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well I just stumbled upon this site today when I was surfing google images! what a mistake at work to do lol needless to say ive been useless the past 3 hours and have been reading so many threads and getting great ideas! I decided to start my own thread and maybe I can get some opinions! My fiancé and I bought our first home in December. this is the first garage ive ever had to myself lol


will post more pics when photobucket wants to work correctly
 
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Re: First garage(s)!

Looks like a great house! Nice big property too. Post up picks of the garage, it looks like it'll be a decent size from your photo.
 
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duffman04 said:
Looks like a great house! Nice big property too. Post up picks of the garage, it looks like it'll be a decent size from your photo.
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thanks! yeah its on a decent size lot. I will post up more when I figure out how to resize from photobucket they are massive lol
 
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thank you! hope to learn a lot! and im in ct! I see youre in NH. what part? I have property in Washington.
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I'm in Southern NH, a little south of Manchester. I've been to Washington a few times, I have a friend who has a house on Highland lake.
 
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I'm in Southern NH, a little south of Manchester. I've been to Washington a few times, I have a friend who has a house on Highland lake.
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Awesome. I love that town we are off of half moon pond.

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Congratulations on the house! After reading threads and gaining knowledge from all the great members here, your garage will soon become a state of awesomeness, lol!

Looking forward to your thread progress.
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Lets see if this worked from my phone. This is a quick sketch of the layout. The pics (if i can get them up) gets a little confusing


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From when we moved in (with my first race car) i had no idea how much stuff i had with all my hobbies.







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Power Sedan said:
Congratulations on the house! After reading threads and gaining knowledge from all the great members here, your garage will soon become a state of awesomeness, lol!

Looking forward to your thread progress.
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thank you! ive already seen so many things like oh man im doing that lol.

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Congrats and gorgeous first home! Cant wait to see more
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thank you!
 
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Dude thats a huge garage! Perfect for washing cars too. I wish I had a drain and concrete up that high.
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Yeah it is nice that they did it that way.. it also has a water line in it as well.

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Started to get organized. Got some shelving up and hung a 42" flat screen. Like to live stream a lot of the drag races while having some beers.

I had one outlet in the entire place! Pure hell lol




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Lots of potential.

I use PicMonkey Photo Editor to re-size my photos. It is a free online photo editor that lets you crop, auto-adjust, or fiddle with the exposure, contrast, etc. I always auto-adjust when I upload a picture for re-sizing. http://www.picmonkey.com/
 
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I made a comfy seat or my bullet reloading station out of one of my old race seats. I need to re do it and add casters

The reloading spot. Im actually going to flip this area around so i can have a wood/sheetrock wall instead of cement. Makes it hard to hang anything


I was trying tor about 6 months to find a third matching shelving unit but apparently costco changed the design. Made it deeper and cheaper. Its not nearly as sturdy as the other 2



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Got some work done this weekend. I cant wait for it to be done! Garage is destroyed.



Going to get a custom color mixed up for the stripe.. it will match my mustang.


First time using tape and mud..





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I can see a big problem..... some damn fool has put what appear to be household appliances in the garage.... ;)
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If you're talking about the washer and dryer you are correct and cant wait for the day they are moved lol. Cant stand it there.

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So on the list of things to do was get this horribly placed oil tank moved. There was no fill or vent from the outside...



Good thing i got friends in the industry

Much much better





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Oil tank relocation made a huge difference! Very elegant solution. This shop has all kinds of potential and has great character. Specs on the Mustang?
 
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Oil tank relocation made a huge difference! Very elegant solution. This shop has all kinds of potential and has great character. Specs on the Mustang?
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yeah I was amazed at the difference. the funny thing was my buddy was measuring that all out the night we moved in. needed to cut 2" out of the legs and it fit perfect. almost like its meant to be there. there is a lot of potential and I will get there lol. I actually decided that I want to take down the foundation wall that separates the 2 garages and than I will have a 32x50 garage lol. I need to hire a structural engineer first to come look at it. but that will wait till after the wedding. the mustang will have a built 5.3 ls with a borg s476 turbo on it. I parted away the integra in hopes to make more power with the mustang and still be able to drive it on the street.
 
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Guess i won't be getting any work done to the car this week lol. This website has ruined me


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Acid washed the floor twice tonight.. that was not fun. Good thing i have a drain in the floor. Hopefully laying some epoxy down tomorrow.


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Epoxy coated the floor tonight and got the paint chips down. That isnt easy to get even lol


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Got some of the walls painted this weekend after the floor dried up some.

Went to lowes and brought in a piece of metal off the mustang to get the color matched.



What a difference


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yeah getting motivated lol. I cant stand having the garage a disaster so I move fast!
 
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The wall on the left really bothered me.. and i hate the cabinets.


Need to mud and tape the wall up now but i think i want to get rid of this shotty beam someone installed at one time. Its 2 2x12s that sandwich 3/4 plywood than 3 2x10s samdwich that and then put up on 4x4s samdwiched by 2x4s. From what i have read 3 2x8s should do the job. But i need sme expert advice before i touch it.. i think this is highly over enginerred.


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Got some more paint up.. little by little










Also got a metal work bench that im fixing up to be my new welding station



Added a rear bar for support

Acid washed grinded and sanded and primed and painted.. need a couple new casters to raise it up a couple inches

Grounding lug

Also got a air hose reel for free.. pulled off the **** hose and put my 50' matco flexilla knock off on.





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Started switching the 2 bulb 4' florescent fixtures with 4' led fixtures.. they are expensive but they are smaller and bright as hell!

Bottle opener and cap catcher i made.

Finding old outlets buried in the ceiling? Sure it actually worked out right where i needed an outlet lol


Got some of the stuff moved back.. cant stand the wood work bench anymore even though i just replace the legs to raise it up 6" i think im going to paint it all black and put a metal top on it. Still have to raise my welding bench up. I also dislike the shelvs now and plan on getting some black and polished husky cabinets instead.


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Got a little more done.. its been hard as how humid its been so o dont want to paint anything lol

Matches the car perfectly


Guy at work made me a sheetmetal cover for my wood bench i love it!
 
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Nice work on the garage it's looking great. You seem handy so I figured I'd suggest this. If you can find some cheap t8 or t12 lights (or even free) you can very cheaply convert them to LED for a fraction of buying. I couldn't find what i wanted on craigslist at the time so I bought the cheapest lights I could at Menards for 9 bucks and then found a store on the internet that sells LED lights for 7 bucks. 25 bucks later and I had a light. I built 5 total. The ones I've seen in store usually sell for 40.
 
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