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spuddevans:

--- Quote from: raynerd on September 07, 2014, 03:38:36 AM ---Lights[\b]
There are currently 2x.  5' tubes in the centre. I have 3x 6' tubes in storage from my old shop. Would all those tubes be overkill - there is also a window.

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I would say that you can never have too many lights. My workshop is 16ft x 10ft and I have 2 rows of flourescents, one row is 2 5ft single tubes and 1 6ft, and then above my lathe and mill I have the other row, 2 double 4ft tubes and 1 single 5ft tube

I recently got my grubby little hands on a couple of  flourescent fittings (like office lights for suspended ceiling) they are 2ft square and take 4 2ft tubes, I'm gonna put a perspex shield on them and bung one above the lathe and another above the mill.

The more light the better (just remember to slap on the factor 30 suncream before going in the workshop!!


Tim

dsquire:
Chris

Moving is for the birds and I am glad to see that you have that behind you. I hope that you are able to find your photo resizer soon as I refuse to play the up, down, left, right, do it all over again game to try and figure out what I am supose to be looking at.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

raynerd:
Cheers chaps,

Pete - can you tell me more about physically how I would "lay a DPM inside the shop"?

Tim - that was my intention and I`m pleased you have confirmed it.

Andrew - the fillet of concrete certainly seems a good idea.

I was talking to my father in law and he thought about completely blocking up and bricking in, or ideally matching in with concrete sections, the door and then bricking up the main garage door and putting the walk in door in that wall. It would remove the garage door for security reasons and also shift the door away from that wet concreted side. In all honest, what I intend to do with the garden will require me to bash up that concrete path anyway but I still like this idea.

Jonny:
For the reasons said already I would weigh up the costs involved in laying DPM barrier and concreting over along with door, lining the walls and roof plus other rework to make habitable. Noticed some prefab garages the other week starting at £2k but how much for a proper brick.

Luckily your door and frame is easy to do unlike the pvc which have a step and open inwards, the main reason I have not been able to change. Fire doors good and will be able to shovel the swarf out without lodging in the pvc seal.

If theres damp you will always feel cold and uncomfortable, think it through for the long term.

Pete.:
A DPM is a damp-proof membrane. Nothing more than a sheet of heavy polythene (500-1000gsm you need) laid on the floor and curled up the walls then concrete or screed on top. It forms a barrier for damp so it's important to hoover the floor or give it a really good sweep so it doesn't get cut on anything sharp whilst you walk abou ton it laying screed.

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