This will be my sleep deprived and half assed attempt at making a thread about my garage. Between finishing the tiling of the garage and helping my wife with our first kid (2 months old) I literally have nothing left in me in energy wise. I wasn’t going to do this, but I do want to take the opportunity to thank the forum for all the ideas and especially the local to me member Dakota who has been answering my numerous pm’s and has guided me on how to manage my garage floor.
Long story short I found out about this forum by seeing the 12 gauge garage build, mind blown, finally someone who built a multi tool out of a conventional 2 car garage. Over the 6 years of living in our current house I had agonized about how I’d want the garage with the 12 gauge garage being my reference point. I took a lot of ideas from him and added my own twist, I wanted a versatile garage without “fixed” equipment in place so I can always repurpose the space as needed/when needed. I didn’t need triple of every tool or even the fanciest of some machines, what I tried to do was apply the 80-20 rule (in fact that might be the name of the garage?). I want 20% of the tools to be able to accomplish 80% of the tasks, I also wanted to have my gym in there as well so I don’t have to waste time driving to/front gyms and wanted the convenience of working out at home. Again 80-20 rule, squat rack, free weights, dumbbells and I can do 80% with 20% of the equipment.
Garage over the past 6 years:
In 2011
2012
2013
Enough banter, here are the restrictions:
Original garage 20’x17’ basement level garage.
Low overhead 7’6” at the highest point.
I made two threads here on how to deal with the state of despair this garage/driveway was in…I asked, didn’t get much in the way of real feedback so I went with my gut:
I wanted to extend the garage by 5’ so it’s longer, this way I could park a car and have my squat rack in the back. I couldn’t move the door 5’ until the asphalt driveway going into the garage was fixed or the door wouldn't close properly. (full pics here). Moving the door flush with the house also gave me an entrance into the home without opening the garage door.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=252915
After the floor was done I waited a year for the concrete to settle make sure I had no issues, in the meantime I started looking for tiles. Ended up with left over tiles from a bank branch where they had leftovers, they weren’t my favourite colour, but they were outdoor rated porcelain and I made them work to the best of my ability (thanks once again to Dakota for all the help with all my questions).
I am sure I am forgetting a ton of stuff, I ended up doing recessed lighting, even with the low overhead I managed to do a shaft drive liftmaster, added plugs to the ceiling, etc.
House as it stands now (also changed the siding to maibec wood):
Garage as of 2017:
I had this grand idea in my head that I would clean the floor perfect and then have a nice thread on here about everything I did, lol. I hope this will do for the rest of you in need of ideas and that are working with very limiting spaces. The goal here was to maximize every square inch of space in order to get multiple uses out of the garage.
Long story short I found out about this forum by seeing the 12 gauge garage build, mind blown, finally someone who built a multi tool out of a conventional 2 car garage. Over the 6 years of living in our current house I had agonized about how I’d want the garage with the 12 gauge garage being my reference point. I took a lot of ideas from him and added my own twist, I wanted a versatile garage without “fixed” equipment in place so I can always repurpose the space as needed/when needed. I didn’t need triple of every tool or even the fanciest of some machines, what I tried to do was apply the 80-20 rule (in fact that might be the name of the garage?). I want 20% of the tools to be able to accomplish 80% of the tasks, I also wanted to have my gym in there as well so I don’t have to waste time driving to/front gyms and wanted the convenience of working out at home. Again 80-20 rule, squat rack, free weights, dumbbells and I can do 80% with 20% of the equipment.
Garage over the past 6 years:
In 2011
2012
2013
Enough banter, here are the restrictions:
Original garage 20’x17’ basement level garage.
Low overhead 7’6” at the highest point.
I made two threads here on how to deal with the state of despair this garage/driveway was in…I asked, didn’t get much in the way of real feedback so I went with my gut:
I wanted to extend the garage by 5’ so it’s longer, this way I could park a car and have my squat rack in the back. I couldn’t move the door 5’ until the asphalt driveway going into the garage was fixed or the door wouldn't close properly. (full pics here). Moving the door flush with the house also gave me an entrance into the home without opening the garage door.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=252915
After the floor was done I waited a year for the concrete to settle make sure I had no issues, in the meantime I started looking for tiles. Ended up with left over tiles from a bank branch where they had leftovers, they weren’t my favourite colour, but they were outdoor rated porcelain and I made them work to the best of my ability (thanks once again to Dakota for all the help with all my questions).
I am sure I am forgetting a ton of stuff, I ended up doing recessed lighting, even with the low overhead I managed to do a shaft drive liftmaster, added plugs to the ceiling, etc.
House as it stands now (also changed the siding to maibec wood):
Garage as of 2017:
I had this grand idea in my head that I would clean the floor perfect and then have a nice thread on here about everything I did, lol. I hope this will do for the rest of you in need of ideas and that are working with very limiting spaces. The goal here was to maximize every square inch of space in order to get multiple uses out of the garage.
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