Chapter 1) My first garage

[KristianS]

Double Audi

Hi all,

Welcome to my progress thread. Plan is to take pictures and give updates during my journey

So my wife and I closed on our dream house and we will get the keys September 17th. Super stoked! House is basically move in ready, besides some painting. My first big project is to get my new garage ready for storage.

So here are my ideas and a picture of the garage.

1) Walls need to be done. Any suggestions for products? I presume most people will suggest drywall?
2) Flooring; I was thinking of doing G-floor rolls? I believe this is a good budget way to get some nice clean flooring.
3) I want a work bench, tool chest on wheels as basic. The workbench will probably be a few 2x4 and a butcher tabletop from Ikea.
3) Sort out some storage spaces. Most likely metal lockers?
4) Bike racks.
5) Plan is to have a homegym in one side of the garage and then have my wife park her car on the other side. Squat/powerack and space for a bar and my rower.

Any suggestions, deals etc that I should be aware are always welcome.

The picture is from the tour when we looked at the house. Any ideas for optimizing space etc?

 

[dubber]

Congrats on your first garage. Looks like once all the "junk" from the PO is out you will have a great blank canvas.

 

[KristianS]

Congrats on your first garage. Looks like once all the "junk" from the PO is out you will have a great blank canvas.

Thanks bud. yea thats what I'm thinking.

Btw, been lurking in your thread. Looks good- and we have the same love for VAG's

Two Audi B7's here.

 

[dubber]

Ohh man, now i KNOW i'm going to have to check back

p.s. Did you try and get that floral shirt negotiated into the sale?

 

[taumac]

Congrats on the new home.

 

[KristianS]

Ohh man, now i KNOW i'm going to have to check back

p.s. Did you try and get that floral shirt negotiated into the sale?

The floral shirt was part of closing

Congrats on the new home.

Thank you Sir!

 

[taumac]

LOL, yep throw the shirt in and deals done. LOL

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[55cadillacking]

Congrats. Best advice is to glean what you can from all the projects you see featured here and use the ones that make the most sense. For instance, I have some simple hooks drilled into ceiling joists that support our bikes. Easy, simply, cheap. No shortage of inspiration at the Garage Journal! Good luck. Enjoy your new shirt. Lucky bast#$d!

 

[KristianS]

Congrats. Best advice is to glean what you can from all the projects you see featured here and use the ones that make the most sense. For instance, I have some simple hooks drilled into ceiling joists that support our bikes. Easy, simply, cheap. No shortage of inspiration at the Garage Journal! Good luck. Enjoy your new shirt. Lucky bast#$d!

Another one with great car taste!! What a joy!

Your garage is very much the look I'm going for.. just with the added gym corner.

 

[ajohno]

Congats.

Have a good look around the site there are thousands of ideas.

 

[4AudiQ]

Insulate that puppy first!
Subscribed.

 

[KristianS]

Insulate that puppy first!
Subscribed.

Thanks! Do you think that is necessary? I was contemplating doing it but came away from it again. The ceiling a pretty tall and I'm not sure I want to deal with insulating ceiling first.

Oh and nice B4!!

 

[dubber]

Hahaha, now i remember this thread! My bad.

 

[TahitianGreen]

I would insulate the garage......if it were somewhere in the rustbelt. I wouldn't worry too much about insulation in sunny, dry CA.

 

[CombatNinja]

For what it costs, you will one day regret it if you fail to insulate while you have the chance.

 

[motorbreath53]

My last house in SoCal was uninsulated. 1970's track home, ZERO insulation.

We added insulation to the walls and attic. We noticed a MASSIVE improvement in how comfortable the space stayed. Well worth the money IMHO.

Congrats on the new castle by the way.

 

[KristianS]

Thanks for the comments all. Food for thoughts.

Getting the keys September 13th so still a few days before I can load more pictures and more ideas.

I will revert.

 

[KristianS]

All docs for the closing signed Friday and we are good to close on Thursday.

I will be picking up this deal later today from a guy I found on CL.

Also, there is a guy local selling some white racedeck at $1,50 a square feet.. trying to see if I can get it down to $1.00

More to come

 

[KristianS]

Allright all.. time for a update! We finally got the keys to our new house and we spent a few hours there today to take some measurements etc. My wife was trying to figure out what kind of color we want inside while I was measuring in the garage

So last week I told you about some Craigslist deals that I was hoping to close on.. well I scored big time.. in my opinion at least. lol Earlier this week I picked up three really nice cabinets that eventually will become the foundation of my working bench and this morning I loaded up my Avant with 500 square feet Race-deck which I got for $1/ square foot. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me!

Well what to do while wife is taken measurements? Put some garage floor in of course! As you can tell I still need to do some cutting and so but that will come. I will let the pictures do the talking

 

[sean Buick 76]

Great work! I like how your wife is helping you out, thats cool.

