Thanks Mr H
The day after the trailer swap I helped my landlord load his 40s Plymouth Deluxe, and we trailered it to a bodyshop in Essex- can't remember their name right now..but they had a bubble top impala in primer and some other interesting cars.
So, onto the worksop build. Originally I was to have an uncovered space between containers, build a roof and sort a floor etc.
I designed a roof using scaffold that we already had, top and bottom 2x2 timber hole-sawed and sandwiching the scaffold tubing.
The whole structure was to be locked to the corners of the containers with Twistlocks.
Once I had the frame together it was decided I could actually use an already roofed space between two other containers!
Luckily it's slightly larger and had been evacuated rather quickly by some builders.
I was also paid to finish the roof so got that mostly complete last week, it's more of a carport than anything now
Anyway, onto my actual workspace!
I ripped out a subsided wet ply/pallet floor, wacked the ground as level as possible and set to building a strong floor with provision for cars at the front. Again recycling whatever I could scavenge, I worked out a floor plan involving steel beams, channel and timber.
Luckily there is a recycled wood store nearby in Brighton and just short of £100 got me a van full of chunky timber.
That was as of last night. Note 4" sleepers and steel beams making up my car area between 6" I beam and channel, was like building a railway line!
And after today I've got to here
There's a double thickness of 18mm ply on the car area which sits nice and flush with the steel, and it feels more than adequate support.
Hopefully I'll be able to make a car update fairly soon!