Greg Nichols
New member
This whole summer my home is undergoing a remodel phase. I included my garage as part thinking it would only take a little bit of effort. The initial idea was rip off drywall and upgrade electrical, insulate, re-drywall and get some adequate storage. Well during the demo we found the siding was just mounted to the studs, no sheeting, and the garage was not bolted to the foundation. Off came the siding, put up sheeting, cover with tyvex and wait for the next paycheck to afford new siding.
The electrical was upgraded to 20amp systems (12ga wire and heavy plugs), with 3 plugs on their own breakers. This way all my steamers, extractors, and heavy draw stuff can be on at the same time, no more waiting.
I plumbed the garage for a sink, a three basin stainless steel job and a shelf. Found a great deal on a local classified ad. No more soaking in buckets, or cleaning out stuff in the wife's kitchen.
Plumbed for heat, just a basic unit to keep temp above freezing, yet I can crank it up to do some cars in the winter. I also am getting a portable swamp cooler on wheels to cool off this during the summer.
My flooring is SwissTrax flooring Swisstrax Garage Flooring - Interlocking Flooring - Modular Flooring - Garage Floor Tiles - Rubber Floor Tiles , saw the stuff at SEMA last year. Crazy strong/durable and works awesome in the winter to drain off melt from cars, I don't have wet floors to work in. I can vac up the dust or pull out the floor in the spring and hose down the floor. In comparison to racedeck, there is no comparison this stuff is built!
My cabinets were made by a local crew to my needs. I have them mounted off the floor to allow wash outs, or blow outs easy. No more mice living in kickplate area. The cabinets are 42" from the floor, I'm 6'3" so no more bending over. Lots of bench area, all my large gallon jugs fit with no loss of room.
My lighting is high output T8's. 4 fixtures of 6 bulbs. Looks like a portal to heaven when the lights are on, the neighbors see beams of light coming out of the windows and door windows. I want 2 more fixtures on a diff switch.
I'm working on speakers and sound for the area, ceiling speakers likely and a tuner.
I've tried to think of all the things to make my area easy to work in. If you have suggestions let them fly.
Enjoys the photos.
one of the 3 dedicated outlets.
One of the light fixtures.
More to come!
Cheers,
GREG
The electrical was upgraded to 20amp systems (12ga wire and heavy plugs), with 3 plugs on their own breakers. This way all my steamers, extractors, and heavy draw stuff can be on at the same time, no more waiting.
I plumbed the garage for a sink, a three basin stainless steel job and a shelf. Found a great deal on a local classified ad. No more soaking in buckets, or cleaning out stuff in the wife's kitchen.
Plumbed for heat, just a basic unit to keep temp above freezing, yet I can crank it up to do some cars in the winter. I also am getting a portable swamp cooler on wheels to cool off this during the summer.
My flooring is SwissTrax flooring Swisstrax Garage Flooring - Interlocking Flooring - Modular Flooring - Garage Floor Tiles - Rubber Floor Tiles , saw the stuff at SEMA last year. Crazy strong/durable and works awesome in the winter to drain off melt from cars, I don't have wet floors to work in. I can vac up the dust or pull out the floor in the spring and hose down the floor. In comparison to racedeck, there is no comparison this stuff is built!
My cabinets were made by a local crew to my needs. I have them mounted off the floor to allow wash outs, or blow outs easy. No more mice living in kickplate area. The cabinets are 42" from the floor, I'm 6'3" so no more bending over. Lots of bench area, all my large gallon jugs fit with no loss of room.
My lighting is high output T8's. 4 fixtures of 6 bulbs. Looks like a portal to heaven when the lights are on, the neighbors see beams of light coming out of the windows and door windows. I want 2 more fixtures on a diff switch.
I'm working on speakers and sound for the area, ceiling speakers likely and a tuner.
I've tried to think of all the things to make my area easy to work in. If you have suggestions let them fly.
Enjoys the photos.
one of the 3 dedicated outlets.
One of the light fixtures.
More to come!
Cheers,
GREG
Great find on that sink and shelf :xyxthumbs
