I am about to own my first house that comes with a nice garage thrown in with it (longer than a normal one but normal width)

Its got an electric opening/closing system too!

What should I be filling it with? The scoob will be going in there every night of course, but there is lots of room for stuff in it too.

I'm a bit of a minimalist and hate clutter so sensible suggestions please!

Dont do to much mechanical work but know how to do an oil change etc etc...

Air Compressor

"Proper" workbench + vice

Beer fridge :D

Stereo

Telly, beer fridge, stack of porn mags and sofa.

What else does a man need?

deep chest Freezer for the wife [ you need someware to put here ]

CBR600FSport - ahem i've got 1 for sale :) also several nudey calenders and a heater for when it's cold

you'll also need as bed settee for when you've spent too long in the garage and the wife/girlfriend/significant other has kicked you out of the bedroom.....

just the mistress

Telly, beer fridge, stack of porn mags and sofa.

What else does a man need?

Heating, power tools (so it's a proper garage)..... and phone with a speed dial to the local pizza place! ;)

Have a Dart board in mine....

projector, 7.1 sound system, big sofa and a fridge full of beer. :D

Sorted. :thumb:


Andy

paint the floor. & walls

Decent bench, phone, radio/cd player.

Some shelves & power.

An alarm.

David

I have a snooker table, nice chair, dart board and a drinks chiller - what more could you ask for.. :-)

I'm a bit of a minimalist and hate clutter so sensible suggestions please!



It's a garage. Don't they come pre-filled with clutter?

The Beer Fridge is a critical.
Power tools.
Some of those little clear plastic drawers that you start off by putting the same sort of screws/washers/bits in and ends up being a random access system.
More power tools.
Radio - probably only picks up some ropey local station or Radio 2.
Gas heater.
Spiders.
A mouse - possibly dead.
Old paint tins full of dried up paint that someone had in their loo 10 years ago.
Painbrushes that are gummed up and only useful for throwing at the mouse (now dead)
More power tools.
Phillips screwdrivers with their tips rounded off.
An old light fitting that "might" be useful.
A pile of leaves that blew in to the corner one day last year.
A stack of old bits of wood left over from various jobs that might be useful one day.
A corner where a fecking big spider lives that no-one wants to look into.

Want my garage?

network access so you dont have to go indoors when you balls sumthing up and need SN to help you (we have all done it lol)

Mmmm what have I got in mine:

Scooby (a must for those Lincolnshire roads)
Beemer (a must for travelling 300 miles to see the folks)
CD/Stereo (essential)
Workbench
LOTS of shelves
LOTS of power tools ;)
A nice tall tool chest type thingy
Trolley Jack
Axle stands
Lots of spare parts
Lots of fluids (oils/coolants/cleaning stuff etc...)
A couple of bikes...yeah like they ever get used!! :D
Garden furniture :rolleyes:
BBQ :rolleyes:

If you've got rafters like ours has then you can pretty much store your whole house up there and still make the garage look spotless & mess free :D:D

MAFFA :)

[ggrrr manly mode] I find having a chainsaw sat on the shelf helps me feel masculine, not that it gets used very often, but it is there if I should ever need it GRRRRR! Nearly everyone that sets foot in the garage notices and makes comment, it is a must have item!!! [/ggrrr manly mode]

And some smaller but more useful powertools will probbably help. Oh and decent lighting, nothing worse than crawlling around in the dark looking for the dead mouse only to find the huge spiders nest!!!!

Spot on mate, I have a bit of carpet on the step so my arse doesn't get too cold in winter when having a smoke at 2 in the morning when its -20c in there. I have a small library of car, local paper, property, computer, Sky Magazines and screwfix, Argos, Littlewoods, yellow pages,Thompson Local Cataloges neatly stacked all over the floor carefully indexed by year.I quite possibly have the finest collection of Indian, Chinese, Pizza, Italian, Kebab, KFC, Southern Fried Chicken takeaway menus. In actual fact I probably have the address of every takeaway in a 5 mile radius. I just need to plumb a loo in there and I may never leave :)

It's a garage. Don't they come pre-filled with clutter?

The Beer Fridge is a critical.
Power tools.
Some of those little clear plastic drawers that you start off by putting the same sort of screws/washers/bits in and ends up being a random access system.
More power tools.
Radio - probably only picks up some ropey local station or Radio 2.
Gas heater.
Spiders.
A mouse - possibly dead.
Old paint tins full of dried up paint that someone had in their loo 10 years ago.
Painbrushes that are gummed up and only useful for throwing at the mouse (now dead)
More power tools.
Phillips screwdrivers with their tips rounded off.
An old light fitting that "might" be useful.
A pile of leaves that blew in to the corner one day last year.
A stack of old bits of wood left over from various jobs that might be useful one day.
A corner where a fecking big spider lives that no-one wants to look into.

Want my garage?

Under new laws you can protect your house from burglers with household items. Love to see their face when you emerge from the garage with a chainsaw growling :)

[ggrrr manly mode] I find having a chainsaw sat on the shelf helps me feel masculine, not that it gets used very often, but it is there if I should ever need it GRRRRR! Nearly everyone that sets foot in the garage notices and makes comment, it is a must have item!!! [/ggrrr manly mode]

And some smaller but more useful powertools will probbably help. Oh and decent lighting, nothing worse than crawlling around in the dark looking for the dead mouse only to find the huge spiders nest!!!!

You've got to have a compressor and an air wrench.

There's no cooler way of taking wheel nuts off cars :D

John.

Yep - forgot the chainsaw

This is my baby (having just cleared the trees where the garage now is :D )

http://www.goorey.com/house/RIMG0075.jpg

Only a tidler, got a Danarm 20" back in Ireland - all 35Lbs of it :eek: That puts hairs on your chest & wakes the neighbours up :D

:cool:

Stuff your little 20"er, thats no where near manly enough. You want 1 of these :D:D

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/154/

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

*want*

:D

John.

That is a monster :eek: !!!!!



Nate.

OMFG, Now THAT is a chainsaw!!!!!

:o !!!!

If standard width is the standard width I know then the first thing you need is a section of rubber mat or similar on the wall where you open your door!

I've got a garage but I've converted it into a room. When I first bought this place I thought I'd park the car in it but never did. If you want to jump in the car at any moment it's just too much hassle having to take it out of the garage each time.

Stuff your little 20"er, thats no where near manly enough. You want 1 of these :D:D

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/154/
They didn't include the footage where it kicks back.