Workshop rebuild part 1

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:53 pm

As most of you know about three years ago I was fortunate enough to buy a 73 911E and a 73 914, at the time I also had a 1st gen Mazda Rx7, my trusty Volvo and the Mrs's daily hack. To house the fleet involved renting a couple of lock-ups with no light or power so any maintenance work let alone restorations was a struggle. It was obvious that a house move was the answer and two years ago we moved to Rosebank farm, not a farm anymore but it did still have the outbuildings even if they were in poor condition.
The main outbuilding was 100' long and 30' wide but almost falling down, on the up side it did have three phase electricity connected.

One half of the building was almost watertight but the other half was toast !

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:12 am

Demolition was fairly straightforward as it had started by itself.

So with a bit of help.

And then the clean up.

kvinyl · Post by **kvinyl** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:21 am

Looking forward to this, love a good garage build

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:36 am

Me too

markm · Post by **markm** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:57 am

Another garage build, i'll pull up a chair and watch.

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:07 am

love a good garage thread myself .... but for car security reasons, you might want to crop that 1st photo so where you live is a little bit less identifiable

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:37 am

Excellent stuff. I'll stop moaning about the effort to do the floor in my garage after seeing that!

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:09 pm

Looks like mine this time last year.!
Good luck with the build Keith.

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:32 pm

hot66 wrote:love a good garage thread myself .... but for car security reasons, you might want to crop that 1st photo so where you live is a little bit less identifiable

Good point James

Mind you, Darren knows where I live and he's from Swindon

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:45 pm

Are you collecting tractors as well Keith.

It's going to be great once finished.

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:18 pm

After cutting up all the timber ( I do love my wood burner ) we started the blockwork, luckily I have a mate who is a brick layer, he managed to give me a square and level starting point.

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:37 pm

myatt1972 wrote:
hot66 wrote:love a good garage thread myself .... but for car security reasons, you might want to crop that 1st photo so where you live is a little bit less identifiable
Good point James
Mind you, Darren knows where I live and he's from Swindon

You'd be even more worried if you knew where I was really from!

Great looking project Keith.....shouldn't it be in restovation threads!

Way too much space...you're gonna need a few more cars!

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:58 pm

johnM wrote:Are you collecting tractors as well Keith.

It's going to be great once finished.

The tractors were owned by the bloke who was there before us, they were all sold before we moved in, I did find a campervan in flatpack form buried under a huge pile of cow sh*t though

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:09 pm

Darren65 wrote:
myatt1972 wrote:
hot66 wrote:love a good garage thread myself .... but for car security reasons, you might want to crop that 1st photo so where you live is a little bit less identifiable
Good point James
Mind you, Darren knows where I live and he's from Swindon
You'd be even more worried if you knew where I was really from!

Great looking project Keith.....shouldn't it be in restovation threads!

Way too much space...you're gonna need a few more cars!

A 2 post and a 4 post ramp first Darren, then I can concentrate on the cars Ive got.

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:24 pm

Once the blockwork was in place I could start making the timber frames for the sides, paslode nail guns are wonderful things.

DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

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