Garage renovation - 24x26

[jethrodawg]

Bought my house last summer. Husband had died and women sold house. Picture here doesn't do justice of what I started with.

Took three full loads in my truck to the dump after closing. Got $150 in scrap metal out of it at least.

This is the beginning of stripping everything back to the studs. I had already hauled away the piles of junk that were left when this picture was taken.

 

[jethrodawg]

Plan was to get walls stripped, foam insulation, then 5/8 finished sheet rock. There is eventual finished bonus room going above the garage.

After taking down the existing drywall found moldly fiberglass bats. Previous owner never mudded and taped the drywall seams that were there. Notice the lines from where the old drywall butted together.

Thankfully nothing moldly on the remaining walls.

 

[jethrodawg]

No project complete without aqcuiring a new toy

 

[jethrodawg]

Garage was finally cleaned out and everything except the old cabinets were hauled to the dump. Old cabinets were installed in my 14x24 shed/garage.

 

[jethrodawg]

Had to fix a gazillion electrical issues. Not to code is understatement. Multiple wires hooked up to a few breakers in my 100A garage subpanel

Basically I had myself and licensed eletrical friend rewire entire garage it was that bad. Due to foam, had to run all the wires to the bonus room, extra cable TV runs, added GFCIs to house (only had one in back of house, had none in front), added outlets, made existing circuits in garage GFI protected, and then added wiring for the extra lights once drywall is in.

Plus, I wired the garage with 10/3 for the eventual mini-split for the bonus room and another run for the eventual heater.

1250 ft of 12-2 Romex and about 150 ft of 10/3 romex when all said and done.

Plus Comcast had done retarded installed and put cable runs in places drywall needed to be. I used the quad shielded TV cable stuff.

Blew budget big time getting electrical ready to go.

 

[jethrodawg]

Closed cell foam went in. Also had them spray rim joists in house basement. I put another thread in the heating forum discussion the foam insulation.

Get your **** 100% done before they foam. It's a major pain added stuff if you forget and or decide to chane things around, add nailers, etc.

Garage if TIGHTnow !!

 

[jethrodawg]

Added the strapping and ran the remaining wires for my future lights. Drywall is going to be done first week of June. Having contractor do everything in 5/8 and tape/finish walls.

I'll be doing the prime and painting.

 

[jethrodawg]

Some notes:

1. Hard to find contractors and even moreso, hard to find guys who can/will do work in reasonable timeline. If a guy is slow, sumptin' ain't right.

2. Pricing/budgetary info I see tossed around GJ is way off.

3. Don't throw out your scrap Romex!!! I got over $100 in scrap from the stuff I ripped out of my garage.

4. I work slow. Some of this is because of unforeseen snafus but everything took me 2X as long to do then planned.

 

[TTA89]

I'm getting ready to build a garage in Southern NH and I agree, the pricing on here is way off. If it costs 25K on here, it really costs 50K to get things done.

On another note... $4400 for insulation? Blah...