I'm currently building my layout in the garage, in the expectation (well, forlorn hope) that Mrs will let me bring it indoors when my Metcalfe card buildings are ready to start being put on.

Of course, Mrs has other ideas and would much rather it stayed in the garage - or in the garden shed - or up in the attic - anywhere rather than in the house...

"But the dust/damp/temperature variation will ruin it!" I wail...

Does anyone keep their layouts in an outbuilding, and if so do they suffer any ill effects?

My layout is in the garage...I have tried to keep the area close to the layout as dry and dust free as possible but think of it this way... with the free damp/dust/spiders/bugs of all sizes/ and general crud in the air your layout will look naturally weathered in no time and will save you ever having to lift up an airbrush in anger !

My layout is in the garage - at 12' that's the only 'room' (apart from the living room) that it can be erected in!

However, it is an integral garage so doesn't suffer the extreme swings of temperature and humidity that a free-standing one would - especially after I hung an old carpet across the door aperture... I can take it down if the door needs to be used.

the garage- mmm, well both the Plas and the Stroker are in the garage (well its the best place to keep the cars) and the N gauge layout is on a door - and for storage you simply re-hang it back onto its rising butt's    , that way it keeps the draught out 


alan

In the spare bedroom but it has to go under the bed if we have visitors. At 6ft X 3ft it fits under well but I have to detach a front scenic area and my fiddle yard.

I may be more fortunate than others but my layout is housed in what used to be my product showroom.

When I moved to my present home I had a workshop/showroom constructed at the bottom of the garden.  It is clad in shiplap, internally sheathed in Marine Ply with Rockwool insulation which in turn is internally clad with more Marine Ply and then painted White.

When The Trading Standards officers declared that because of the steps (New ones have since been made since the photograph was taken) the general public could enter BUT I would have to install an invalid ramp, a fire exit at the back and handrails, I decided to put it to better use, storage!

When the "N" gauge bug bit, I used the storage cupboards as a base on one side and shelves on the other two sides, giving me a square of baseboard approximately 2 metres square.

The layout occupies the third of the total behind the door.



Regards, Peter.