Recent content by Mark Mr.Oz

The speakers are all in, put up some sweet looking car front end shelves for my trophies and what would a garage be with out a real Disco Ball :-)...There is still more to do like the trim where the walls meet, the door openers and the lift / compressor. For know Im going to take some time to...

I did have one heater issue, for some unknown reason the insulation backing (super thin) blew apart when the fan came on???? I removed the motor and used some left over metal vent tape to repair it. Just a weird thing I guess.

The black pipe part was easy..I watched enough threads here to figure that out pretty quick.I set the water column and fired it off..I PANICKED when it used 12 percent of a 100 gallon tank in a day and a half???? Had everything rechecked but it looked ok??? Ended up that it just needed to run up...

Some pipe hangers worked well to get the hanging angle I needed and rubber insulators on the threaded rod keeps things working smoothly.

I made a quick template for hanging the heater. There were a lot of angles and off sets involved because if the slanted ceiling.

Found some length of thin flexible rubber to make some seals for tops of the roll up doors. Not the best solution but it will get me thru winter until I figure out something better.

Just before bad weather set in my contractor friend Mike called and said he had extra black top from a job that cancelled, he could do the driveway THAT DAY and I could settle up with him later. He cut me such a great deal I paid him up front! I was stressing having to clear the stone driveway...

I stained the floor with a couple different shades of "Beach Sand" "Earth" and "River Bed" partly overlayed in some areas. The straight grey was just to stark. I installed a tan cove base to tie the walls and work bench into the floor. In a lapse of designer judgment I put a marble top on the...

I had pre-wired the garage for the door openers, stereo surround sound and TV/Cable, and the heater thermostat...I used some electronic screw terminations and cover plates so I could make very short wire connections. One of the things I wanted in the garage was my Pontiac marquise from GM..its...

After the foam I got my drywall game on...it seemed to take FOREVER. Likely because it is the part I dislike most about the job...from the start I dreaded doing it. It was this point I mounted up the 4 ft led lights on the side gables and finished the taping and sanding. I masked everything off...

The spray foam used was Closed cell style. Problem I ran into is the foam is dense and has more hydraulic force when expanding and pushed (warped) some of the 2X4s...I ended up having to plane the face down on some of them to make them level again so as not to make the sheetrock wavy.

The drywaller and I set up the framing for the sheetrock and I added some much needed insulating atop the roller doors as well as the putting foam "fillers) where ever the tin met the framework and roofing beams. KILLED the drafts :-). I mounted the first drywall and 8 ft led lights so I could...

Moved some things in a little prematurely. My electrician friend Mike Arket walked me thru the city requirements for the electrical (do's and don'ts). I over built the electrical with more circuits than I think I will need, 220 at all four corners, 20 amp circuits all around. Plenty of room to...

The building itself went up pretty quick (started at 5am and done about midnight) 1 day with help from friends.

After some discussion about end game and putting in lifts the concrete team came out and worked the slab, they even let me play in the mud..Lol.