longlivepunk
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Hey guys, so I've been planning on making a build thread for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it until now. I'm renovating my double garage that was built in the 50's, it and the house were built by a guy who was in charge of a lot of the construction in the area, so the house got a few nice upgrades (bigger windows, etc.) but he also made some very odd decisions some of which you'll see in this thread. To start with I had to begin tearing down the old wall-panels and ceiling panels, I unfortunately don't have any before photos, but he had old 1/4" plywood covering the walls and ceilings and he stuffed the walls with literally anything he could find: cardboard, bits of ceiling tiles, little pieces of insulation here and there, old peg-board cut-offs, bits of wood and plastic, etc. It was a total mess, and took a long time to clean-up. When I started tearing into the ceiling it made me miss the walls. Mouse droppings (and a carcass) a couple butter-knives, more insulation which had clearly been tossed through the access with no care for spreading it out, pieces of metal and wood, a bit of vermiculite insulation (thankfully we were at least wearing masks due to the mouse-droppings), a couple 5-gallon containers, etc.
Anyways, my plan is to re-wire with a dedicated panel and external conduit (the wiring is terrifying, I've had power to the garage shut off for a month now) insulate, drywall (I won't bother taping and mudding though) and eventually heat the garage. I will also be doing a very OCDish job of organizing because I hate searching for tools. So below are some pictures as the garage sits now, this will be a long-term build thread since money's tight (I'm 25, just got the house last year, pay the mortgage by myself, and I'm still getting my career going) but I hope I get some followers. It's going to be fun documenting it coming together! Enjoy!
As you can see, I like motorcycles. Another thing that slows this build down is that my friends and I are still working on bikes in there as well. In the picture above you can see two bikes I got for free (Kawi KZ550 and Suzi GS400) that were lying in a guy's field until he called me. In the shot below there's a horizontal filing cabinet that will be coming apart and becoming a parts-organizer which was also free (thanks Kijiji!), and in the picture after that you can see a compressor that was free in a backalley! The tank is rusted badly inside (clearly never drained it, it left a stain on my driveway
) but the pump looks to be brand-new!
Next we have some of the scabby framing that was done, basically the garage was built out of scrap lumber, so I'll be replacing most of the bracing in the ceiling with dimensional lumber, and reinforcing a couple of studs that are getting dicey as well. All of the beams running the length of the ceiling are made of two-pieces braced together by very inadequate wood, and you can see the truss that runs down the center in the shot below isn't even straight! It is badly out of line where that flimsy little board holds it together!
A small example of what the walls were stuffed with:
Now here's my first problem, I need to ventilate the ceiling since I'm going to insulate, but as you can see in the above picture, there is absolutely no room between the wall and the ceiling, so there's no air-flow from the soffit (it's just there for looks) and on top of that, my roof is peaked from all 4 sides, so I can't just cut a vent into a side. My only idea would be to cut a hole in a wall, cover it on the outside with some type of vent-cover, and run a bend of ducting into the ceiling as the air-inlet then build a little insulated bulk-head around it and have a whirlybird roof vent near the peak. Any ideas?
Thanks for checking it out!
Anyways, my plan is to re-wire with a dedicated panel and external conduit (the wiring is terrifying, I've had power to the garage shut off for a month now) insulate, drywall (I won't bother taping and mudding though) and eventually heat the garage. I will also be doing a very OCDish job of organizing because I hate searching for tools. So below are some pictures as the garage sits now, this will be a long-term build thread since money's tight (I'm 25, just got the house last year, pay the mortgage by myself, and I'm still getting my career going) but I hope I get some followers. It's going to be fun documenting it coming together! Enjoy!
As you can see, I like motorcycles. Another thing that slows this build down is that my friends and I are still working on bikes in there as well. In the picture above you can see two bikes I got for free (Kawi KZ550 and Suzi GS400) that were lying in a guy's field until he called me. In the shot below there's a horizontal filing cabinet that will be coming apart and becoming a parts-organizer which was also free (thanks Kijiji!), and in the picture after that you can see a compressor that was free in a backalley! The tank is rusted badly inside (clearly never drained it, it left a stain on my driveway
) but the pump looks to be brand-new!
Next we have some of the scabby framing that was done, basically the garage was built out of scrap lumber, so I'll be replacing most of the bracing in the ceiling with dimensional lumber, and reinforcing a couple of studs that are getting dicey as well. All of the beams running the length of the ceiling are made of two-pieces braced together by very inadequate wood, and you can see the truss that runs down the center in the shot below isn't even straight! It is badly out of line where that flimsy little board holds it together!
A small example of what the walls were stuffed with:
Now here's my first problem, I need to ventilate the ceiling since I'm going to insulate, but as you can see in the above picture, there is absolutely no room between the wall and the ceiling, so there's no air-flow from the soffit (it's just there for looks) and on top of that, my roof is peaked from all 4 sides, so I can't just cut a vent into a side. My only idea would be to cut a hole in a wall, cover it on the outside with some type of vent-cover, and run a bend of ducting into the ceiling as the air-inlet then build a little insulated bulk-head around it and have a whirlybird roof vent near the peak. Any ideas?
Thanks for checking it out!
