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25x28 Detached Garage
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My kind of lawn, looks fantastic and ell done.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks, basically just followed some online tutorials we found on YouTube, and I had a buddy come over that had experience installing sod from when he did his house years ago.
dcuthill
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Just make sure you fertilize it at frequent intervals over the next few years and it will look great. Sod can sometimes be week.
Awesome job on the garages/house/ and yard, I can tell you take a lot of pride in your work. I do have a quick easy question, I am assuming you purchased that house with the intent to remodel? it seems like you have run into a lot of bad quality in the home form previous builder but seems like you have overcome it. I wouldn't be surprised if you have added another 40-50% value in your home.
Also, nice to see another Polaris sledding man, I will be starting on my garage in the next 6 months or so and was going to go with epoxy floor but I think you sold me on the racedeck. I am hoping mine turns out half as good as yours and I would be estatic.
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As you can see I live in a pretty snowy areas as well.
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Also, nice to see another Polaris sledding man, I will be starting on my garage in the next 6 months or so and was going to go with epoxy floor but I think you sold me on the racedeck. I am hoping mine turns out half as good as yours and I would be estatic.
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As you can see I live in a pretty snowy areas as well.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thank you for the kind words. When we bought the house, the only thing we were going to do was finish the basement to add a few bedrooms and an extra bathroom. It escalated so far beyond that though, as you can tell haha.
Since buying the property in 2012, we have increased its value by 70%.
I wouldn't say we ran into a lot of bad quality issues, a lot of the stuff we've found is pretty normal in a house of this age. Some of the stuff we've fixed a lot of people would just ignore, however myself and my contractor are both perfectionists so we tried to fix every little mistake we could find along the way.
I wanted an epoxy (or polyurea) floor in the worst way, but I am so glad I didn't. My dad put it in his garage and the snowmobiles and other offroad stuff we work on in there have made the floor look pretty rough in a short about of time. If I mess up some race deck tiles with carbides or studs accidentally, its as easy as popping a tile out and replacing it.
Blackhawks63
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I said it before, I'll say it again. This is one of my absolute favorite threads on this whole dang impressive site.
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Well about two weeks after laying the sod down, finally gave it a first pass with the lawn mower.
Very pleased with the results, lawn seems to have taken hold really well everywhere, and you can't see any grid lines from the sod.
Very pleased with the results, lawn seems to have taken hold really well everywhere, and you can't see any grid lines from the sod.
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HOTFR8
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I would be pleased. It looks very nice.
Ermot
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Impressive garage build and house updates. I just read the whole thread. Thanks for sharing!
55cadillacking
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Lawn looks great. I'm having a good lawn year too.
ToySnakePMC
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Love, love, love this garage thread. Found it this AM and just read thru the whole thing. Nice going - you have a great eye for detail. Picked up numerous ideas here. Garage Journal and your favorite KY bourbon are a great fit!!!
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks!
Thanks for commenting!
Good to hear. This is my first time ever having a "nice lawn". Going to do my best to keep it looking nice.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks, I love my hidden storage spaces. Right now I am looking at building a garage computer that will be completely hidden as well.
Thank you very much. I definitely spent a lot of time here lurking before we ever put a shovel in the ground. I think I designed about 9 different garages before settling on one that met our needs and met our building permit limitations.
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Gentle_Ben
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Since completing our drainage system, its never really had a full on test with all its components in place.
Saturday evening we had a very heavy thunderstorm roll in and it dumped 4 inches of rain on us. We were quite worried as we don't actually know how much our system can handle at once, but I am happy to report everything worked very well!
Saturday evening we had a very heavy thunderstorm roll in and it dumped 4 inches of rain on us. We were quite worried as we don't actually know how much our system can handle at once, but I am happy to report everything worked very well!
dubber
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Lawn looks great, nice work!
HemiRamOn22s
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4 inches of rain in a 24 hr period? That a pretty good event! Glad to hear it worked well!
