The BrokeEF garage remodel

Hey guys, been a while since I have been on here. I am FINALLY starting on the major remodel of my garage. We have been in our (first) house for a little over 3 years, and started running out of other projects The space is nothing special, just a 20'x20' attached "2 car" garage. We have done some things to the space since moving in.

One of the first projects when we moved in was a pseudo home theater. That involved running lots of wire all throughout the house, and adding some outlets for equipment. We also stubbed out of the main panel for the garage sub panel while we were in there. When we moved in there was one outlet (by the door) and one light. The opener was plugged in via and extension cord duct taped to the drywall to the outlet by the door. So a sub panel was clearly going to be needed.

Next on the list of projects was creating more storage space. All we could do was go up, as in, into the attic. First obstacle was the sheer amount of garbage up there! The previous owners had clearly also used the space above the garage for storage. Too bad they put down cardboard and trim, and whatever other **** they could find to make a "surface" to put stuff on.







It took me a full day to rip everything out, and get rid of all of the nails and screws. Quick shot of the SOME of the **** I took down...



Once I had a clean surface I put in some 1/2" plywood that I screwed down. This is the early stages, that conduit ended up coming out later.



Before lighting (and after the stairs)



Next up came some lighting! (Ignore the wire on the right, that was before it was terminated)




Four 75 watt bulbs make it pretty bright up there!



I also put in some attic stairs, and that project was a wrap!



Let me tell you, that was one of the best things we have done so far. We have the whole width of the garage (20') about 6' wide of usable area. Easy to get up there, plenty of light, just makes it very usable.


It took a while, but we finally got around to do the sub panel a few months back.





The outlets are each a separate 20 amp circuit. I will be doing that around the garage as well.

After that my buddy came back out and added some lighting. I ended up just doing a bunch of keyless sockets with 100 watt replacement (5000k) LED bulbs. The total investment was very low, and the light is good enough for me.

That brings us up to speed with the final stage of this whole deal. I don't really have a "before pic", but this is close enough.



After the walls were pretty much done.


I still need to tear down the ceiling, and then we can run the electric around. I am doing insulation, new drywall, more lighting, electric, heat (electric), and AC. I will probably re-coat the floor too since its pretty trashed. Once walls are up I will be building shelving, cabinets, and other storage devices for everything.

That brings me to a question for all you experts. Some of the insulation is OK, some of it is less so. My question is, if I change the insulation that is against inside walls do I have to have the paper to the house side? On the walls that are just outside can I put the paper to the garage side? What about the wall that is half inside, half outside?

As you can tell I have never done insulation before, so not sure what is proper. I know you need a vapor barrier, but not clear on what you can "get away with". Let me know what I should be doing!

Thanks,
Sean

Holy cow, this made it down to page 3 already! I am bumping it for some answers on the insulation. Also while I am here, should I upload the pics smaller? They seem to be ginormous on my computer, but that could just be me.

Thanks!
Sean

Yes, make the pictures smaller they are enormous. And excellent work.

Moe's garage said:

Yes, make the pictures smaller they are enormous. And excellent work.

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OK, resized them. I did try to make them smaller when I first posted, but I didn't edit the right part so they stayed the same size. That was why I wasn't sure if it was just me or whatever. Anyway, should be much better now.

Thank you!

Since I am here, I may as well update. We just finished taking the ceiling down. Later today we are going to run the electric.




Sean

Not much to show today, but figured I would throw in an update anyway. As you saw above, on Saturday morning the wife and I got the last of the drywall torn down. It went pretty good actually since a large chunk was barely hanging on Only took about an hour to get it down and cleaned up.

Saturday afternoon my buddy came by to work on the electrical. We came up with a game plan, and headed over to Home Depot to get supplies. Since the garage is a mess, I was busy shuffling things around and pulling nails while he was running his home runs. We are going to be surface mounting the outlets and such, but he got the pipes stubbed up from the panel, and then in the far wall. That way I can close up the walls and the ceiling. After that he got on the last of the lighting. Initially I was planning just one more row of bulbs down the middle. As we were looking at it, I asked "what about two rows". Turned out that it would be a little easier to run, and the spacing with the existing rows worked out prefect!

