… where I park my car. I know it astonishes people, who say: " Whoa! Really? You can do that?" And I tell them that it is possible, and, oddly enough, that was the original purpose of garages. It also holds mowers, ladders, paint, hand tools, and the general run of tooly and outdoorsy stuff, all organized on shelves, pegboards, and other wall organizer gizmos. It is my favorite room in the house.
@mycya4me Around here, parking outside or in a carport means rodents will eat the wiring and likely the hoses. I’ve had that happen twice when I had to park outside, even after I sprayed the underside with a rodent repellent. If I had a single-car garage and a carport, the car would be in the garage, and any rodent-proof ladders/etc. would be in the carport. Different locations, different priorities.
@rockblossom That sounds NOT KOOL!. I live on large lot, Near woods (NON HOA- PTL) yea we could have all kind of critters here.
I have found that Place Paks do a Great job. (especial if there are NO pets around) The critters/ rats/ mice would eat through the pac to get after the “Food” aka a type of rat poison go back the the nest. Croke. I had tried click traps, but they get smart on how to get the bait & not trigger the trap. No more critter problem!
My Dad build them all. a couple have concrete floor, One is larger so we can keep the Lawn tractor & have a nice size work shop. (metal frame & siding. Left overs from a Large construction project he was working on.
@rockblossom I have shelving that holds my tools, pest control supplies, paint supplies, yard care supplies, car care supplies, and miscellaneous items. I also have various types of hooks that hold things like ladders, shovel, rake, my bike, and the shop vac.
And my roommate and I both park our vehicles in the garage.
@rockblossom @mycya4me–Using poison for rodents puts your cat at risk! Please don’t do that - the rodents don’t die immediately and Thor could potentially find one, eat it, and get poisoned himself!!!
@Kyeh@mycya4me I don’t use it here for the same reason. I also have wildlife like raccoons and gray foxes that would eat a dead rat. I don’t think the eagles, hawks, or owls would go for a dead one, but they might if the rat was still moving.
@Kyeh@mycya4me@rockblossom
Thanks for that, I was considering for our garage but the neighbor has cats that roam our yard and hunt/kill the mice/chipmucks and I definitely don’t want to kill them.
@mycya4me@rockblossom@Star2236 Yeah, I use mouse traps when I have to; it’s not pleasant, but it usually kills them instantly, and I’m not endangering other critters.
@Kyeh@mycya4me@rockblossom@Star2236 Once trying to kill ants that were entering my apartment (I live on the 4th floor) I used an ant poison and it killed the green salamander (which was also cat TV) and a bat that hung out on my outside window sill to eat the ants. I felt so guilty as I didn’t even think about that.
@Kyeh@mycya4me@rockblossom
That’s what we use but the chipmunks get into the garage (it’s old and not well sealed) and those suckers are to big for even the big mouse traps. I’ve tried.
@Star2236 I can’t completely keep mice out, but rats and chipmunks no longer get in. I searched for their entry holes, filled them with a copper mesh, then used a plastic wood filler to close the holes. They will not eat through copper. I do the same with mouse holes, but they are harder to find.
@Kyeh@rockblossom That was before I got my Cat. Plus I had tried to 1st use the Click traps. the best way, They they learned hot to get the Bate w/o setting off the traps!
@rockblossom
My dads house, the garage is really old and it it’s the kind that you manually pull up. We’re constantly in & out of it all year round bc riding lawnmower and snowblower ect. It just doesn’t shut as tight as it used to and there’s no way to set up anything bc it would just move when we open it.
@Kyeh@rockblossom@Star2236 I feel your pain! I live one a Lot that has a LOT of woods around, so Yes we have all of them & more. I do think I have even seen a deer or 2. PTL I don Live in a HOA!
Organized enough for now, with outdoor & indoor project supplies, riding mower, yard work tools, regular tools, and space for 1 car…and it’s a 3 car garage. Typing it out makes it sound like a snobby rich family…sad that’s not true (the rich part).
@kshayabusa It sounds like a Perfect work space! a “snobby rich family” would have someone that make it look like a showplace, one that NO work happens!
