Thursday, May 28, 2009

Busy-busy weekends in a row

The hot-hot weather of the weekend-before-last precipitated asteamy cloud of crisis that could only be solved by the strenuous use of this leaky bastard:

The carpet cleaner came out of the closet. So, once we had recovered from the sopping labors of Hercules, the hallway and living room was largely reborn - and smelled nicer too!
But space here is always an issue, and with my bike was parked in the dining room and the pother under a useless cover on the balcony we turned to the Last Great Hope, the Garage.

There were a few pieces left of the track-stuff I ha put up, and a decision made to install the rest and move a few things around - made easier by the track itself.
And then to whom much was already had, even more was required - so we went shopping for more, and then set-about drilling pilot holes, measuring studs, and screwing the hell out of every-last-thing in sight. And now it's no longer Garage Mahal beautiful, but it is functionally better.



The bikes have a corner for themselves, the walls-o-tools are better organized, and now the golf clubs have a place of their own - and I don't have to lug them however infrequently up and down the stairs - and their absence upstairs means we have more closet-space!
And out on Balcony #1 we transplanted two giant birds of paradises.

5 comments:

theirritablearchitect said...

I've got a three-car setup that needs attention, and I envy your Gladiator(?) setup.

DirtCrashr said...

Three car?!?! Woot! We got this narrow one-car unit. *Some of the Gladiator stuff is not welded (Lowes?) and requires a bit more assembly than what I got from Sears.
Be sure to check if you go that route. The main bitch is hitting the studs (and leveling it).
I ran the bit of wiring on the surface of the sheetrock because I didn't want to re-rock a bunch of stuff I had already patched, smoothed, and painted.

Thud said...

A tip of the hat to your garage organisational skills Sir

DirtCrashr said...

I'm just the hired-hand! We needed space Upstairs so I had to go make it more organized Downstairs. :-)

Linoge said...

Good-lookin' garage space there... Something tells me mine will not be nearly as neat ;).