Show us your workshop...
- mangocrazy
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Re: Show us your workshop...
Yes, the external surfaces have epoxy and large amounts of ground up granite, quartz etc. And they are not in the slightest bit cheap...!
I went to a home renovation show a month or so ago and asked one of the reps for a sceeding company if the commonly-available screeds could be used externally and got a flat out 'No'. No beating around the bush, just No, don't do it.
I went to a home renovation show a month or so ago and asked one of the reps for a sceeding company if the commonly-available screeds could be used externally and got a flat out 'No'. No beating around the bush, just No, don't do it.
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Yup. Outside is a different kettle of piscatorial things. (These days it's all about surfaces that drain anyway). For a garage though stuff like this should do the trick. It does say 'with wear surface'. Others just say 'levelling'.mangocrazy wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:55 pm Yes, the external surfaces have epoxy and large amounts of ground up granite, quartz etc. And they are not in the slightest bit cheap...!
I went to a home renovation show a month or so ago and asked one of the reps for a sceeding company if the commonly-available screeds could be used externally and got a flat out 'No'. No beating around the bush, just No, don't do it.
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All I read was this:

Then this:mangocrazy wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:01 pm Is that a dismembered arm in the bottom right of the photo?
And immediately thought, what the fuck has he done to himself this time…!sunny wrote: Close, it's a tourniquet(unused, but y'know, chainsaws).
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That was always my plan for the bare concrete floor in the garage, got around 100 blue tiles stacked up all ready to go.Sunny wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:30 pmThe consensus here seems to be carpet tiles. It's level already, just flakyCount Steer wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:08 pm That self-levelling stuff looks pretty good for garage floors, dunno what prep it would need though if there's oil soaked in. Quite fancy doing my garage with it but (and it's a big but!)...I'd have to empty the garage first.![]()
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But that'd mean emptying the garage, and scrabbling around on my hands n knees for a couple of hours,
It makes it easier to throw them away after a few oil spills too.
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I put secondhand carpet tiles in my garage and just glued the door row, just incase wind lifted them. Really tidies up flaky floors and cheap enough off the net.
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...and y'know, Muz operating them.Sunny wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:03 pmClose, it's a tourniquetmangocrazy wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:01 pm Is that a dismembered arm in the bottom right of the photo?(unused, but y'know, chainsaws).
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Re: Show us your workshop...
It depends on your setup. Because My Abba Skylift has castors and the other two bikes are on mainstand roller thingies,carpet tiles wouldn't work for me,it has to be a hard floor.
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Re: Show us your workshop...
Not so much a Workshop, more of a place to service the Bike. It’s a fair size 9m x 8m.
The tools I have are what I brought out here. I would love everything that I have back in England, but then maybe my tinkering days are over.
The tools I have are what I brought out here. I would love everything that I have back in England, but then maybe my tinkering days are over.
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If i knew how to post a photo i would show you mine...i now have an almost complete collection of Velo twins...all at the front of the garage, with a pile of boxes with crap i need to keep right behind....i can get through but its twitchy......i spent an hour looking for my box(es) of plumbing fixings, only to find one slightly above the beer shelf. I still had to buy an isolater....i have 8 out of a bag of 10 carefully filed somewhere in the shit heap.....
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