So now I have 16 keyless sockets in the ceiling with 5000k 100W replacement LED bulbs in them. Not a traditional lighting scheme around here, but it was cheap and its pretty efficient. I spent about $100 on bulbs, and they use a little over 200 watts when they are all lit. One other thing we did was put the outer 4 bulbs on a second switch for times we don't need to light up the whole neighborhood. I only had my phone, so it is hard to show how bright it is, but it is BRIGHT out there with them all on!









Sunday we went and ordered up the insulation and drywall, which is being delivered tomorrow. I went with 4' X 10' sheets of 5/8" fire rated drywall, and R13 insulation. I would have like a higher R rating in the ceiling, but its only 2x4 trusses, and I have plywood covering more than half of it. I could have put thicker insulation on the section that doesn't have the plywood, but easier to just keep everything the same.

Monday some stuff showed up for the garage. First up was a couple of air tight bins to hold the salt and oil dry. This was the Wife's idea, and is MUCH nicer than the bags I had jammed in the corner. The corner that lets in just a bit of water, and that never gets cleaned...



Next came my favorite piece of the puzzle, the AC unit! It is nothing special, just a 12,000 portable unit, but should be great for my small garage!



I was looking at these after I sold my old window unit. I know window units are more efficient, but I have no windows in there and I did not want it sticking through the wall. If the back wall wasn't the kitchen I would have done that, but one side is the front sidewalk to the door, and the other is the sidewalk to get to the backyard and is narrow. Anyway this popped up on prime day, and the wife saw it and sent it to me. Quick check on the specs said it was pretty much identical (or slightly better) than the one I had my eye on for around $150 less.

Well that's all I have for now. Today we clean up (more) and clear out a spot for the delivery tomorrow. Then I can start on getting the insulation up ASAP. I have a bit more work to do before I can do that, but I should have that done this week hopefully. Plan is to be done with insulation and ready for drywall by the end of this weekend.


Sean

Looks good so far. Keep the items in the attic light weight. Those trusses were not designed to hold much, other than insulation and drywall. But at a 20' span you should be ok for light duty storage.

I'll be checking in.

Cheers,
Kip

920kip said:

Looks good so far. Keep the items in the attic light weight. Those trusses were not designed to hold much, other than insulation and drywall. But at a 20' span you should be ok for light duty storage.

I'll be checking in.

Cheers,
Kip

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Thanks! We are pretty conscious of the weight we have up there. The plywood goes over the wall between the garage and the house, so anything "heavy" goes over that. Anything over the garage side is empty boxes, or small things that don't weigh much. Besides that they are not designed to handle a lot of weight, I don't like taking a lot of weight up and down the ladder!


Sean

I got bored last night, and decided to play around with SketchUp. This kind of gives you an idea of how small my garage is.








Sean

Good work so far!

Get it good and insulated before putting drywall up, I wish the original owner of my house would have paid the couple hundred bucks to insulate ours. I'm having to do it now...and it's a pain with the garage "complete".

My space is the same size as yours, and it can fit quite a bit with the proper organization on the walls. Get a shed for your lawn equipment, and keep the garage solely for car-specific gear and storage.

I can fit my 16 Pilot and 13 TSX in mine, albeit you must Nascar your way out of the window.

idriveahonda said:

Good work so far!

Get it good and insulated before putting drywall up, I wish the original owner of my house would have paid the couple hundred bucks to insulate ours. I'm having to do it now...and it's a pain with the garage "complete".

My space is the same size as yours, and it can fit quite a bit with the proper organization on the walls. Get a shed for your lawn equipment, and keep the garage solely for car-specific gear and storage.

I can fit my 16 Pilot and 13 TSX in mine, albeit you must Nascar your way out of the window.

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Thanks!

Yeah insulation is coming today. Nothing crazy, just R13 on all of the surfaces. There are only a couple penetrations through the walls, but I will be sealing those as best I can before closing it all up.

