How plush is your car building work space..

What luxurys do you have?

Over the years I have build cars and bikes in some weird places. Ive done a full rebuild on a bike five storys up on a flats balcony.
My beetles got built at work and a girlfriends house.....chee I loved that girl for here garage....... My seven was built in a store room for the local shebeen selling illegal liquor to the locals outside of hours. moved out when they demolished the building then got a share of a warehouse that got robbed and my wheels and tools got taken. That followed a few house moves and ended with the car getting shipped back to the UK where we had a cellar workshop for a time.
It ended up in my father in laws outhouse.

Sold the lot when I was broke and a student
restarted all over again


So boys where do you build and what crazy places have you had to work

One crazy loco man built on his patio in the dead of winter in Scotland


Seems the poll wont work the way I thought so just list on your postings

[Edited on 30-4-07 by mangogrooveworkshop]

I've got six of the above, but can only vote for one at a time?

Mangogrooveworkshop.....'So boys where do you build and what crazy places have you had to work.....'

Best not answer this one then!


Fozzie

just managed to get the parents to get all there carp out of the garage and into a shed so i now have pretty much the whole garage to work in no heating though

I voted for the last option...
started build early December!!!

Moved house and the only thing I wanted was a double garage, my wife on the other hand, wanted the earth; and got 90% of it.

The only thing I havn't got is heating, as long as you have a little bit of carpet, a full beer fridge and a full 72 bottle wine rack for those bad days, what more do you need.

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Originally posted by dan__wright
just managed to get the parents to get all there carp out of the garage and into a shed so i now have pretty much the whole garage to work in no heating though

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I started building at my dad's place, then moved house and got my own garage half way through building. The garage is attached to the house, so some of the things like a kettle aren't technically in the garage, but near enough. The wireless works OK out there so I have LCB access whilst working too.

I would like a bit more space and maybe a window, but that's being picky really.

When I came to view my current house, I got as far as the garage doors, got out my mobile and made an offer. I hadn't even seen inside the house.
The house is almost finished (after 10 years!) And the garage is soon to have a new roof, first floor and galley kitchen built!

I am building mine in my father inlaws garage and have a wood burning stove,tv,radio and a full bench with 2 vices. its a good size and we even had 2 chassis in it for a while. I have built stock cars in a small shed in the middle of winter before and that was no fun

Yes to; 1,2,3,4,5 & 9, soon to have 6 & 8.
Almost had two twin under counter beer chillers, but canibalised them for a project.

I have a little fan heater, which is about as effective as someone at the far end of the garage blowing at me! Although I do have a big ally topped bench (which I nicked from work!) and a nice big vice. Still lacking much space to actually do anything, but a new shed should sort that out for a few months.

Do you have a kettle YES
Do you have heating YES
Do you have power and lighting YES
Do you have a radio YES
Do you have telephone Only the mobile
Do you have broadband and computer NO
Do you have Sky and TV Don't be daft too busy working to watch TV
Do you have hot and cold running water Very Cold running water
Do you have proper bench and vice Home made bench with3" vice, nice 6" vice got out of skip but not installed
Do you have to work in the street Only when it breaks down
Do you have to work on the lawn what's a lawn?
Do you have build in your bedroom NO
Do you have to build at relations house NO
Do you have a space at work to build Can use lathe and drill

caber

Do you have a kettle No Kithen is the annexe
Do you have heating yes infra red £10 at exssxeter show
Do you have power and lighting lots
Do you have a radio yes
Do you have telephone mobile count?
Do you have broadband and computer wirles lapdog when nessesary
Do you have Sky and TV B=W tV
Do you have hot and cold running water Outside tap , got my own toilet though
Do you have proper bench and vice Oh yes 3!
Do you have to work in the street No
Do you have to work on the lawn No
Do you have build in your bedroom No
Do you have to build at relations house No
Do you have a space at work to build No
Do you have none of the above No

Do you have a kettle NO
Do you have heating NO...no need in FL
Do you have power and lighting YES
Do you have a radio NO
Do you have telephone Only the mobile
Do you have broadband and computer NO
Do you have Sky and TV NO
Do you have hot and cold running water just cold
Do you have proper bench and vice YES
Do you have to work in the street NO down
Do you have to work on the lawn NO
Do you have build in your bedroom NO
Do you have to build at relations house NO
Do you have a space at work to build NO

I used to work on the lawn, then cleared mum and dad's garage, which wobbled in the wind and was pretty dodgy, then I moved out and got my first house, hired a digger and built this:


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Nat - iam amazed you have so much self restraint!! If i were in your shoes id probs have put the kitchen and living room in the garage and put a garage door in place of the front window!!! mind you from what i can remember the garage is bigger than the downstairs floor area anyway!!
What you have is what i was after when i built big garage at old house but now turned to property development instead. One day i fancy a std double sized but with added first floor as workshop area. old stone barn would be ideal............ dreaming..........

Do you have a kettle - no Kitchen through door
Do you have heating - no, halogen lights help as does being built into the house.
Do you have power and lighting - yes
Do you have a radio - yes
Do you have telephone - no
Do you have broadband and computer wireless laptop - no
Do you have Sky and TV - no
Do you have hot and cold running water - cold hose point
Do you have proper bench and vice - yes
Do you have to work in the street - no
Do you have to work on the lawn - no
Do you have build in your bedroom - no
Do you have to build at relations house - no
Do you have a space at work to build - no
Do you have none of the above - n/a

Do I have enough room to swing a cat - no, not with the tumble dryer meaning the house end needs to be a clean area