Recent content by valiant100SM

Black Friday Bump - There's a $150 discount going on right now, but I'd love to know if the TL/TLX is still in the works. I'm about to pull the trigger on a 7000EXT and the extra lift would be fantastic.

I think you're on the right track keeping the vent away from where the media will be - my HF floor-mounted cabinet is set up that way more or less, with inlet in the back right and outlet generally upper left. At least that's how I interpret how the box works. If you run PVC inside the...

Question - are the Superstrut products sold by Lowes / Home Depot interchangable with the Unistrut products? There really don't seem to be any parts in stock at either that would lend themselves to shelving, and the folks behind the counter don't seem to know much about the products at all...

Fantastic project! This may be exactly what I'm hoping to do in part of my new garage space - the "workshop" area that needs to double as overflow parking for a car on skates. I want to keep some good longer-term storage in the area, but don't want to eat up floor space. Keeping the first...

Please do post the cabinet details - I may have some of that work to do on my (pending) garage, too. Plus, I just love seeing pics of your place! Clair

20x22 is what I've got now, and now that we've priced new construction with the garage space I want, I'll likely be here for a while... so I've got to make the most of this space and will be watching this thread for hints. My garage is far from ideal, but I think I can fit 3 cars in there with...

Fred, I think the only thing being "sneaked" is the intent of the rule - I can verify this suspicion tomorrow with our zoning folks. My gut feeling is that as soon as I went to pull a permit to convert the "game room" in to a garage they'd see that the place already has a garage, so I'd have to...

I think about the max grade change will be in the 2-2.5 foot range, not really enough to worry about a pit (to me, at least), and I think I'd rather have the higher ceilings for a lift. The cars aren't tiny - the largest is a 68 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible at 17.75 feet. The smallest...

Nice! I think if my wife wasn't looking at a 2-story house, that one could be a contender. I like Spanish-style houses, too. The one we're looking at the most has the attached floorplan on the bottom. The drawing is obviously not to scale, but is about right in general proportions. The...

Extending the garage rearward is generally where we're headed. So far, we've found a few floor plans with attached 3-car setups, and it's fairly straight-forward to add another bay, or to make two of the existing bays double-deep to get the space I'm shooting for. We won't be really locked in...

Yeah, I don't think I want to take a chance on sneaking one past the city... the development is still majority-owned by the developer, so they'd be keeping an eye on things, plus there IS a (limited) HOA and they'd be keeping an eye on things, plus the residential plans examiners and inspectors...

It's looking more and more like we'll be building our next house - the one to replace the "bachelor pad" I bought back when all I was concerned with was a detached 2-car garage of my very own... Not being satisfied with the typical big brick box that most homebuilders tried to sell us, we're...

Howdy, folks, Been reading for a while, but I'm getting to a point where I need to get serioius about a new garage - either reworking the detached 2-car I've got now, or working in to something else on a house we may be buying in the future. I've got the typical problem of 10 pounds of, um...