Well, I don't know about you, but that was satisfying. Yes, more storage for the bunker, we know, you know, chicken dinner you've probably seen like four or five years ago or something. I installed, uh, storage in the back. I'm not sure if I actually did a video of that, might have just like tweeted some photos or something.

Anyway, in the 44 square meter storage bunker I've got here. Um, I've got an existing Um. shelving that looks identical to this. It's uh, two meters high.

but I've got four shelves that are two meters high by two meters wide by 600 millimeters deep. and I just installed here. Uh, two new ones. but they're only 1.5 meters wide.

So a total of three meters wide here. By uh, the same height? Two meters by 600 millimeters. Fantastic. Because I'm moving labs, so I'm downsizing from 100 square meters to 50 square meters.

So I've got to put all my stuff somewhere. so I now have a total of, well, you can't see it there because it's behind that door. That door was here when I got here and it's one of those big, thick, solid doors. I haven't bothered to cut it up and actually, um, dump it yet.

So I've got two of those doors. Really annoying. and there's a big concrete post in the way. Anyway, I've got eight meters by two meters by 600 millimeters.

There's all my canyon in gear and stuff. and now ta-da And here's the new stuff. I was able to get exactly the same four years later. If you want to know where I got it from, I'll link it in down below.

Uh, Sam the storage man here in Sydney. He imports these direct and they're absolutely fantastic. He sells different models. Um, this one is the 140? No, no, this is the 160 kilos per shelf.

So yeah, add up that a total and you can buy them in different lengths. So I've got a total of eight meters by two meters high on the uh long wall. and now I've got an extra three meters here for a total of 11 meters by two meters. And you can count up the number of Um.

shells if you want anyway. Four shelves. Um, they come with the bottom shelves which are good because you don't want stuff like sitting on the ground. Whatever ground you've got like the bunker here is really fantastic.

Not only is it pretty much a relatively consistent temperature year round, there's no dust in here, there's no, um, you know, pests or anything, so you know it really is quite nice. Anyway, Um, yeah, as you saw, assemble it, it actually took longer to clear everything out of here than it did to actually assemble these things. I didn't need any tools at all. Um, although I haven't put in the Uh lock-in bolts yet, I haven't Uh, actually you know they come with like pins.

Um, they come with lock-in pins and things like that. But uh yeah. Um, these are total of um 600 odd kilos per. uh you know, rack and they're all welded and everything else there you go for you welding aficionados.

I don't know, tell me what that looks like. But yeah, there are. these are really, um, top quality metal shells or powder coat finish of course so they don't rust I like. Haven't had a single problem with my other ones in four or five years.

I've had them installed. So very nice and super cheap If you want to know, um, just these ones here cost me, uh, 380 dollars including delivery. So yeah, I think that's a really cheap. Not sure if the price has gone up since I got them last time.

Maybe. Anyway, Um, yes, there is the Indiana Jones train set and I've kind of done a couple of things on it, but I still need to do more. Oh, got to get rid of the damn ultrasound machine. What the heck am I going to do with that? Anyway, yeah, Sinclair C5.

I might actually, um, do a teardown of Sinclair C5 soon. and uh, yeah, all sorts of other crap, Joe, I'll show you. But anyway, um yeah, let me know what you think about my new shelving. Absolutely fantastic.

Because yes, I am actually downsizing my lab. As everyone is at the moment. I can't believe the number of people that I just know personally that are downsizing, uh, their business. uh, offices because they've realized that, oh, you know, everyone's working from home.

My business didn't collapse. Oh shock horror. Why am I renting all of this? You know, 200 300 square meter space? Uh, when I can use like only get like 100 square meters, you obviously got to have somewhere, especially if you're like client focused and things like that. But there's so many people downsizing.

Anyway, I've been in my current hundred square meter space for two years now or almost two years. The lease is up October 31st, but I've just found someone who wants to move in and I don't want to extend the lease because I'm paying a crap ton of money paying about 46 000 a year to have that. That includes the outgoings and everything else. The rent's only about 31 000.

when you include the outgoings, which is all the strata stuff for the management of the lifts and the cleaning and the toilets and the grounds and the upkeep of the building and the air con systems and everything else, right? So those outgoings are pretty expensive. So forty six thousand dollars a year for a hundred square meters? when, uh, just nearby, I own a 50 square meter. my old lab. I still own that and I can't get anyone to rent that because there's so many vacancies in the park at the moment.

It's absolutely ridiculous. There's a brand new building that's gone up that's uh, they knocked down Australia's biggest ice rink to build it here in Norway's business park. and it's just opened. And it's got a gym, It's got a putting green, it's got an outdoor cinema, It's got an outdoor gym.

It's got an indoor gym, It's got an infinity swimming pool overlooking the mountains and all sorts of stuff. And they have to actually, uh, like rent those out at half the price. There's like half a dozen vacancies in the building, it's just open, and they're saying just rent it at any cost. So if you want to rent at the moment, you can do something, potentially do some really good deals, or they're offering six months rent free and free fit out.

Which you know could cost like 50 or 100 000 or something. But that's if you like rent a really large space for like, you know, you probably have to sign like a five-year lease to get that or something. Ridiculous. But anyway, so there's a glut.

