Recent content by CoreyZ

The setup is definitely a bit weird, but it was hard to find anything in my price range that had the space I needed. Right now I'm leaning towards knocking down the older one car and building a nice sized two car in its place. The previous owners of this house had it for about 5 years, but the...

I'm in southern Indiana. Gonna freeze my nuts off in that garage this winter! When I moved in, only the good garage had a lock on the garage door, and none of the side doors had locks. I recently put in some dead bolts and latches on the doors so it's at least a little harder to get in...

Got some lights in the garage and switched up some of the storage. Got some more room to work around the car now. Before I go do some major work, I felt like the brown car needed a bath Been busy on the house side of things. Whipped up a small fire pit and been working on the kitchen...

Both garages now have some level of security! They had no locks to begin with, and that didn't sit right with me given all the tools I was shoving in them. Immediate plans are to move some of the storage over to the workshop area to make more room around the brown car. I need to get working on...

Thankfully I've got a 200 amp service in the house right now. The house electrical isn't horrible - just a few things like very limited light switches and some old 2 prong outlets. Because the place has damn near a full basement, most things are easy to get at. You should see the plumbing...

Changed to the 'bucket.

It should have been clear I was speaking of aluminum in general when I didn't specify an alloy. Duralumin isn't exactly a common aluminum alloy you are likely to find in a garage like say 6061. I refer you to a galvanic series chart. Things change in seawater vs fresh water. Here's one...

Just because the aluminum chat was triggering me: Aluminium is very active, and rapidly oxidizes when exposed to atmosphere. However, this oxide layer is fairly impervious to oxygen and insoluble in water. The oxide layer prevents aluminum from oxidizing further. Only in a maritime...

Weird, it looks fine on my end

First problem: I've got very little in the way of power and lightning. Garage 1 has one wall outlet, a ceiling outlet for the garage door opener, and a light switch going to a single 100W bulb. Some backstory: During inspections, we found no power to the garage. P.O. claimed ignorance...

Hey folks! Relatively new to GJ - my first introduction to this board was the 12 Gauge Garage a few years ago. It's still one of my favorites! I became a homeowner for the first time last month, and now I finally have my own garage here in southern Indiana! It needs a bit of work though, and I...