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Thanks for the comments. I think the style race deck tile is just their standard diamond plate pattern. It really is a great product. Takes a beating and is easy to clean.

Thanks for the comments guys. The before pictures are a combination of stuff I moved in and stuff the sellers left over when I bought the house. Long story short is that I bought a shed for gardening equipment and threw a bunch of stuff away. I hate clutter

I just took some update pictures on my garage last night and added them to my original thread. My garage is a small single 12X21 garage attached to my house that is heated and cooled. I took the garage down to the studs and built it back up. It is amazing what you can do with a small 1 car...

Its been awhile since I updated this, but finally got around to finishing some of the work. Actually, it's been done for just about a year now, but haven't gotten around to taking any pictures. Cleaned the garage up last night and thought it was as good of a time as any to take some updated...

Attached is a picture of the cabinet I built to hide the electrical panel. I think it came out pretty nicely and it looks great even though I built it from scratch. At this point the garage is basically finished. I need to hang a few cabinets when I buy them, but other than that it is a great...

Once the floor was sealed and primed I began putting down the flooring I ordered from Race Deck. I searched around a lot and this was the best solution for me. The price was right especially with the Garage Journal discount. I couldn't believe how easy it was to lay down and had the job done in...

The slab in my garage was okay. It passed all the moisture tests for an epoxy covering, but there were a few cracks and imperfections that would need to be prepared and i wasn't sure I would ever get it right. So I sealed the floor with primer and then painted the floor flat black. Those with a...

This post has a few more finishing touches. In the first picture you will see that I refinished the pull down door to the attic. At this point there is now no more ugly lime green in the entire garage, which makes me very happy. The next picture you will see that I added a Snap On retractable...

I had to come up with a solution for the garage door sensors so what I did was add a box on either side of the door. I took a stainless wall cover, drilled a hole through, added some threaded aluminum rod and mounted the sensor. The finished product works flawlessly and looks fantastic. The 2nd...

The first of these pictures shows the garage with the drywall hung, taped, sanded and painted. The floor is still unfinished, the trim not 100% done and the doors and window unfinished. I remember once I finished the drywall work it was a major step forward. The 2nd picture you will see the two...

I am pretty fanatical about fit and finish and I couldn't quite decide how I wanted the drywall to meet up against the garage door opening. What I finally decided to do was 1x4's to attached the garage door frame to. The drywall would would then **** up right against the 1x4's creating a nice...

In these pictures you can see that I started insulating, taping and adding drywall to the wall that joins the garage to the house. the insulation board fits perfectly between the furring strips and the tape finished off the vapor barrier. I was rather thorough with the vapor barrier throughout...

Attached are a few more pictures of the process for removing the floor. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to wear breathing protection and use a wallpaper steamer when removing these tiles. It softens the glue and also keeps them wet. When soft they don't break and even if they do...

Now that I have some light to work with and all the crumbling (probably flammable) fiber board wall covering out of the house I started to wire some of the electrical work. There is nothing worse than not being able to find a close outlet so I did a little overkill here and added 2 over the...

First off, I would like to thank all those that contribute to this site. Until now I have only lurked, but the information on this site helped me out tremendously when I re-fit my garage. I did the work last year and took pictures along the way. It is still a work in progress and I will continue...