Category: Garage

Today we finished putting up the metal shelving uprights. The extra ones we needed came today in the post so all the four walls now have some shelves on them. We have re-cycled most of them from the refit of our old shop, thus the multi colours! We will paint over them when we paint the walls…

Garage Shelving Uprights Installed

Garage Shelving Uprights Installed

Garage Shelving Uprights Installed

We also put on the correct bolts and washers to fix and hold the covers to the counter weight chambers inside the walls.

We have finished slicing the walls up! All the slots for all the metal upright brackets are now done and ready for them. There are in total 64 individual uprights to screw up spread all over the three main walls and two smaller sections on the front wall. A rough calculation shows that we could have well over 120metres linear distance of shelving! That hopefully will be enough!

We have been slicing up the walls in the last three days! We have cut out the windows (again) to let in the daylight, trimmed around the counter weight panels coverings

We are slicing vertical slots to recess the upright shelving brackets (this reduces that annoying gap at the back).

The garage is the place where all sorts of things will be dumped and we are making sure we have plenty of shelves to store the “Junk”!

Just one more day of slicing slots into the last side wall and front wall then we can mount the metalwork!

We have spent the last three days putting up the Fermacell sheets on the walls of the garage. Virtually all four walls of the front half of the garage is covered now.

Garage Fermacell on walls LF

Garage Fermacell on walls ML

Garage Fermacell on walls MR

Garage Fermacell on walls RF

We started using 38mm staples but decided to switch to the shorter 25mm staples as they seem to be holding just as well and the majority of the thickness (made of 18mm OSB and 10mm Fermacell) is only slightly deeper than 25mm! it is working very well so far.

Next we will have to fill in the staples holes and the joints between panels, we did a small test today and we are wondering if the filler supplied by the Fermacell people is the same as Polyfilla. We are planning to do further tests to find out.

The technique of snapping the boards at the cut line seems to be working ok as long as the “waste” piece is large enough to bend in one piece without breaking into smaller pieces. Just a quick wipe with the Surform to smooth off the slightly ragged edge and that is it. No flying dust from a circular saw! Thank goodness!

The boards are very flat and very regular in thickness and are joining together very well. It is looking good! Can’t wait for the finished article!

The first stage of the interior assembly of the walls is completed, well at least the front part of the garage is!

OSB Lining complete

OSB Lining complete

OSB Lining complete

OSB Lining complete

As you can see, there is a slot half way up the wall, called the The Utility Rail, open and ready for the electrical cables etc. It is a 100mm (4inches) high cavity all the way around the garage. This will allow us to have sockets anywhere we want as well as compressed air outlets, data network connections, vacuum ports and anything else we might think of in years to come!

Drift of sawdust

It was a pretty dusty environment we were working in but we had dust masks and thank goodness we had especially when we were sweeping the sawdust up!

The Fermacell will go up on the ceiling first tomorrow and then on the walls themselves in a few days time. This will create almost the final finishing surface! Just nice brilliant white emulsion paint as the finishing touch!

P.S. The light splotches on the photos are air born dust reflecting the flash.

In the garage, the front part, we have been putting up the first layer of wall boards. This layer is made of sheets of 18mm OSB with the edges cut to form tongues and grooves interlocking structures to make a very strong joints without the need to keep aligning the sheet’s edges onto the horizontal battens.

We have done the left and right hand side of the garage and have started on the middle wall.

OSB lining on outside walls

OSB lining on outside walls

Once we finished the middle wall, we will then insert the glass wool insulation into the roof space and cover it all up with our new Fermacell. Then go around to place more Fermacell on the walls too! That would make the front part of the garage pretty much finished, apart from the lights, utility rail and electrical cables!