Workshop

[Bigdog]

What is the smallest workshop / shed that you have that fits your series Land Rover and you still have room to work at it, looking for ideas, many thanks

[whitehillbilly64]

Go BIG.....More room.

whitehillbilly

[Herald1360]

Just the cost of building a workshop like that would put it well out of reach for many UK owners, never mind even having the space available to do it!

For an 88, maybe 16ft by 10ft, a 109, 20ft by 10ft would be reasonably comfortable. Typical modern new build garages are only about 8ft wide though.

[Robin]

Just the cost of building a workshop like that would put it well out of reach for many UK owners, never mind even having the space available to do it!

We had to move!
The expanding fleet was taking up more room on the front lawn as well as the garage and car port, and working outside in the cold/rain/snow wasn't fun!

Old place:


New workshop - 32m x 13m - fully insulated - before moving the fleet in




I think, though, Herald1360's sizes would be about right, though adding shelving, benches etc, might make it a little tight, especially for gearbox/engine removals etc.   

[whitehillbilly64]

Took a while to source bits needed.
All steel, gal sheeting and commercial fiberglass sheeting was picked up for 500 pounds.
Total cost including running power cable 70m to the shed and all electrical circuits, fittings, roller doors, concrete floor and New Hoist was under 4,000 pounds. Lucky to be able to do the work myself, with a couple of mates.
6x12m

whitehillbilly

[diffwhine]

I'm suffering from shed envy again...

[Larry S]

I'm fortunate in tgat I've been ae to use my father's old shop, which is about 40'x 60'.  But... the roof leaks badly and it's not insulated, heated nor air conditioned. Also, my parents are up there in age and have been thinking of selling. If that happens I'll be reduced to a shop space of about 10' x 15'.

[Betsy1969]

My garage is 10'x18' and I can get my 88 in there despite having a 3' wide bench across the end and a tall fridge freezer and 4' chest freezer plus an old kitchen 1metre base unit all down one side. Getting underneath is a challenge but do-able although any work on the left side requires a reverse out onto the drive and / or turn round on the road and back inside to work in cold or wet weather.
When I did the gearbox I removed it in the drive then put it on the bench and pushed the landrover back inside.Working on it by the bench is possible if a bit cramped.

[Theshed]

I have a standard household garage. full of spares, tools and Tat ! No car !
I did rent a large lock up for a while but the novelty of getting up and travelling to it soon wore off. ☹️

[2286]

Starting point would be what land you have available, what you hope to do to the land rover, door height.  Budget.

Example Pal had a well appointed double garage, but the up and over door meant you could not get in.

Other standard garages you can get in but don't have enough room to work around the vehicle.

The temptation if you have lots of space is to accumulate huge amounts of all sorts, that again eats in to your working space.

[w3526602]

My garage is 10'x18'

Hi Betsy,

My garage is 8ft-6in wide, by 21ft long, beautifully brick built, with 45* pitched, tiled roof, all to match the bungalow.

My plans are to open up the bathroom window, and cut a matching hole in the garage wall, with a tiny uPVC glazed link connecting the holes, and replace the up-and-over garage door with a half-glazed (obscure) uPVC window. Our 5ft x 6ft bathroom is pathetic.
 
The front half of the garage will become the all singing, all dancing 5 piece bathroom (that's including a bidet, and a gentleman's scatter can.

Doh! My ladies are demanding that I join Barbara in bed, cos its lunch time. There's too many women in my life!

I will return with my plans for the second half.

602

[2286]

Having struggled to work on Peugeot 205, Vauxhall cavaliers and Citroen ax in an integral domestic garage back in the day.

I used to ask nicely to use the commercial vehicle garage and and inspection pit at work.

This is ok if what you have to do can be completed same day and coincides with when its not in service.

If you run into any problems then you quickly loose favour.

So if restoration or large lengthy jobs are your aim, best not to go that route.

[jkhackney]

My garage was built next to our house in 1951 for sports cars, I think. Anyway, something not quite so tall.

It's 5.6m x 5.6m. It has a dividing wall that leaves 3.5m width for the car and 2.1m width for a workshop. It's 2.38m from the floor to the flat ceiling. I had to replace the overhead door with carriage doors to fit a Land Rover in it. Above the ceiling is an attic under the roof gable with enough space to store a lot of spare parts. Access is by ladder from outside.

This garage is too narrow for working on most modern cars. It's plenty of room for doing anything with the canvas-roofed 86". But if I start removing pieces of the Dormobile, the space fills very quickly, even for little jobs. The ceiling is too low to let me jack up the Dormobile very much, and if a road spring has to be removed, it's better to move outside.

For basic maintenance and even tricky stuff like painting, chassis welding, gearbox and engine removal and rebuild, it's OK.

I was lucky to have done the big disassembly jobs for my respective rebuilds in other garages I had rented at the time, which were much bigger. There's no extra space in my garage for a disassembled roof or a separated tub, for example.

Also I need the space in my attached workshop for hand tools and the big tools like my welders, air compressor, engine crane, work bench, etc. 20 x 10 seems a minimum to me for just the vehicle ? And at least 2.5m tall (I'd love 4m, though, to be able to open the Dormobile roof !)

Jeremy

[Larry S]

Also I need the space in my attached workshop for hand tools and the big tools like my welders, air compressor, engine crane, work bench, etc. 20 x 10 seems a minimum to me for just the vehicle ? And at least 2.5m tall (I'd love 4m, though, to be able to open the Dormobile roof !)

Jeremy

This is part of my future problems... while rebuilding Grover I bought a lot of new tools... a lot...  three of the bigger ones are an air compressor, a 12 ton press and welder.  I have no room in the garage at the house.

[whitehillbilly64]

Plus my Lathe in now to the left of the Press.


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