Finally have a Garage of my own 30x30

btlegacy · Jan 28, 2014

I have been lurking around here for a while and getting ideas. I finally have a garage to call my own since my wife and I recently purchased a home with a detached 30x30 garage. Previously, I rented space to work on my cars and to do some side jobs to pay for it. I have moved out of the rented space and will start fixing up this garage once the house is ready to move in to.

It is mostly a blank slate as the previous owner used it to park his cars and store a couple garden tools. I will start with flooring and building some workbenches along with moving my toolboxes and compressor in. I will be posting progress as well as questions as I get moving to make the space mine.

There is also secondary storage in the form of a 12x16 storage unit that is also wired and insulated.

Here are a couple pictures:

Kevkx125 · Jan 28, 2014

Cool looks like a great space to start with. Remember to keep all lawn and garden tools in the shed where they belong. keeps us posted with lots of pictures. Good luck.

dubber · Jan 28, 2014

Excellent blank canvas, especially with that secondary storage to take all the non-garage related items.

1/2 Cup · Jan 28, 2014

Lovely, blank canvas, looking forward to following your progress. :thumbup:

Xander · Jan 28, 2014

I love the A/C unit in the shed window. Keep the mover cool in the summer?

X...

btlegacy · Jan 28, 2014

The shed is actually fully insulated and was used as an office by the previous owner haha

upndown · Jan 28, 2014

Nice, a little elbow grease and your all set! :beer:

LoanRebel · Jan 28, 2014

amazing potential

regguy1 · Jan 28, 2014

Nice space, my garage was unfinished for many years.
When I finally had enough free time I finished the inside.
See it here: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140674&highlight=26'+30'+Garage+photos+videos

dubber · Jan 29, 2014

Xander said:
I love the A/C unit in the shed window. Keep the mover cool in the summer?

X...

Maybe he raced a John Deere, hahaha. I noticed that as well, and thought it was unique.

btlegacy · Feb 26, 2014

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. We are still doing work remodeling the bathrooms and kitchen inside the house so the garage is not getting a lot of love yet. Planning to replace the door seal this weekend as it's leaking water in.

I am planning to use the Epoxy-Coat kits in Gray on the Floor. I am looking at the kits on the Lowes site as I have a 10% off coupon to use there but both the 384 fl-oz and 768 fl-oz kits list the same coverage.

Am I missing something?
768 fl-oz kit
384 fl-oz kit

nsogiba · Feb 26, 2014

great clean slate. You will love the width in there.

I like your avatar. Long live the LS.

btlegacy · Feb 26, 2014

Thanks, and this garage will see lots of LS motors and parts, I have am swapping an LS2 into my Subaru, We swapped an LS1 into my buddy's Miata and my brother will also be working on his C6 Vette here

nsogiba · Feb 26, 2014

Very cool, fellow swapper here, see sig. I would love to see build threads (I probably have stumbled across them in the past).

btlegacy · Feb 26, 2014

That's awesome. I have read your thread on LS1tech before. I need to update mine once I get a free moment

subarutex · Feb 26, 2014

Subscribed, not for the garage.

But the LS Subaru and LS Miata.

patent pending · Feb 26, 2014

Nice clean space! Love the air conditioned Shoffice too :rocker:

What part of NC? I'm originally from WNC.

firecracker · Feb 26, 2014

Subscribed!!! now get on with the bedroom and kitchen :rocker:

so we can watch the garage come together. :eyecrazy:

can't wait. :bounce:

MacTexas · Feb 26, 2014

Nice garage just the right size.

ARCTIC_RAGTOP · Mar 12, 2014

This space has great potential, looking forward to the progress and LS swaps! Would love to swap an LS7/T56 into my Beaumont one day. Subscribed

nicobkn · Mar 14, 2014

so pretty! can't wait to see what you do with it

strnge · Apr 17, 2014

Any updates?

btlegacy · Jul 14, 2014

Thanks guys. The house remodeling is finally coming to a close for the big stuff. Starting to clear out all of the remodeling trash and such from the garage over the next few weeks. Once cleaned, will start with replacing the garage door seal and then grinding the floor. The one good thing I can say came from the remodeling is that my tool collection has expanded hehe. I uploaded a couple of images of some of the work that was done

btlegacy · Jul 14, 2014

Here are few more images of the remodeling work

btlegacy · Jul 14, 2014

radrush said:
So after the wife packs her part of it full of holiday ****, and other whatnots...your area will be what, 15x15?

Luckily, the garage is completely mine. She gets a 12x16 shed for all her gardening stuff and anything else she may like along with me parking the lawnmower there. The cars will also only be parked inside the garage as long as they don't get in the way of any of the projects

btlegacy · Jul 16, 2014

Finally started clearing out all of the remodeling junk from the garage last night. Spent about 4 hours cleaning and organizing tools and materials and adding to the trash stack. Will be making some runs to return some stuff to my dad's house. I will be putting epoxy down on the floor and repainting the walls but am not sure on what to do with the cinder block footing. I attached a photo. Any ideas?

1/2 Cup · Jul 16, 2014

Thanks for the update and great work all round. :thumbup:

You have quite a lot of options when it comes to the footing.
1. cover it with a base board.
2. Paint it the wall colour.
3. Leave it as it is, lightly acid wash, rinse, dry and coat it with a clear coat.
Personally this would be what I would do as it will give a nice accent to your walls.

Regards

btlegacy · Jul 17, 2014

I think I may follow your advice and leave it as is but just clean it up

dubber · Jul 17, 2014

Great job in the house. Now that wifey is happy you can focus on your area

btlegacy · Jul 17, 2014

Thanks, got a good bit of cleaning done over the past few days. Now I just need to take a couple truckloads of trash to the dump and I hope to get the walls painted this weekend

btlegacy · Jul 19, 2014

Got some goodies today. Buddy of mine called me over and said he had some extra light fixtures and workbench legs so I went over and got 6 4-bulb T8 fixtures

btlegacy · Jul 23, 2014

Finally got it cleared out and started measuring everything for insulation, electrical etc

btlegacy · Jul 23, 2014

I started measuring everything last night and noticed a gap at the top of the wall drywall. There is about 1.5 inches gap from the top of the drywall to the ceiling. Whats the best way to work with this to be able to drywall the ceiling. A 2x4 fits perfectly in the gap, should I run 2x4's perpendicularly across the whole ceiling?

JimVonBaden · Jul 23, 2014

Great job on the remodeling!

AnthonyJ124 · Jul 23, 2014

VERY nice space! There are probably a million ways to do that ceiling right, hopefully someone chimes in with a good idea.

Anyhow, your swap thread is a CLIFFHANGER!! Is it done??

F16CrewChief · Jul 23, 2014

Drywall the ceiling as is and put crown molding to cover the gap. Probably cheaper than the 2x4 you mentioned

1/2 Cup · Jul 23, 2014

F16CrewChief said:
Drywall the ceiling as is and put crown molding to cover the gap. Probably cheaper than the 2x4 you mentioned

I agree with F16CrewChief. IMHO it is possibly the best solution.

Regards

btlegacy · Jul 28, 2014

I am going to drywall the ceiling as is and then fill in the gap with strips of drywall. I will cut into the existing drywall so the strips are not tiny.

btlegacy · Jul 28, 2014

I started working on electrical this weekend and started building boxes for the lights

btlegacy · Jul 30, 2014

Made some more progress with the light enclosures today. 3 more boxes to build

Still need to pull some more old wire out and then I can start running new wire and start ceiling drywall

Finally have a Garage of my own 30x30

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