I do have a 8' X 10' shed already. I would like to build a 10' X 12' one day, but that is on the back burner for sure. It is massively helpful having the shed for the lawnmower and such. My biggest problem is that I do a bit of everything, which means lots of tools. I do car stuff, metal fab, wood projects, etc. I have some ideas though, so it should work out


Sean

Just got this pic from my wife



Looks like the real work can begin! BTW, you can clearly see I expected them to put the sheets in the other direction. Lucky for me there was just enough space to fit them.


Sean

It's time for the weekly(ish) update!! I am just gonna post pics since the timeline is all blurred together.

Power stubbed up out of the panel. The box above will be for the heater.


The drops down the opposite wall




Drywall, insulation, heater, and fan


I ended up re-hanging my opener since it was on some tiny angle pieces that were screwed together.


Put up some scrap wood to support the heater


Got some support up for the fan and the speakers. Also ran the stereo wiring so now the garage is "Zone 2" from my main receiver in the basement. There is a lot going on with home audio/video/networking, if anyone cares I can get into it.


Also, I have no idea what the hell is going on with that vent monstrosity. Who thought that was a good idea?! It will get fixed, but not in this round of work. I am also going to be closing up those holes between the rafters, that is coming up soon.

Got insulation almost completely done on the walls.




Next up is finish the walls out, then move on to the ceiling. As I mentioned I need to close up those holes. That means putting in some bracing so I can later cut panels to close the gaps. I am also going to add some supports in a couple areas that get the most traffic. In hindsight I probably should have used 3/4" plywood for that project, would have had less flex. No big deal, just some braces up there and then I can insulate the ceiling and start hanging drywall! I hope I get a weekend that isn't hot as hell soon, that would speed this whole project up


Sean

Slow weekend this week. Had a bunch of other things going on, which was annoying since the weather was damn near perfect. Oh well, still got some done regardless.

Friday we cleaned up and moved everything to one side of the garage.


FLOOR!


We are pretty lucky that our town will collect just about anything for free. The oil is mine, but all the rest of this pile-o-chemicals came from the previous owners.


That is the last of the junk left over from the previous owners. It didn't seem like they left all that much, until we got dumpster bags on three separate occasions, and a call for the hazardous pickup to get rid of it all!

Moving on, Saturday I was only able to get out there for a little over an hour. So I finished insulating that outside wall.




I also removed the last little bit of drywall (on the ceiling) that I wasn't able to get at before, along with the last of the nails. I was planning on installing my vent for the AC, but my holesaw arbor needs a 1/2" chuck. Unfortunately for me my batteries took a **** on my 18v Lithium Ion Makita drill, so all I have is my 12v set that only has a 3/8" chuck. I did think I had a smaller arbor around, but I couldn't find it. Ill either borrow a drill, buy some batteries, or buy a new drill.

I did also run the additional wires for the speakers out back. I got some outdoor cameras that showed up on Friday, and I was able to plan out the mounting and wiring for those as well.

Well that's all for this week. I might be able to start putting up drywall this coming weekend. I need to do a little bit more work, and then I can insulate the ceiling (that will be fun), then drywall!

Fingers crossed for some pics of installed drywall next week!


Sean

Time for an update. Two weekends ago was pretty much dedicated to insulating the ceiling on the open half. There was some other things that came up which delayed things a bit. I did get a drywall lift, but never ended up getting any drywall installed that weekend.

One up


Started getting warm with the garage door shut, so I temped in the AC


Working well!
Discharge


Exhaust


Then I grabbed my 8' ladder to help support the insulation while I was putting it up.


Installed!


It was a bit easier with some support, but lots of up and down to move things around. I also broke a light bulb when I got the ladder out. DOH! As I said, I got the rest of the insulation up on that half of the ceiling and that was about it. Doing that by myself was not fun. I am sure there are MANY things I could have done to make it easier, but I am no pro at any of this so it can be slow going. The good news was that I also ordered up some tools to help me with t he drywall.