@Kidsandliz@kshayabusa Not surprising!, In my career field we need to have & use our own personal tools. BTW I am a Computer Hardware Tech. It’s Broke, I fix! I do Corp It, Not like the Geek Squad of Best Buy!
My garage is attached to the house and is insulated, so it stays dry and above-freezing. It holds our two most-driven vehicles, an upright freezer, plus some shelf space for storage of more sensitive items.
I also have a ~1800sf metal pole barn that serves as workshop and storage. I am currently in the process of cleaning out and organizing all the stuff that has accumulated over the last 25 years. It is a Herculean task. (Sometimes having lots of available storage space is not necessarily a good thing.)
@macromeh
We used to have a heated garage. Former people that lived her used to make soap in it but then the garage door need to be replaced and we got a non insulated one and cut off heating to the garage to save money.
@Kyeh My FIL died last March (6 days after turning 97) and MIL moved into managed care. So it has (mostly) been up to my wife and me to clear out their place to get it ready to rent out (to help cover MIL’s expenses). FIL had lived there for ~50 years and had accumulated lots of stuff.
That has motivated me to clean up our own accumulation of stuff to avoid our kids being put in a similar situation.
@macromeh Yes, I’ll be in a similar situation when my elderly mother dies; she has LOTS of stuff, and it’s very nice, but none of us kids have a barn. I also have an older friend who’s leaving his wonderful collection of letterpress printing equipment to me, so that’ll be a challenge. Not soon in either case, I hope!
@Kyeh@macromeh My mom died at 97 in May and her initial downsizing from a house to an apartment involved a serious ton of hours. From there to assisted living and then to a nursing home (all in the same complex) was far easier simply because she has less stuff. What I didn’t know until last month was my sister put most of mom’s stuff in a storage unit (at mom’s expense, she had power of attorney). Not sure mom knew about it either. It would have been far more prudent to have all of us pick things from there, or better yet from the house, rather than waiting until she died.
Of course what landed in the storage unit was only things my sister didn’t want. I was the last person involved (I lived 1000 miles away) and the bulk of what was left needed donated or put on the curb. I did find a couple of treasures, one of which my sister said, “If I had known what that was I would have taken it too”. Sigh. Of course I don’t have space for a lot of things but a couple of things that were mine she took and won’t give back. Family dynamics can rear its ugly head in situations like that so those of you whom haven’t been through this yet be prepared.
Not big enough. It’s supossed to be a 2 car garage but when we had 2 “cars” we could barely fit them in there in the winter. Right now it hold the car we never drive and all the yard stuff, bmx bikes my boyfriend collects, kayak and what ever else my boyfriend stashes in there. We need a shed so are garage can be emptied.
I don’t have a garage.
No garage here
What was a garage is now a bedroom
Parking garage is for cars only.
FTFY
A garage? In this economy?
@pkimball Well the one I have was built 30-40 years ago!
How about an assigned parking space?
@ratman I guess you love in an Apt/ HOA.
@mycya4me @ratman Might even live there too.
@ratman MIne’s not even assigned.
Non-existent
@earl_danger Very x5 sad!
Organized, but not a paradise.
@gjrupert If it your space & it is Organized, then It most be paradise! Most workshops are NOT clean, but messy! It shows work has been done!
My garage is the lawn next to the house.
@RichSPK
This … exactly!
Organized and labeled and fits 2 cars.
My craft storage mostly.
So packed one cannot walk in there.
… where I park my car. I know it astonishes people, who say: " Whoa! Really? You can do that?" And I tell them that it is possible, and, oddly enough, that was the original purpose of garages. It also holds mowers, ladders, paint, hand tools, and the general run of tooly and outdoorsy stuff, all organized on shelves, pegboards, and other wall organizer gizmos. It is my favorite room in the house.
@rockblossom I have a couple Car ports for that! the garage/ Big /Small sheds is where all that stuff is located!
