I hadn't realised how easy it is to change your own tyres.

If you get one of the £40/£50 walk-around tyre changing tools, they have a bead breaker incorporated which works very well. I would say that you will need to have it bolted down fairly securely though - whilst they are very easy to use for taking standard cross section tyres of steel rims, alloys require a bit more force (especially if the tyres are lower profile types). I used some drop-in anchors (of the type commonly used for fixing scaffolding to walls) into holes drilled in my garage floor (I think they were M12 size).

These manual tyre changers are fine for dealing with steel rims, and are fine for removing tyres for the refurbishment of kerbed alloys where further damaging the paintwork isn't an issue, but if the alloys are in good order, you run the risk of damaging the paint around the rim (although using copious amounts of bead lube to help the walk-around lever to slide over the paint can minimise the risk). However, refitting the tyres to freshly refurbed alloys is more of a problem, since the new paint is probably not going to be fully hardened off when you need to refit. Specialist tyre levers with small plastic 'wheels' on them are available for use with alloys, but cost about double what you would pay for the walk-around tyre changer to start with.

It might be cheaper to get a cheap set of second hand wheels to use whilst you get yours refurbished, and take all four to a tyre depot and pay to have the tyres removed, and then go back and have them refitted after you have repainted them (with the aded advantage that they will balance them too).

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I hadn't realised how easy it is to change your own tyres.