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Do you have a Garage?

  • 09-12-2010 5:10pm
    #1
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭


    So from reading the various threads about de-icing, frozen engines, and gearboxes etc. I just realised how lucky I am to have my own garage. I have my car in there most of the time especially in bad weather and it saves it from the elements. There is also the added security benefit it brings.

    It is a detached garage so I get wet walking to the house if it is raining, however I have found it to be a gift in this weather.

    I plan to fit a remote control electric roll up door next year to it so I can use it more often besides just in extreme weather. Last year I put the car into the garage overnight and in the morning there was 3 big heavy roof tiles smashed down on its usual parking spot in the driveway outside!! Poor car had a narrow escape!!

    If I even build a new house I will have an attached garage so I drive in and get out of my car and walk straight into the house like a basement garage or something. Still a detached garage is better than no one I suppose!

    Do you have a garage? 57 votes

    Yes - I have a detached garage
    0% 0 votes
    Yes - I have an attached garage
    35% 20 votes
    Yes- But I can only fit one car
    14% 8 votes
    Yes - Can fit multiple cars
    28% 16 votes
    No
    22% 13 votes


Comments

  • #2
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    I havent. I am sorry I didnt build one with the house. I have an acre site so maybe in time I will.


  • #3
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭stimpson


    I have one - it's full of junk to be honest. Car goes in the driveway.

    As regards defrosting, I got one of these (well 2 actually)

    http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_161489_langId_-1_categoryId_212446

    It goes onto the windscreen in the evening, and I take it off in the morning along with the nights frost. Saved me a fortune on de-icer and gives me an extra 10 minutes in bed!


  • #4
    alanmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭alanmc


    I have a detached garage. But I use it to keep my GSXR-600 in. I also built a bench along the back wall for working on stuff.

    In hindsight, I should have kept one of my cars in it as well. But not sure I could choose between them.:(


  • #5
    djimi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,237 ✭✭✭✭djimi


    I would literally give my right arm for a garage. Live in an apartment building at the moment so its impossible. If I ever buy/rent a house a garage is going to be one of the criteria.

    I have never been able to understand how people buy houses with garages and turn them into another room...


  • #6
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Tight squeeze.
    5204208544_8b83f72852.jpg

    All the rest are outside. E39 got snowed on while the cover was off so it has been under snow and exposed for a while now. No salt on it though.
    edit: I have a dehumidifer running full time in there on a low setting.


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  • #7
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    I have a detached one, can get two cars in nicely.


  • #8
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »
    I have a detached one, can get two cars in nicely.

    Jealous ;)

    edit. btw, I've clicked 2 options as they are not mutually exclusive.


  • #9
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    My mother's house has a detached garage. I keep my works in there, and my 84 rustheap being restored Mini in there sideways on dollies. It's about 2 miles away from my place, I'm glad my Dad was a petrolhead right up until he decided to go breaking cars up there like he used to do down here everytime he picked up a spanner.

    I'm renting a unit too which'll take a car, but to be honest, if I ever get to be able to afford a house in Ireland (Which is doubtful), I'd want minimum 2 car garage side by side. Thankfully in Poland people have garages, and big ass ones at that, so if we buy there, I'll be sorted.


  • #10
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Im going to make one next year when I finish phase 6 of FAS. See this thread. It will be cool getting normal wages and then the nixers on top. Can't wait.

    EDIT
    wrong type of garage:o


  • #11
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    E39MSport wrote: »
    Jealous ;)

    edit. btw, I've clicked 2 options as they are not mutually exclusive.

    Well I am Jealous of you now..:) Thats a nice little setup there with the tool box and all plus the Beemer...MMMMMMM.


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  • #12
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Well I am Jealous of you now..:) Thats a nice little setup there with the tool box and all plus the Beemer...MMMMMMM.

    That's the pro kit from Halfords. Does the job. They do good deals on them from time to time. I got the top one free with the larger one. Both for 299.


  • #13
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    yes have garage, can fit a few cars in , mainly use it for storing my boats, and put the car/jeep in the odd time.... bikes etc, i have a nice pot belly stove in it too, which makes it nice and toasty this time of year!...


    the pot belly stove is worth its weight in gold:D


  • #14
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    What about "Yes but not big enough for a car"?