@mycya4me Around here, parking outside or in a carport means rodents will eat the wiring and likely the hoses. I’ve had that happen twice when I had to park outside, even after I sprayed the underside with a rodent repellent. If I had a single-car garage and a carport, the car would be in the garage, and any rodent-proof ladders/etc. would be in the carport. Different locations, different priorities.
@rockblossom That sounds NOT KOOL!. I live on large lot, Near woods (NON HOA- PTL) yea we could have all kind of critters here.
I have found that Place Paks do a Great job. (especial if there are NO pets around) The critters/ rats/ mice would eat through the pac to get after the “Food” aka a type of rat poison go back the the nest. Croke. I had tried click traps, but they get smart on how to get the bait & not trigger the trap. No more critter problem!
My Dad build them all. a couple have concrete floor, One is larger so we can keep the Lawn tractor & have a nice size work shop. (metal frame & siding. Left overs from a Large construction project he was working on.
@rockblossom I have shelving that holds my tools, pest control supplies, paint supplies, yard care supplies, car care supplies, and miscellaneous items. I also have various types of hooks that hold things like ladders, shovel, rake, my bike, and the shop vac.
And my roommate and I both park our vehicles in the garage.
@rockblossom
@mycya4me–Using poison for rodents puts your cat at risk! Please don’t do that - the rodents don’t die immediately and Thor could potentially find one, eat it, and get poisoned himself!!!
@Kyeh @mycya4me I don’t use it here for the same reason. I also have wildlife like raccoons and gray foxes that would eat a dead rat. I don’t think the eagles, hawks, or owls would go for a dead one, but they might if the rat was still moving.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @rockblossom
Thanks for that, I was considering for our garage but the neighbor has cats that roam our yard and hunt/kill the mice/chipmucks and I definitely don’t want to kill them.
@mycya4me @rockblossom @Star2236 Yeah, I use mouse traps when I have to; it’s not pleasant, but it usually kills them instantly, and I’m not endangering other critters.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @rockblossom @Star2236 Once trying to kill ants that were entering my apartment (I live on the 4th floor) I used an ant poison and it killed the green salamander (which was also cat TV) and a bat that hung out on my outside window sill to eat the ants. I felt so guilty as I didn’t even think about that.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @rockblossom
That’s what we use but the chipmunks get into the garage (it’s old and not well sealed) and those suckers are to big for even the big mouse traps. I’ve tried.
@Star2236 I can’t completely keep mice out, but rats and chipmunks no longer get in. I searched for their entry holes, filled them with a copper mesh, then used a plastic wood filler to close the holes. They will not eat through copper. I do the same with mouse holes, but they are harder to find.
@mycya4me @rockblossom @Star2236 My neighbor catches and releases squirrels that eat birdseed from the feeders in her yard; she drives out to places several miles away to relocate them. She uses something like this: https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Havahart-X-Small-2-Door-Professional-Live-Animal-Cage-Trap-for-Mice-Rat-and-Vole-1020/100207554
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @rockblossom @Star2236 I use Toro ant killer in an Orange box. it will also kill roaches!
@Kyeh @rockblossom That was before I got my Cat. Plus I had tried to 1st use the Click traps. the best way, They they learned hot to get the Bate w/o setting off the traps!
@rockblossom
My dads house, the garage is really old and it it’s the kind that you manually pull up. We’re constantly in & out of it all year round bc riding lawnmower and snowblower ect. It just doesn’t shut as tight as it used to and there’s no way to set up anything bc it would just move when we open it.
@Kyeh @mycya4me @rockblossom
We have so many squirrel and chipmunks, I’d spend my entire day driving to relocate them lol
@Kyeh @rockblossom @Star2236 I feel your pain! I live one a Lot that has a LOT of woods around, so Yes we have all of them & more. I do think I have even seen a deer or 2. PTL I don Live in a HOA!
Organized enough for now, with outdoor & indoor project supplies, riding mower, yard work tools, regular tools, and space for 1 car…and it’s a 3 car garage. Typing it out makes it sound like a snobby rich family…sad that’s not true (the rich part).
