New Railings & Lights!

 

So this Sunday just gone saw Dad and I take a trip over to The Range to check out the black metal railings I'd seen the previous weekend that I thought, hoped, would fit along the back side of the garage roof to keep Furbaby Annie off the roof. I'd taken a snap of the details in the shop but needed to double check the sizes after we'd actually measured the length of the space behind the garage roof. The long and short of it was that I could fit the railings in if I chose two full panels and the gate panel, which was slightly less wide - otherwise three full panels would put me over the pathway.

So we bought the railings and then headed off to B&Q in search of replacement strip lighting. Here we found two 5ft LED lights which I promptly purchased along with a few more solar lights - one can never have too many solar lights ;-)

This week Dad's been busy fitting the lights inside the garage, staining the wooden beams and using a Hammerite type black paint on the wire brushed metal brackets and this is the outcome:

Both lights are uber bright and unlike conventional fluorescent lights they have no delay in coming on. Simply flick the switch and boom - instant lighting! This will be more necessary come the winter months as there's no natural light entering the garage anymore from the new roof, only what feeds in through the open door. Which this time of year is a lot of light but won't be so bright as the year rolls on.

Gonna owe me Dad several meals out at this rate, all the hard work he's putting in to sprucing up the old garage and the garden!