JayCrash450
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Here's my garage. I've never posted much about it and wish I had taken more progress pics. It is a simple 2 car garage, attached that is 20'x22'. It started as a very average garage of this type. Thank you all for the inspiration. I love some of the garages I've seen here. All this influence here made what was going to be a relatively simple garage removal turn into building a full blown small shop.
This has been a year and a half project. Mostly because of my delay of a about 10 months. I had a baby born and often work weekends in addition to 40-50 hour weeks and just got burned out for a period of time. For the last few months I tore back into it, made massive progress and am finally nearing the end stages of this project. Hence the reason for the name. I'll come up with something better later.
Some specs and list of modifications is in order I guess.
To date I have:
•Relocated water heater to a closet outside (need as much space in this garage as possible
•added a window (allows more light, let's me watch my older kid riding on the sidewalk and gives view to outside world while working at my bench).
•replaced the old man door that was in aweful condition.
•re plumbed drain and feed lines to washer/dryer, that allowed me to add a large wash tub just around corner and next to the man door.
•reframed ceiling. It was just a couple of wall ties that were heavily sagging due to previous owner placing heavy loads on plywood in the attic. I built a heavy framed ceiling with beams and ladder access to allow for proper attic storage. I can finally get Christmas stuff and other junk out of the garage.
•pulled in 100amp subpanel from service panel to feed the garage. I have 110v installed 4' on center, multiple dedicated 220v circuits for my welders, plasma cutter, and planning for future lathe and small mill. Additionally there are a ton of switched outlets in the ceiling that will allow for lots of flexibility in my lighting layout. In total I have 26 4' t-8 5100k fluorescents on 4 switches for different levels of lighting and task lighting. During this I added 4 outdoor receptacles, 1 dedicated for plugging in the toy hauler, multiple outdoor lighting that feeds both sides of the house so I can actually see when I go outside when it's dark.
•plumbed in 3/4" copper air lines from my outside air compressor closet. In total I have 4 drops in the garage. 1 in ceiling and 3 at the walls.
•5/8" drywall on all walls with a double layer against the shared house firewall.
•liftmaster 8500, most amazing door opener ever!!!!
•built some melamine cabinets for around washer/dryer and tried to add as much storage space as possible around the garage.
Things to do:
•epoxy floor goes in this Monday. So excited for this!
•install metal paneling on lower half of walls. That's why the paint stops where it does. Haven't decided if I'm going to place corrugated steel, regular galvanized sheet metal or something else....any ideas??? I thought about galvinzed sheets riveted together. (Give it an airplane feel, I fly small single engined aircraft and would appreciate the little touch).
•touch up paint where I had to open up a hole to replace the 6/3 NM that somehow got damaged during install. I was really sad about having to replace 50' of cable but it had to be done. Can't leave a 220v circuit with a hot leg to ground short. I don't know what happened but it's done now. Just need to finish up the patching.
•organize the mess of tools that is in a storage unit and everything else that needs to be organized.
Some pics
This has been a year and a half project. Mostly because of my delay of a about 10 months. I had a baby born and often work weekends in addition to 40-50 hour weeks and just got burned out for a period of time. For the last few months I tore back into it, made massive progress and am finally nearing the end stages of this project. Hence the reason for the name. I'll come up with something better later.
Some specs and list of modifications is in order I guess.
To date I have:
•Relocated water heater to a closet outside (need as much space in this garage as possible
•added a window (allows more light, let's me watch my older kid riding on the sidewalk and gives view to outside world while working at my bench).
•replaced the old man door that was in aweful condition.
•re plumbed drain and feed lines to washer/dryer, that allowed me to add a large wash tub just around corner and next to the man door.
•reframed ceiling. It was just a couple of wall ties that were heavily sagging due to previous owner placing heavy loads on plywood in the attic. I built a heavy framed ceiling with beams and ladder access to allow for proper attic storage. I can finally get Christmas stuff and other junk out of the garage.
•pulled in 100amp subpanel from service panel to feed the garage. I have 110v installed 4' on center, multiple dedicated 220v circuits for my welders, plasma cutter, and planning for future lathe and small mill. Additionally there are a ton of switched outlets in the ceiling that will allow for lots of flexibility in my lighting layout. In total I have 26 4' t-8 5100k fluorescents on 4 switches for different levels of lighting and task lighting. During this I added 4 outdoor receptacles, 1 dedicated for plugging in the toy hauler, multiple outdoor lighting that feeds both sides of the house so I can actually see when I go outside when it's dark.
•plumbed in 3/4" copper air lines from my outside air compressor closet. In total I have 4 drops in the garage. 1 in ceiling and 3 at the walls.
•5/8" drywall on all walls with a double layer against the shared house firewall.
•liftmaster 8500, most amazing door opener ever!!!!
•built some melamine cabinets for around washer/dryer and tried to add as much storage space as possible around the garage.
Things to do:
•epoxy floor goes in this Monday. So excited for this!
•install metal paneling on lower half of walls. That's why the paint stops where it does. Haven't decided if I'm going to place corrugated steel, regular galvanized sheet metal or something else....any ideas??? I thought about galvinzed sheets riveted together. (Give it an airplane feel, I fly small single engined aircraft and would appreciate the little touch).
•touch up paint where I had to open up a hole to replace the 6/3 NM that somehow got damaged during install. I was really sad about having to replace 50' of cable but it had to be done. Can't leave a 220v circuit with a hot leg to ground short. I don't know what happened but it's done now. Just need to finish up the patching.
•organize the mess of tools that is in a storage unit and everything else that needs to be organized.
Some pics
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