Are you a clean freak?

[ozwinner]

Yeah, you're probably right, it came like that out of the box. Still sucks though.

But no where near as good as it should I bet.

Al

[Auld Bassoon]

Bang !

Your foot, your gun.

Slightly higher, and a little more to the centre, methinks!

Major - I don't know how you can claim your shop to be undtidy - my dentist's surgery is muckier than that!

Cheers!

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I guess you could call me a clean freak... if someone cleans, I freak! Mine's a working shop 7 days a week and sadly makes Martrix's shed look vacant. This is 'cos it is a working shop, one that should really have 4 times the floor space it has. It was a four-car garage, they're now out on the street and in the drive. I s'pose I should build a car-port. One day. When I get a round tuit.

My timber racks overfloweth, mainly with ply, MDF & crapiata [sigh] although there's a large area with logs I gotta move out to the curing shed once I get around to rebuilding it. As it is, one can barely see the floor for stored timber. I literally work on it! At least I know my floors are always clean... it's the timber that gets dirty. My workbenches also overfloweth, with tools stacked on tools. There's method to my madness though, frequently used tools are stacked on top of lesser used, in the area where they are used. So, if someone "cleans up" (which is really just rearranging the mess to suit their taste) and moves one elsewhere... :eek:

Generally I build in the shop, then go out and install. The last thing I want to do at the end of a hard day is go home and clean. Weekends are spent either on catching up with the work I didn't manage during the week or on some "me" time building stuff just for the enjoyment of it. Again, cleaning's not high priority.

This is changing as I'm runnning duct-work, etc and slowly revamping the shop from one end to the other, adding cabinets and the like... but I ain't holding my breath. Maybe one day when it's clean to see at least part of the floor I'll post some pix. Again, I ain't holding my breath.

Think I'm exaggerating? Where's Waldo? I think he found his way out after his last visit... or is that him camping under my bench?

[Harry72]

Im on the closer side of errr spottless... if I've had a full day in the workshop I tend to just shut the door... but next morning it gets cleaned(tools/offcuts) before starting again. Always sweep up everyday tho

[gazaly]

Carpet on the floor of my shop:

Freaks unite!

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Errmmm... Never send a post when SWMBO's peeking over yer shoulder! She just came back in with camera in hand and told me to put up or shut up. Not in quite those terms, but I know what she really means. So here's my sty. [sigh]

BTW, the triton TS doesn't belong there. That's just where 'twas stowed when the ute was unpacked last night!

[checks over shoulder] I think she's trying to shame me into cleaning up sooner...

[rick_rine]

I even work side by side with Huntsmans and some kind of numerous black spider, we agree not to get in each other's way, seem's to work so far

Glad to see I'm not the only messy bugger according to the poll but I doubt if anyones shed is as unorganised as mine . I do try though . Actually from all the photos posted I reckon your all a bunch of liars !! Your sheds always look clean , neat and tidy . How can you judge a messy shed until you've seen mine ?
Talking of spiders etc the worst that happened to me was when I opened the shed door and a tiger snake fell straight down onto my blunstones before he slithered off . Almost had to change my undies .
Rick

[JDarvall]

I've got a messy workshed. Shaving everywhere. Like to keep it organised a little though. And as long as there is a good path to walk through I'm happy.

Anyway, where else ya gonna hide ya playboys anyway. For that, a messy shed's a must. Major, bet with that clean shed of yours, you don't have any playboys to hide. More like a 'laboratory' or an 'office',,,,,not a shed. Stop being to clean for christs sake.

Major, how'd you find those Record shifting clamps your using on that chair glue-up ? Work ok for you ? I've got a couple like that. But, they always slip on me.

[gazaly]

Errmmm... Never send a post when SWMBO's peeking over yer shoulder! She just came back in with camera in hand and told me to put up or shut up. Not in quite those terms, but I know what she really means. So here's my sty. [sigh]

BTW, the triton TS doesn't belong there. That's just where 'twas stowed when the ute was unpacked last night!

(....insert giggling like a schoolgirl here....)

[MajorPanic]

Major, bet with that clean shed of yours, you don't have any playboys to hide. More like a 'laboratory' or an 'office',,,,,not a shed. Stop being to clean for christs sake.

Major, how'd you find those Record shifting clamps your using on that chair glue-up ? Work ok for you ? I've got a couple like that. But, they always slip on me.

Are yous blind? Look at all the crap everywhere!! (see picture) :eek: :eek: :eek:

I gotta admit, I HATE stuff on the floor cause I'm usually in bare feet in the workshop & I hate walking in crap.

As for the Record clamps, they are fantastic!, had 'em for years & they have NEVER slipped even when I wind 'em super tight

[JDarvall]

Are yous blind? Look at all the crap everywhere!!

Well, if thats crap, offload some of it on me. I'll ease that burden...some nice tools in that office, Major. So, if you've got 'crap' everwhere, where do you hide you playboys ? or is it just 'playboy' or is it 'penthouses'......under the jointer ?

I gotta admit, I HATE stuff on the floor cause I'm usually in bare feet in the workshop & I hate walking in crap.
I agree it can get too much. I've got so much built up plane shavings that I've got rats. A whole family. And they don't like cheese. They like expensive buffing compound. The bastards :mad: .....And it ant fun looking for small parts when they fall in the mess.

As for the Record clamps, they are fantastic!, had 'em for years & they have NEVER slipped even when I wind 'em super tight
What gives here ?..... Mine are identical, but are always slipping. Lucked out I guess.

[savage]

Like some, I am somewhere in between not really a sty and not a spotless display "Workshop". I find walking on a messy floor kills my feet so I clean each day. As far as organising, I enjoy wood and metal and the two can be a bad combination as a fire risk so thats another reason. But I have a lot of "treasure", carefully stored for future projects, I laugh at mates when they say "Jeez ya got a lot of crape in here" I come straight back at them and say "Yeah! funny I'm going to use some of it to fix this problem you want me to try and fix for you" usually shut's 'em up.savage(Eric)

[craigb]

I don't think of myself as a "clean freak" but I can't stand clutter.

It distracts me and shytes me to tears

It's the same at work. Some blokes can work with their desks covered with the last three years worth of crap.

I don't know how they do it.

I guess it's just a case of "whatever works for you" works.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

But I have a lot of "treasure", carefully stored for future projects, I laugh at mates when they say "Jeez ya got a lot of crape in here" I come straight back at them and say "Yeah! funny I'm going to use some of it to fix this problem you want me to try and fix for you" usually shut's 'em up.

I know how that goes!

The more observant will notice a couple of (nearly) empty shelves in my shop. Until the other week (we had a hard-garbage collection...) they held some 15 odd 'putas and a few monitors, the last vestige of my "programmer with a screwdriver" days. A couple of VAXs, some Sun Sparcstations and the rest were '486 thru to P2's. They were my spare parts supply to fix the computers of the people who hung it on me for keeping old crap in the shop.

Now they can all take a flying... I gots me some more wood storage!

[Iain]

I have said it before and will say it again, a clean desk/shed is the sign of a sick mind.
Ever noticed how spotless gays and manic depressants are???