#1: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:03 am ---- Update June 2017; always a good thing when one can finally get their head around a list of things left todo:
☑ Drop ceiling grid in lower bays
☑ 2 more coats of white in high clearance areas
☑ Drop ceiling grid in high clearance bays
☑ Ceiling tiles and lights
☑ Paint walls grey at splash-height
☑ Fit sockets to the walls
☐ Floor painting with floor paint
☐ Start working on cars
H'all!
I know it's not a car project, but it will cater at least two 206s within; so I leave the removal of this thread to admins' discretion
Pic for attention
All started back in October 2015 as a quick barn-to-car workshop conversion, and turned out into a full-blown project (we all know how they become endless), just because one mate said "but we could make it all look nice!" We agreed to stop any work on cars, and finish the damn thing first
I'll spare the words, and paste some before/afters of this thrashing place (of grains and cars )
From holes to walls
Billd gates
Lamp posts of the past
No need for that mask Jim!
The mezzanine, just because we like a good cuppa
Yep, the whole thing will be held by Jimmy's welds, welp!
Bob the Builder is having a break
Hmm.. but we ordered a free coffee table..
Eh, nevermind, nothing what an angle grinder wouldn't cut
Finally! Ready to brew
Hello from the other side
Stairway to haven
Perfectionists, roll up!
The only way is up!
In this staircase, I have to agree with the forehead-palming Jimmy: Bob's gone bezerk
Random ramblings
Ramping up
Just came back from Screwfix with concrete and forgot to buy trowel, no problem as long as there is a welder among us
Not goin' anywhere!
Someone nicked the wheels!
Ah there they are, going into the chicken coop!
Unity Beer
Unity Easter
Unity food (the best takeaway in Bristol this one!)
Unity Bob
Thingama-Bob
206 fits
We don't do tank gamers
Traditional Sunday breaky from Mc'D (no time for carparks)!
Execution pole
Sleepover
Material-s
A phrase from a passer-by, later became our tag line:
“I've seen ships built with less materials!”
Studs
Needed to sweat through ebay to find one on offer
I wonder which century this has been reclaimed from
An odd visit to carboots, mandatory 206-in-a-pix
Look up for "Interlocking coin vinyl tiles"
Cowboy-driven flooring
Wearing protection is a must if you ever enter Unity's premises
If your browser managed to reach the end of this pic heavy thread, congrats! I'll keep it up-to-date, also with tips on how to build yourself a comfy garage, having all the tools and equipment within reach, why avoid lay-low drawers, and what have you. Share your workshop experience too! Watch this space, sometimes also this. And dream big!
Patience Jude & Jay
Sim Last edited by Sim on Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:34 am; edited 4 times in total
#2: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: PezHdi, Location: ShrewsburyPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:25 am ---- Your unit is a bit more tidy than ours at the moment but at least you had a clean slate to start with we are stil getting rid of crap from the previous Tenants.
Looks good tho mate
#3: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:34 am ---- Cheers Pez! It's all WIP, and we just keep trashing the place with wood/metal shavings and offcuts at the moment
We're pushing and can't wait till all done, insulation, plaster, and painted; now wiring the place up, need to think where wall sockets and air hose will be in my corner..
You've been blessed with your place! All that equipment will give you some mad-of-a-project ideas
#4: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: PezHdi, Location: ShrewsburyPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:09 am ---- I have to admit there is a lot of gear at ours.
I'd love to start with a clean slate tho and take it al out and design it properly.
We will pop down at some point and visit you
#5: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2016 4:32 am ---- Yeah, could do too with a bit of a clean today
You're very welcome to pop down! We just opened the barbie season last Sunday All that wood burns well
#6: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri May 06, 2016 6:09 pm ---- Moar beforesafters after pushing things forward during the long weekend
Covered the top row finally, that was a tad challenging...
...to put things into perspective:
Do you think Jimmy's feeling comfortable?
I wouldn't really say so
God save the long weekends! Getting there, surely
Moar materials for the ship
Unity Nest (inside the Merc's headlight), we got couple of doves too... Who says we ain't got birds in here!?
