Die Garage der Schande

[RobFrost]

It's been hell working in such a cramped space surrounded by cr@p. Feels great to finally move some of it into place under and on the shelf. Folded up there's finally room to move and after a quick sweep up I can see the floor for the first time in ages.

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[RobFrost]

A year or two ago I fancied doing some woodwork, including a bar and counter tops for my daughters' Wendy house. Rather than buy cheap rubbish from B&Q a few choice pieces of mahogany were the order of the day.

I bid on a lot of hardwood out of an architectural salvage company which was closing down, having specialised in fitting out pubs.

I won the lot for a few hundred pounds having not seen it and arranged for their local transport to bring it to me.

I was surprised when they turned up in a 7.5 tonne truck. The guys went in the back and came out with a massive bar top about 5 metres in length by 600 wide and a full two inches thick, of solid African mahogany.

After we manoeuvred it into the garage, they went back in the truck and came out with another. In fact they kept going back in and the wood kept coming out for about two hours.

A lot of the stock was Victorian or older mahogany counters, much of it beautiful Cuban mahogany, which is an endangered species and now unavailable.

Some was American black walnut panelling taken from demolished Victorian banks, with a minority of oak and pitch pine panelling too.

By the time they left, not only was the garage floor covered to waist height, the workbench was stacked to the ceiling, a large portion of the front drive was covered with wood and eight huge pitch pine panels which didn't fit in the garage were stacked up the side passageway.

As I stood on the drive scratching my head and feeling like a prize idiot, my sarcastic neighbour walked up and asked me whether I had opened up a door warehouse.

Needless to say there was plenty for the Wendy House. The pine panelling I sold on eBay, with the buyer arranging their own transport, and that alone covered the cost of the lot and the transport. What we see here is some of the leftovers which are waiting around for my next woodwork project. Today's job is to shift it, about two tonnes I'd guess, to the new shed at the bottom of the garden. I may not get it all done as several pieces are a two man lift.



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[RobFrost]

I'm trying hard to progress to the point where I have something Porsche related to say. I underestimated the work clearing out the wood.

Listed these oak garage doors with the proceeds going to Macmillan if anyone wants them.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234358682480

Up in the new shed, to my mind this truss had failed with excessive deflection.



I know the strength is in the tension rather than the deflection but I wanted a quality job and rather than argue the toss with the shed company I propped it up to level and reinforced with a makeshift new truss.



I got a bit sidetracked glueing this walnut panel together which I previously refurbished. It's to form the back for a bar / island in the Wendy House.



Realising it would be a folly to lug this massive panelling to the top of the garden only to come back to the house later...



...I got sucked into getting it all down to shape for my office, something I'd hoped to avoid for the time-being. Finishing this off will be a substantial job I'm putting in the laterbase for now.



With the kind help of my neighbour I at least got it into my study and even got a couple of panels up on the wall.



The shed starting to fill with wood.



...and finally the garage is starting to look a bit clearer.



I'm starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere now. I made a list for tomorrow, and it includes getting the car in.

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[RobFrost]

Well it's finally in and the door even closes behind it!


But there's not enough room to swing a welding rod and it's surrounded by a sea of mess.



Also I realised afterwards that my air tools were still on the drive so I had to bring them in to the front hall.



Still, it's a milestone. A bit more tidying and putting away and then maybe I can get some jobs done on the car.





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[RobFrost]

I'm getting the hand of this tidying up lark. Pretty sure she won't notice.


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[RobFrost]

I'm shaming myself in the hope your collective horror will enforce a bit of discipline... up to my old bad habits again - what a tip!!



The situation is... I've had a property project underway for the past 12 months (alongside running a business, managing a commercial property, raising a family, doing DIY around the house, maintaining 5 cars and conceiving another property development). But the biggest time sink outside of work has been this property. Well, it was finally finished this week, and I can't believe the relief when I woke up this morning. I had become blind to it, but upon waking this morning my first thought was that I had to go to the property and work. And the relief I felt a moment later when it dawned on me I'd completed the marathon and I could just lie there and scroll through stupid YouTube shorts, was amazing.

I have a habit of working until I drop, and if that means I have tools to put out of sight at the end of the day, they just get thrown in the garage before I collapse, hence the mess.

Having emptied the property, a lot of trips to the tip, this stuff is in the front hall and my other half expecting it to vanish into the garage:



The plan is to accommodate it in the garage while still leaving space to work on the 911T. Wish me luck.

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[RobFrost]

More mess...











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[Winston Teague]

Blimey! Good luck.W

[Bootsy]

Does your radio/cassette still work? !!!!

[Ian Comerford]

Instead of wasting all that time taking pictures of your mess you could be tidying it…..

[911hillclimber]

Strewth Rob, make my little garage super neat!

You need to make width in that space, too much wood on the floor, very very space-hungry.
Get a skip and put your ruthless hat on and go to war with it. Goes for all the 'I'll just keep this as I will need it (much) later' stuff.

You have to take no prisoners to get it clear. High shelving is a good friend too.
Uses wood up as you know.

Chilly nights are not too far away despite this odd warm week, summer's almost done for.

Soon you will run out of Brownie points and that only means one thing.
Grief!

[Nine One One]

Just buy a cheap shed and throw it all in there and leave for another day to tidy the shed out - simples!

[RobFrost]

Does your radio/cassette still work? !!!!

That old boom box is like the terminator, sometimes I think it's immortal. It's all I have to play the 80s charts shows I taped off the radio.

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[RobFrost]

Instead of wasting all that time taking pictures of your mess you could be tidying it…..

Procrastination is a problem for me. But I've done a good few evenings now.

I got this board on the wall to hang some stuff off.



I added ends and uprights to these shelves so I can stack stuff higher, and organised a few things.





Haven't quite mastered my daughter's tape printer yet.



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[RobFrost]

Scanning back through this thread I realise that earlier I mentioned the panelling I cleared out of the garage into my study but didn'tgive a final update. Well that's now fully up and as you can see here, it makes for a lovely setting in which to concentrate on my work undistracted.



Here's a close up of the left hand panelling.



I gave one of the alloys a bit of spit and polish earlier today. I forgot it was sat there until my younger daughter came in and said "daddy, can you please move your wheel", and with an indignant face she reclaimed her piano stool.

And here's a view of the right hand side.



Here's how the centre of the room looks.



My study was really lovely for about 5 minutes, but as bits are taken off the 911T there simply isn't space in the garage so they live in here now. As the garage gets tidier, I fear my study will get ever more cluttered. It feels a bit like an old cartoon episode in which the character closes one drawer in a chest and another immediately pops open.

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