Recent content by ChrisE

Nothing fancy, a DirectLift and a scissor jack

Re: what did you do in your garage today? Spray painting some cabinet doors for use in my basement.

someone else asked how they worked, so I made a quick video.

I made these to hang on the pegboard

The are called Pegmate, get about 50 for about $13.. http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/1142/tool-holders

I bought three different sizes of sockets, 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" craftsman sockets. The 1/4" were 8mm, the 3/8" were 12mm and the 1/2" were 18mm. I used a piece of oak, that I had laying around, drilled appropriate holes for the sockets and just pressed them in. I screwed the two oak pieces...

I love my pegboard, most of my wrenching is done on metric motorcycles. I did find some nice gizmo's for stopping the pegs from falling out.

Just moved into a 12 year old house. One of the big decisions in purchasing this particular house was that it had 5 garage bays. Bay 5 is a small bay and is offset slightly. Bays 1 and 2 are separated by a staircase from bays 3 and 4. It was understood that the wife would get bays 1 and 2 and...

I'm looking for ideas on pre-made cabinets for garage use. I'd like something around 24" deep. What I've seen at Lowes or Home Depot is not deep enough. If I can't find anything I'll build my own again, like these at my old house, but I'd rather not go through all that effort.

I wish I had pictures to show, I had a barn with a 9' high ceiling with a fully floored attic. I knew the attic area would just be used for storage, motorcycle related stuff, so I wanted a staircase that I could walk up while carrying heavy objects. I wanted the steps to be slightly less rise...

I've done a couple of different things in two different garages to maximize storage. The first was a 3 bay garage with 13' high ceilings. Along the back wall I built a 4' x 25' deck, 6' off the ground. I stored motorcycles up on this deck. I bought a 4 post lift and installed in in the center...

Is this copper pipe available at Lowes or Home Depot or would I need to go to a more specialty plumbing supply? What is the best pipe size to use for a residential two car garage? I'll probably run this all the way along the back wall and down the side wall, probably about 50' to 55'. Thanks

With the digital camera, I had at the time, it's wide angle capability was limited, so it was hard to get back far enough, without bumping into a wall, to get a picture that gave you a full perspective of what I had done. Plus the photo's were taken kin od adhoc as I went along, so there was...

I'm no expert, but if you had a 4 panel door and somehow could detach two panels at the hinges, I think you might have issues with the spring as these are tensioned to counter the full weight of the door. Just a thought.

At the time I started this little project, I had several motorcycles, a couple of ATV's and a commercial mower. The garage was a 3 car garage with three individual doors. The ceiling was 13 feet high so it seemed such a shame that all that high space was for nothing. We had a small shed (8' x...