Recent content by valdeztke

Not home 24 hours a day. 🤪 They'd visit family, go to school, visit friends in the neighborhood, etc. My kids are wonderful themselves but after 5-months of juggling everything from the confines of a moderate sized home - it would be nice to have another climate-controlled space we can occupy...

Definitely leaning towards the corrugated panels. It just seems easy and unique. Do you have any recommendations on thickness or material: perhaps even a brand or two that maybe you've already researched/resourced? I imagine I need to go somewhere other than a big box store to get good quality...

What I don't get is why can't I just add 7-8 new 18'ft 2 x 6 joists between the existing ones? On the garage side they are all just resting on the header beam over the garage door and on the house-side (pictured below) they are face mounted (I'd use Simpson joist hangers?). These joists are...

Great job on the DIY shots above. I love the look of the metal ceiling. But as helpful as my wife is in the building part of things, she's equally unhelpful when it comes to finding easier solutions attractive enough. I'm sure I'll be forced to go finish drywall and/or shiplap for the exterior...

Curious if these plastic sheets can hold the weight of 12-15" of blown insulation. I imagine they could, especially if I reinforce with additional joists (24" OC vs current 48" OC).

PWilks, firebirdparts, My Old Tools, ZRX61 – Thank you all for the input. Very informative and helpful. Yes, the joists are 4' on center (just measured). We had a large line ran from the panel into the garage when we upgraded from 100 -> 200 amp panel. This was done so that we could install...

Haha. I think it's still a garage in my Dream Vision. I still want to park my little electric car in the garage and do the occasional shaker door build, but I'd also like to sit around and have 10 friends be loud, drink beer and play euro boardgames in the 100 degree heat. Hope that's...

If you live in the area (Orange County) or can recommend someone to help me tackle this project: I'm all ears and happy to take your recommendation. Meanwhile I'll be lurking through all the MrCool installs to try and determine where in the world I should mount my unit and run my electrical and...

Oh, I also did reach out to the realtor on the home for sale to see if his client would be willing to share who did the work. The realtor never responded.

Hello GJ! Long time lurker, first time caller. My wife and I have been enjoying our little 90’s home in Orange County for the last 2-years. We were tackling small projects here and there. We remodeled the kitchen, laid some pavers, knocked out a few built in closets (I'm now collecting Rockler...

Thanks for the warm welcome. I spent my years in the Pentagon and now I'm up on Capitol Hill. :thumbup: I'm still a ways away from a garage, just had the offer on the house accepted the other day. Not sure if I want to do a loft or not. Don't really need the extra space. Oh well, I'll figure it...

First post - I'm in for more pics. Looking at doing a similar size setup in a few years to come :) P dude - are you an AF guy?