New garage in Kentucky

[Dustoff 35]

On to the back wall. I have some Rosseau metal tooling cabinets that I picked up off Craigslist a while back. I want to sand & paint those and use them to anchor a workbench across the back wall of the garage.

First, I need to ready the back wall by clearing it out:

The cabinets are steel and I may be storing other metal items under the workbench in the future. The concrete wall is below grade at the back of the garage and even though I have not had any moisture issues, I am going to put on a coat of Drylok and caulk the base of the wall.

Here is two coats of Drylok. This stuff is really thick and I think two coats are mandatory for good coverage.

 

[Dustoff 35]

Time for another long-overdue thread update. Here is insulation going up on the low-ceiling side.





I knew I would be doing most of the drywall hanging solo so I bought a drywall screw gun.



I also picked up a drywall-hoist at HF so that I could install the drywall by myself at my own pace. It has been money well spent.









It went surprisingly fast with the hoist and screwgun. Here is the back-half completed.

 

[Flyin6]

Hey buddy, You been seriously holding out on the folks here!

I get to see this amazing garage on a regular basis, we're more or less neighbors. There is a ton more that has been completed here, and all of the work is up to the same amazing spec we have all seen so far!

So Come on, bring these good people up to date...

 

[larry4406]

Very nice build!

The dedicated septic system for the garage was expensive. You indicated the garage was higher elevation than the house. Any reason you did not gravity sewer the garage to the house? Or since you were trying for a future bedroom above, did the health department require additional septic capacity?

When I built mine, the detached garage slab was higher than the house basement slab by about 8'. I trenched from the garage to the house, core drilled through the house foundation, and then tied into a plumbing stack in the basement.

I sealed the core drill using a link seal similar to that in the link.
http://www.linkseal.com/image/featured_project/ls_charts.pdf

 

[Dustoff 35]

Been away for a while, sorry. The house septic was really too far away to tie into and was not built to code when the house was constructed 20 years ago. We had a new septic field for the house and the septic system for the garage done at the same time.

 

[jesse72]

Man that is a great sized shop! I really like it, how is the upstairs studio coming along?