitchen units and 4 plastic toolboxes (containing: plumbing stuff, fixings, spare bike tools, seldom-used electric tools like an angle grinder and sander)

http://www.beewee.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=81

Rob

 

[Drago]

I got a fair sized shed purely for bike and kit storage. It's got carpet, lights, power, radio etc.

I got 2 x single garages. One is semi derelict and I really ought to do something with it now I got the time. The other is in good order and is used for storing firewood and motorbikes. At the rear is a workbench made with discarded kitchen worktop and equipped with 2 x vice's, bench grinder, bench drill, so I can work and make a mess without upsetting the clean and carpeted bike storage environment.

 

[simon.r]

I have an old dining room table as a work bench and treated myself to some tool storage cabinets from Halfords a couple of years ago. http://www.halfords.com/workshop-to...ds-professional-5-drawer-ball-bearing-cabinet http://www.halfords.com/workshop-to...ords-professional-9-drawer-ball-bearing-chest I thoroughly recommend these. Halfords often have "bundle" deals, which with 10% BC discount make them a reasonable price.