The BEFORE/AFTER Thread - Let’s see your garage, shed, or shop transformations

[AHotRod]

All are looking good

 

[NCAudi]

Before;
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After (as of Nov 2012 anyway);
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[Derrickwade]

 

[Ksullivan]

Nice looking garage/shops guys!

 

[tommyxgun]

Bump

 

[don long]

Here in 2009 the beginning of the party garage

September 2012

inside before

a wedding party September 2012

 

[don long]

After posting the party garage it dawned on me that I have a couple more before and after projects

Found this old gas station in barstow Ca. November 2011

Not quite finished, worked on it today

 

[Plane Crazy]

Re-use

Not pretty, Just Functional - lol

28'6" X 40'

 

[DirtRoad]

Re-use

Not pretty, Just Functional - lol

28'6" X 40'

 

[don long]

Who do you need to know to get a wrecked airplane
and what made you think of making a garage out of one

OUTSTANDING

 

[Plane Crazy]

Who do you need to know to get a wrecked airplane
and what made you think of making a garage out of one

OUTSTANDING

PM me what you need and I will tell the boss
he will get in touch with you..

My wood shop roof at home, was leaking,
One day while at work, it was raining,
looked around, and thought,
Man this is big enough to be a shop lol

 

[dave67fd]

Here's mine. The "afters" are really still in progress.
BEFORE:

AFTER:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

 

[Kevin54]

Did you completely close off the area underneath the stairs? I think I would have cut a door on the end and at least made a closet out of it for brooms and such.

I do like the black cabinets. The all black is pretty sharp looking against the white walls.

 

[Sunbimmer]

After posting the party garage it dawned on me that I have a couple more before and after projects

Found this old gas station in barstow Ca. November 2011

Not quite finished, worked on it today

Damn I love this Don, awesome stuff

 

[kert]

Here's mine. The "afters" are really still in progress.

AFTER:

Dave, I've always liked your garage. I considered something similar before I settled on my design.

 

[upndown]

PM me what you need and I will tell the boss
he will get in touch with you..

My wood shop roof at home, was leaking,
One day while at work, it was raining,
looked around, and thought,
Man this is big enough to be a shop lol

Your shop turned out great!! I still remember you hauling that carcass home and wondering WTF..HAHA

 

[Steve V.]

Here's mine. The "afters" are really still in progress.

AFTER:

That left side is screaming for a carport. Very nice!!!!

Steve

 

[exc911ence]

Before:

After:

 

[don long]

Damn I love this Don, awesome stuff

thought you might. The gas pumps are next in line for paint

 

[colt zantop]

I want just ONE of those pumps!!

 

[dave67fd]

Did you completely close off the area underneath the stairs? I think I would have cut a door on the end and at least made a closet out of it for brooms and such.

I do like the black cabinets. The all black is pretty sharp looking against the white walls.

Kev,
Thanks. Yeah, I could never let that space go to waist.

 

[Bogdan M.]

The whole thread.

 

[IMCA38]

Unfortunately, I didn't do a very good job of documenting my shop rebuild about ten years ago. After a few years of living on an acreage in the country where I had an "adequate" 24x32 building, we bought a different acreage on the edge of town. All that can be said about the building I got with it was that it had "potential". The building was a frame "barn" 24 x 48 with a full upstairs and a 13' wide post/steel lean-to down one side and across the back. The prior owners used the building as a true barn, even raising sheep in it.
The highlights-
Front 32' was concrete, but poorly done, it appeared as though someone had a deal with the concrete company to take leftovers off of the truck as they were available. The floor was very rough, and the seams were very inconsistant, thus leading to my conclusion that the floor was poured a chunk at a time. There were gaps between the floor and the foundation wide enough to lose a large endwrench.
The back 16' was approximately 2' lower and just dirt. This is where the sheep were living. There were a couple of dutch doors that led out to a pen area in the back. Half of this area also had a hay loft that was about 6' above the dirt floor.
With the full upstairs, there was a wooden beam running down the length of the building and a 4x4 post every 8' holding it up.
Despite having a 100a panel, electrical was sparse at best, just a few exposed light bulbs and a handful of 110 plugs.
The front door was a roted out wooden mess.
There was one "window" with nothing more than an aluminum storm pane in place.
There was also a massive staircase leading to the upstairs stealing valuable floorspace.
With that said, here are the few before pictures that I have.

