Recent content by vintagerodshop

It is easy to over think it but the lift points on a modern car are usually indicated on the lower rockers. A little commen sense goes a long way. Many shops are lifting dozens of cars every day with out looking up center of gravity info. they then are working on cars like puuling transmissions...

very important if you have the washbay connected to the rest of your house or garage is to have a wall mounted exhaust fan to remove air born moisture from spraying expesially if you are using a high preasure water spray. I installed a comercial wand wash system like you see at the coin operated...

all you guys have not considered that he lives in B.C. It stands for BRING CASH! I would be surprised if you could get your basic envolope built for under two hundred grand including framing for the suite. I hope you have access to equipment for site prep and be prepared to be shocked at the...

What is the usage planned for the basement or bunker garage door. curious because I am doing something similar on a house I am building with a basement/ bunker under my garage with the same foot print as the garage but only accessed from rear of house.

and if it doesn't look good you can paint it white and start over

Try having a local young artist do some airbrush painting on it I had a couple of large 20 foot high walls covered with vintage car scenes.

Well finially got around to putting on a intro after along time robbing ideas off of this forum My name is Kirk I live in B.C Canada and run a vehicle restoration shop. I have to admit to having a tool/workshop addiction I can't get enough of looking at well designed and layed out work spaces...

here are some shots of some paint on some of my walls sorry for the **** in front of them hard to get a clear shot with out moving stuff around