Jeez mate - just leave the car outside.
They are waterproof y'know!
They don't really neeeed a little house.
My parents bought a carport instead and used the space much more
intelligently - a third bedroom.
If you need a shed ( and what bloke doesn't) then banish the beast.
You know it makes sense.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 08/11/2007, at 1:48 PM, AG Schnozz wrote:
>
> Moose von Digital wrote:
>> A folding design that allows garage use or darkroom use, but not
>> both at once? Pretty slick if that's it and you get it to work!
>
> Not quite. Here is a bit of my thinking:
>
> I've been doodling out the plans for the darkroom. The biggest
> question mark I have is the length of the wall. The garage is a
> two-car garage and the entry into the house is somewhere midway down
> the back wall. The garage sticks out front of the house. If the door
> isn't centered, I'll put the darkroom on the longer of the two walls.
> I believe the longer of the two is the one that backs the laundry as
> well as the downstairs bathroom. The other wall backs the utility
> closet with the furnace, electrical and hotwater heater.
>
> It looks like I can steal about 3-feet of floor space from the
> car-parking area. This, of course, isn't enough for a darkroom, but
> what I'll do is actually build it up and over the hood of the car.
> I'll go another three feet out.
>
> This raised area would actually be the
> countertop. This would give me an effective six feet of room width by
> however long that section of garage wall is. Figure 10 feet. So my
> darkroom will end up 6x10. Not huge, but doable. I'll install
> cabinetry above the countertop except for where the enlarger lives.
>
> By making the countertop 3-feet deep, I can actually place my trays
> two-deep. Not necessarily for the DSF steps, but for my various
> water-soak steps. I use a four-tray rinse. Wherever I can place it,
> I'm going to have a utility sink built into the room too.
>
> The whole shebang will be insulated and heated. An exhaust fan will
> move the air from the darkroom into the garage and I'll put a fresh
> air intake in from the house itself. This way, in the summertime, I
> can draw the cooled air from the house through the darkroom.
>
> The space UNDER a countertop is usually pretty wasted. With this
> darkroom, this wasted space is actually in the garage.
>
> Oh, to accomodate the REALLY high countertop (4.5 feet), I'll build a
> raised floor for the darkroom. Depending on the plumbing situation,
> I'll probably run the water lines and drain through this back into
> the house.
>
> AG
>
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