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What happens to all the dirt ect that falls through? Is it easy to remove to clean?
My vacuum pulls most back up through the drainage holes. What it doesn’t get I can’t even see. In the spring I unsnap big sections and pull it out to the driveway and then I sweep the concrete floor.
That bring up something relevant that I'm struggling with right now actually. What are you guys using for vacuums? I have a concrete floor and bike mats. The shopvac is too aggressive on the carpeted bike mats, but I feel like I would burn up a household one pretty fast.
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The wife had 2 dysons so I “borrowed “ one and forgot to return it. It’s cordless and does a pretty good job. I’m pretty sure dysons are expensive though.
Loving that vise over the sink. Does the sink just drain into a pail or something? I'm assuming its for fork/ shock rebuilds? Stroke of genius there. Can't believe I never thought of that!
My budget shipping container "shop". nice and secure!
“Midwest Natural Light”?
All shades of gray with the occasional sunny day!!!😉
One of the reasons that I went with the flow-through floor was for this reason. Minor dust and dirt just falls through. If I need to sit or lay on the ground to do something, I don't get dirty.
For everyday dust, a leaf blower works well. If there's something particularly big caught under it, I can lift an edge and put something under it like a can of contact cleaner and blow it out that way. For bigger items, shop vac works well.
A lot of guys will pull the store ever so often to sweep and/or mop underneath the tiles. You could easily break it into large sections and do that. The whole floor installed in maybe an hour.
The big question I always get is about oil spills. Normally when I am doing something with a high likelihood of oil spillage (changing oil in the truck, for example), I usually throw down a $3 Harbor Freight tarp. This is the process that I still follow with the tiles. I've had a few minor spills when working on small equipment. One I just sprayed some brake cleaner on and let it ride. The other I pulled up a few tiles and put a pig mat down to absorb it. It took me an extra 10 minutes to clean up tops.
Sweep first, then wife's house vac. I'm really only sucking up the stuff that gets stuck in the expansion joints, so I'm not working the vacuum too hard.
I don't have bike mats (yet,) so I can't give you great advice on that, but maybe do the old Eastern-European method: drape them over a clothesline and beat the dirt out of them?
I've been using retired house vacuums for years. The better quality ones work really well and last a few years or longer. Big chunks or debris from a project I will sweep up, but vacuum majority of time because it does not kick up dust unlinke sweepeing. Ever sweep your shop floor when the sunlight is shining in just right? Massive dust cloud!
Bonus use for the vacuum is cleaning out my van or cars/trucks. For me its just easier than lugging around a shopvac which I haven't had to use it a few years now.
Finally remembered to snap a couple pics of my shop. It’s 20x22’. Trying to dedicate it 100% to bikes.
Unfortunately when you move your stuff from your parents garage, your buddies garage, your basement etc. All into one space… you realize quickly how much shit you have 😂
Still need to do some tidying and bike-moving-around-ing, but there’s 3 feet of snow outside that’s blocking that from happening. It’s just so nice to have my own space.
This is the OG workbench that was my grandfather’s. It’s getting pretty beat up, so I plan on putting a new counter and making it a touch longer soon.
Isn’t that a hybrid heat pump water heater? That should blow cold/cool in the garage nicely.
Yes, it is, and it does blow a significant amount of cool air. In the wintertime, it's downright frigid in the garage! It doesn't put out enough air to significantly reduce the temperature in the summer, however. It's nice when the water is being heated, but it doesn't always operate at the right times. 😎
You could crank the water temp up and make sure it’s on heat pump only mode. That’ll give you the best energy savings while having the heat pump run longer. If you use a lot of hot water the recovery time increases. Hence turning up the temp, it’ll get you to use less hot water by mixing more cold. Hotter climates will duct the fan exhaust into the house or man cave if it’s not already sitting in the house. I didn’t like it running in the winter for reasons like you, but it’s always raining here and it would help keep the garage dry with two retrievers constantly getting wet.
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^ I may try that. I wonder if the heat pump only mode will get the water hot enough? I like a HOT shower.
Yep, no issue there. The takeaway is recovery time. That's why they still have elements to help bring back up to temp relatively quick after being depleted if you use that setting. If you run it in heat pump only mode and you burn through the hot water in the tank, it will take awhile for it to recover as opposed to using the heating elements. You should have a few modes to pick from... but you cant have everything. Thats why if you want to used heat pump only mode, its advised to get the biggest capacity available so you don't run the tank out as much.
Your incoming supply should be much warmer than here coming into the tank so your recovery time would be quicker than what we experience. I would imagine running heat pump mode exclusively would be standard for your area. You can even pick up some ducting from home depot and fasten it to that fan exhuast to direct the cold air to where you want it.
heat pump only mode - longer time to heat the water after depleted, but the trade off would be efficiency AND more cold air blowing into the garage.
I’ll show you mine since I’m also out of a shed. Pegboards and shelving will be your friend to maximize square footage.
I’m able to squeeze a paddle board, a family’s worth of snowboards, and four MX bikes and two street bikes (there’s an R6 being rebuilt on the back right) with enough floor space to walk in and use my reloading bench comfortably.
Hey all,
Just a heads up- this is coming from someone who is NOT tech savvy, but I was curious if anyone is giving out specific location information by posting photos in here. Sure enough, the first picture I saved to my phone and looked at the info showed specific location info. That was just the first one I picked. I’d be careful about adding photos before changing the data setting to this thread, seems like a lot of nice bikes, tools, things that could be lost to some asshole.
Anyone smarter than me want to chime in on this?
I figured the forum would auto scrub the info from pictures, but I just checked and on some of the above and location, phone, and name were there! I'll have to remember from now on to remove it from the pictures before posting.
I have my phone set to not include location data when taking pictures, but who knows how true or secure that actually is. How do you check for location data?
Outstanding!
I noticed a few of you have motorcycle lifts... I would like to get one. Anyone uses the cheaper Harbor Freight ones? if so how have they worked? Also does anyone know of one with an electric lift vs air or hydraulic?
I think you're probably talking about the full size lifts but I bought one of these for about $150 off Amazon.
I have no complaints......it does exactly what I had hoped it would do and eliminated the need for bending over......ive never had a bike even come close to falling ( I always use the Jhooks to secure the bike).
Some smoother running castors and some kind of quick release safety to the lift are the only things I can think of that I would change.
Does anyone in this thread with all these beautiful garages have a nitrogen set up for charging shocks? I was hoping to be able to see the set up so that I can set up something similar for doing my YZ125 and YZ250 shocks. Thank you.
I have a gas setup to do my own shock work. I charge rear shocks so infrequently that I didn't want to waste space on a dedicated "station". Just a bottle underneath the bench that is easy to access and keep all my suspension tools in a cabinet underneath the bench where I work on my suspension.
I may revisit that over the summer as I am working on things to allow myself to ride my motorcycles WAY more often.
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