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Gentle_Ben
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It was more like 4 inches of rain in a 10 hour period. It was pretty intense. The maximum rate of precipitation our city drains can handle is 2 inches per hour, which is why we had big issues last summer when we had a freak storm that delivered rain at a rate of 12 inches per hour.
Neutron357
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I am new to the forum and I just finished reading your entire project. You did an excellent job. I plan to begin my garage remodel very soon and I will probably use some of your ideas (thanks in advance).
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Gentle_Ben
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Thank you very much, I'll look forward to seeing your garage remodel on this forum if your planning on starting a thread.
Pythong
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Love your garage! I'm looking to do something similar with the bulkhead and pot lights when i get to finishing my garage.
My garage is similar to yours just larger, 40x44 with 12' ceilings. What are the dimensions of the bulkhead you built? Your's fit the walls very nicely.
How did you hold the glass in place? Is it glass, Plexiglass? something else?
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Your Neighbor in Thunder Bay
My garage is similar to yours just larger, 40x44 with 12' ceilings. What are the dimensions of the bulkhead you built? Your's fit the walls very nicely.
How did you hold the glass in place? Is it glass, Plexiglass? something else?
Thanks,
Your Neighbor in Thunder Bay
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Gentle_Ben
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Sorry for the late reply. Glad you are enjoying my thread. I definitely got a lot of use out of both my garage's this summer. Right now we are preparing for fall and winter. My wife and I are both looking forward to being able to park our vehicles inside for the first time this winter!
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Gentle_Ben
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Love your garage! I'm looking to do something similar with the bulkhead and pot lights when i get to finishing my garage.
My garage is similar to yours just larger, 40x44 with 12' ceilings. What are the dimensions of the bulkhead you built? Your's fit the walls very nicely.
How did you hold the glass in place? Is it glass, Plexiglass? something else?
Thanks,
Your Neighbor in Thunder Bay
I really like the bulkhead, I would do it again if I built another garage for sure!
40x44, with 12' ceilings yet, that's massive!
If I remember correctly, the bulkheads come out from the wall at the bottom 18". The bottom of the bulkhead is at the 10' mark, and they go up the remaining 2ft at a 45 degree angle where the lights mount.
We used tray lights that you normally would mount in a drop ceiling so we could mount them flush. The light covers came with the lights, its some sort of plastic, and they just get held in place with little hooks that are built in.
Pythong
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That's awesome. Thank you so much for the reply. I never even though of just flush mounting the drop ceiling lights like that. Smart and easy!
I really like the idea of ceiling pot lights how do you find they light up the area with a 12' ceiling. Does the bulkhead add the extra lumens needed when you want that extra shot of light?
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I really like the idea of ceiling pot lights how do you find they light up the area with a 12' ceiling. Does the bulkhead add the extra lumens needed when you want that extra shot of light?
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Gentle_Ben
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The six 6 inch pot lights I have in the upper ceiling come on automatically with a sensor switch. These are the lights that are on all the time whenever someone is in the garage. They are basically there in place of the automatic garage lights you would normally have with conventional garage door openers. I call that my first stage lighting. Enough to see easily and work on minor stuff.
Stage two is turning on the smaller 3 inch pot lights of which there are 22, these ones reflect off the walls and do a good job of "filling" the room with light. These are the ones I turn on when I have people over, or when we are having a party. They are great for ambient lighting and assisting the upper pot lights for extra light, but not quite enough for doing serious work.
Stage three is the 45 degree T8 Light panels in the bulkhead of which there are 14. These are BRIGHT. I only turn these on when I am working on stuff, otherwise they are overkill. Because the lights is coming in on an angle, and from all 4 sides, there are almost no shadows. You could perform surgery when these are on.
Big Dad
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Nice build ,great eye for detail
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks I appreciate that!
Had to work on my truck last night, two garage's to choose from. Freezing temperatures outside, and its dark. Where do we work on the truck? In the driveway... old habits are hard to break I guess. lol
55cadillacking
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3-stage lighting system. Superb!
