Moglite's workshop extension

Building the shelves - on the cheap.....

I wanted to make shelves in the shed to hold all my junk.
There was loads of wood harvested from the manky decking.
So, I set about chopping up the decking to make 500mm and 600mm deep shelves.



I set up a bit of a production line in the garden to stain them.
I just used decking stain for everything, and it is cheap and pretty durable.



I was also able to harvest some of the 5"x 2" timbers from the base of the decking. They were pretty manky in places.
But cutting them down into 4" x 2" got me plenty of usable wood.
These stages were a little labour intensive, but I couldn't see the point in spending ages dumping the old wood, only to spend a load of money getting new stuff delivered.



They cleaned up and stained pretty well.
I used some of my very limited woodwork skills to cut some tenon joints, ready for the horizontal spars.



A work in progress.
Each of the uprights was bolted to the floor with a angle bracket to a chemical stud.



I only had to buy one 4" x 2" which I used for the angled section in the corner.
This is about the most complex piece I've ever made from wood.
I'm no cabinet maker, so instead of finely honed chisels, a selection of power tools got 'er done.



I used loads of screws, plenty of glue, and about 6L of stain to get this far.
My lack of woodworking skills was largely circumvented by buying a Kreg pocket hole jig, and learning how to use it - great thing, and perfect for this project and my skill level.



The shelves are the deep 600mm against this wall, just to give me some flexibility with storage.
The steel shelves are on slides, and have been in my loft for years, and held Sun E450 servers, which weight 90KG+ so super heavy duty.
Making the corner section usable made me scratch my head.
But the space either side of the slides can be used to hold garden tools, brooms and sheets of metal/wood



More than a few hours in those shelves, but it was a decent diversion from metalwork.
Loads of old junk re-used which is good.
I had to buy the wood for the front horizontal sections, and glue/screws and stain all adds up, but I've probably got about £200 invested in those shelves, which is a great result.

Thanks for looking

Looks very good. The extra space will be great. You should be well pleased with your shelves.

About a 100m radius sounds about right for that mortar rake, I'm surprised I haven't been lynched by my neighbours.

But thankfully I'm passed that stage now.

The electrics were next on the list, and a lot easier on those within a 100m radius.

A separate consumer unit, off of a spur in the garage was the order of the day.

First fix looked a little daunting



But with a little patience and a whole bunch of left over conduit from work, it came together pretty nicely.
The little white box is for a Sonoff controller, which allows me to control the outside lights from an app on my phone.
I didn't have a suitable box, but as I'm fairly handy with CAD and 3D printing - I made one to suit.
I've made a simple lid, since that picture was taken.



There are a couple of single sockets on the left of the doorway. I don't really have a use for these at the moment, but might be useful in the future.
Can't be seen in the picture, but there is a also a commando socket under the lower shelf, to run the air compressor.

Light switches are by each door way.

There are a couple of double sockets on the brick wall, one of wheel run my small lathe.



The white pipe above the door is to ship compressed air into the main garage.
Not something I've used before - it is underfloor heating pipe. 16mm OD 12mm ID - has an aluminium core, so a bit tougher than just plastic pipe.
Moving the compressor into the shed is next on the list, so we'll find out soon enough.

Thanks for looking

Great progress!

gtviva the garage is now even messier than before !!
But I was able to move the tool chests close to their final resting places.

I will move the linisher next to the workbench, but if I do that now, the up-n-over garage door doesn't open !!

The engine hoist is destined for the shed, once the floor has had a 2nd coat of paint.
Everything on the shelving unit needs to be tidied away/sold/binned to free up that space.




The last of the Bisley cabinets have been shifted from the garage.
Mini lathe is in place, and the jet wash can live there too, as the cupboard under the lathe is all car wash/cleaning stuff.

I was able to reuse the bracket I made to store the hoover and G-clamps - that works well IMHO.



But the big progress is the door has finally been fitted.



That was the last piece of the puzzle for the outside, and the builder is done.
Shame fitting the door came a day after torrential storms here.
I had a bit of rain to contend with on the shed floor, as it had run down the ramp and onto the floor.
Hopefully that is the time that will happen.

Very low sill on that door, which makes getting stuff in/out a breeze.

The tidying continues.....

Thanks for looking.

That's looking really smart, great work!

Hopefully you can get back to the car soon. I'm dying for an update😁

I take it the axe above the door is fitted on the basis of a automatic swing pendulum mechanism to deal / fend off any unwanted tool thieves  scum 

Gin as you know is readily sorted - only the choice of some 120 brands / flavours etc 

Nice axe <misses point>

I purchased a strap kit from Amazon, but couldn't find the fixing "staples" in any of my usual sources, so I 3-D printed a bunch, in PETG they are plenty strong, and fit for purpose.



That allowed me to tidy a bunch of stuff away into the rafters - which is why I didn't fully board them.



I've got pretty much all the stuff I wanted in there nice'n'tidy now.



The long wall of the shed is probably about as tidy and as sorted as it ever going to get.



The back wall is almost done too.
The slide out shelves in the corner work well.
The large empty shelf is designed to take the family suitcases, but I haven't got around to digging those out of the dusty garage loft yet.



These things are never 100% done, but this is as close as it going to get.
Time to move back into the garage......