Got all 3 for $200 which I thought was good deal. I needed a bigger (1/2" chuck) drill since my Makita has dead batteries, so I jumped on it. They all worked great, but the batteries are a bit lack luster being only 1.4 or 1.5Ah.

That brings us to this past weekend, which can only mean one thing... DRYWALL!!!

One sheet up!


The cutout tool did a nice job when I had it adjusted right. I was a bit hit or miss overall, but when I didn't screw up it was very nice. It sped things up quite a bit for sure.


Three up! That end one was fun, lots of cutouts. I am planning on trimming around the attic stairs, so the fact that my measurement was slightly off for the one piece isn't an issue.


This was the end of the day on Saturday. Ceiling done, and one piece up on the wall (which we took down and redid Sunday)


End of the day Sunday!




The small piece on the bottom to the left of the door is just sitting there. Now that its done, I know what to change for the rest of the garage. I know the small gap will be a pain in the ***, but it seemed like a better idea to position them how I did when I was hanging it. Going forward I will leave a larger gap at the bottom since I am going to trim anyway. Again, I am no pro, but I think it is looking decent so far.

That's all for now!

Sean

Looking good. Quite the transformation from where you started!

As you say, better to transfer the gap in the boards at the floor where they will be out of sight. Do you have any drywall offcuts that could be cut and used to plug the current mid-wall gap?

One other thought. In your sketchup design, would you be able to put the compressor in the alcove in the garage rather than have it in the corner by the door? Seems you might be able to make better use of the space and be able to sound proof it better (if needed) by changing the proposed location...

Cris B said:

Looking good. Quite the transformation from where you started!

As you say, better to transfer the gap in the boards at the floor where they will be out of sight. Do you have any drywall offcuts that could be cut and used to plug the current mid-wall gap?

One other thought. In your sketchup design, would you be able to put the compressor in the alcove in the garage rather than have it in the corner by the door? Seems you might be able to make better use of the space and be able to sound proof it better (if needed) by changing the proposed location...

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Thank you!

I do have drywall to fill the gap, and that is my plan. I was talking about this with the wife last night. I am probably going to fill the gap on these pieces since they are already hung and cut around the outlets. Going forward though we will have the gap on the bottom to be covered with trim. At least along the front wall (with the door to the house) the concrete ledge is taller so they can fit tight together with a small gap at the bottom.

So that was always my initial plan for the compressor. Seems like a perfect spot for it, except that it put its "inside" my living room. If you are looking at that nook from my garage, the left is the back of the front closet (near the front door), the back is shared with the living room (behind the TV), and the right is the back of the pantry in the kitchen. Probably not the best place to have the compressor if I want to stay married . I am planning on making that storage for my larger tools like the table saw, miter saw, etc. as well as all of the tools in plastic cases like the circular saw, jig saw, sanders and so on. Things that get used, but not on a daily basis, and also tend to take up a lot of space otherwise. I am also thinking of putting a door on it to help with dirt and dust.


Sean

Looks great!

Let us know how the garage feels with that portable AC unit. I'm about to have insulation blown in behind my existing drywall, and then come up with a conditioning plan. Here in VA, my garage is currently 80-84* but 70-80% humidity...it's rough!

Garage looking great! Putting drywall up has made a huge difference I see!

I'd be surprised if you really would need much of a air conditioner in Illinios weather, the heater on the other hand I can fully understand!

madison069 said:

Garage looking great! Putting drywall up has made a huge difference I see!

I'd be surprised if you really would need much of a air conditioner in Illinios weather, the heater on the other hand I can fully understand!

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My family is from central Illinois, in between 10,000 acres of corn fields. It gets 90+ a ton during the summer!

UPDATE TIME!!!! I haven't had a lot of time lately to get out there and do some work, that is until this past weekend. We had nothing to do over the labor day weekend, so the wife and I dove in and got a lot done.

