The Salvage Garage

Sriracha Me · Aug 11, 2011

Another garage build thread. It wont be as glamorous or beautifully crafted like "The 12-Gauge Garage" or Red Leader's "Craftsmen Garage" (They are both very well crafted and inspiriting).

The garage (16'x17' with 8' high walls and 13' peak) as you can see from the pictures is cluttered with alot of junk, left over materials and tools. My main purpose/goal is to clean up the garage to free up some work space. Organization is something i try to aim for but it'll be hard with an on going construction business.

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How i envision the layout of the garage to be is in the "U" shaped setup with shelves. Leaving the middle free space. Almost all of the shelves will be built be to very rough and raw except for maybe a few things. Salvaging all the wood and materials that's available.

Sriracha Me · Aug 11, 2011

Sorry for the poor images.

So far, there's been a lot of sorting and cleaning through things. We threw two vans full of garbage away!

Here are some of the shelves that were made with 2x3's, 2x4's and 3/4" plywood along the left side of the garage.

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The right side of the garage is the work bench made of the same material.

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Overall view of the garage so far

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Less junk, bit more room! I know its still very messy.

iatros · Aug 11, 2011

Looking much better already!

Remember, how do you eat an elephant?

....

One bite at a time

Good luck with your project

wolflrv · Aug 11, 2011

Good job!! You've made a significant dent already! I'd definitely find a spot and hang those bikes though. If they're used a lot you could still make more room by hanging them vertically on the wall or better yet hang them from the ceiling if they're not ridden daily.

Also consider a rolling sheet goods/lumber cart that you can just roll around out of the way. It will allow you to kind of "double stack" your shelving, then just roll it out if you need to get to the shelves behind it.

1991Syclone · Aug 11, 2011

You should probably take that Bud Light lime to the dump as well... ;-) Looks good. It's such a great feeling getting your garage back in order.

Sriracha Me · Aug 12, 2011

iatros said:
Looking much better already!

Remember, how do you eat an elephant?

....

One bite at a time

Good luck with your project

Thanks, i've been at it for the passed month on every sunday!

wolflrv said:
Good job!! You've made a significant dent already! I'd definitely find a spot and hang those bikes though. If they're used a lot you could still make more room by hanging them vertically on the wall or better yet hang them from the ceiling if they're not ridden daily.

Also consider a rolling sheet goods/lumber cart that you can just roll around out of the way. It will allow you to kind of "double stack" your shelving, then just roll it out if you need to get to the shelves behind it.

Excellent suggestion on the sheets! Everytime theres left overs from a project. It comes home because i dont wont to waste it.

I've consider making a pulley system on the rafters once the majority of the garage is done.

1991Syclone said:
You should probably take that Bud Light lime to the dump as well... ;-) Looks good. It's such a great feeling getting your garage back in order.

Haha, i usual drink imports or micro brews but i have a soft spot for cold cold Bud Light lime. Yes it does feel good to see this garage turn around.

couchmechanic · Aug 12, 2011

Great job so far. I am in no way an expert but when I saw your first picture I could of swore it was my garage. Before the wife would let me take pictures we did two spring cleanings and a couple of truck loads to Goodwill. Will be following your thread to see your progress. Thanks

Jack Olsen · Aug 12, 2011

This is very close to what mine looked like when I started cleaning it out in 2007. Except that you can see some organization in this picture. Mine was worse.

Take it one step at a time.

sscustom · Aug 12, 2011

looks better keep on goin and it will look great

flybefree · Aug 12, 2011

Great progree so far..is that some slat board on the side behind your shelves?

jktruck150 · Aug 12, 2011

Great progress is right! Good job and don't turn back! Looks good!

Sriracha Me · Aug 17, 2011

Thanks for all the kind words and encouragement!

More progress!

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Cleared out the middle! Finally!

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Made rear wall shelving.

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Made use of space, def needed this!