  • #15
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    What about "Yes but not big enough for a car"?

    thats called a shed...

    http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-garage.htm:p


  • #16
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    ingen wrote: »
    thats called a shed...

    http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-garage.htm:p

    Ah what the hell, you just devalued my house!


  • #17
    ingen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭ingen


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Ah what the hell, you just devalued my house!

    Joke...


    anyways here is a real garage under a nice house in france, see attached

    nice electric turntable too.


  • #18
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    most important bit when we got house built


  • #19
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    ingen wrote: »
    Joke...


    anyways here is a real garage under a nice house in france, see attached

    nice electric turntable too.

    I want it!!!!:)


  • #20
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    corktina wrote: »
    most important bit when we got house built

    I know where you live now!!!:p


  • #21
    smokie2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭smokie2008


    Drive a C-class, in the driveway since the snow began 2 weeks ago. Came out earlier, started up no problem....happy days, turned on heater to remove last remaining frost on the windscreen.....CCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRRAAAACK, fúckin windscreen.
    Ah well fúck it I thought, drove off all the same and lit up a fag, hit my window button.....'le snap'...... fúcking window was frozen shut and snapped the window regulator cable inside :mad::mad:


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  • #22
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭murphym7


    corktina wrote: »
    most important bit when we got house built

    Cars are savage and the garage is savage, very jealous.


  • #23
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    I'd love a big double garage with loads of space for tools & spare tyres etc. Somewhere i could just muck about with my car on the weekends. Ultimate dream would be to build a kit car some day in a comfortable, heated garage at my own pace in my own time.

    Ahh dream on.:rolleyes:


  • #24
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    I'm a luck git, I know this already.

    I have an attached, and detached garage/workshop.

    And I'm building another !! But I'm cheating a bit: I'm building it at work........and bringing it home on a truck ! (bit of an experiment, tbh...)

    If it works out - I'll post pics up. If not,er.....I won't !

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #25
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Nope, am a driveway mechanic. Maybe one day...


  • #26
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    Detached 1 car garage. I've got it fitted out with some fitted kitchen units (freebie from a relative who got a new kitchen). Unfortunately it's full of boxes of the kids old toys, bikes, prams and son's quad so space is at a premium when I leave the E46 in there.


  • #27
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Tiny attached one.
    Can barely fit a saloon with almost no room to move around...


  • #28
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    corktina wrote: »
    most important bit when we got house built

    Nice !


  • #29
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    I know where you live now!!!:p

    i thought you already did! call in sometime...

    PS also have a two car carport next to the garage so Im really spoilt...modern cars stay out in the rain...


  • #30
    veetwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭veetwin


    Should be another option - Yes but I never park any car in it. It's too full of junk!


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  • #31
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    I would kill for a garage. I'd put a toilet and a bed at one end and live in it.


  • #32
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    I would kill for a garage. I'd put a toilet and a bed at one end and live in it.

    I have a toilet it mine, great for avoiding embarrassment when you get the delhi belly. :o


  • #33
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    I'd love to have a garage so much!!!


  • #34
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    My in-laws have a triple garage with 2 bedrooms & living space above it. I would love it! I have a driveway with barely enough room for two cars :(

    One of the lads is getting the pit built for his new garage at the moment, it will also have a 2 post in it eventually. The house he is building is also nice but it's the garage I am most jealous of! Can't wait to see the garage finished, especially if it gets the lift in the near future but furniture & stuff will probably be lore of a priority for his better half!


  • #35
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    veetwin wrote: »
    Should be another option - Yes but I never park any car in it. It's too full of junk!

    yerra i got a wife like that...thinks its ok to put anything in there out of her way...I just fire it all back out again...


  • #36
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    i got garadge, but i use it only when i need some fixing.

    Weather was really bad lately, up to -12. And to make it worse i work from 7:00, so i get the worse of weather while drive to work.


    So far, tfu tfu tfu, had no problem with car. Allways starts and newer have anu hassel.


    I can start my car remotly too, so it just makes my life 100x times better. i just wake up, start car, go to bathroom, dress up and go outside. by that time car is all warmed up and waiting for action!

    they say its boyracer gimick, but damn its the best thing i have ever discovered lol!


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