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I saw Chippo's self build on insta I think. Sadly I don't have sufficient free time or mad skills for such endeavour but still impressed
Andy's is cool but not zombie proof like mine
2 bikes and all the garden crap in it now and a very dusty car is now with me awaiting MOT after 6m of ass sitting and the storage place killing my battery with a dodgy trickle
So, with the shed in place I have enough space to sort out the garage..
It's some kind of block so a pain in the arse to paint, I bought a cheapo leccy spray gun
those are not neatly painted blocks btw..
Some would say nor are these but deffo cleaner and less dusty now sort of sealed. Just have to do the rest tomorrow including tidying the walls, moving my stuff with a proper broken shoulder. Annoying. Send nurofen.
Looks good! Are you sticking any flooring down? I wish I'd put some foam tiles down when my garage was pretty empty. Now it's full it seems like a lot of hassle...
Using sandtex masonry paint
On the flooring front I dunno. I already have a ton of stuff in there and a bust shoulder so epoxy would be challenging. Paint is hopeless. Never tried tiles as I will trolley jack the car. The floor is very soft and poorly done tbh.
So will probably leave it. It will get some hammer
I agree about floor, painted mine, complete waste of money. I keep various offcut / wooden panels to spread loads. You can get ground protection sheets of wood which I have recently witnessed at work in my own garden, to allow 20 ton multi axle vehicles e.g. grab wagons to come and go without chewing up the soft ground. I dunno if these are the same thing look to be poly something? My guys used wooden boards £50 each new although with a limited lifetime they said. Small pieces of 5-ply 250 x 250mm would do for axle stands though I don't bother anymore.
I've been using rolling axle stands (whole car weight on 4 nylon and casters) on my epoxy painted floor. The paint is great (although don't go for the cheapest online paint, as I found I needed far more of it than the stuff I bought locally), however the top layer of the floor has started to 'blow' like plaster walls can do. So I'm looking for PVC tiles now, and I've spoken to multiple companies about such focussed, moving loads. There's quite a variation of load ratings and costs. After a bit of research, I found Ecotile to be good but expensive, and forte lock to be cheaper. Dunno if that's of any help to you.
Yeh the epoxy paint (as long as you don't buy the cheap stuff) is great - it's the floor underneath that has crumbled/blown. The paint is holding it together (for now)! High build epoxy paint will fill some dips and be strong, but you'll get through a lot of paint!
We had a base at the old place which was superb, this one I think was a shit mix. You can make concrete very hard but this is not that
Contemplating painting round a big cupboard as moving stuff on the weekend played hell with my shoulder and last night I swear I got 3hrs sleep.. with drugs
Meantime everything one handed. I dragged myself into the loft to install an aerial and it was not a good decision
