G'day guys,

I've just had a 6M x 9M x 2.4M Titan Shed built in my backyard and am chasing ideas from fellow car guys/hoarders like me as to how to lay it out the best way to maximise room and also maintain a clean clear work area.

I need to house my '62 850 and an LC Torana and maybe the occasional visitor car, I need a place for my tools (Large compressor,MIG,ARC,body frame,Tool boxes etc) a spare wheel rack would be handy as would a shelf/floor in the roof to get unused but too good to throw away parts, a parts washer, maybe a sandblasting cabinet etc.

I'm just waiting for the slab to cure and I've got the epoxy concrete paint to roll on the floor.

Here's a couple of pics, feel free to throw in suggestions, photoshop etc. I need some Ideas I know you guys are hoarders too all mini owners are!

Not big enough

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
My shed is almost exactly the same size, I have all the tools you list (and more) and I can barely fit two cars and a motorbike in (1 mini, 1 renault R8, and a Honda CBR600). There;s another renault in another shed.

I did build some shelves and a wheel rack down one side. I've got a good work bench which takes up a bit of room. You will find the Torana won't leave much room I think.

Good Luck with it - a new shed is always pleasing.
KB

Hi

Ditto

I moved into my 6m x 12m and ran out of room fairly quick. I'm now planning a 3m extension to make it 9 x 12. The extension will be divided into rooms for storage, spray painting and dirty stuff (drills, linishers, grinders etc)

Steve

You can never have too many flouro lights. Less shadows equals mini maintenance happiness.

Oh, and power points. Moocho power points.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

well personally i would set it out like follows, i lovea clean shed


a workbench that goes along the whole back wall, witha cutout bit in the middle for a rolling tool chest. make it a bfs table , then i would put mig an stuff underneath it, then work out a good height, and build a wheel rack over half the bench, leaving plenty of room to use ur bench still, then put shelves all up the other side, for paint tins degreaser etc, then the highest shelf, make it big and wide, probably out of some mesh type of material, so u can see whats were, and make some more shelves in ur rafters

if u want a parts washer or sandbblasting cabinet, maby incorporate it into the side of the bench with the wheel racks...

thats how i have it ne way,

hope it helps

cheers

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

No mater what size garage people have, they always seem to fill them and struggle to find things in the future.

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DO IT ONCE, DO IT RIGHT

Bit late now but I would have said put an inspection pit into it somewhere .

As for design , can you put a small , clean room in a back corner somewhere ? Well lit with a good strong bench for doing motors and gearboxes . I agree with the extra lights comments too .

See if you can add a little room off on the house side with a shower/toilet (only needs to be tiny) and plumb it from the house to save tramping through the house while greasy when the need arrises .

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Hoist,a loo, 20 power points, stereo with in speakers in the roof, a tele for race days and a fridge. Second hand compactus and an area that you can segment off for painting/blasting.

You go no floor drainage - I would put an ag pit at the front door for when you clean up those accidents so you have somewhere for the water and crud to go.

No matter how much space you have you will fill it - ask sports850

Maybee ask Grahaminaus, he has the aladins cave of sheds!! Look on ebay for some brown built shelving/ double lockers.

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Your silliness has been noted.

Also a couple more windows (that open) and maybe even an alsinite roof panel or a couple of skylights.

You will need the airflow in mid summer when the shed becomes just too hot to work in and the extra windows make the difference.

Light can become critical when you are trying to do something under the car and you dont want to be rolling in or running the creeper over electrical cables under the car.

Strengthen the "C" channels that go across the garage and hold (form part of) the "A" frame in the roof so that you can store bits up there - like bonnets boots etc because you are sure to start gathering them up now.

a strong mounting point for a block and tackle for those pesky engine out operations

That looks like a nicely built shed!!

Agree with going with as many lights and powerpoints as possible, I paid around $500 (not iuncluding fluros) to a mate who is an electrican and he wired the whole thing up and put in 3 double power points and some lights outside as well as underground power to our bore. In all I think we used a lot of cabling (maybe 1 km!) but I could be wrong.

Glad to hear you're painting the floor, I've heard you have to wait a month for the concrete to cure though but I may be wrong on this, what paint are you using and how much did it cost?? I didn't paint mine but need to do it sometime soon but the paint is going to cost about $240 for my size shed (48 square metres) and I don't think the wife is going to be too understanding on me spending that much on painting a shed floor....

In regards to storage I bought a lot of flower pot hangers and attach them to top of the walls and hang things this way like creepers, trolley jacks, panels etc etc.

Hope your new "home" comes along well

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The electrician is coming monday to quote me on powering it up and lights etc. So hopefully it won't be ridiculous as night time is the only time I'm getting spare time with a baby in the house!!!

I paid $240 for 16ltrs of Epoxy concrete enamel from our paint supplier and I've been told the same thing of 28 days to wait.............even though here in brisbane its hot as hell and hasnt rained since the slab was laid!!.....oh well

I want to build a loft in the roof to at least get some smaller lighter parts out of the way and also a Tyre rack but my old man (who is very cautious) seems to think the framework would be too thin to support any weight. Speaking of which......anyone with tyre racks feel free to post pics of how you built them!!!

Keep the ideas flowing its tops!!

Hi

I used to work with these style sheds abit, and the walls/frames do not make good mounting points. If you want to store stuff in the roof, that should be fine, as long as its not heavy and the weight is fairly evenly dispersed, as for a tyre rack, i would bolt two upright square tubes in either corner of the shed that go the height of the roof, then have a cross bar welded between the two uprights, and use this to bolt any racks/shelves to.

I would also do something similar further in from the wall, suitable to bold a block and tackle to.

Ryan

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