Recent content by MightyP

My other lights arrived and I got them put up. Now I have 3 lights controlled through the switch and one manually controlled. Even light distribution is great. I kinda feel like I need a nighttime project to enjoy my new lights. :) I also took the suggestions to hardwire the lights in...

Here are the brackets. Not sure I'd trust them to hold 550 lbs, but they're sturdy enough and my shelf feels solid. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F9O4YPY/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Got a couple more things done this weekend with the help of my father-in-law. Got the LED lights hung on the ceiling. Happy with the lights, but I definitely need another one farther inside to get even light distribution. Ordered another one today, so I'll get it installed as soon as it arrives...

Once that was done, I was able to move around enough to do a few other small updates. I stained the wood for my shelves and my pallet coasters, and I painted a peg board to put match the wall. I also painted a 2x6 for a folding work bench. Here is the peg board installed with a few things...

I've been busy with other things, but still making progress, however slow. Easily the biggest (or at least most labor intensive) project was reorganizing the workshop attached to my garage. It's a fairly small room that's more like a hallway than anything. When we moved in, I had just thrown...

Thanks. Yes, I get out there when I can.

Today my daughter was home sick from school, and while she's pretty low maintenance, I had to stay home, so I decided to work on the shelf for the air compressor along with mounting the air hose reel. I found a shelf online that's rated at 200 lbs, so I got it to put my roughly 80 lbs compressor...

A little background on me and what I'm trying to accomplish. We've rented houses for a while now, so I couldn't do a lot to modify them. Plus, I'm a believer a garage is, first and foremost, a place to park cars, so everything I do assumes I leave enough space to park 2 cars inside. My last...

Thanks guys. Roboto: I'm not entirely sure what I want to do. Part of being an experiment is doing things that seem interesting as they come along. Right now, I'm seriously looking at making a folding work bench or two in the main garage and using the side room in my garage as storage. I'd...

Wow. Your garage is looking great! My garage needed a lot less work but I didn't do anything with it for so long. I really like how you've done lighting. Keep up the good work! By the way, what part of MN? We lived in Shakopee before moving down here a couple years ago.

Last summer, my wife and I got sick of renting and bought a house. We found one we really liked for the right price, but the garage is only a 2-car+ and we don't have enough property to build a workshop. Add in that this isn't our forever home, and I've decided this is going to be a good time...

Wow, I got distracted from working on my garage for quite a while. Thank you, all, for the inputs. Some I've used. Other's won't work so well for me. In any case, I've started working on it again, but decided to do a "build" thread to track it. Thanks again!

Thanks for the input everyone. I thought through the various suggestions, and even though I obviously won't be going with what everyone suggested, it was a good mental exercise on possibilities. The floor is already sealed and while the walls are painted, it's one coat of cheap, interior paint...

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Here's what I make work now. I'd like to avoid this. And while I can fit either of our cars inside, it's... cozy.