CoderedZ's 24x24 Garage

[CodeRedZ]

I bought my house 3 years ago and the original 1 car garage had been coverted to a family room by a previous owner and then the person i bought it from added a 2.5 car garage but it was never finished.

I had the place rented out for 2 years and the past year been getting stuff paid off and fixing things my tenants messed up in the house and now about to focus my attention on finishing the garage, I've done a few things here and there.

Exterior

How it was when I bought the place

I moved the white cabinets and red counter top down the wall and put the old fridge from the house in the garage

Then put a old kitchen counter top that I got from my parents and build a temporary frame for it i do have the sink cutout I'll put back in and fill

the space in between the counters will be for engine storage

small shelf I built

these are a bit more recent and unfortunately the garage got a little messy
i may clean some of it up this weekend

yes the street light works well lights up anyways

please dont be too brutal on me lol


also the vehicles that will mainly be in the garage are the GTO and my colorado the vette is my mother's and is there temporarily

 

[CodeRedZ]

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added a few pics I missed before

 

[CodeRedZ]

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hmmm just noticed I really need to update this thread lol

 

[ThreeJ97]

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In 4 years I bet the place has really changed, looking forward to the pictures.Love the GTO...

 

[CodeRedZ]

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In 4 years I bet the place has really changed, looking forward to the pictures.Love the GTO...

it has changed a bit, shelves, cabinets, insulation, making a usual attic, adding a ladder, but I still need to add my drywall, course I have alot of junk as well in there, but some of it is my brothers lol. I guess I need to find my pics when I get home.

 

[MHORTON79]

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Nice GOAT

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Nice GOAT

thanks its looking a lot better since those pics

 

[CodeRedZ]

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I cant find my progress pics so here is as it is now

some cabinets i found that people put out for trash that i'll eventually redo, and my fridge

picked up some shevling from menards which can be made into work benches, however the wood is a bit weak so I plan to replace with some thicker wood

moved these cabinets from the other side of the garage to here

picked up these upper cabinets off craigslist never used with a couple others, resold the others and got most of my money back

my garage computer and my vintage fridge that belonged to my grandparents i plan to fix up

got this counter from my parents when they remodeled their kitchen, glad they had the sink hole piece but need to finish filling

plan to do some kind of shelving above the garage door

added a ceiling fan

added a ladder for the attic

ran boards across the length of the attic for storage

 

[CodeRedZ]

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found pics of me building the attic and putting the ladder in

 

[Jeff Ivers]

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Lookin good. That old refrigerator has lots of potential.

 

[CodeRedZ]

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well brought something home today ;-)

 

[KCarGuy]

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Nice Garage...Nice Goat!!!

 

[sbhockey]

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What wheels do you have on your Colorado? I have a white 4dr ZQ8 and want to switch mine up.

 

[CodeRedZ]

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What wheels do you have on your Colorado? I have a white 4dr ZQ8 and want to switch mine up.

my current wheels are silverado SS wheels

here is how think looked before I coated them with plasti dip

I did have to have the center hub machined to fit

be sure to check out www.355nation.net

there are a few guys from the board in your area

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Picked up enough drywall to do my ceiling and 1 of my walls today, didn't get the rest as I need to do a few other things. Also I only had enough to hang one of my ledges for the ceiling drywall at the front of the garage

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Got my drywall lift today and got one sheet put this evening after work, I'll admit it was nice but still a bit tricky to get aligned by myself

 

[jkeyser14]

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Just so you know, you should really be hanging the ceiling drywall the other way (perpendicular to the truss). You'll get a lot fewer cracks as the trusses flex w/ load and temperature changes.

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Just so you know, you should really be hanging the ceiling drywall the other way (perpendicular to the truss). You'll get a lot fewer cracks as the trusses flex w/ load and temperature changes.

I was thinking that but figured I'd have to add extra supports between the rafters, unless i cut the drywall to end directly on the rafter

 

[CodeRedZ]

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never mind I just read this nice article and think I'll switch it around

thanks


http://www.finehomebuilding.com/PDF/Free/021174058.pdf

 

[don long]

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I noticed that the vette is missing What happened??
The G.T.O. is still lookin goood
The garage neon is a nice addition
Don

 

[CodeRedZ]

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the place is too spacious just enough for extensions and other features for the house or maybe just bought cars for parking purposes.

huh?

 

[CodeRedZ]

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I noticed that the vette is missing What happened??
The G.T.O. is still lookin goood
The garage neon is a nice addition
Don

lol the Vette is my mothers I was storing it for a little bit.

The GTO just got back from the body shop after being there since April.

