Missfoodlove Wed 28-Oct-20 15:57:42
^Our garage is an old coach house.
It houses a vintage car, drinks fridge, freezer, tumble dryer, garden furniture and most of East Yorkshire’s mouse population^
Our garage also houses our vintage car, a pre-war MG, as well as my wife's VW Golf. A useful tip that I was given is to park the car, that's the MG, on carpet. The fabric draws any damp. So we have a couple of books of carpet samples retrieved from the skip and one sample sits under each tyre. The carpet samples are changed when they start to get damp. I keep a large cat litter type tray under the engine to keep the garage floor clean in case of leaks. And through the car's winter hibernation an oil filled radiator keeps the car from freezing overnight.
So, as my wife puts it. The car is snug in the garage, in her slippers, sitting over her commode and kept snug by her hot water bottle. The VW Golf benefits from all that molycoddling too.
My poor old Mercedes has to make do with keeping Trixie company under a canopy. Trixie is a Morris Minor Traveller with the letters TRX on the number plate.