KMinAF
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Its simple but I like it, and I did it all for less than $1000.
The house that we bought two years ago came with an unfinished detached garage. With a bit of Market Place and classified add searching plus some dumpster diving, I was able to insulate and finish the inside of my garage. The first thing I did was install an exterior side door, that was being given away free on Facebook Market Place. The sheetrock (5/8 for the walls 1/2 for the ceiling) cost me all of $200 from the local hardware store that had some pretty bad forklift drivers. I was able to buy enough damaged sheet rock to do all the walls and the ceiling although it did require some extra cutting and patching. I used the 1/2" panels for the ceiling and covered them with 4' x 4' x 1" acoustic tiles that I found on the local classifieds for $180. Five of the 15 rolls of insulation were given to me by someone cleaning out their storage shed, five were purchased using a Christmas gift card and the remaining five cost me an outlay of $130. Two boxes of mud and a roll of tape $45. Four gallons of paint purchased on a buy one get one sale $65. Wagner control pro airless paint sprayer $free, dumpster dive, warranty return. It required and hour of time to thoroughly clean and unstick the valve. Works great! Peg board was purchased at a local Habitat for Humanity store for $2 per sheet (I bought ten used one, gave two away and am saving the rest). Pallet wall cost $8 for a spray can of black to hide the seams (I should have bought a gallon and painted the whole wall) and a bit more dumpster diving for the old pallets. Requisite Rat Fink banner was a birthday gift, the LED lighting is a "returned item" purchase from Amazon for $40. The grey paint used to paint the shelves and work bench was a "wrong color" return shelf item that was originally a yellow color which the paint department added a bunch of black tint to, $5.
As is the case for most garages, it will probably never be 100% complete but at least I now have, with the help of a 110,000 BTU torpedo heater that I bought at a pawn shop, somewhere warm to work during the cold winter months!
The house that we bought two years ago came with an unfinished detached garage. With a bit of Market Place and classified add searching plus some dumpster diving, I was able to insulate and finish the inside of my garage. The first thing I did was install an exterior side door, that was being given away free on Facebook Market Place. The sheetrock (5/8 for the walls 1/2 for the ceiling) cost me all of $200 from the local hardware store that had some pretty bad forklift drivers. I was able to buy enough damaged sheet rock to do all the walls and the ceiling although it did require some extra cutting and patching. I used the 1/2" panels for the ceiling and covered them with 4' x 4' x 1" acoustic tiles that I found on the local classifieds for $180. Five of the 15 rolls of insulation were given to me by someone cleaning out their storage shed, five were purchased using a Christmas gift card and the remaining five cost me an outlay of $130. Two boxes of mud and a roll of tape $45. Four gallons of paint purchased on a buy one get one sale $65. Wagner control pro airless paint sprayer $free, dumpster dive, warranty return. It required and hour of time to thoroughly clean and unstick the valve. Works great! Peg board was purchased at a local Habitat for Humanity store for $2 per sheet (I bought ten used one, gave two away and am saving the rest). Pallet wall cost $8 for a spray can of black to hide the seams (I should have bought a gallon and painted the whole wall) and a bit more dumpster diving for the old pallets. Requisite Rat Fink banner was a birthday gift, the LED lighting is a "returned item" purchase from Amazon for $40. The grey paint used to paint the shelves and work bench was a "wrong color" return shelf item that was originally a yellow color which the paint department added a bunch of black tint to, $5.
As is the case for most garages, it will probably never be 100% complete but at least I now have, with the help of a 110,000 BTU torpedo heater that I bought at a pawn shop, somewhere warm to work during the cold winter months!
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