It's the biggest glut in uh, vacancies that I've probably seen in the 10 years I've been in this business park, so there's heaps of choice I could actually rent. I I did actually find I talked about this on a Patreon and the supporters section of the Forum where I did actually find a like 70 square meter place or something. 70 odd square meters. So it's sort of halfway between the 50 square meters of the old lab and 100 square meters of the current lab.

and it's going really cheap. and I could probably even negotiate the price down even further and short lease terms and things like that, which is a little bit further away, but it's actually closer to home. It's actually quite a good location and it's got floor-to-ceiling windows and all that sort of stuff. And yeah, it's quite nice, but it's renting a place again, so I'd have to move my lab into another place that I don't own when I'd probably just, uh, you know, have to move out again in a couple of years because I've changed my mind or circumstances have changed or whatever.

So in the current climate, I think it's better. And I've talked about this in videos on my Uh in the supporters channel, which you can actually see uh, if you, even if you're not a support if you go to my library channel. I've actually uploaded them on there where I discuss the uh, economics of moving labs and downsizing and all that sort of stuff. So yes, I'm going back down to 50 square meters because I don't have a full-time employee anymore.

It's pretty much just me and my packing part-time packing in ship in person. so I'm going to try and fit back into a 50 square meter lab. So hence this storage because I've got to sort now all my stuff into uh, like multiple piles. I've got to sort the stuff and pile that I'm going to keep and transfer over to the new slash old lab.

I'll just call it the new. the old land. It's just the lab. Okay, I'm going to transfer it to the lab.

Um, stuff that I'm going to, uh, store here because you know I want to keep it. but it's not something I use all the time, so it's silly to keep it in the lab. I'll just keep it in the storage bunker here. And uh, three ones that I want to sell.

Just get rid of because I don't want to use any more. Uh, four ones that I want to give away and stuff that I want to dump. So like five? Like just crap that you know I'm never going to use. I should just stop hoarding stuff.

So you know, five different piles. So it's not the moving that's going to be the problem. It's going to be the sorting of stuff anyway. So yes, um, I just had somebody come in yesterday and measure up the place and they're super keen to get it and they probably want me to move out before October 31st first.

So yeah, I may have to move out relatively quickly. So hence the new storage shows and I can just whack all the stuff here and that'll get you know, half the stuff uh done or something like that. So yes, um, the interesting thing is the people who are going to lease the new one. They already signed a heads of agreement lease for another space just the other day.

But then the owner of so you know they were going to move into that space and then the owner said nope, sorry I don't want to lease it anymore. I am personally going to downsize and move into that place. So the owner of that I I think he had like you know, 300 square meters or something so he wanted to downsize into 180 square meters where they were and then forcing 180 square meters. They wanted to downsize.

So they're going to my hundred square meter one and then I'm downsizing. I'm going back to my, uh, 50 square meter one. So it's like downsizing Turtles all the way down. Absolutely brilliant.

And I know other people that have, uh, you know downsizing as well. It's just incredible. Everyone's doing it so I wouldn't like to be left holding the bag on a big size unit. and uh yeah, I I could have rented another space of course and then tried to rent out my 50 square meters.

But as you know, famously, my 50 square meter lab does not have any windows. So in the glut of stuff in the park, almost all of them have windows. You know, they have concierge services and as I said that new building it's got everything and yeah, mine's in good location, but yeah, I get hardly anything for it. So if I can find anyone at all to find a windowless lab in the middle of thing.

So anyway, I'm going to downsize into the 50 square meters and if I find that I do need more space for logistics, packing and shipping, or you know, a window for editing or something, there is actually a space on my level in the lab that actually has a window. and but I've got a co-share with somebody else. Engineers don't like sharing with other nerds. We're not very social anyway.

Um, yeah, I could potentially rent that. It's very expensive, but I could offer them like I'll give you five grand for it instead of 15. you know. And but yeah, paying for a window is.

I don't know. Anyway, moving back to the old lab new storage shelf let me know what you think comments down below let me know about the move. Oh Dave, no stay in the hundred square meters and renegotiate the price and like, do this and that. No, it's not happening, I'm moving out.

I'm like it's I'd rather save the cash and potentially, uh, look at buying a bigger unit and then I'll sell my old one and then I'll like upgrade to a bigger unit so I'm not renting. I've got to think you know, 10 20 years down the track, I don't want to be renting for the next 10 20 years when I could potentially, uh, you know, buy a bigger place so you know, but they don't come along one suitable ones. Don't come along very often so you have to just like sit there, bid your time. Something will come along, someone will be desperate to sell.

You know nobody else wants it. You know, because I I don't need like a really top quality a class building with concierge, service and everything else. I just need a practical space preferably with a window. Um, so yeah, I could potentially get a cheap space down the track that I could buy.

and I've discussed that before. Anyway, if you liked the video, please give it a big thumbs up. As always, discuss down below, let me know what you think. Catch you next time.

Totally forgot to mention. although I have tweeted photos of it, I installed new lighting. Look at this. I claim this to be the world's first under vent lighting look at this.

Has anyone else done it? Let me know. Ah, beautiful.