Let's see your garage space!

I try to stay somewhat organized and clean up once a week. Otherwise I spend more time looking for shit than working. My favorite thing is when I put up something important in a "safe" place and then when I go back to get it from the "safe" place I forgot where I put the "safe" place 😅
 
justjeepin86 said:
And it's generally where you have looked, seven times already!
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Or in my case, it's in my hand and I'm scratching my forehead WITH it wondering where the hell I just laid it down at :kaioken:
 
ghost said:
Progress is slow but it’s happening.
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The amount of tools I removed from the floor and piled on benches was very surprising
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As a person that does a little clean up before and after every garage session....
My neural network has spark gap looking at this lmao

Congrats on the score - bravo on the organization!
 
ckruzer said:
As a person that does a little clean up before and after every garage session....
My neural network has spark gap looking at this lmao

Congrats on the score - bravo on the organization!
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That was my biggest mistake over the years. I can't count the number of times something would come up and I'd have to drop what I was doing and go deal with said problem. Especially when my boys were little. I'm working on correcting this behavior and doing better.
 
ghost said:
That was my biggest mistake over the years. I can't count the number of times something would come up and I'd have to drop what I was doing and go deal with said problem. Especially when my boys were little. I'm working on correcting this behavior and doing better.
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Having multiple projects going at once is always my downfall. I seem to lose something every damn time, lol.
 
ghost said:
I can't count the number of times something would come up and I'd have to drop what I was doing and go deal with said problem.
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Thats life man. Been there and still there. Thats why when i walk in the garage on saturday after a long wake up session with coffee and boobtube, I tidy up first even if it appears "tidy". It can be 5 min, or if i had to leave a mess I may have to make the hard decision to clean for an hour before starting on Project XYZ for the day. Immediately it seems redundant to clean up the tools right before youre about to start where you left off, however long term the gains are more exponential. Obviously when tidying up right before picking back up where i left off, ill intuitively leave a few things out I know I am about to touch within the hour of starting.

The other day I went out to go do some garage stuff, and walked in and went "oh damn, i forgot i left it like that" (last min dinner date arrangement). So instead of getting a heavy projectcar day in, I spent 4hrs cleaning up, reorganizing some things. To me, the workstation is just as much as a ongoing project as the XYZ project car/item in the garage. Sunday I got fed up digging through a tool box drawer that had clamps and prying tools, and misc. So i paused what i was doing, emptied the drawer and mounted a L bracket to a bottom of a shelf and clamped all the clamps to it. Voila!

Im not trying to toot my own horn. Geninunely sharing my approach in case it helps. At one point it was difficult for me, until i changed my mindset on the matter and told myself its okay to pause or stop early, because the clean workspace is just as important
 
For anyone with a pole barn with a lean to. What have you done to the boards holding the roof up to paint or stain them? Not a pain in the butt to do is a huge plus. I don't want the carpenter bees to eat them up this summer so they need some sort of coating. Thinking white exterior latex paint at the moment, but that falls under the "pain in the butt" category. Stained my posts tonight but don't want to do that to the boards. I'm not a patient painter and I know I'll get brush marks all over the roof metal.

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awheelterd said:
For anyone with a pole barn with a lean to. What have you done to the boards holding the roof up to paint or stain them? Not a pain in the butt to do is a huge plus. I don't want the carpenter bees to eat them up this summer so they need some sort of coating. Thinking white exterior latex paint at the moment, but that falls under the "pain in the butt" category. Stained my posts tonight but don't want to do that to the boards. I'm not a patient painter and I know I'll get brush marks all over the roof metal.

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Nothing. 11-12 years later there are probably 4 carpenter bee holes in a 20x34 shed. I’m pleased with the value vs effort outcome of my approach.
 
awheelterd said:
For anyone with a pole barn with a lean to. What have you done to the boards holding the roof up to paint or stain them? Not a pain in the butt to do is a huge plus. I don't want the carpenter bees to eat them up this summer so they need some sort of coating. Thinking white exterior latex paint at the moment, but that falls under the "pain in the butt" category. Stained my posts tonight but don't want to do that to the boards. I'm not a patient painter and I know I'll get brush marks all over the roof metal.

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I think itd be easier to put some traps up. Or just spray the entire underside, roof panels and all.
 


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