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    Garage build

    I ordered some Newage cabinets to keep everything look neat and clean in the garage. 2400 pounds of cabinets arrived in the driveway. Have to get each 500 pound box completed leaned over on hand truck to get them in the garage as they were too tall to get in the garage door on a hand truck
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    Garage build

    Finally time for paint and to hook up the heater
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    Garage build

    Fortunately my wife reminded me I have 1 outlet in a 3 car garage. It was a pain having one in my 2 car so I added 2 20amp circuits with 8 outlets alternating circuitS. This way every other outlet is on a different circuit. Now I can run a tire mounter and compressor at the same time each on...
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    Garage build

    Next I had them spackle the garage. It was supposed to be done before the floor but they never showed. They came weeks later and unfortunately did a terrible job and had to come back again and still not great but good enough I guess.
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    Garage build

    They add a densifier to harden the cement in between polishing. The color is permenent and infused in the cement. After polishing to 3000 the applied a sealer but nothing else. The shine you see is not the sealer it is the cement. It looks like a big piece of granite. Came out great. It’s...
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    Garage build

    You can choose from many dye colors to color the cement. I wanted dark grey but they did not have it so I went with black but it came out grey so all good.
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    Garage build

    It was interesting to watch. They brought a 2224 ser cable and tapped a 100amp breaker right into my breaker box to power their polishers. They ground the cement with industrial diamond embedded metal pads. They started with 40 then 80 then 150 all the way to 3000 grit.
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    Garage build

    I just bought my forever home and can finally build my dream garage. First thing I did was have the floor done. I researched coatings and plastic tile etc but came across polished cement and chose to go that route. It pretty wild. I never knew you could polish cement.
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