I'm really wanting to get the space next to the GTO cleared out so I can bring the colorado back into the garage and start its motor swap.

5.3 L33 V8 out of a Silverado. Still need to do some more cleaning and painting on it

https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/314910_10151163659850783_2005911273_n.jpg

this is how it looked when I first got it

https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/224201_10150228144300783_7796405_n.jpg

 

[Falcon67]

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You have a nice space going together. Paint looks good on the poncho. Keep it up!

Commmments frrrroooom sssspppaaaaaccceeee.

the place is too spacious just enough for extensions and other features for the house or maybe just bought cars for parking purposes.

 

[wornoutoldman]

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Should'nt those GTO pics have smoke pouring off the tires? Nice rides! Nice space!

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Should'nt those GTO pics have smoke pouring off the tires? Nice rides! Nice space!

Actually the GTO needs a bit of a tune up, its running rich and was having some missing issues the other day when I went to do a photoshoot with it

 

[CodeRedZ]

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here is how the GTO looked before the body shop

https://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/564265_10150796254720783_1768703067_n.jpg


during

https://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/564923_10150829424110783_922635849_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/554647_10151028609750783_1947812035_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/250813_10151062830360783_779495415_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/405183_10151148195550783_1671458634_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534454_10151191199250783_1853705651_n.jpg
https://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/196499_10151200554260783_432543816_n.jpg


picking it up from the shop

https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/523290_10151227336435783_978617691_n.jpg
https://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534318_10151227341075783_1692515190_n.jpg

 

[flip4eva83]

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Is that factory color on the goat, keeping it original. If not, that thing screams for some judge stripes.

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Is that factory color on the goat, keeping it original. If not, that thing screams for some judge stripes.

According to the body shop this is Apple Red, which was supposedly called Solar Red back in the 60's so yes it is a factory color.

The car can't get any stripes for awhile while the Paint is curing, hence why you dont see any GTO stickers on the rear quarters. Since the car actually belongs to my mother and she paid for the work she wants a white pin stripe but I'm trying to talk her out of it and maybe go for something else.

 

[Xander]

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Nice work, Drywall lift certainly makes things nicer, I learned that on my build.

Motor sway on the Colorado? I like where you are going with that. I was going to try an LS1 into my s10 before I sold it. Oh well, needed to focus on the garage anyway.

x...

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Nice work, Drywall lift certainly makes things nicer, I learned that on my build.

Motor sway on the Colorado? I like where you are going with that. I was going to try an LS1 into my s10 before I sold it. Oh well, needed to focus on the garage anyway.

x...

Yeah this is pretty much an LS1, the L33 is an aluminum version of the LM7 which is a iron block with aluminum heads. Same LS1 Gen III architecture though. Would of been nice to find a 6.2 litre Gen IV motor but oh well. This 5.3 only had 24,000 miles on it, so I can't complain too much.

 

[wornoutoldman]

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Is that factory color on the goat, keeping it original. If not, that thing screams for some judge stripes.

http://www.phoenixgraphix.com/gm/1969jdg.php

 

[CodeRedZ]

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well didn't get as much work done today as I would of liked.

Got a few more pieces of drywall up and remounted one of the garage door hanger, still need to do the other and remount the opener

here is how the hanger was done before

briefly holding up the rail

and the new hanger

 

[CodeRedZ]

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not a whole lot done this weekend since I have to move things around and didnt want to leave the gto out in the rain, so I worked on it yesterday afternoon and this morning.

2 more sheets up

the new hanger setup

still a lot to go :-(

 

[Makman]

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Lookin good there. Nothing as fun as hanging rock solo Track hanger rework looks good. I might suggest you could raise the lower portion of the diag brace to just above the track then cut the excess piece off that hangs down there waiting to catch your head.

 

[CodeRedZ]

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2 more sheets up woo hoo

though these were a pain in the **** to hang by myself

 

[oilslick]

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Keep it up, ***** being a one man band don't it!

 

[CT2012]

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nice!

gonna be doing that soon myself.

where'd you get the drywall tool?

 

[CodeRedZ]

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nice!

gonna be doing that soon myself.

where'd you get the drywall tool?

Amazon.com for 150 it works out better for me than renting one, plus ill sell it when I'm done and make most of my money back

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Got a little more progress done

had to remount the the door rail and the motor hangar

before

went ahead and put up a piece of dry wall and then some 1/4 so it the mount didnt crush the drywall

hopefully i'll have more progress this week

 

[CodeRedZ]

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Got 3 more ceiling panels up and 3 wall panels up this weekend, now i'm out of drywall :-(

which is fine as I need to make room to get to the other areas