Miglior Detailing's Unit Upgrades! On-going thread

Discussion in 'Professional Detailer's Studio' started by Miglior, Jan 25, 2011.

  1. Miglior

    Miglior DB Pro Supporter

    Hi guys and gals!

    As lots of you comment on the unit and how it looks, I thought id share some updates I’ve been doing recently.

    Hopefully you can tell that the unit’s cleanliness and tidiness is very important to me. I try and keep my work area presentable and clean at all times but as things grow at Miglior, I’m in need of more presentable work space.

    Now, I’m not short of work space really, my Unit is 3000sq/ft. But, I am short of presentable work space. I’m a bit of a hard wired perfectionist, and I’m never satisfied with my own efforts, but I’ll show you guys how I try! ;)

    First up...the front of the unit I work in is probably the most recognisable.


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    Now, with my company getting increasingly busy, I need to keep up with this and add another detailing area plus make the unit even more flexible.

    Other than presentable space, Heating in the winter is an issue. Is there any need to heat 3000 sq ft if you’re not going to be using it all of the time?? NOPE!

    Let me show you.....this is another part of the unit that I only really use for storage.


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    You can see here, it’s a little messy. It’s not normally as organised as id like it, but in this picture, it’s extra messy due to having the work done!


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    So, to tidy up things, plus isolate the single skin cladding you can see to make things warmer, a partition was needed!

    So, inside a day this was done!!

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    Now, I didn’t do that, I would have loved to have had the time and try but I just couldn’t! The joiner did this for me!


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    Some eagle eyed viewers might have spotted it earlier; I have a LOT of high end insulation either side of the container. I picked it up pretty cheap and it has been waiting for me to get some walls up like this!

    Having this partition up means I will only be heating just short of half of the unit. The rest is storage.

    Once the insulation was in, it was time to board up

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    Now the board is on, it’s time for plastering the wall to tidy it up!

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    I could have just painted it, but I wanted a nice finish!

    Here you can see the sliding door into next doors unit. It was patched up by the land lord. Something will be done with this later!

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    Now the plaster has dried, it’s starting to come together a little more!

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    On with more updates!

    So... with the plaster dry and ready to work with, its time to set about painting etc!

    The real reason why im doing a new detailing bay, equipment!

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    This ramp will help big time when it comes to polishing lower panels, taking wheels off and refurbishing them. And also minor mechanical work such as exhaust upgrades, Big brake kits etc.

    Now we've started painting the partition. The ramp rolls away really easily so it has been shifted to avoid any paint splashes.

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    The first coat was a watered down mix of a matt emulsion to soak into the plaster. Ive done the cutting in above.

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    Here ive done the first coat. Its a little patchy, but it is the first coat, and even so, it looks a lot better. Its starting to come together a bit now!

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    Now the undercoat is done on the door and architrave.

    Now, what should I do with the big gaping hole in my partition?

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    Answer: A custom fitted (to the millimeter) garage door thats, electric, remote controlled and most importantly, Insulated!

    Now im working in an environment thats insulated, rather than working next to single skin metal cladding with small holes here there and everywhere!

    You can see also that the first coat of gloss has gone on to the door and architrave.


    A sneaky peak of what else has been going on!

    Door handles and kick plate done!

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    Now....whats this?

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    Can you tell what it is yet? :)

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    Making sure its all lined up straight and even.

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    Dimensions/fixtures noted down in an ever so accurate way! haha!

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    Lined up and mounts drying!

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    Gotta let them dry now!



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    Getting the Wall ready for mounting

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    And done...

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    Just need to paint the lines i drew on the paint now and im done!





    I’ve not had as much time as I’d like to work on the unit over Christmas/new year. I suppose that’s a good thing though, I’ve kept pretty busy when I wasn’t expecting much, anyways...

    I did get a chance to paint the floor in the new area of the unit and a few other bits and bobs!

    First up was to fit some skirting board to the bottom of the partition to finish it off a little better.

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    Then as you can see the floor needs painting badly, but it’s only at this stage I’ve had chance. So, I cleared the floor area, gave it a scrape to bring up any flaking paint, degreased it, scrubbed it, rinsed and dried. Then Left for 24 hours.

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    The next step was to do the edges with a brush. The walls in places were painted in keeping with the rest of the unit, one breeze block course.

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    And done...

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    Now everything back in place. I’ve left a line just in case I needed anything from the back whilst it was drying. I’ll be doing that at some point this week. I can get that done inside 5 mins with a roller. I can do it without worrying about taping anything up also, which will make it a lot easier!

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    You’ll Notice my new tool chest too! I love it!

    More updates to come soon!

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  2. JPerrydore

    JPerrydore Birth of a Detailer

    That's a great set up you have there! Love what you did with it and how clean everything is! Thanks for sharing!

    That is one thing I need to work on is keeping my working area clean. I tend to make a mess when I'm detailing and have stuff every where!
     
  3. billyblooshoes

    billyblooshoes DB Forum Supporter

    thats a really nice, well thought out shop you have there.

    oh and that matte black GTI and the blue RS4 have me DRROOOOOLING. is that GTI vinyl wrapped?
     
  4. Markus85

    Markus85 Virgin Detailer

    Hey Jay, very nice pictures :)


    do you have more pictures from the matte black MKV GTI? this car looks amazing! :applause2:


    thx :)
     
  5. Supertuner

    Supertuner Jedi Nuba

    Gorgeous Work Space, I Love All The Custom Signage.
     
  6. SpecC

    SpecC Wax on..Wax off

    Wow, where did you gets get the cloning technology?
     
  7. Carn

    Carn Welcome to Detailing

    Coming along nicely Jay, well done buddy :thumb:
     
  8. Miglior

    Miglior DB Pro Supporter

    hello there! What a busy weekend I had!

    Up this weekend was to fit a new CCTV system. I had a previous one, but the new one going in is a lot better quality, it has hundreds more features and I can even view any of the cameras 24h hours a day on my Ipad or Iphone, or any computer. It records onto a hard drive in the unit and also backs up in real time to another disk at a remote location.
    I’ve never had any trouble in the unit, but this along with my police response alarm provides more than enough peace of mind to customers! So, enough of the chat! Let’s get some pictures up of the progress!

    By the way, yet again, I have done all this. I had a friend help with running some of the wires too.

    First up is a shot of all the gubbins being installed! It doesn’t look like much, but it’s a BIG job installing this system, a TV, running over 100m of cables etc!


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    This is where it is going to go!

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    The phone will be tidied up too. That’s only been put there as a temp measure whilst the TV goes on!




    On with running the wires! I’m sure the H&S guys would love this!

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    Work in progress at the business end of the CCTV install

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    Now, it’s all been installed now! Here is what the unit looked like! It was a pretty big undertaking! It needed cleaning ASAP as more cars were booked in and no time to spare!

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    Now it’s all tidied up, this is what it looks like!

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    Since the last update, I’ve also done a bonnet ill be putting up on the wall in due course!

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    Thanks again for reading!


    Jay ​
     
  9. onebaucom

    onebaucom Birth of a Detailer

    that range rover looks awesome. i like the body style on it. you have a nice shop too! =]
     
  10. Supertuner

    Supertuner Jedi Nuba

    Nice Job, Looks great, cant wait to see the bonnet up on the wall
     

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