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I finally fully finished my garage addition (https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374387&page=4) and just wanted to thank everyone for their input and answers. From questions related to stone to helping decide on a lift, the forum members here really helped me to get things done...

Curious if anyone has ever done mirrored fronts on their cabinets. My cabinets will be placed in front of my lift and figure that it could kill two birds with one stone by having mirrored faces to be able to line a car up on the lift easier. Anyone?

Ever since I had a new water heater installed a couple months ago, the drain in the laundry room has a constant dripping coming from it. It's the type that has the daily re-circulation feature if that makes a difference. I had a guy that does plumbing as a retirement job and a handyman come...

Had the garage door, LM 8500W and high lift track installed today. The track hangs about a foot from the ceiling as it goes up. Any reason they wouldn't have been able to run it higher towards the wall? Thanks!

I'm generally an anxious person to begin with. Picking my Advantage four post up from the YRC terminal tomorrow thanks to the help of a co-worker with a flatbed trailer. My new garage is ready for the lift, but the driveway really isn't. They are starting to tear the current driveway up...

I'm getting finishing touches on my garage in line and the stone that I want is on backorder for 6 weeks. I have the same stone throughout the inside of my house and out back, so I can't choose something else unless it's a different brand that has a very similar product. Long shot, but maybe...

Part of the HOA comments about my garage addition was that the stone veneer around the window must terminate to the inside corners. I want to make sure that my contractor does this properly and am wondering if someone could help explain what that specifically means. Thanks in advance!

Im worried the current outlets run for the LM8500 placement might be where the actual unit needs to go and want to make sure if so, they move the outlets before they drywall. Can someone let me know if where it (they) are positioned is okay or if it needs to be moved? Thanks in advance!

I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel for my garage build (https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374387) and am just about ready to pull the trigger on a lift. I've gone back and forth between these two lifts and I believe the Wildfire is probably the right...

I received a long list of corrections/revisions from the Architectural portion of county permitting...most of them are little ticky-tak items they want information on. However, the one comment they made that concerns me was: "The maximum height allowed for Brace wall panels provision and...

I'm just about ready to submit plans for permitting, but have been told I need to get electrical and truss load calculations before doing so. A) Is it an electrician that I need to do electrical load calcs? B) Typically is it the electrician and truss companies planned to be used for the...

I started a thread of my journey towards building a fourth car garage (one that will be tall enough for a lift to fit five cars in total) here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374387 I just became the latest victim of the bid for the project coming in a lot more than...

Does anyone know the major differences between these two? I know the Apex 8 has ALI certification and my guess is a newer Atlas lift since it doesn't have any reviews on Greg Smith's website. Anyone here have either?

I just talked to a local lift distributor and they told me they've stopped installing Bendpak's for the time being because ever since they changed manufacturing (when they went from blue to grey), they've been having nothing but issues with them. They said they sell a brand called Dominator...

I like to document when I build a car, so going to do the same for my garage build. I live in Las Vegas and bought my home three years ago. It's in an HOA and then a second HOA within the area/neighborhood. The one thing that I knew I would need more of in order to call this my "forever...

I just found this forum a couple weeks back and appreciate all the info to be found. I'm in the process of getting HOA and City approvals for adding a fourth car garage to my house. I plan to build the ceilings high enough (hopefully 12') to give me plenty of room on the top for a lift. The...