Charging my car in front of my house... Part 3.5: Plan Complete, Finally the Problematic Underground Parking Garage: The Long Road to Correction, Things We Take for Granted
I hope the atmosphere of persevering and completing the project, even if it takes a lot of time and effort to correct a lapse in adult etiquette, comes across...
(Big business and family life are on the same playing field)
Background
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A vacation home located on the hills of the peninsula, near the very top, at an elevation of about 45 meters. It feels like a three-minute walk down the hill to the sea.
I was enjoying country life, blending into the town from the perspective of an outsider.
During those days, although there was an underground parking garage, I ended up renting a parking space a little further away. And so, I spent my days doing car maintenance in front of my house. At the end of a season that was tough on the battery due to low winter temperatures, I charged it in front of my house from late at night until early morning, was reported by a neighbor, and received guidance from the local police.
It goes without saying that the road is not a parking lot, so I decided to correct this properly so that I wouldn't have to do that. The solution was to use the underground parking garage as a proper parking space since it exists. Although there were the following issues:
1. It was being used as a warehouse, so a large amount of luggage was stored there.
2. The vacation home was designed in the Showa era, so the underground parking garage is narrow.
3. Need to store a total of 3 vehicles: a car, a large motorcycle, and a scooter.
I started the project with a detailed plan.
First, I started with the living room. After all, it took two months to make it look completely different...
And then the backyard. It was a surprising experience to learn for the first time that things I thought were bulky waste could actually have value if recycled.
Finally, the study. A story about the pain and compromises that come with correction. The 6-tatami study had turned into a warehouse. The belongings of my late parents-in-law, my children, and my wife were stacked flat. There was no room to step. First, I decided to throw away what I could from the study and the underground parking garage to reduce the volume, and then use my specialty, palletization. By this point, 3 to 4 months had passed since I decided to make the correction...
(60,000 yen in parking fees leaked out (lol))
But I could see the goal...
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Finally, the underground parking garage.
The following items remained in the underground parking garage.
Scooter
Large motorcycle
46L container 14
46L container 4
(Authentic collapsible containers, folded items (empty boxes) +3)
62L container 4
Reflective heater
Torch (powerful commercial work light)
Front stand for large motorcycle
Jack stands for car
Low-profile creeper for car
CRZ exhaust parts
Golf clubs
2 boxes of records
Table
2 chairs
The arrangements for the storage location were perfect. All that was left was to transport them to the prepared storage location. Unfortunately, I had to work while also taking typhoon countermeasures due to the approach of an unprecedented typhoon.
The containers were moved neatly to the study and living room. The following photo shows the containers moved to the living room.
The torch (powerful commercial work light) and 2 boxes of records easily fit into the study. The 4 62L containers were added to the containers in the hallway.
46L container 4
(Authentic collapsible containers, folded items (empty boxes) +3)
Reflective heater
Front stand for large motorcycle
Jack stands for car
Low-profile creeper for car
These were stacked in the backyard.
In the back, a picture of using arched bricks to hold down the vinyl...
The remaining
golf clubs
,
table
, and two chairs were moved to the front of the entrance. On the left side of the photo below.
The two blue containers on the right are pamphlets,
and I plan to have them all collected during the next resource collection,
so they will be gone.
And so, all the luggage was barely able to fit.
In the now-empty underground parking lot, it was finally time to check the actual fit. I tried placing the scooter in the back and putting the large motorcycle in vertically, but...
It didn't go well, so I went with the planned layout.
The layout is the large motorcycle in the back and the scooter placed vertically.
V stands for VF750F, the large motorcycle.
L stands for Lead, the scooter.
VF750F large motorcycle in the back.
Placing the Lead scooter vertically and the compact car...
Getting in and out is perfect, so mission accomplished. As for the charging issue...
bottom left of photo
It's perfect.
As a bonus, I installed a fire extinguisher and a dehumidifier (center left in the photo above, the white box in front of the scooter), and all the work is complete. (Whew)
I wonder if the atmosphere of completing this project without giving up, even after putting in quite a bit of time and effort (about half a year) to correct the improper practices after being instructed by the police regarding charging in front of my house, has come across.
Side note:
The dehumidifier is one that became unnecessary after I introduced a washer-dryer. It's a tank type, and although I use bath towels to absorb moisture when I park a car wet from the rain, it fills up in one night. This is expected, but it collects a surprising amount of water even on sunny days. Managing a basement is quite troublesome.
Extra side note:
During my time as a salaryman, I was in charge of business planning for a long time and used to spend years systematically advancing projects from formulation to commercialization, and it feels like that know-how was put to good use. Well, the difficulty level was low, but it was quite a bit of work.