Another (warm!) weekend ahead, means loads of BBq... nah sod this, let's finish the unit!!! Mmmm okay, maybe one barbie Sunday eve when quiet hours kick in...
#7: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri May 13, 2016 4:08 pm ---- Finally wired up compressor and sprayed the front door cloud grey (actually it's the simple Rustoleoum Grey, but turned out to be nice) with the retro sign on gotta love these
The goal is to dot the door with all sorts of such signs
#8: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: David1156, Location: East LondonPosted: Sat May 14, 2016 2:36 am ---- Loving the updates Sim, keep them coming
#9: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Sat May 14, 2016 5:17 pm ---- Looks awesome mate! Whats the plan with the workshop then?
#10: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Mon May 16, 2016 7:00 am ---- Cheers lads!
The plan is to lay joists/flooring all above, then metal studs and conduits for electrickery all round, then insulation and finally plasterboards. Paint them and floor too.
Then the work will retreat into individual bays and scratch heads what height worktop(s) I'll need. With time mates want more tools like hydraulic press, panel shaper, tig welder.. Spray booth, but that's a tad far fetched (getting crammed up either)
I realised if you can, always get your mates together and have a shared garage, this way each car project will go quicker, as everyone has different set of skills!
The final bit's beamed out
Ah the free benefits! Travel through countryside with your mates, asking farmers if they don't want to cheaply rent an abandoned building (or look up on gumtree), ensure there aren't noise-sensitive neighbours, sign a lengthy contract for no-price change (5yrs good measure), doublecheck there are no workhours restrictions and build away!
#11: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Tue May 31, 2016 9:24 pm ---- We've got it covered! Well, almost
Always play that game "who's the first to walk on the new <insert a word here>?", Jimmy's nailed it this time
Now only to order metal studs'n'track, insulation, plasters, and it's done!!!
#12: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 9:07 pm ---- Souvenir from FCS! Now delivery vans can find us better
#13: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:45 pm ---- Great weather! Gotta finish the unit, one more weekend, c'mon!
2nd level mezzanine floored (no booze involved) Looks like a dojo I'd say!
Can't beat these folks on stud pricing, good quality, and drop-off in remote areas
Feels safer already!
#14: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:17 am ---- Good things come in big packages
One wall down.err.. up!
Leftovers will be converted into fake snow!
Already (doesn't) sound like a recording studio
The best training ground for smoothening fillers! Who cares if that's floor or a car
Now back to the unit for the weekend for moar sanding and filling, then a layer of PVA, and British Racing Green deck paint
What've you been up to?
#15: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:49 pm ---- Author called this a “Medieval Monstrosity“
Busy weekend ahead!
#16: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:22 pm ---- Looks literally amazing mate, so very well done so far!
#17: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 4:03 pm ---- Finally something a bit more automotive. Silent Coat really changed the doors' clang into a thud, and only this much was needed:
Covering the backside...
Ordered a toy-CCTV kit to start messing about with (if it ain't half bad, plan is to extend with two IP/digital 720p cameras for extra crispiness)
Will see how many of them is enough for a well lit workshop (we'll still need extra spots above tabletops..)
So far away so close!
#18: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:44 pm ---- Time for a quick LED lights test jig
Really happy with those, £7 a piece!
#19: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:02 am ---- Long time not posted an update here, during which we've built boards up against the insulation and lamp posts, chucked loft rolls into ceiling cavities supported by chickenwire, filled and sanded nearly all by now, also all electrics are in place
And finally, the first dollop of paint! Visual progress always feels better than something less obvious
Will use this area to experiment with paints, seals, and other animals
Months and months of preparations to work up to this moment of ...more work!
Yet still "I'm lovin' it!"
--
PS, am I venting too much?
#20: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:24 am ---- The ceiling has dropped! Well, at least on the floor for now
Materials exceeded our expectations on all levels, highly recommend these chaps
#21: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:57 pm ---- Though to give a rundown in pictures to keep track of our sweat blood & tears (of joy)
Wild world white walls
Decided to start at the staircase end first
First faced area seemed like it would be a walk in the park
Was happy with after it dried overnight
Chose this part due to the least amount of masking needed. Ended up in the biggest amount of swearing when paint started to dry too quickly, not a one man's job that was supposed to be
Nice from far, far from nice, it seems it ended up in seams near the corners, though the paint covers well and they should disappear after few more coats, couple of extra hands, and start using better tools for the job
Don't worry about the bands where the filler went, those do hide well under 3 coats, as the short bays showed.
