Accel Junky's Dual Phase 3-Car Attached/Detached Build

Accel Junky · Feb 23, 2014

Accel Junky's 3-Car Attached Plus (Eventually) Detached Build

Last spring my wife and I put our first house for sale and I stowed my NSX in a safe place I refer to as "the bat cave".

Originally I wanted a handful of acres but reality set in and we settled on something with a cozy sized lot with some pre-approval by the HOA and city for future expansion plans.

My build will take place in 2 phases:

Phase 1 is the attached 3 car garage.
Phase 2 will be a detached bonus garage. (Ultimately for phase 2 the attached garage will become a showroom-only "museum-like" space whereas my projects and extra vehicle/tool/lawn equip storage will be located in the detached garage. That detached garage will be either a deep 2 car or a normal depth 3 car with some provisions for a lift, hiding my lawn equipment, and maybe some office space.)

But for now my phase 1 garage will have to serve dual purposes as the showroom and a working garage.

Here's how it looks fresh:

Accel Junky · Feb 23, 2014

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Here's what the old one looked like before I painted the walls prior to selling it:

Accel Junky · Feb 23, 2014

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TheShrine · Feb 23, 2014

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OscarTango · Feb 23, 2014

I like the 2nd picture below the "fresh" one the best....mural looks cool, crimson walls addd "warmth ". Looking forward to updates...

Dale Leeds · Feb 23, 2014

That looks really nice!! What a fantastic garage!! Nice cars, too!!

55cadillacking · Feb 23, 2014

Those mock ups are killer. I can't imagine how cool they would be in reality.

Hopalong604 · Feb 23, 2014

Crimson with tan floors looks killer! I love how there's a separate garage door for the NSX. Drool

Accel Junky · Apr 2, 2014

The garage floor guy started with the project to put down a polyaspartic (the slab was too oddly colored to stain like planned...or so he said). To be honest I'm deeply disappointed with how the color came out. He's got one coat left to do but I doubt that will change it. I picked a dark grey and it is looking like a dolphin blue color. I looked at hundreds of dark grey garage floors online and everything looked exactly like I wanted. Now that it is under way...it is turning out bad. I'd take an orange floor over this color any day. I guess I'll just have to **** it up and start saving for Racedeck tiles or something of I ever want to be happy walking in and working in my garage. Very Expensive mistake...

Capt Chrysler · Apr 2, 2014

Any way to top coat it a different color?

Capt. Chrysler

Accel Junky · Apr 2, 2014

Not sure. Materials already purchased.

Also I'm wondering if the floor will look smooth when done...it's a new slab after all...

Audicon · Apr 3, 2014

Give it time. You may be happy with the color once it has dried. I had the same issue with a room I painted a few years ago. I didn't like the color going on, but let it dry, and went back the next day and it was exactly like I picked out.

LCG · Apr 3, 2014

I demand pictures of the NSX

rixtrix1 · Apr 3, 2014

Looks like you have a nice open canvas to work from. Nice ideas on the murals. Planning to do a vinyl print for those, or?

However, I can't believe your gas water heater is located on the floor. Code usually requires any sources of combustion to be located at least 18" above floor level to avoid a chance of ignition of collected combustible fumes, i.e. gas, oil. Last thing anyone would want would be to damage such a nice collection of vehicles, as well as your residence. Forgive me if there is already a stand under the heater as it's hard to see in your pics.

jes_si · Apr 3, 2014

LCG said:
I demand pictures of the NSX

I second!

Accel Junky · Apr 3, 2014

The polyaspartic was dry about 10 hours before those last 2 pics.

NSX pics coming soon. As for the water heater it is on the floor. At our last house it was elevated too. Our inspector is one of the best in the business and didn't say anything so my assumption is that somehow it is within code but I'll check. There's a parking pole that goes in front of it.

Accel Junky · Apr 3, 2014

Here's a quick pic of the NSX:

Accel Junky · Apr 3, 2014

Here's the final job on the polyaspartic floor. Pics taken without direct sunlight blasting on it. Still looks bluish but the finish is glossier and smoother so I like that.

Sunbimmer · Apr 3, 2014

Oh man that NSX.... :drool:

the nicest one I've ever seen :thumbup:

If you have more pics please share them :bowdown:

Ryan · Apr 3, 2014

Frankly, I totally dig that color... Kind of a carbon look to it.

55cadillacking · Apr 3, 2014

I dig that colour, too.

jes_si · Apr 3, 2014

floor color looks good, NSX is gonna look good in their.

UN4GTBL · Apr 4, 2014

Looks good!

LCG · Apr 4, 2014

Dry pictures?

indeed looks blueish

Accel Junky · Apr 4, 2014

LCG said:
Dry pictures?

indeed looks blueish

Those pictures are completely dry. This stuff dries very quickly.

Accel Junky · Apr 4, 2014

Sunbimmer said:
Oh man that NSX.... the nicest one I've ever seen

If you have more pics please share them

A couple of my favorites for you

Some of these were taken by random photographers at random events...

Jay Sco · Apr 4, 2014

That floor does appear to have a bluish tint. Have you decided on the walls yet? I vote for either gray with murals (your fav anyway) or the charcoal with no murals. I'd skip any crimson with the tint of that floor.
Nice rides by the way.

