New garage...er...home is finally complete.

[gibbons]

I've been quietly hanging around here during our build project, what a warped site! I love it! Anyway, we are complete and moved in now. Here are some pics of the results. The house is about 1900sf main floor, we have about 1850sf total of garage space. That sounds about right

- I had Premier Garage do the attached garage. Once it was done, my wife got over the cost and loves it. Yeah, it was worth it. The floor is bullet proof and gorgeous too. The cabinets are amazingly robust. Premier also did the stainless countertops. My wife and I did the tile, diamond plate stair treads, shutters, and sink stuff.

- The floor drains take care of snow melt run off and allow us to wash the cars inside. They have sediment boxes so they drain into the sanitary sewer system, all to code and approved.

- I put a big conduit between the house and detached. Through it I ran an air line between a hose reel in the tall cabinet and my larger 150psi compressor in the detached. Under the sink cabinet, I have a hot/cold mixing fixture feeding soft water to a garden hose.

- The back garage didn't get anything fancy inside, it's just for storage and a workshop. The bikes, boat, camper, truck, and yard tools stay in it.

- I have a very sophisticated alarm system in both the house and detached garage with all the latest microwave, infrared, high frequency impact, contact, and pressure sensors. So anyone thinking about thugging our stuff, fugettaboutit. Besides, our flying attack pig would take you out before you knew what hit you.

 

[comp]

Cool

 

[bluesman2a]

I have a very sophisticated alarm system in both the house and detached garage with all the latest microwave, infrared, high frequency impact, and contact sensors. So anyone thinking about thugging our stuff, fugettaboutit. Besides, our flying attack pig would take you out before you knew what hit you.

Great looking shop...

Question -- I am currently running contacts all the way around in my garage, but want some more interior protection (i.e. motion or something). My local installer didn't recommend it for a non-climate controlled space. Do you have any recommendations for that and/or video over the web?

 

[mikewaterskis]

is that a prostar 205?

 

[gibbons]

bluesman2a- I see where your installer guy is coming from, infrared sensors can trigger with temperature changes like if a cloud blows over the sun or with wide day to night temperature swings. However, there are newer high tech sensors that use both IR and microwave in the same unit It takes a trigger from both for an alarm output. It's a really good design, because each system is a check/balance for the other to eliminate false alarms. An Israeli company called Rokonet makes the best ones from what I understand, so I got them. My kids saw some TV show about how to sneak past a motion sensor (what kind of sick network produces something like that anyway?). The tricks utterly failed against the Rokonets.

mikewaterskis- Good eye! Yes, that's a MasterCraft 205. You can kinda see the "LT-1 Corvette Power" insignia, too. What a fine boat that has been for our family. The garage extends our season because we don't have to worry about block freezing as early. We ski until the lake freezes.

 

[IDASHO]

Looks like a nice place!

 

[Scott Pearson]

Very Nice!

 

[icnsltmfg]

Did you hang all of the storage units on the wall. They look like they are off the floor by 5 or so inches (smart for dirt / water). Hoe did you mount the large tall cab to the wall without fear of them not being able to hold all of the weight. That can be a lot of weight on an un supported bottom.

 

[gibbons]

The concrete foundation (coated) goes up to that baseboard where the sheetrock starts. Premier drilled and lagged the foundation on the lower part, and used lots of screws into the wall studs in the framed part of the wall. Sure, you could make a beefier cabinet out of welded steel plate, but these are pretty darn strong. I stood inside them putting in upper shelf pins, and have lots of heavy stuff in them. I got a bid from my cabinet maker, too, but comparing the two, the Premier garage units are way better for garage use. I can't imagine putting stuff like 2 large brake rotors and 7 gallons of fluids on my kitchen cabinet shelves.

They are pretty user friendly, too. Yes, they are laminate. But that's OK, because I clean grease off them with lacquer thinner

 

[C_F]

Just bumping your old thread here, to comment on how nice your house & garages look. :tu:

I'm guessing your attached garage is heated, yes? That way, the water from winter car washes won't become an ice slick.
What part of the country are you in?

 

[Mr. Welsh]

Where are you located? Look's like my sister's neighborhood in Beaumont, TX.

 

[gibbons]

The snow melt issue was the primary reason for the drains, I love them. The garage isn't heated, but I have R20 insulation in the ceiling and R13 in the walls as well as insulated roll-up doors. Heat loss from the house (2 adjacent walls) keeps the temperature in the garage at least 30 degrees warmer than outside, so I don't think ice will ever be a problem. It stays way cooler in the summer, too.

The longer we are here, the more we love the set up. The detached garage is so close that it seems like part of the house, it all worked out perfect on this lot. It's the smallest house in the neighborhood, but we don't care. Garage space is what really matters We are looking at a SuperLift for the detached garage to put the Chevelle on for more car parking space when our sons come home. I hate leaving stuff outside.

We finally landscaped, and it came out looking something like this:

 

[lucca77]

Premier did my floor as well. Its been a year an I have coating failing under tires ( four places) . They are very good at customer service so far. This stuff is not going to holdup much past the warentee period. Anyone with long term experience here?

 

[gibbons]

Bummer on the Premier Floor! Mine has only been in for 6 months, but I can't see any signs at all of any issues, even in the 8" part in front of the door between the jams that is exposed to sunlight everyday. But my floor prep was pretty intense. My concrete monkeys royally muffed the flatwork finish and it had to be diamond disc ground which left a very aggresive, good adhesion surface on it. I can't imagine anything peeling off it. I do my maintenance in the detached garage, so it never sees rolling floor jacks, jack stands, etc.

Oh, yeah, I got some small clear coat bubbles when they did it. They came back and sanded the whole thing, and clear coated it again. I actually like that, it's much smoother. With just one clear coat, the flecks were quite pronounced and sharp to bare feet. Sure, it's now slicker when wet, but so is the tile in the house when it's wet. We just know to be careful.