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officially done with this little project. I'm have decided to hold off on making more cabinets and spend my time researching 2 post lifts. I have exactly 11' 4" of height from floor to bottom of the ceiling sheetrock. I can cut out the sheetrock between two rafters to gain another another 10"...

Thank you for the complement. Growing up I had never met another Zane before. Now quite a bit of kiddo's are sharing my name. My sons best friend is named Zane. Its quite an odd thing for me. I was named after "Zane Gray" a famous cowboy/western author my dad used to read during WWII days.

I went ahead and painted the cabinet doors that I hung to see if I would like the color. I used high gloss paint for easy clean up and applied several coats with a foam roller to minimize brush lines in the paint. I was very pleased with the outcome.

Had some time during the holiday to knock out most of the cabinets above the "locker" workbench. I used hardwood for the facing to be strong enough to hold the MDF doors I made and drilled out the sides for adjustable shelving pins. I still need to make a door for the single cabinet on the far...

If you place a double pole line volt thermostat in, it will shut power down to both the heating element and the fan preventing the fan from cooling the heating element down once the unit has gotten the room to the desired temp. The set up that has been drawn out in this thread allows you to...

Did a little work last night. Ran to the lumber yard to pick up the rest of the plywood needed to build the remaining wall mount cabinets that will be installed above the lockers. I had an hour to play in the garage so figured I would measure and install the two rough cabinets that i pulled...

Not sure what kind of lift I'm going to go with. I really like the idea of the 4 post lift for storing my project car out of the way, but the ability to do a full range of automotive work with 2 post lifts are hard to beat. Plus I can take advantage of my high ceilings with a 2 post and get...

My next project and the one that I just started over the weekend was to build myself some storage. While getting my hair cut at Sports Clips a few weeks back, I had noticed that they had done some remodeling and they had replaced their lockers with new ones. I had asked what they had done with...

I then decided to run wire for some industrial ceiling fans. In the summer months it is HOT in the mid-west and the more air you can move the better for me. I have also noticed that using a fan in the winter helps circulate the hot air that gets trapped up high when I need it down low. I used...

After finalizing the installation of the sub panel I needed to tackle putting in my Dayton G34 heater so that i could enjoy a comfortable space in the winter. I added a external Line Volt Thermostat during the wiring of the heater so that I could control the room temp without having to climb a...

My first job was to install a 130 amp sub panel to feed my power needs in the garage. My plans are not as grand as most, but I was needing the panel to run some ceiling fans, florescent lights, 220v welder , 220v garage heater, additional 120v outlets around the whole garage and a enough room...

I have spent quite a bit of time reading through a ton of GREAT garages transformations that members have gone through. It’s been quite fun actually and it has given me all sorts of very good ideas. I figured I would start a thread on my own garage for those interested in following. My...

I'm no electrician either as stated. Someone might be better able to explain, but what I can say is that the single pole thermostat is only using one leg of the 220v and it is what was recommended to me by Dayton for this application.

Completely agree, no offence taken and you make VERY good point. The quality of the spindle is one of the most important aspects of a swing out tire carrier build. I spent quite a bit of time researching what spindle to use and purchased the one I used from 4x4 Labs HERE. The spindle is...

When I built my rear swing out, to make the spindle as strong as I could, rather than welding the spindle to the top of the bumper I went all the way through it. This provided two welding points. If that is not an option, using some good gussets to add strength to it would be a good idea. I...

My garage space is a residential 3 car garage.

Chris, You are 100% correct. I really wanted to have the thermostat near the center of the garage, but the cost of wire is so much right now it was not worth it.

I had some extra steel channel lying around and welded up the wall mount bracket. I used the factory bracket that connects to the sides of the heater, but keeping true to how I tend to go overboard on things I added a cross bar to bolt the brackets together to reduce movement and beef things...

Attached are a few pictures of the heater installed.

(How to hook up “Run #1” wires inside of heater) Take “Run #1” that comes from your cutoff switch and hook the Black wire to L2, the White wire to L1 in the marked power terminal block within the heater and the bare copper wire to the ground nut within the heater. You have now successfully...