Are you planning to insulate it?

Consider a few sheets of Slatwall painted to match the rest of the garage maybe?

 

[KristianS]

Great work! I like how your wife is helping you out, thats cool.



Are you planning to insulate it?



Consider a few sheets of Slatwall painted to match the rest of the garage maybe?

Thanks Sean!

Thanks a lot.

The plan is insulating and drywall all around and some slat wall.
My brother in law and father in law are coming down for Thanksgiving to give me a hand with the drywall.

 

[dubber]

Congrats on finally getting those keys in your hands first off. Nice score on the flooring.
Is that an Aussie? Super cute pup.

 

[KristianS]

Congrats on finally getting those keys in your hands first off. Nice score on the flooring.
Is that an Aussie? Super cute pup.

Thanks bud. Amazing feelin opening the door for the first time.

Correct, red Australian shepard - we adopted her earlier this year and she already loves the big yard

 

[KristianS]

Hi again,

So we finally got out of the old apartment and moved to the new house.. unfortunately it didnt go as planned. We had reserved the elevator for the movers but the elevator broke down Friday night and is still out of order which in the end ended up costing me more money. Oh well.

A few hours later while the wife was organizing the kitchen and boxes I sneaked off to Lowes and picked up my first powertool... a jigsaw! Back home and spent a hour on cutting some tiles and making the racedeck look a bit smoother.

 

[ich_liebe_meine_arbeit]

Off to a great start, congrats on the house!

 

[dubber]

Hi again,

So we finally got out of the old apartment and moved to the new house.. unfortunately it didnt go as planned. We had reserved the elevator for the movers but the elevator broke down Friday night and is still out of order which in the end ended up costing me more money. Oh well.

/\ One of the most frustrating things about living in a high-rise building.

 

[KristianS]

I've been missing in action the last few weeks due to a bust schedule -* which also meant no big progress in the garage. I did manage to finish the racedeck completely.. removed the washer and dryer and the old plastic shelving unit and completed the racedeck in about a hour including cutting tiles etc.

Oh and I bought my first tool/draver at HD - Husky out of box item for $90. I'm super happy with it and fit perfect in the garage.

What else? Oh yeah, I've been wanting to lower my car a bit as I had a reverse rake thing going on. No bueno.. all cosmetic but you know I was contemplating on getting the full ST coilover suspension but couldn't justify the cost right now. A buddy of mine recommended a cheaper easier version, exchange the perch plate with a older Audi plate and it will drop about 0,5 inch in the front. Sooo, yesterday I had some buddies help me out and the result is great.

 

[classicJackets]

LOVE the Audi and the garage is making great progress. Excited to see the cabinets you bought as well and keep watching progress!

 

[s2kattracks]

Nice! I am a realtor and love helping people(exspecially my car friends and their garages ) get into their first home! Exciting times for sure!

Thats an awesome blank canvas you have!!

 

[dubber]

hahaha dude! If your gonna tell us about dropping the front end don't post a pic on a declining surface like that lol. Great cheap mod though for sure.

 

[Terranova]

^^^ I thought the same thing.

 

[KristianS]

Haha, I wasnt showing off the stance.. just wanted to show my trip hazard driveway. Damn roots are breaking up the driveway

Ps. I'll get some other pics

 

[CodeRedZ]

good luck with it.

 

[dubber]

Haha, I wasnt showing off the stance.. just wanted to show my trip hazard driveway. Damn roots are breaking up the driveway

Ps. I'll get some other pics

lol, sounds good.

 

[4AudiQ]

I like your taste in cars.

 

[KristianS]

Thanks all!

I'll post pictures of my wifes bone stock B7 A4 some other time

@ AAudiQ Are you on Audizine?

 

[KristianS]

Slowly chipping away and got a step further this weekend after several trips to Goodwill, the consignment store and dumpster.

Manage to re-arrange the dryer too for now.

My next project is the insulation and drywall.. most likely a project for thanksgiving weekend.

Its still not exactly what I want but progress is progress right?

 

[55cadillacking]

progress is progress right?

Right!

 

[4AudiQ]

Thanks all!

I'll post pictures of my wifes bone stock B7 A4 some other time

@ AAudiQ Are you on Audizine?

I haven't been on Audizine for several years. I check in at QuattroWorld
almost daily.

 

[KristianS]

MIA for some weeks but life happened..

My mom came a few days from Denmark, we lost our dog and Thanksgiving..

As mentioned before, the plan was to get some work done during Thanksgiving.

FIL, BIL and I managed to get started on the insulation and sheet rock.. first a bunch of electrical stuff that took a bit longer and we had hoped for.

I have the far right side left to insulate and cover in sheet rock but since we ran out of time and the fact that I still need to find storage cabinets I will hold of to that for January..

Again, slowly chipping a way

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