garage – Grant Gibson

Diary of a new garage – part 6

<![CDATA[About six months ago (best man) Scott gave me an LCD projector that he had spare. It's a 3M MP8640 – a big, heavy office projector that originally cost about £3,500 when it was made back in early 2000. Ten years on it still does a pretty good job, so I was determined to doContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 6”

Diary of a new garage – part 5

<![CDATA[With winter on the way, one thing I really had to sort out was heating for the garage, especially on the summer house side. The insulation in the walls and ceiling is working well, but with outdoor temperatures dropping to single digits I really needed something to raise the temperature in the winter evenings. IContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 5”

Diary of a new garage – part 4

<![CDATA[I took a few photos of the garage last night. All the photos below are clickable to a larger high-res version. The summer house side View from the sofa The garage side As you can see, organising everything on the garage side is still an ongoing project, but at least everything is now undercover inContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 4”

Diary of a new garage – part 3

<![CDATA[It's been a while since the last update, but a lot has happened in that time. We now have power, insulation, flooring and even some guttering. Picking up from where I was last time, the electrician came out and fitted a consumer unit to power the ring main and lighting circuits. I read in myContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 3”

Diary of a new garage – part 2

<![CDATA[Today is erection day! The site for the garage was cleared just over a week ago and today – bang on schedule – the new garage turned up on the back of a flatbed truck. The company brought a team of five guys to nail it together and by noon they had finished the job…Continue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 2”

Diary of a new garage – part 1

<![CDATA[When we bought our house back in 2003 it had a fairly typical wood & concrete garage. It was old and shabby, but we put in some shelving and worktop to make it more useful. Then, in the Winter of 2007/08, it finally started to give in to the elements — the roof was leakingContinue reading “Diary of a new garage – part 1”