Every time I Googled something for my garage, I ended up here. So I figured that I should just go ahead and register.
I live in Morrison, CO, but I'm actually closer to Conifer than Morrison. We have a couple of acres of forest, located at 8000' on the side of Double Header Mountain. We overlook Denver, from DIA down to Centennial. It's pretty cool. But I grew up in the mountains, Glenwood Springs, CO, so it's something that I'm used to dealing with (you know, bears, mountain lions, deer, elk, etc.).
As I'm finding out, my garage, though I considered it spacious and a masterpiece for my needs/desires, is woefully under powered (electrical wise), un-insulated (though one wall of the first floor is up against 9' of mountain, it just takes the chill off when I go in to get out of the cold) and not heated.
Now I'm looking at insulating it, at least the first floor, putting in a lot more lights and putting up 1/8" white hardboard so I can draw on it with dry erase markers. Though the white-ness of the hardboard would also be welcome on the ceiling of the first floor to help reflect the light down.
Ah, the plans I have in my head, I think my brain is going to explode. Seeing a lot of the shops around here, I kind of feel like the smart kid in a small school that just got into MIT. I thought I was the schist around here, but now I realize, not so much.
Here's my "man-sterpiece". A fuzz over 1700 ft^2, 862 ft^2 footprint. The first floor has a 12' ceiling with the 2 10' doors. The concrete retaining wall on the back is 9' tall and runs the entire length. It helps conduct some of the mountain heat inside if I keep the doors closed.
Yeah, I have a Bug problem too.
Here's the inside, before I lived here for too long. Now I consider it workout to walk inside the first floor due to having it full of everything (2 Bugs ['58 Vert & '76 Super Vert], a pan for the '58 Vert ('69 IRS pan), 2 motorcycles, compressor, welder, etc.).
Anyway, there's my garage. She needs some work... so I can work inside.
I'll check back in a bit. It's starting to snow so I need to move the wife's car, go get some Pepsi, then do some studying for school tomorrow.
Oh yeah, I'm an ASE Certified Master Mechanic (22+ years), a Nissan Certified Senior Tech (17 years) and have gone back to school, Colorado School of Mines, for my Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (not A/C & Heating, the other one) with, hopefully, a minor in Electrical Engineering. I'm kinda SMRT... but really, I just work hard, it's what I do.
I live in Morrison, CO, but I'm actually closer to Conifer than Morrison. We have a couple of acres of forest, located at 8000' on the side of Double Header Mountain. We overlook Denver, from DIA down to Centennial. It's pretty cool. But I grew up in the mountains, Glenwood Springs, CO, so it's something that I'm used to dealing with (you know, bears, mountain lions, deer, elk, etc.).
As I'm finding out, my garage, though I considered it spacious and a masterpiece for my needs/desires, is woefully under powered (electrical wise), un-insulated (though one wall of the first floor is up against 9' of mountain, it just takes the chill off when I go in to get out of the cold) and not heated.
Now I'm looking at insulating it, at least the first floor, putting in a lot more lights and putting up 1/8" white hardboard so I can draw on it with dry erase markers. Though the white-ness of the hardboard would also be welcome on the ceiling of the first floor to help reflect the light down.
Ah, the plans I have in my head, I think my brain is going to explode. Seeing a lot of the shops around here, I kind of feel like the smart kid in a small school that just got into MIT. I thought I was the schist around here, but now I realize, not so much.
Here's my "man-sterpiece". A fuzz over 1700 ft^2, 862 ft^2 footprint. The first floor has a 12' ceiling with the 2 10' doors. The concrete retaining wall on the back is 9' tall and runs the entire length. It helps conduct some of the mountain heat inside if I keep the doors closed.
Yeah, I have a Bug problem too.
Here's the inside, before I lived here for too long. Now I consider it workout to walk inside the first floor due to having it full of everything (2 Bugs ['58 Vert & '76 Super Vert], a pan for the '58 Vert ('69 IRS pan), 2 motorcycles, compressor, welder, etc.).
Anyway, there's my garage. She needs some work... so I can work inside.
I'll check back in a bit. It's starting to snow so I need to move the wife's car, go get some Pepsi, then do some studying for school tomorrow.
Oh yeah, I'm an ASE Certified Master Mechanic (22+ years), a Nissan Certified Senior Tech (17 years) and have gone back to school, Colorado School of Mines, for my Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering (not A/C & Heating, the other one) with, hopefully, a minor in Electrical Engineering. I'm kinda SMRT... but really, I just work hard, it's what I do.
