Man Cave Is Go!

These are my 8 year old Racedeck tiles I bought from the US. Absolutely love them and they are virtually bombproof. Clip together, no adhesive required. Cut to size where needed with any decent jigsaw and a suitable plastic blade or an electric mitre saw if you have one. I have had to order a few more new tiles as the floor area is bigger than my old double garage but I have managed to use all but a few tiles from the old garage when we moved house last year.

 

Hi Simon. That looks like rubber matting. Racedeck tiles are 12 mm thick and I always leave a 10mm expansion gap around the edges which will be hidden by skirting board. Never had an issue with warping or bowing in over 8 years of use, even in direct sunlight.

 

Hmm seems odd at that thickness and if you left an expansion gap as you say. From your picture though its hard to make out, it doesn't look as if they interlock together, judging by their edges. I can't therefore speak for your setup but all I can say is that the racedeck system is pretty robust in this respect due to the way they fit together.

 

Perhaps a call to the supplier is in order Simon, as if you've left sufficient room for expansion, you shouldn't have such a marked problem.

 

Discovered I am a few tiles (130) short to complete the flooring, so finally managed to get hold of some, through a combination of both a UK and Dutch supplier, so much cheaper than ordering them again direct from Racedeck in the US. Since the floor is 80% complete (I still have the border tiles to fit though), I am collecting one of our bikes (at long last!!!) after 17 months in storage. I am picking up my wife's Monster tonight and the V4S will have to wait a few more days as my local Ducati specialist is transporting them to my home and he can only spare the time to bring one back today. I'm just glad to have something residing in the new garage after such a long time under wraps. Shelving, flooring and skirting to hopefully finish off soon and a workbench to build and install but I can work around the bikes in any case and then crack on with finishing of my V4S build. About bloody time! Got to fit all this into a crazy work schedule and having half the downstairs of the house partway through a complete strip out and redecoration job, which is now all but complete save the wooden flooring I need to install. Just not enough hours in the day.

 

Having this delivered next week. Got a pretty good discount on this and it just fits into the alcove in the garage with about 20mm to spare. I've ordered two additional swivel castors with brakes, so it can be pushed straight in and pulled straight out as needed, since as standard it only comes with one pair of swivel castors and one pair fixed castors, as per the photo. It almost 2 metres long so plenty of storage space for all my tools. I've fitted some conventional shelving above it for extra storage as well. Unfortunately as I am working shifts away from home, progress is sporadic on the man cave but I have ten days off in the new year to finish of the flooring and skirting boards so hopefully it will be almost complete by then. All the doors inside the building both upstairs and downstairs are also being replaced with oak ones, as the stock ones the builder priced into the contract are frankly sh@te.

 

Absolutely. It's taken a long time but finally on the home stretch. Hope to wrap up the garage by the end of January. Simultaneously remodelling most of downstairs of the house so when that is complete progress will accelerate rapidly. I've only limited time off work so when I do get a few days spare they are usually comprised of a multitude of outstanding jobs right now. Will be glad when its complete. I might even get the tme to enjoy it.

 

Flooring is all finished, still waiting on the skirting boards however, which will arrive after I have left for my next two week work stint away. By the time I get back, the new oak doors will be here as well as some extra tech by way of smart locks and a new wifi switch for the main garage lighting circuit. Managed to fit a new Venetian blind, assemble the new glass helmet cabinet (RGB smart lighting yet to go in it), assembled and temporarily positioned the new tool cabinet and fitted some additional shelving into the understairs cupboard. I have also ordered some "easy peel" foam inserts for the tool cabinet so I can organise 20 years worth of kit spread across three tool boxes into one place...finally. All this work will at last allow me to clear the deck in the garage and move all my tools and online store stock into organised storage and off the floor, leaving just the mountain of boxes to get through, which will need fitting to my bike. I'm also contemplating a sofa, coffee table and TV but to be perfectly honest, my priority is to complete the primary tasks first.

Still work in progress. Undershelf LED lighting to go in and bespoke workbench/top frame, which the tool cabinet will sit under and that spans the full width of the alcove, peg board may well sit under the lower shelf, as yet undecided.


Lots of space to work on the bikes. I need to fit an Optimate fly-lead to my wife's Monster plus devise a neat way of mounting and storing the wiring for both chargers to the wall. Robarano come in please!


Out of shot what you can't see are the floor to ceiling mountain of boxes that occupy the other half of the garage. As I said, systematically finding a home for them all, bit by bit.



Christmas presents. One pair mounted, two more to go.

 

In case anyone is wondering, I used these 10mm Corefix "Air" plugs (specifically for dot & dab plasterboarded walls with a thermalite brick compound behind) to fit the shelves. They are ridiculously long but equally capable of supporting huge loads, so no concerns about what I might decide to store on the shelves, now or in the future.