Garage build

[Troy32323]

I just bought my forever home and can finally build my dream garage. First thing I did was have the floor done. I researched coatings and plastic tile etc but came across polished cement and chose to go that route. It pretty wild. I never knew you could polish cement.

 

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It was interesting to watch. They brought a 2224 ser cable and tapped a 100amp breaker right into my breaker box to power their polishers. They ground the cement with industrial diamond embedded metal pads. They started with 40 then 80 then 150 all the way to 3000 grit.

 

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You can choose from many dye colors to color the cement. I wanted dark grey but they did not have it so I went with black but it came out grey so all good.

 

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They add a densifier to harden the cement in between polishing. The color is permenent and infused in the cement. After polishing to 3000 the applied a sealer but nothing else. The shine you see is not the sealer it is the cement. It looks like a big piece of granite. Came out great. It’s very hard to capture how good it looks on camera. Looks better in person

 

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Next I had them spackle the garage. It was supposed to be done before the floor but they never showed. They came weeks later and unfortunately did a terrible job and had to come back again and still not great but good enough I guess.

 

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Fortunately my wife reminded me I have 1 outlet in a 3 car garage. It was a pain having one in my 2 car so I added 2 20amp circuits with 8 outlets alternating circuitS. This way every other outlet is on a different circuit. Now I can run a tire mounter and compressor at the same time each on their own 20 amp circuit.
After changing a snowmobile track in a 30 degree garage I decide to run some 8/2 wire for a 7500 watt heater. Getting it through the wall with a fire block took 4 hours!

 

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Finally time for paint and to hook up the heater

 

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I ordered some Newage cabinets to keep everything look neat and clean in the garage. 2400 pounds of cabinets arrived in the driveway. Have to get each 500 pound box completed leaned over on hand truck to get them in the garage as they were too tall to get in the garage door on a hand truck

 

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Lag bolting 8 clips all the same exactly Height and all level was interesting. The sill plates stuck out 2 inches above the cement curb. I wanted to float the cabinets over the 4 inch cement curb but not 8 inches to clear the sill plate so I cut them flush with the wall

 

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Had to develop a system to hang the cabinets on the wall. The cabinets are almost 400 pounds each. I used 2x4s and kept adding one to each side until they were above the clips and then slid them to the wall and then removed the 2x4s and let them hang.

 

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Getting there

 

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The sprinkler controls were wired right where the cabinet would be mounted. I really did not want to rerun the wire in the wall as there are at least 30 wires to disconnect and reconnect. Finally my OCD got to me and I spent a night running the wife through the wall

 

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The work top is a natural color bamboo and looks out of place so I am in the process of staining it black. Hopefully a few more coats will darken it up.

 

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That’s it so far. Need to figure out the lighting next and how to pipe the compressor from my basement to the garage

 

[metalhead140]

Looking good, great start! What sort of work are you planning on doing in there?

 

[Troy32323]

Looking good, great start! What sort of work are you planning on doing in there?

Thanks. I will use the garage to have a nice clean comfortable place to wrench on my street bike, dirt bike, snowmobile and quads. The only thing I love more than being in the garage working on my toys is riding them.

I remember in college I had my Yamaha R1 street bike In a 4x 10 storage unit with no electric or lights. That was rough working on the bike. Many years later I can finally work on my stuff like a gentleman. Haha

 

[Craig Balzer]

Finally my OCD got to me and I spent a night running the wife through the wall

Where I come from that level of domestic abuse can get you serious jail time.

 

[CombatNinja]

^LoL

Yeah, I need to move there. I think my spousal unit could stand to be run through a wall a couple of times. I kid, I kid.

Will that polished floor be hard to maintain? What exactly comprises the top coat? I see a snowmobile so I assume it is going to see a lot of road salt and abuse from the salt and cinders and whatnot that winters bring. The floor looks awesome but I am wondering what the plan is there.

 

[84GT350Annv]

Excellent start, amazing floor. Awesome cabinets keep up the good work.

We bought our forever home > 10 years ago now. Considering moving but I just don't think I can do it after having done so much with this place. Turns out the climate (south central TX) might be the catalyst for the move. Anyway, great work I look forward to more of your posts.

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[Jagmandave]

What did it cost to have the concrete floor polished?

 

[DJL1967]

Awesome job on the floor. Curious how much they sanded off?

 

[Riley]

Finally my OCD got to me and I spent a night running the wife through the wall

That must have been entertaining....

Great project too!