Started by moving EVERYTHING over to the other side of the garage. That is a massive undertaking all in itself. If I haven't said it yet, I really cant wait for this project to be done! Anyway, after that was done, we put the the insulation in the ceiling. That went a whole lot quicker this time with a second set of hands.



You can't see in the pic, but I also added in a few extra braces for the floor up there. The cross 2x4 that you can see is the old scuttle frame.

Next up came MORE DRYWALL!!!!

First sheet up


I am starting to get decent with the cutout tool


And just like that the ceiling was done!


Next up came the walls, but not before hooking the tunes back up AND the ever important fan!


Wall all ready for drywall (I still had a little insulation work to do over there)


BAM, wall is done!


Let me tell you, the walls are SO much easier. First off because they are on the walls and not over head. Second because I was able to use totally uncut sheets (the two closest to the door). Those are the only two sheets in the entire garage that did not need to be cut or trimmed in any way.

Last up was some drywall around the garage door.


During this I found out I had a lot more conduit (and scrap wood) than I thought!


That's all we got done for the weekend. Not that we were in any kind of a hurry, but we were also slowed down by me hurting my knee on Sunday morning. Going up and down the ladder all day Sunday was a real treat. But we got everything done for the weekend that I had planned on getting done. There are still some fill pieces to do where I didn't think out my seams (left a 1" gap). I also have to finish around the garage door, but of course now there is stuff in my way on that side. I also need to install a camera before I close that up. Last on the list is the bottom left piece on the front wall (under the speaker). There is a water spigot over there that I need to replace while the wall is open. I got the spigot, but forgot to get solder. Hopefully I can knock out that (without issue) this weekend.

There is still quite a bit to do, but I am really happy seeing it all (mostly) drywalled for the first time ever! The pile of stuff is getting smaller, the place is looking cleaner, and I an starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, that's all I got. Thanks for following along!

Sean

madison069 said:

Garage looking great! Putting drywall up has made a huge difference I see!

I'd be surprised if you really would need much of a air conditioner in Illinios weather, the heater on the other hand I can fully understand!

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I do need heat more than I need AC, but that is because I tend to work on my bigger projects over winter. However, it does get decently warm in my area during the summer. We also have a fair amount of humidity to deal with. It is totally overkill, but also really nice

I will let you guys know how well (or not well) both the AC and the heater work. I have never used an electric heater or this style of AC so I am not sure how well they will do. On paper both should be able to handle my small, decently insulated garage no problem. Time will tell!

Sean

Stellar job sir

Its update time! I was able to get just a little more done to the garage over this last weekend. I am pretty sure I mentioned that I needed to replace the spigot that comes though the wall into the garage. It not only was leaking, but they also tapped it for the ice maker down stream of where it shuts off...

So I got back in there to see what I was working with. I knew it was a bit jacked up, but I forgot how bad. I also didn't expect it to be quite like this.

Before I opened it up




There was duct tape, plastic bags, and a **** ton of spray foam. Mind you this is an inside wall between the fridge and the pantry.

Here is what I was working with after I cleaned it all out



And here is the pic of the old spigot with the tap on it


No pics of the process, but here was the finished result.


The black on the wall is actually burn marks from the last time it was worked on. I was able to solder everything without scorching everything Just need to drywall and paint and that will be done.

Before I put the new spigot in I put in new insulation, and hung the sheet of drywall. That way I was able to drill the correct size hole.



I was all excited to start mud and tape out in the garage pretty soon, but then we found some water in the basement. I found the leak today (that we weren't even sure WAS a leak), but I will fill that all in later. For now I am going to bed

Thanks for following along with my super slow progress!

Sean

Looking good, small and tidy.

Lets take a little detour shall we. I did the spigot on Saturday, and I think it was Sunday we saw some water around the toilet in the basement. I thought it was leaking a while back, so I just turned off the water and flushed it for now. We got new guts for it, and a new ring so I can replace all of the seals and make sure its 100%. Unfortunately there was a death in the family, on top of being very busy lately so that little side project was sitting.

