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So my wife and I purchased our first home in July and we're finally getting semi situated enough such that I can start cleaning up the garage. I am moving out of my parents ~2002 3-car attached garage to my 1978 2-car(oversize) attached garage. Here are some images of where I was coming from:
A welcomed sight by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
It should be noted that my parents traditionally fill their garages up with junk. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that I really cleaned out their garage to make enough room to pull one car in. One to two bays was my tools/work area, the third was their area for storage. Since I maintained all of our vehicles (and cleaned the garage routinely) no one cared that I slowly took over 2/3 of the garage.
My wife and I bought a house and settled just about 2 weeks before our wedding (we didn't intend it to be so close! long story..) and the first thing to move was my garage because I figured I couldn't do any home improvement projects without the majority of my tools. We rented a big boy truck because I really needed the lift gate.
Jon Moving by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
So, after my step dad and I made two runs with the truck, I was "moved" from their garage for the most part:
Garage After by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Garage After by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Unfortunately, whilst moving, a storm came down hard the last ~1 hr of unloading the truck. Not that we had a good system going, but it meant that the last 1/3 of the truck basically got "dumped" into my new garage. For this reason, the garage took the back burner to other house stuff. I just dealt with the fact that the majority of my stuff was scattered randomly in the garage and that I couldn't walk from one end to the other - it bugged me though. My wife and I got married, went on a 2 week honeymoon, and then got distracted with some other aspects of life and I had yet to really organize anything. So, today, I decided to put work and personal stuff aside and get something done in the garage. It was a refreshing change.
Here's the garage as the former owner had it (this was taken during our walk through when we put an offer in on the house):
Garage Before by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
As you can see it's your basic 2 car garage with a 48" bump out on the one side (where the fridge is). There's a pole in the middle of the garage, but its in a good spot for opening a car door. There's a beam overhead but it's still a reasonably tall ceiling for an older home. The previous owner loved sticking nails in everything to hang **** and using lame L brackets to put lame MDF shelves up as well. They had a Rubbermaid cabinet along with a junky cabinet, a fridge, etc. that I am removing/throwing away.
Today, I put the Racedeck flooring in that I had at my parents house. I am about 100 tiles short of wall to wall coverage. So, debating on picking that up. Because of the pole, I had to cut a circle in two tiles. Real quick and easy came out decent.
race deck close enough by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
I also found a good spot for my air compressor just need to figure out wiring it and plumbing it. I want to do a few drops around the perimeter once I get the walls setup. Oh, that reminds me, the previous owner stripped some sheet rock down (!?) in some places... or perhaps it was never up? Not sure. Either way, I need to sheet rock two walls (about 10' length floor to ceiling) and install some receptacles and such. Then I'll prime and paint, run air pipe, etc. Here is the compressor location:
awesome compressor spot by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Fortunately it fits in there perfectly. I am going to run an extension cord under the door and trigger it to see how loud it is. I do wonder about ventilation, though.
As an example of the kind of **** I am dealing with, here's a shot of a "shelf" the original owners had up. It was on two L-brackets screwed to the drywall with random types of screws. Ugh.
Buying nails should require a permit by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
The caption is perfect. I've probably removed about 100 nails so far with a couple dozen remaining. They liked to use 4 - 5" long, 1/8" diameter shank nails for hanging **** on. Ugh. Lot of filling to do!
And, finally for this post, I moved my turbo BMW into the garage and threw the cover on. I didn't get a good shot of wall that I stripped down of shelving/nails/cabinets, but I'll get it tomorrow. I am scheduling our local power company to come take that old yucky fridge too. I'll be removing the built-in workbench and placing my HF 44" with side cab over there along with some other stuff (welding table, etc.).
car inside by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Until next time! Lots of work to do!
A welcomed sight by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
It should be noted that my parents traditionally fill their garages up with junk. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that I really cleaned out their garage to make enough room to pull one car in. One to two bays was my tools/work area, the third was their area for storage. Since I maintained all of our vehicles (and cleaned the garage routinely) no one cared that I slowly took over 2/3 of the garage.
My wife and I bought a house and settled just about 2 weeks before our wedding (we didn't intend it to be so close! long story..) and the first thing to move was my garage because I figured I couldn't do any home improvement projects without the majority of my tools. We rented a big boy truck because I really needed the lift gate.
Jon Moving by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
So, after my step dad and I made two runs with the truck, I was "moved" from their garage for the most part:
Garage After by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Garage After by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Unfortunately, whilst moving, a storm came down hard the last ~1 hr of unloading the truck. Not that we had a good system going, but it meant that the last 1/3 of the truck basically got "dumped" into my new garage. For this reason, the garage took the back burner to other house stuff. I just dealt with the fact that the majority of my stuff was scattered randomly in the garage and that I couldn't walk from one end to the other - it bugged me though. My wife and I got married, went on a 2 week honeymoon, and then got distracted with some other aspects of life and I had yet to really organize anything. So, today, I decided to put work and personal stuff aside and get something done in the garage. It was a refreshing change.
Here's the garage as the former owner had it (this was taken during our walk through when we put an offer in on the house):
Garage Before by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
As you can see it's your basic 2 car garage with a 48" bump out on the one side (where the fridge is). There's a pole in the middle of the garage, but its in a good spot for opening a car door. There's a beam overhead but it's still a reasonably tall ceiling for an older home. The previous owner loved sticking nails in everything to hang **** and using lame L brackets to put lame MDF shelves up as well. They had a Rubbermaid cabinet along with a junky cabinet, a fridge, etc. that I am removing/throwing away.
Today, I put the Racedeck flooring in that I had at my parents house. I am about 100 tiles short of wall to wall coverage. So, debating on picking that up. Because of the pole, I had to cut a circle in two tiles. Real quick and easy came out decent.
race deck close enough by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
I also found a good spot for my air compressor just need to figure out wiring it and plumbing it. I want to do a few drops around the perimeter once I get the walls setup. Oh, that reminds me, the previous owner stripped some sheet rock down (!?) in some places... or perhaps it was never up? Not sure. Either way, I need to sheet rock two walls (about 10' length floor to ceiling) and install some receptacles and such. Then I'll prime and paint, run air pipe, etc. Here is the compressor location:
awesome compressor spot by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Fortunately it fits in there perfectly. I am going to run an extension cord under the door and trigger it to see how loud it is. I do wonder about ventilation, though.
As an example of the kind of **** I am dealing with, here's a shot of a "shelf" the original owners had up. It was on two L-brackets screwed to the drywall with random types of screws. Ugh.
Buying nails should require a permit by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
The caption is perfect. I've probably removed about 100 nails so far with a couple dozen remaining. They liked to use 4 - 5" long, 1/8" diameter shank nails for hanging **** on. Ugh. Lot of filling to do!
And, finally for this post, I moved my turbo BMW into the garage and threw the cover on. I didn't get a good shot of wall that I stripped down of shelving/nails/cabinets, but I'll get it tomorrow. I am scheduling our local power company to come take that old yucky fridge too. I'll be removing the built-in workbench and placing my HF 44" with side cab over there along with some other stuff (welding table, etc.).
car inside by Jon Kensy, on Flickr
Until next time! Lots of work to do!