 

[IMCA38]

Unfortunately, I had a lot of time to plan and dream as it took almost a year to sell the old place. Once the old place sold, I started in.
First order of business was to buy a power washer and spending a weekend hosing down walls, ceiling, and floor and then doing it all again and again.
Then we rented some basement jacks and supported the rear portion of the building where the floor was lower. We took a sawzall and trimmed off the bottom 2' of the wall and then had a mason come in and build up the foundation with concrete block. We now had a level foundation all the way around.
After a frustrating process of contacting contractors, getting them to show up, and getting bids out of them, we finally found someone to dig up the old floor, fill in the back portion where we built up the foundation, and tear out the old wooden beam and posts. A steel beam was put into place alongside the wooden beam. The steel beam is supported by posts embedded in each end wall and two posts made from steel I beams in between.
Tearing out the old floor was an adventure as the fill under it was akin to a junkyard. In some places, they dug out over a foot deep as they had red clay blocks under the floor and the concrete had run into the holes in the blocks, making for a big thick mess.
The new floor was poured and after it cured and I rolled on a coat of sealer, it was time for me to get to work!
We stripped all of the existing wiring out and totally rewired the place. Plugs are on the wall generally every 4' in open areas. I also ran two circuits with plugs in the ceiling for hanging flourescent lights. Also, a subpanel was installed in the back to handle my 220 needs for the welder and air compressor.
A 10 x 12 storage room was constructed in the back corner. This contains tons of shelving, and is also where the compressor lives. Nice to close the door and have relative quiet! We were able to build the storage room wall around one of the support beam post, so there is only one exposed post to deal with.
After that, the walls were insulated with kraft backed insulation and the walls were sheeted with 7/16 OSB. We were able to get 9' sheets, so there was no splicing required. The OSB took two coats of sealer/primer and two coats of semi gloss paint.
A better window was bought at an auction and installed in place of the storm pane and a new exterior grade steel door was installed. A second door was installed in the side wall to have direct access to the lean-to.
A 300# capacity folding staircase was installed in front of the existing staircase and the existing staircase was removed. We also added a railing around the opening upstairs for safety.
A long, involved process, but well worth it in the end!

 

[purevil115]

before

after

 

[colt zantop]

BEFORE......

AFTER......

 

[don long]

This is a great thread
I just love seeing the comparison
You should all be proud

 

[shopnut]

Bump

Thanks for the bump tommyxgun! I was thinking about doing it for all the new forum members to see, but you saved me the trouble.

Thanks to all those that have participated so far. Great transformations guys (and gals)! Keep them coming.

BTW, if this thread gets buried, you can always find it by looking in the Garage Gallery Index thread "Sticky". I included a link to it there in Reply #4

 

[maxspeed96ct]

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

Im still working on the interior as we speak .

 

[michel]

Hummm is that a coffee table youre building?

 

[purevil115]

yes it is. I am going to be blasting it soon and having it painted to match my truck then ill get some glass for the top. going in living room

 

[TerryH]

This is a great thread
I just love seeing the comparison
You should all be proud

+1 on that. ^^ Very cool thread.

 

[wkd383]

Hi,
First post here, My Fiance and I bought our first house in April 2012, the existing shed was too far gone to fix up, dirt floor, white ants etc so we quickly pulled it down and got started on the new one, 6mt x 9mt, which we have erected ourselves, helps having my best mate and Dad as concretors...

BEFORE

AFTER

Still working on the interior, I'll save that for a full build thread one day

Daniel & Kaila

 

[Sunbimmer]

Bump

 

[south_paw]

Before

After

 

[661Charger]

Mine

 

[don long]

I worked on my 1926 texaco gas station today and after took a few shots
and thought of this thread

When I first found the station

 

[loveall13]

I worked on my 1926 texaco gas station today and after took a few shots
and thought of this thread

When I first found the station

Don,
You have that station looking awesome! Its hard to believe how bad it looked when you found it.

Jeremy

 

[Sludge Puppy]

Before

[I

I am glad you decided to pick those up, they look Great!

 

[EMC2]