Nealswheels
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Just went through all 30 Pages! Amazing workmanships and an inspiration for me to get busy on my new detached!
JohnnieMo
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Thanks I appreciate that!
Had to work on my truck last night, two garage's to choose from. Freezing temperatures outside, and its dark. Where do we work on the truck? In the driveway... old habits are hard to break I guess. lol
Old habits die hard. When I was a teenager I did all my work in an old, uninsulated, single garage in Saskatchewan that we heated with an oven. We took the door off the oven and stuck a fan in it.... ahh the good old days.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks. Having the different types and levels of light has really come in handy quite a few times already.
Thanks, glad my thread could inspire you.
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Gentle_Ben
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haha, well that's pretty clever getting an old oven to heat your garage like that.
When we first moved here, we were just renting this house and I had to use the uninsulated attached garage with a terrible overhead door as my shop for snowmobile racing. I had a 220 construction heater and two regular household heaters and I couldn't get it above freezing, so I divided the garage in half with a tarp and tried to heat just half of it to thaw the snowmobiles out. It was a disaster, the snow and ice eventually melted, but then the water froze again as soon as it hit the concrete making a skating rink. This is why my new garage has a heated floor.
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So I've discovered an interesting problem I am having with the garages. Because all of our drainage system is tied together, when we get a powerful north wind hitting our concrete drainage trench it is actually pushing air up through both our floor drains in the attached and detached garages.
In the detached garage we have an additional issue where the ventilation system is drawing air through our floor drain as well. This isn't that big of an issue in spring, summer and fall, but in Winter its a problem.
Does anyone know of a type of valve or drain cover I could install that would allow water through one way, but stop air coming back in reverse?
In the detached garage we have an additional issue where the ventilation system is drawing air through our floor drain as well. This isn't that big of an issue in spring, summer and fall, but in Winter its a problem.
Does anyone know of a type of valve or drain cover I could install that would allow water through one way, but stop air coming back in reverse?
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Gentle_Ben
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Some minor updates.
I was tired of having to shovel out my basement window wells, and last spring one of our window well drains froze up on us. I wanted to come up with a solution to prevent both of these issues.
I drew this up in sketchup, I wanted a simple low profile design that would still allow basement window egress, keep snow out, and hopefully create a bit of greenhouse effect to keep the window well drains thawed.
We built the frames our of treated wood and elected to go with Lexan for strength and resistance to cracking.
Here is the finished product. These just simply pop out if anyone needed to get out of a basement window. We thought about hinging them, but after seeing how light they are we decided against it. These will be removed for the non winter months.
They got their first real test when we got a dump of 12 inches of snow last week. Easily brush off the snow and you can see the nice snow free window well below. These do not impede sunshine entering the basement rooms either.
I was tired of having to shovel out my basement window wells, and last spring one of our window well drains froze up on us. I wanted to come up with a solution to prevent both of these issues.
I drew this up in sketchup, I wanted a simple low profile design that would still allow basement window egress, keep snow out, and hopefully create a bit of greenhouse effect to keep the window well drains thawed.
We built the frames our of treated wood and elected to go with Lexan for strength and resistance to cracking.
Here is the finished product. These just simply pop out if anyone needed to get out of a basement window. We thought about hinging them, but after seeing how light they are we decided against it. These will be removed for the non winter months.
They got their first real test when we got a dump of 12 inches of snow last week. Easily brush off the snow and you can see the nice snow free window well below. These do not impede sunshine entering the basement rooms either.
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PhantomEB
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Great idea! I gonna copy but with black tinted lexan? I want to darken the basement as its gonna be the rec room.
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Gentle_Ben
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Thanks! Yeah tinted Lexan would work well for that.
dubber
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Great idea! Been thinking about something similar as most items i've seen at any stores are very sad. Can't believe how much snow you have already.