Low-ceiling bays and above
Befores durings and afters
First coat on the big drop wall
Three coats above the mask, ready for the ceiling
The Office (no, not the mockumentary sitcom)
Moments like these you realise that you should have bought the delicate low-tack yellow frog tape
Boxing up the electrickery
A finished piece of the unit! Well it's all smokes and mirrors really, because there's a fake ceiling tile on the right quickly bodged-held by the edge trim
Gateway
For those who went wth is in the last photo: the bit around the doors has been painted
Sound'n'warmth-proofing
One post to hold 'em all
One day Jim decided to take the unit down and just cut off the flaps from the main post that support it
But then changed his mind and welded some tiny ones back on
Reinforcing the banana-franken-post
What started as Unity's Xmas tree
Ended up as one of its pillars
Project "Sucker of exhaust fumes"
Routing out from the unit
And arriving to the chicken coop
Bender test
Fail, but exhaust gas won't be as hot, at least we hope so
Using angle grinder disk as the valve, botched it!
Angle lifter
Jim decided that it's too much of a faff to get the car up on the ramp as it is now, so why not twist it at an angle?
Some experiments with tablechairs
Some warfare
And it's up again (and cleaned, again; proof: see the first post)
bits and Bob's
During winter the white stuff comes only in the form of frost across the West Country
Insulation starts paying off
Close to the roof:
Downstairs:
And the jet-boosting it to 12℃
Prepping Jag for the MOT, checking the extents of the low-ceiling bay
Bob declared he can't let Jim blinding him with welds, so they started to #buildthewall
This extinguisher will forever be embedded in the post
Jag saves another 3meter conduit trip
Just prod them with a pillow
The cuppa and idea generator can finally be brought to its permanent place
Look who came out to play! Still turns over and gives beans can't wait!
Birthday present for Bob, he kept complaining current vice ain't good; Record № 84 bargain from fleabay befores afters made him really happy with that
Piping away so to be able to open doors fully and tee off to the kitchen
Jim-the-car-mechanic never had a chance to build a birdhouse, until now
It then was commissioned off to my gf for "mods"
I wonder though is it "green" enough or might the birdies not like so much of the finish
Looks like they are queuing up already
Or maybe just bemused...
Is really worth having a copy of the unit in SketchUp
We still need to increase that grey splash area in the big bays... Ideas about how and where the raise from 1.2 to ~2 meters could happen?
It does come with a nice brushed steel cover...somewhere
Flex7 is really a great British invention! And also will be able to use up our leftover flex cable
A soffit had to be built to attach the suspended ceiling trim, what a faff! And yet hides the edge nicely
Had to also "grow" a bottom edge now that we knew how high the ceiling will drop from
Unity party
Babies arrived!
Getting that perfect 90° for the ceiling runners, tiles will serve as the speed square
Will be a nightmare to get the tiles in, more like playing Sokoban, but doable, can't afford to lose more headroom anyway!
The risk of going ahead with those not widely used wipe-clean vinyl wrapped plasterboard tiles is paying well off, as they are thin!
Stay tuned for more finishing touches to come!
#22: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: PezHdi, Location: ShrewsburyPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:31 pm ---- A lot of work has gone in to this.
Fair play it looks great
#23: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:38 am ---- Cheers buddy, it's all about the love of cars!
Yesterday did the rising mask for the grey splash area at 11°, because the staircase above goes up by 22°, worked out to a perfect 208cm at the high end
After putting the 3rd coat of the white above, what a relief it was that this understaircase painting pain-in-the-neck (literally) was finally over
#24: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:00 pm ---- One day...
#25: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Rob3twenty, Location: South YorkshirePosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:02 pm ---- What a transformation, I doth ones cap. very impressive
#26: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: VorTechS, Location: Gloucestershire, UKPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:32 am ---- Finally they are indoors!
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