LCG · Apr 4, 2014

Accel Junky said:
Those pictures are completely dry. This stuff dries very quickly.

quite glossy then. Blueish intended?

Accel Junky · Apr 4, 2014

LCG said:
quite glossy then. Blueish intended?

Definitely high gloss! I actually asked to make sure they grey was a function of black and not blue prior to the job but it ended up with a bluish tint. I was going more for a percentage of black kinda dark grey.

Accel Junky · Apr 4, 2014

Jay Sco said:
That floor does appear to have a bluish tint. Have you decided on the walls yet? I vote for either gray with murals (your fav anyway) or the charcoal with no murals. I'd skip any crimson with the tint of that floor.
Nice rides by the way.

Walls I was thinking a light or medium grey but now I'm wondering how that will look with the bluish grey floor...

Thanks for the compliments on the cars!

Crackerballer · Apr 4, 2014

Do yourself a favor: scrap the water tank and buy a tankless. Save yourself some money, get the tax write off, and take up less space in your garage!

Accel Junky · Apr 4, 2014

Noted, thank you!

Accel Junky · Apr 5, 2014

Got the NSX out of storage and home. We are getting my tool chest, air compressor, tools, workbench, spare wheels, etc out of storage tomorrow!

Accel Junky · Apr 7, 2014

Last night we got some of the bigger tools/pieces from storage and put all the cars in. Not so big of a garage now that there are 3 vehicles in it.

Accel Junky · Apr 25, 2014

Finally got the rest of the garage stuff unpacked from storage and also took a little time to swap out the exhaust on the S2000...I stuffed that one piece puppy in the attic after this photo...

Also, mounted my old tire racks up on the tiny wall with the water heater. I figured I might as well put those there and save the big walls for bigger and better things.

Lastly, I had a chance to organize everything that I unpacked. So the current state of the garage is in the last 2 pics.

I'm currently dealing with polyaspartic floor problems. The tires are either pulling up the gloss or leaving imprints. Nothing cleans off so it's not residue. Also the polyaspatic scuffs and scratches so easily. Seriously...this stuff is behaving like I painted the floor with standard paint... Garage floor guy is supposed to come out and take a look but I think its just a deficient product. Should've gone with the Race Deck tiles in hindsight...

JustinS · Apr 25, 2014

***** about the floor man, hope it works out.

Accel Junky · Jun 5, 2014

No new pictures yet, but an update:

The polyaspartic floor has been scratching incredible easy. It's laughable actually. It has also been showing tire "prints" in the surface that cannot be cleaned off (not really hot tire pickup per se). So I had the installer come out and take a look. He said he had never seen this before so he contacted the manufacturer. At first they tried to put the blame on me (laughable) and then eventually they offered to supply him with new materials to add another coat then do the flakes this time. The installer offered me a choice of a small token refund or his free labor to apply another coat, add the flakes, and then clear on top of that.

Ultimately, I decided that this polyaspartic was never going to perform no matter how many times they try to re-do it (especially considering the manufacturer claims additional coats should only be added up to 36 hours...let alone 1-2 months later) so I opted for the token partial refund. I'm waiting on that currently, but I just thought it would be a futile effort and a major inconvenience to try the same material again with all my stuff moved in.

Once we have the money, I'm going to just get the Racedeck and call it a day. By that time I will have put close to $6k into the floor of this thing...really da** depressing! The moral of the story is that I should've gone and looked at other projects where this polyaspartic was used to see what it looked like and how it held up.

Pictures of the floor durability after only a month:

Firstly, the tire "printing":

Next the coating is scuffing and scratching VERY easily. This is just from the cardboard discs that I put under tools and floor jacks to protect the floor (I'm extrapolating about 2 weeks worth of light use to the supposed years its supposed to last):

For sh**ts and giggles, here's a picture of how the texture really changes throughout the floor.

Gloosy...smooth-ish:

And in other parts looks like cheap spray paint:

On the plus side...I did pick up a new stable-mate for the NSX:

Jay Sco · Jun 5, 2014

Wow, what a dissapointment about the floor. At least you got an 'M' to lift your spirits. So what are you going to do with the RD floor? Solid, patterns, colors?

Accel Junky · Jun 5, 2014

Jay Sco said:
Wow, what a dissapointment about the floor. At least you got an 'M' to lift your spirits. So what are you going to do with the RD floor? Solid, patterns, colors?

Yeah, feeling good about the M5 at least :pimpflash

As far as the Racedeck, I received a sample of the graphite diamond and a sample of the beige toughshield. The graphite when laid on the existing floor definitely looks like the color I was going for in the first place. The beige is not bad I guess...wife doesn't like it. As for toughshield or regular...I like the toughshield look but I'm worried about the gloss holding up over time. Might be safer to do the regular diamond.

As far as a pattern...I'm not much of a pattern kind of guy so I'm thinking straight solid all around and then I can work on painting the walls a complimentary color.

My wife is feeling pretty burned on the polyaspartic and the $4k we basically wasted on that (she seems to think I made a bad decision and might keep making them) so I doubt I'll get the go ahead on alternate floor plans until we free up some cashflow down the road.

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