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    Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT Nick's Two-Car Detached Vdub Garage

    Detailers Domain, and get the wheel brushes https://www.detailersdomain.com/products/ez-detail-brush?_pos=7&_sid=1de80f944&_ss=r...
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    Potential first time larger electrical run (workshop/garage)

    as someone who just wired a detached garage, I highly recommend just wiring ALL outlets with 12-2, for 20A rated outlets. If you even THINK you need high draw outlets (compressor, welder, vacuums, heat guns, etc), run individual 12-2 runs per outlet. I have (6) dedicated 20A outlets, all fed by...
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT Pew Pew BMW Haven

    Start here... 2005 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Picked up my 99 BMW M3 with some minor Dinan parts already on it. E-4, living in the barracks, loving life, delivering pizzas on base. I picked up E5 shortly after, and was able to get housing allowance to live out in town, and rented a place up the hill...
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT Pew Pew BMW Haven

    Once I get home, plan on sharing all my garages over the last 18 years of military service. Cars, toys, trucks, trailers, and guns. Been hawking GJ for a long time, but never really started a full thread, as never had a garage "of my own". Little about me.. "Pew Pew" and "Sonic" are my...
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT 3rd time's a charm with a 3 car workshop

    Need to go to 21 on current contract, but if I can get a sweet gig teaching in the Hampton Roads area, and not move again, I'll "probably" stay til 24. At a point now, that the money is decent finally, things are settling, and I'm in a more administrative/managerial role. Current assignment on a...
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT Pew Pew BMW Haven

    Bringing this back a little bit. 8.5 months of deployment, back in VA at the end of the month. Hope I can convince the wife to break ground on the detached, but it sounds like a Kitchen reno, and flooring upgrade may be on the horizon.
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT 3rd time's a charm with a 3 car workshop

    Appreciate it! Cant complain about the toys as a weapons instructor, and a sonar technician hunting for things unda the sea.. Moving 13 times in the last 18 years, never really had exactly what I wanted for garages, but I've always made it work the best I could. Ive been on GJ since 2007, but...
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    Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT 3rd time's a charm with a 3 car workshop

    ill trade you! My wife wants all the green grass. I cant keep a green yard if i wanted to! just finished all 700+ posts in the last 3 days. Stuck out here in the Med, floating around on a destroyer. Cant wait to get back and join all you normal people working in the garage. HAHA Love...
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    Above 1200 Sq/FT Finally build my, long needed, shop

    ap preciate the info.. thanks!
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    Above 1200 Sq/FT Finally build my, long needed, shop

    Great thread! Love all the work you've done and the reclaimed sheet metal is a GREAT idea. If you dont mind, what did it cost to "dry in" the building? Slab, and building costs? Wife and I are trying to figure out what direction we want to go. Trying to cut cost down from a normal stick build
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    Above 1200 Sq/FT Doing things our way. 50x100 house/shop

    thanks for the bump!!!! just finished reading all 22 pages from the beginning while Im floating around out here in the Med, on USS Cole DDG-67. Killing time, waiting to get home to the wife/kids after a 9 month deployment! Wife and I are looking at doing something like this in 5-10 years when...
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    The Bimmer Basement

    Mpower, bimmerforums, havent heard that one in a while. Remember my time there vividly, as a massive E36 fan. I'm 99MPower on BFC as well. I ran the DIY/FAQ page there, and did tons of DIYs. What was your screen name over there? My race car "Traqrat" actually was one of the first cars on...
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT From losing everything to being cash-poor and shop-rich in "only" five years!

    sooo... just finished 33 pages of your amazing adventures.. all #1285.. wait now 1286 posts, in the last 3-4 days while I'm floating around out here in the Med on USS Cole DDG-67 killing time, and dreaming about doing dumb stuff and making fun of myself online, instead of stuck in a floating...
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    Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT The Delta Garage - 24x40 in North Carolina

    Pretty awesome, and well done. Just finished reading entire thread, while I'm floating around in the ocean with the US Navy, dreaming about my build when I get the chance. Currently in the med on the USS Cole DDG 67 Im in Chesapeake, VA, and head into Raleigh to shoot at Sir Walter Gun Club...
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    Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT Made By Miller Studios

    Pretty awesome, and well done. Just finished reading entire thread, while I'm floating around in the ocean with the US Navy, dreaming about my build when I get the chance. Currently in the med on the USS Cole DDG 67
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