Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT My little hole in the wall. 24x24 attached.

[badmatt]

I guess I can finally make a thread in here. Finding Gregor's thread on Build-threads is what originally brought me here and to join back in 2018!

So the better 3/4's and I finally bought a house together a Summer 2025. It is 2.5 acres fully treed with a 2300 sqft home from 2001 with an attached 24x24 garage about 20 minutes outside of town. Right on the river! (s m o l river) There is also a 24x16 shed on the property that's fully insulated and heated which will eventually come down when im ready to build a new shop in its place when we have money again...





The house itself was fairly move in ready, I took two weeks off of work to paint the house, redo baseboards, go through the HVAC, water tanks, address any electrical concerns and repair all the small things that the previous owners where incapable of doing correctly. My dad helped a lot during this time as a retired GC and surprisingly a rather spry man for being 72, he put in days that would bring me to my knees. you'll see his face in a few pics below.

The garage was bare studs to its current state in about 6 weeks of weekends. 24x24 9ft walls on a 6" curb. nothing crazy.. single bay IMO. Added two 20amp circuits and will be adding a 30 and a 50 amp as well. Added 3 outlets to the ceiling for 50ft chord reels, and moved the one for the opener.

Here's some pics! I still need to finish up the baseboard, window and door trim and paint the garage door.

Built two walls out to 2x6 to match the party wall and front wall. Oddly enough.. 2x6 window frame and door frame... idiot's.



R22 Rockwool in the walls.


Started the drywall.






Installed one of these direct drive openers.


And had a ladder fail on me in the process.. supposedly fractured my wrist in 3 places.


Added 6 4x2 80w LED panels (currently set to 50w).




Put R60 worth of Atticat in the ceiling.


Paint!



And that rounds up the garage mayhem to current.

I still need to finish up a few things, and I will updating as I go.

Thanks for looking
Matt

 

[larry4406]

Nice!

Hope the wrist heals quick! Ouch!

 

[badmatt]

Nice!

Hope the wrist heals quick! Ouch!

Luckily, I guess? That was back in November. I’ve been right as rain since the start of the year, thankfully!

 

[badmatt]

No real crazy updates..

Finished the bare sheathed wall and repainted everything after finding a few areas I didn’t like.








Attic door will eeeeeeeventually get finished.

I finished up the door and window trim, it’s sitting on the body shop stand in primer and ready for final colour. I’ll post those pics later.

Currently spot prepping the floor for MCU. I’ll be acid washing / etching this weekend to see if it will erode the troweled areas and clean out the pad in prep. I really don’t want to rent a shot blaster at $310 a day.

Man I’m horrible at documenting this garage... And its rather pedestrian.
Cheers

 

[badmatt]

Door and window casings trimmed up and painted and installed.




Degreased and Acid washed the floor today. Utilized 20% baume muriatic from work. And mixed 2:1 to erode the trowelled surface. Seemed to work very well. have roughly a 80-120 grit surface profile. I’ll be washing the floor again before I lay down paint just to make sure the surface is free of any grease and dirt.







I’ll be filling the cracks with whatever Sherwin Williams advises for Rexthane. And then if all goes well I’ll be painting the floor next weekend. The floor is still drying out in most places. Also, my snap tack is due to arrive this week so i can mount and hide the garage door opener and sensor wiring.

and yes, every flat surface is a shelf when I have limited options.

Thanks for reading.
Matt

 

[badmatt]

Used some Sikadur crack fix mixed with some sand as filler on the cracks and chipped out areas of the pad. Not looking for perfection, just no big cracks.




To be fair, I was going to use short strand fiberglass filler but thought this might be better.

Matt

 

[MovingAlong]

That floor is going to look so good!

 

[badmatt]

That floor is going to look so good!

I’m hoping so!

This much work I better see some good results!



I hope.

 

[badmatt]

Decided to fill some more crack today. I had an extra tube so might as well use it. These are maybe a lil bigger than the odd hairline crack, so why not. Scraped over the epoxy to level it with a scrap piece of sheared aluminum so I have less sanding to do.

I also filled over a few of the chips again as the epoxy shrank back leaving a few low spots.



Obligatory job done beer.



Thanks for lookin!
Matt


edit: FWIW..... if you use Sikadur and plan on sanding it down to level it.... 36 grit with forced rotation or a rotary sander...

 

[badmatt]

Started this morning with a light sweep and vac. Got all my materials ready.







Painted the curbs. And started wheeling out the floor.




Coat one done. Man this stuff is rough. Even with a respirator.




Now to let the floor dry over the next 9-10 hours. Will likely do coat two tomorrow in the AM.

Matt

 

[badmatt]

So coat one dried. And it’s hard as nails already.



You can see where the pad was more porous in areas here. I have about 1.8 gallons left. I’m hopeful that it is enough seeing that the pad is basically sealed up at this point.

Matt

 

[captain14]

That’s going to be a good looking shop when you’re done with the floor.

Did anything come in through the open back door to leave tracks?

 

[badmatt]

That’s going to be a good looking shop when you’re done with the floor.

Did anything come in through the open back door to leave tracks?

Thanks!

No, thankfully. It was only open to provide air movement while we were painting. I went back on the spikes and closed it.

I just finished coat two and there is one area that will need a bit more paint as you can still see some surface texture from the concrete. But overall I’m fairly pleased. But it’s still wet.

I have about .6 of a gallon left from the four gallons I bought.

Matt

 

[badmatt]

Aaaaand done.







I think there is one dry spot. But I’ll touch it up later this evening when I can walk on the floor.

 

[jsaw]

That is a really neat garage

 

[badmatt]

This most productive thing I’ve done today.. rolled the box/cart back in.



I’ll figure out what I’m doing with this step (maybe bring it to my rhino lining guy) or if I’ll make a new one. Baseboards I need to finish up and paint the pvc door trim to match.

Matt

 

[PhantomEB]

Looks like a great start you got there.