Garages...

[Tegg]

We've talked about the best ways to transport our gear... but how do you guys have your garage space setup for your scuba gear?

Personally I will have a nice brand new garage soon to setup the way I want... obviously I am starting with a base of good primer and an epoxy coating... then I plan on putting down a rubber mat where I plan on resting tanks (the kind that have the holes to allow for drying).

I also plan ion building a work bench for working on gear...

I wanna see some pics of how people organize and deal with their gear in their garage... I know some people out there have to have some sweet setups... 8)

[John L.]

Garage? I keep my stuff in my bedroom! I walk by it everyday. It reminds me to charge my batteries on a regular basis, and take better care of my stuff, so spiders don't poop on my gear. My wife don't like it, but that's the brakes.

[JDostal]

My girlfriend and I keep all of our stuff in our basement. We've got a dehumidifier down there already, so it works well.

We built a custom drying rack out of 1 1/2" pipe. It's about 7' tall, and 5' wide. We built two legs out of pipe for it, and there are 4 "arms" on it (out of PVC) that we can move back and forth. We can hook our drysuits on the top to let them hang, and we each have two "arms" to hang the rest of our gear on. It works really well Luckily we know someone that got us to pipe for free, otherwise it would have cost a ton in fittings

The floor has got a drain in it and is painted...so the water runs out well. My tanks I usually don't have to worry about storing. They are either in the back of my truck on the way to a dive, or are at the dive shop getting filled. I rarely, rarely have them at home. Luckily I DM for the shop, so they don't mind having them there for a week or two.

If I need to store them for a while (usually in winter, when only ice diving is to be had), the tanks have a corner in my garage that they can sit in.

[Signal 20]

garage? try living on the second floor of an apartment complex and having to carry your gear up and down the stairs everytime you go diving I have all my gear in the corner of my living room haha

[Herbie]

Ya Joe I built a small room inside my garage and left plenty of space for one car. Just frame it low enough so the garage door can slide over. I framed and used plywood for walls , painted it all black inside, floor included. Ran electric for one light and a few receptacles to charge batteries, plug in a radio etc.... Its completely off limits to my daughters but my wife gets a pass sometimes. Cave pictures/posters/maps on the walls and a calendar to plan the next anti. Even a pic of the Tegg at Buford... on the dartboard of course. Now that you are an Orlandian you should visit your Kissimmeemite bro and check it out.

[NitroxWarrior]

well, i have about 12 tanks, so i built a rack out of 1x1 tubing and really big PVC pipe that holds 9 tanks.

I'll post pics later...

[Angie Reim]

Garage? I keep my stuff in my bedroom! I walk by it everyday. It reminds me to charge my batteries on a regular basis, and take better care of my stuff, so spiders don't poop on my gear. My wife don't like it, but that's the brakes.

Hey guy! I live in Florida too. Forget spider poop. I've had cockroaches in my drysuit and second stages. The only dive gear I store in the garage are the tanks - bungeed to a steel cable screwed into the concrete wall. The rest is hanging in a coat closet or in Rubbermaid containers on floor of same closet.

Nothing like doing the 'cockroach dance after putting your foot into the drysuit boot'. Ewwwww.......

Hey! You still up for dive sometime?

[Angie Reim]

Ya Joe I built a small room inside my garage and left plenty of space for one car. Just frame it low enough so the garage door can slide over. I framed and used plywood for walls , painted it all black inside, floor included. Ran electric for one light and a few receptacles to charge batteries, plug in a radio etc.... Its completely off limits to my daughters but my wife gets a pass sometimes. Cave pictures/posters/maps on the walls and a calendar to plan the next anti. Even a pic of the Tegg at Buford... on the dartboard of course. Now that you are an Orlandian you should visit your Kissimmeemite bro and check it out.

Sounds more like a 'man hut'. Snicker, snicker.....

Sorry. I got one of those at home too. Poor guy. One wife and three daughters -- all teenagers. He needs a place to hide too.

[HomoErectus]

Living in a two bedroom apartment with the only place to store tanks in the livingroom.

7 cyliders and a set of doubles is not quite the decoration that my gf was hoping for our new place.

[JDostal]

I had to deal w/ gear in an apartment too...thank god I moved out before I got into more serious diving. I was still rec only when in an apartment so things were easy My roomate was the best - I scared the hell out of her one night with my wetsuit - she thought it was a person in the kitchen when she got up to get some water.

The spiders/roaches in the gear is funny...I was out ice diving once, and was tending the line for a buddy. He went down, and all of a sudden a couple seconds later he comes sputtering and flailing. I'm like "what?! what?!" getting ready to pull him out. He yells "there was a god**** spider in my reg!!! AGGGHH!". He's spitting out legs and hacking up...man, i'm glad it wasn't me, but it was funny to watch.

I've never let a reg sit near the floor again.