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Used the corner to stack big and small sheets of leftovers.

chief ben · Aug 17, 2011

Dam I don't feel so bad now when I don't sweep the floor every day.

Red Leader · Aug 17, 2011

Sriracha Me said:
Another garage build thread. It wont be as glamorous or beautifully crafted like "The 12-Gauge Garage" or Red Leader's "Craftsmen Garage" (They are both very well crafted and inspiriting).

My garage project started out innocently enough - get a few receptacles in, throw up some insulation, call it good.

Until I got on this forum.

You've been warned

-Dave

ps - you've made great progress so far!

chief ben · Aug 17, 2011

Now if we can get the office cleaned up,

Sriracha Me · Aug 17, 2011

chief ben said:
Dam I don't feel so bad now when I don't sweep the floor every day.

Man, i bet you're always careful not to drop anything and making a dent on those pretty floors.

Red Leader said:
My garage project started out innocently enough - get a few receptacles in, throw up some insulation, call it good.

Until I got on this forum.

You've been warned

-Dave

ps - you've made great progress so far!

Thanks, this is as fancy it will get. Just enough so that i can reuse the space in the garage.

chief ben said:
Now if we can get the office cleaned up,

Man, i wouldnt know where to start!

nickw86au · Aug 19, 2011

Jack Olsen said:
This is very close to what mine looked like when I started cleaning it out in 2007. Except that you can see some organization in this picture. Mine was worse.

Take it one step at a time.

Has anyone actually seen Jack's Before Photos? - I didn't see any in his thread... :headscrat

To Sriracha Me:

Its looking much more useable. Mine gets like the above photo, then I clean it but it only seems to last a month or so...

Dan in Pasadena · Aug 19, 2011

nickw86au said:
Has anyone actually seen Jack's Before Photos? - I didn't see any in his thread.....

Jack? Jack? We KNOW you take a lot of pictures....you've GOT to have a Before picture. You think the board admires your garage now? Post it as honked up as a lot of ours are and then you'll see/read TRUE admiration! :bowdown:

rickairmedic · Aug 19, 2011

Dan in Pasadena said:
Jack? Jack? We KNOW you take a lot of pictures....you've GOT to have a Before picture. You think the board admires your garage now? Post it as honked up as a lot of ours are and then you'll see/read TRUE admiration!

Ya know Dan now that you mention it I have seen 3 differant versions of Jacks garage but I dont ever remember seeing the original OH **** version

.

Rick

Dan in Pasadena · Aug 20, 2011

Yup, and I've been in Jack's garage, albeit for only a minute or two a couple of times. I can attest that he uses it and gets it messy but it doesn't stay that way too long after the project is done. So....I find it hard to imagine a person with that tendency let it get totally a mess for awhile...unless of course he was applying those perfectionistic tendencies to other projects on the house or car or whatever. Perfectionism does lead to paralysis....at least that's the excuse I use for my OWN garage being as it is!

Jack Olsen · Aug 20, 2011

There are no pictures. It was embarrassing.

Sriracha Me · Aug 20, 2011

Jack Olsen said:
There are no pictures. It was embarrassing.

The results overshadow the embarrassment.

nickw86au · Aug 20, 2011

rickairmedic said:
Ya know Dan now that you mention it I have seen 3 differant versions of Jacks garage but I dont ever remember seeing the original OH **** version .

Rick

I actually tried to find some to make myself feel better but couldnt..

Sriracha Me said:
The results overshadow the embarrassment.

Thats true...

But yours is something that the rest of us can relate to :beer:

Nice to see the changes.

Sriracha Me · Aug 23, 2011

nickw86au said:
I actually tried to find some to make myself feel better but couldnt..

Thats true...

But yours is something that the rest of us can relate to

Nice to see the changes.

Yes, the major work is done. Just a few to many buckets to sort all the nails, screws, and etc to reduce the amount of space it'll take up.

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