My garage build, a 22x18 learning experience...

[P1et]

Ladies & Gents,

My wife and I purchased our first home three years ago. The house was perfect, apart from the fact there was no garage and no good storage in the attic. Solution: we had a 22x18 space built with steep trusses. Please enjoy the build!

This is what it looked like after we cut down two trees. You can see some of the stumps next to my fire pit, nothing too bad.

These guys work QUICK! When I came back from work, everything had already been dug out, covered with plastic and they were working on putting the rebar in.

Rebar all done, ready for the pouring of the slab!

1) Instead of 18" deep, we went on to 24" deep
2) We put more rebar in, now every 12"
3) Instead of 1/4" steel, we replaced it with 1/2" steel!
4) Instead of regular concrete, tomorrow we'll pour heavy duty concrete.

You can see the trench I dug for the 10/2 lines, seperate circuit.

Day one of paint, and the dry wall has been hung.

Day two of painting! Dry wall taped and floated.

Electric done, hung eight T12 lights.

Last, but not least, 16x7 door is in!

Didn't go cheap, belt-driven Chamberlain 3850 Elite Series at 3/4 HP.

 

[P1et]

Painted the ceiling, put in some black molding on the bottom.

Bought some Gladiator Garage Works products to hang items on the wall, impressed with their offerings. Will be buying more of it!

View of the drive I put in...

Nothing like a good full frontal.

 

[P1et]

 

[P1et]

Placed a small order of Racedeck to see if I would like it. Guess what? I do. So I'll soon be completing the rest of the garage...

 

[amuffly]

Looks like a great garage.

 

[wallaroo87]

Men this looks great ! Love to see more pictures !

 

[harrisor]

The garage looks GREAT! Well Done!

 

[NewShockerGuy]

Awesome!

What did you use to do the lines on the garage? did you just measure every couple inches then level the line or did you use a laser?..etc

I want to paint my walls just like that but don't know how to get even level lines across the entire garage.

Also did you use semi gloss paint? Color and brand would help too,

Thanks,
-Nigel

 

[Jack Olsen]

Great garage. Great pictures -- some of those could go in a garage-themed coffee table book.

What happened to the Goodfellas window shade? That is such a great movie.

 

[P1et]

Thanks everyone. I promise to take a few high-resolution pictures with my nice camera today.

Painting the garage was one of the more frustrating things. Couple of things I learned:

1) Paint the way you want it before adding anything else, such as the Gladiator Garageworks items, baseboards or crown molding. The taping process is a pain, and since I'm a perfectionist, will take forever.

2) I did use a laser level and taped it accordingly. The tape is made by 3M and I bought it at Lowe's. Be sure to really press the tape against the wall as it will "leak through" otherwise. Frustrating.

3) Use the best primer you can buy. I got "cheaper" primer from Home Depot and when I pulled the tape off, in three spots, the paint came with it.

4) I did use semi-gloss paint. The white paint was cheaper paint from Home Depot (don't do it), the rest was Sherwin Williams. Great stuff, but apparently Benjamin Moore is better so when the time comes for a new coat of white paint, I'll be going that route. The red stripe is also Sherwin Williams.

 

[toolmantechie]

Great job on both the build and the pictures documenting it!

 

[P1et]

Here a few more from yesterday...

 

[BMacD]

Looks Great...about the same size mine is! Are you planning on insulating the attic door at all? I've got one in my garage and am contemplating how i'm going to insulate it when the time comes

 

[ewang]

Dumb question, but whats the cut out (diff depth) of concrete for by the garage door? Preventing water entrainment?

 

[On Edge]

Looks great. I really like the wall colors. Looks like you have some expensive wax there.... Very nice!

 

[P1et]

Looks Great...about the same size mine is! Are you planning on insulating the attic door at all? I've got one in my garage and am contemplating how i'm going to insulate it when the time comes

Yes, I have a seperate thread with insulation questions going on right now. Apparently, R30 is what's recommended for attics but that might be too "thick" to put up there. I guess I'll end up purchasing the highest possible R value that still "fits".

Dumb question, but whats the cut out (diff depth) of concrete for by the garage door? Preventing water entrainment?

Not sure, never measured it. But the gravel drive combined with the gutters would prevent from any water building up to a level where it would enter the garage.

Looks great. I really like the wall colors. Looks like you have some expensive wax there.... Very nice!

Yes, guilty as charged. Love me some Swissvax.