Monday my wife noticed that the floor of the office (other side of the wall from the bathroom) had some water coming up. Since I assumed it was the toilet, I also assumed it had been leaking more than we thought and was just coming up now. Tuesday comes around and its much worse. The wife took up the threshold between the office and the theater (which I clearly knew I shouldn't glue down for this situation ) and started soaking up water with a towel. I was still hoping this was just the water that had already leaked out. Yesterday (Wednesday) it was clear that there was some source that we hadn't found since the wife was soaking towels all day in that threshold.

Here is the ruined floor that we didn't really like, but were not planning on replacing




Wall looked OK outwardly (that is my shadow, not a wet area)


Get out the thermal imager (from work) and it tells a different story!




Not the best shots, but you get the idea. The red in the second pic was from running the hot water, that is where the pipe comes down.

Nothing really definitive, other than the drywall was wet. I was not really sure how to proceed, so I drilled a hole and tried taking a look with my small snake camera. I saw that the elbow for the toilet was pretty corroded, but also discovered just how wet the wall actually was. Between those two things I decided to go in. I first made sure that we would be cutting above the wet area with the thermal imager, and dove in.



The cold water supply had a pinhole leak in that bottom left elbow. All of the connections look pretty green, so everything will be replaced. A friend of mine is a plumber and gave me a really great price, so he will come out and do it all this weekend. In the meantime I patched the hole so we can have water since our only shutoff is for the entire house.

Looks like yet another project is on the list! Rip out all of that flooring, take out some more drywall likely, new floors, patch in new drywall, new trim, and paint that whole room. I also need to build a cover for the sump pump, and it will give me a chance to clean up my wiring for the stereo stuff. Both things that have been on the back burner for a bit.

Ill keep you guys posted! I will be working on the garage while working on this as well, so you should see updates on both.


Sean

Well its been a little while, and there is some progress. Unfortunately not nearly as much garage progress as I would have liked, but that's life. So we will start with the garage. I was able to get the first layer of mud (and tape) on basically two of the walls. I avoided the corners still, but now that I did one last night (more on that in a bit) I think I can handle it.







I know its not perfect, but I am no expert. Be gentle

Next up we jumped back into the basement. Got up the new drywall after the pipes were all fixed up (no pics of the plumbing).



I got the first layer of mud and tape on that soon after. Then we got back to the garage. Unfortunately it has already started getting cold around here at this point (a couple weeks back) so I pulled the plug on doing any more mudding until spring. There was a day or two since that were warm enough, but we have been super busy lately anyway so it will have to wait. We did get the heat hooked up (temporary) so I can work on the car over winter!






Then it was back into the basement to empty out the office and get the floor pulled up. Something I had been putting off for as long as possible. Not because I mind the work, just because it meant no home theater while there was construction

Started with the rack (well after all the small stuff was out already)


So sad (that is obviously where the rack lives)


My poor "theater"


I know the wiring behind the rack is a bit of a mess, I will be cleaning it up when it goes back in now that almost all of it is finalized.

Out with the floor




It was still pretty wet under there actually. It was also starting to grow some mold on the vapor barrier, and behind one of the pieces of trim. We cleaned everything and naturalized the mold on the drywall (which was still solid or I would have cut it out).

Last night I sanded down the first layer of mud, pulled nails, and got the second layer up.



Fixing some shoddy work in the "closet"


My first ever inside corner


That kind of looks worse in this pic than it actually is because the door jamb is right there. It came out pretty good though, at least so far.


Well that is all I have for now. Not much garage work, but at least there was some. Maybe I will get antsy over winter and bring in another heater so I can keep the garage warm for a couple days to mud without the electric heater having to do it all on its own. I want to get walls finished so I can build and install shelving and such. No sense in putting it up on unfinished walls just to take it all back down.


Thanks for following along with this mess of a project

Sean

All these photos and no EFs.... hrm...

cash68 said:

All these photos and no EFs.... hrm...

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I know. I don't even have an EF currently I really want to get a clean southern car to keep forever, just no space. One day I will build another, until then I will toss up some pics of my old ones.

