octane_matty
Well-known member
Hi All,
Apologies in advance if this is long winded!
I'm Matt, i've been a lurker on the forums for a while now and thought it's probably about time i started a thread to log the progress of my garage transformation. I'll try to give you all some detailed information on progress, some mini projects between as well as show you some of the tools I've acquired.
I'm 26 and roughly one year ago my girlfriend and I invested in a 3br house in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It's far from perfect and needs plenty of work, but with house prices have been rising at incredible rates recently, i'm just glad we have a house with some form of reasonable sized garage attached.
It's enough space for 4 Medium sized cars but i'm only really planning on 2 daily drivers + a project car and workspace (~85sqm).
Inside facing out towards the street
As of a few weeks ago, my financial adviser (Mrs) has given me permission to start the progress.
First the mess needs to be cleaned up
Throwing everything i can into this little storage room within the garage in preparation for paint/floor coatings.
The previous owned must have never cleaned anything in the garage. Oil/grease piled up at the back of the benches, dirt all over the ceiling and oil stains everywhere on the concrete.
Pressure washed the ceiling
Cleaning all the old double sided tape off the wall took hours
Test batch of paint
The colour is called "Infinity White", i've gone with a British Paints Exterior Semi Gloss (It was the cheapest at the big green store)
Expanding Foam and Caulking to fill the gaps
Finally had the place clean enough and prepped to lay down paint on all the ceilings/walls
On the right you can see some average brickwork. The house was built in the 70's and has settled quite a bit since being built.
I purchased a Wagner Flexio 585 paint sprayer for this Job. It did a good job and was a little easier than painting with a roller.
It was a bit time consuming to paint it on as thick as i wanted. In the end i touched up the whole garage with a brush.
I don't think this was the sprayer's fault, it's more designed for painting with a fine finish.
First coat
Second coat of the front half
About 20L of paint later, plenty of touch ups with a brush and we're done with the walls!
The amount of light in the garage at night will be amazing
Car on the left is my daily, 96 E36 328i Coupe, orignally delivered with an Aluminium block M52B28 although now fitted with an S54B32 and 6 speed from an American E46 M3
With the painting done I decided drainage should be tackled next to fix the issues of water pooling in front of the garage door.
Rented a demo saw and recruited some helping hands.
After removing a channel of 3 inch deep concrete, we discovered more concrete underneath.
Back to the hire shop to borrow a jack hammer...
Following weekend we levelled the drain and mixed up some concrete.
I started cleaning the floor in preparation for some form of floor coating system. I've got a few areas which could make the floor coating difficult but we'll see how they go.
Rather large chipped out expansion joint
Level issues and crack of some form
Unknown substance damaged concrete?
Apologies in advance if this is long winded!
I'm Matt, i've been a lurker on the forums for a while now and thought it's probably about time i started a thread to log the progress of my garage transformation. I'll try to give you all some detailed information on progress, some mini projects between as well as show you some of the tools I've acquired.
I'm 26 and roughly one year ago my girlfriend and I invested in a 3br house in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It's far from perfect and needs plenty of work, but with house prices have been rising at incredible rates recently, i'm just glad we have a house with some form of reasonable sized garage attached.
It's enough space for 4 Medium sized cars but i'm only really planning on 2 daily drivers + a project car and workspace (~85sqm).
Inside facing out towards the street
As of a few weeks ago, my financial adviser (Mrs) has given me permission to start the progress.
First the mess needs to be cleaned up
Throwing everything i can into this little storage room within the garage in preparation for paint/floor coatings.
The previous owned must have never cleaned anything in the garage. Oil/grease piled up at the back of the benches, dirt all over the ceiling and oil stains everywhere on the concrete.
Pressure washed the ceiling
Cleaning all the old double sided tape off the wall took hours
Test batch of paint
The colour is called "Infinity White", i've gone with a British Paints Exterior Semi Gloss (It was the cheapest at the big green store)
Expanding Foam and Caulking to fill the gaps
Finally had the place clean enough and prepped to lay down paint on all the ceilings/walls
On the right you can see some average brickwork. The house was built in the 70's and has settled quite a bit since being built.
I purchased a Wagner Flexio 585 paint sprayer for this Job. It did a good job and was a little easier than painting with a roller.
It was a bit time consuming to paint it on as thick as i wanted. In the end i touched up the whole garage with a brush.
I don't think this was the sprayer's fault, it's more designed for painting with a fine finish.
First coat
Second coat of the front half
About 20L of paint later, plenty of touch ups with a brush and we're done with the walls!
The amount of light in the garage at night will be amazing
Car on the left is my daily, 96 E36 328i Coupe, orignally delivered with an Aluminium block M52B28 although now fitted with an S54B32 and 6 speed from an American E46 M3
With the painting done I decided drainage should be tackled next to fix the issues of water pooling in front of the garage door.
Rented a demo saw and recruited some helping hands.
After removing a channel of 3 inch deep concrete, we discovered more concrete underneath.
Back to the hire shop to borrow a jack hammer...
Following weekend we levelled the drain and mixed up some concrete.
I started cleaning the floor in preparation for some form of floor coating system. I've got a few areas which could make the floor coating difficult but we'll see how they go.
Rather large chipped out expansion joint
Level issues and crack of some form
Unknown substance damaged concrete?
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I have around a 1/4 of that