@kshayabusa It sounds like a Perfect work space! a “snobby rich family” would have someone that make it look like a showplace, one that NO work happens!
@kshayabusa
But the snobby part is?
@kshayabusa @mycya4me A rich family would expect the hired help to bring their own tools, mower, etc.
@Kidsandliz @kshayabusa Not surprising!, In my career field we need to have & use our own personal tools. BTW I am a Computer Hardware Tech. It’s Broke, I fix! I do Corp It, Not like the Geek Squad of Best Buy!
A dream.
I suppose I should elaborate… It’s where I’d build that Lotus 7 kit car if I had one–the garage… and then the kit car kit.
@ItalianScallion Let me know if you need help.
@yakkoTDI If I do… Be seeing you. …Won’t I?
@yakkoTDI
My garage is attached to the house and is insulated, so it stays dry and above-freezing. It holds our two most-driven vehicles, an upright freezer, plus some shelf space for storage of more sensitive items.
(Sometimes having lots of available storage space is not necessarily a good thing.)
I also have a ~1800sf metal pole barn that serves as workshop and storage. I am currently in the process of cleaning out and organizing all the stuff that has accumulated over the last 25 years. It is a Herculean task.
@macromeh YES, that last sentence.
@macromeh
We used to have a heated garage. Former people that lived her used to make soap in it but then the garage door need to be replaced and we got a non insulated one and cut off heating to the garage to save money.
@Kyeh My FIL died last March (6 days after turning 97) and MIL moved into managed care. So it has (mostly) been up to my wife and me to clear out their place to get it ready to rent out (to help cover MIL’s expenses). FIL had lived there for ~50 years and had accumulated lots of stuff.
That has motivated me to clean up our own accumulation of stuff to avoid our kids being put in a similar situation.
@macromeh Yes, I’ll be in a similar situation when my elderly mother dies; she has LOTS of stuff, and it’s very nice, but none of us kids have a barn. I also have an older friend who’s leaving his wonderful collection of letterpress printing equipment to me, so that’ll be a challenge. Not soon in either case, I hope!
@Kyeh @macromeh at least they don’t have hundreds of snakes
@macromeh @pakopako Is that what you’re expecting to inherit?
@Kyeh @macromeh My mom died at 97 in May and her initial downsizing from a house to an apartment involved a serious ton of hours. From there to assisted living and then to a nursing home (all in the same complex) was far easier simply because she has less stuff. What I didn’t know until last month was my sister put most of mom’s stuff in a storage unit (at mom’s expense, she had power of attorney). Not sure mom knew about it either. It would have been far more prudent to have all of us pick things from there, or better yet from the house, rather than waiting until she died.
Of course what landed in the storage unit was only things my sister didn’t want. I was the last person involved (I lived 1000 miles away) and the bulk of what was left needed donated or put on the curb. I did find a couple of treasures, one of which my sister said, “If I had known what that was I would have taken it too”. Sigh. Of course I don’t have space for a lot of things but a couple of things that were mine she took and won’t give back. Family dynamics can rear its ugly head in situations like that so those of you whom haven’t been through this yet be prepared.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh BTW, I just finished building a rack to hold 27-gallon storage bins to accomodate some of my stuff in a fairly space-efficient and orderly manner. Here is the relevant (and useful) website:
https://www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/free-diy-tote-storage-rack-configurator-and-plans-ana-white
@Kidsandliz @macromeh That rack looks great.
My minivan is an extension of the garage I don’t have.
It’s big and kind of organized. I would like to do more but it’s at the bottom of the list renovation wise.
Garage?!? Not all of us belong to the elite class, meh.
Not big enough. It’s supossed to be a 2 car garage but when we had 2 “cars” we could barely fit them in there in the winter. Right now it hold the car we never drive and all the yard stuff, bmx bikes my boyfriend collects, kayak and what ever else my boyfriend stashes in there. We need a shed so are garage can be emptied.
I do not have one. But the basement is all utility.
…is
Non-existent.
Full of shite from the old murder shed, waiting to be turned into a game room once the new less murdery shed is complete. Sooner than later I hope.