Sean

skicker said:

When you do your drywall mud work tape both sides of a corner at the same time wiping all mud from the face of the tape. Allow that to dry thoroughly before adding the block coat.
When you come back to "block" coat only do one side of the corner at a time...let that side dry and then do the other. Same scenario when you do the corners of your ceilings in the garage...

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Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it! I already kind of figured out from painful experience to work one side of an outside corner at at time. Makes sense to do the same for inside corners, but I hadn't thought of it.

Sean

Well I think it has been long enough since my last update now! There hasn't really been any activity out in the garage since the last post. I got the office all finished up, and it turned out really nice. Then some other projects around the house, and whatever, but the garage (while being used) was being neglected.

We finally decided to just hire someone to do the mud & tape to make our lives easier. Not that I couldn't do it, but it would take me longer, I would have to sand a lot more, and it probably wouldn't be as nice in the end. We had a lot of work getting everything ready, here is a quick before shot.



We had to clear out the very large amount of stuff that I have in the garage. I also had to install a camera out front and finish the drywall around the left side of the door.



Unfortunately for me, I was not able to get everything cleared out and also get those gaps patched in before he came out. Yesterday morning I ended up rolling out of bed at 5AM and going straight to the garage to finish moving everything before he showed up. I did manage to clear out 99% of everything (other than things that had to stay out there like tool boxes) I didn't get the patching done. Once he got there, he gave me a hand putting the hood back on my project car and rolling it out into the driveway. I helped get the gaps patched in, and he slung mud all damn day. On to boring pics of drywall











It has been very humid by us yesterday and today (today being slightly better) so the mud is drying very slowly. There was still some that wasn't 100% dried this morning even with having fans blowing all night. For the most part everything went well. He has a couple tough areas because of how I hung the drywall, but nothing too crazy. I told him I learned on this one, and my next garage will be easier for him

Anyway, he thinks he has 2, maybe 3 more days to get it all floated and finished. Then a day for primer and paint. Then comes the fun part for me of building shelves and storage for everything! Finally all of my tools and **** can have a place to go rather than just moving around the garage over and over!


Sean

I came here lookin for an EF and I just see lots of drywall work! Man I hate messing with that stuff, but you will have a nice space when its all done!

^^ Same here! Nice progress on the garage. I am doing a similar project on my garage right now that my CRX sleeps in

Nice quick, boring update for you guys. Drywall guy was out yesterday for round two. He said he should be done by next weekend. I am guessing another day or two for mud and primer, then a day for paint.







Unfortunately my wall mounted fan seems to have died yesterday. I need to check to see if the thermal protection popped, and if I can reset it. If not I guess Ill have to get a new one of those. Parts are starting to come in for my car, so I am really itching to get my garage back!!!


And just because you guys keep asking, here are a couple pics of my old EF's








Thanks for following along!
Sean

No trans am, no care.

Jk.

NoPressure said:

No trans am, no care.

Jk.

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I aim to please






Sean

Best thread on ls1tech imo.

NoPressure said:

Best thread on ls1tech imo.

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Thanks! I miss that car The wife told me I should buy it from its current owner since I couldn't buy it when it was sold. I may look into that next year. For now I am about ready to start fabricating on my car. Hopefully I remember how

Sean

BrokeEF said:

Thanks! I miss that car The wife told me I should buy it from its current owner since I couldn't buy it when it was sold. I may look into that next year. For now I am about ready to start fabricating on my car. Hopefully I remember how

Sean

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I imagine it will come back to you pretty easy lol. In January I bought an 01 ss. I looked at the same car 2 years ago when the original owner sold it. It didn’t work out at the time but I brought it home this time! Currently swapping a th400 in it and doing a vertical radiator.

Drywall guy came back yesterday (Sunday) and put up what should be the final coat. Plan is to come back next weekend to prime and paint. Then I can trim, and start building shelves!!!









Speaking of shelves, does anyone have any good ideas for them? Some clever way to build them, sizes to avoid, anything like that? I am also open to other storage tips and tricks of course.


Sean