I second the recommendation for the
www.garagejournal.com.
I've got a small suburban garage (20'x21') and I put it together with a pretty low budget. I learned as I went, doing all of the work myself -- including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift.
The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than $3,500. Everything you see is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.
I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.
I also made a website for it:
http://www.12-gaugegarage.com
(This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)
Work benches that fold down from the wall:
There is no 911 that's been lowered too much to fit on this lift. And there's nothing to trip over when the car is out.
And it's got its own a video:
The 12-Gauge Garage Video
And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:
My Garage Lift
Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.
But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.
In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]
