A few years ago I spent a month of weekends painting, organizing, and applying a epoxy floor to the garage in our house we built. It was great in the beginning, but as I began to add tool boxes, work benches, compressors, tools, and such, it became cluttered again and a disorganized mess. The epoxy floor also started coming up soon after (poor prep work and a sealant on the concrete) and the place was a disaster.
I decide this winter I would redo the whole thing and get it back in shape, with hopes to have room for growth afterwards so the same thing does not happen again. Over the fall I spent well over 25 hours sanding the epoxy floor off and in 10 of those hours I had help from a buddy. Probably the worst way to spend a weekend in the garage. We also put up a 6" rubber trim pieces around the bottom of the walls to give it a more finished look.
Afterwards was a long clean up task, which hadn't been done in a while, so I could see what I was working with. Once that was done I began planning my needs for some additional gladiator organization. Lots of it. I went to Lowes and found they were having a 25% off sale! I loaded up with 15 pieces of gear track (to go with the 5 I already had) and loads of hooks and shelving, which should tide me over for a bit.
Over the past 3 weekends, I've been mounting everything up and getting the garage organized again. I originally wanted to show step by step how everything went together with pictures, but, as usual for me, I forgot halfway through and I only have pictures of the finished product.
Please excuse the messy floor as it's winter and I've already swept it 10 times doing this and didn't want to again. Racedeck soon! The hose hideaways are also in there temporarily for the winter and will live outside when it warms up.
I still have a laundry list of things to organize that I hadn't thought of to take care of. I also want to paint that horrid cabinet I picked up from a work auction black to match the tool boxes.I'm working on my floor design with race deck and hope to have that installed in a month or so! TV going in there next month as well, I hope...
Thanks for looking!
I decide this winter I would redo the whole thing and get it back in shape, with hopes to have room for growth afterwards so the same thing does not happen again. Over the fall I spent well over 25 hours sanding the epoxy floor off and in 10 of those hours I had help from a buddy. Probably the worst way to spend a weekend in the garage. We also put up a 6" rubber trim pieces around the bottom of the walls to give it a more finished look.
Afterwards was a long clean up task, which hadn't been done in a while, so I could see what I was working with. Once that was done I began planning my needs for some additional gladiator organization. Lots of it. I went to Lowes and found they were having a 25% off sale! I loaded up with 15 pieces of gear track (to go with the 5 I already had) and loads of hooks and shelving, which should tide me over for a bit.
Over the past 3 weekends, I've been mounting everything up and getting the garage organized again. I originally wanted to show step by step how everything went together with pictures, but, as usual for me, I forgot halfway through and I only have pictures of the finished product.
Please excuse the messy floor as it's winter and I've already swept it 10 times doing this and didn't want to again. Racedeck soon! The hose hideaways are also in there temporarily for the winter and will live outside when it warms up.
I still have a laundry list of things to organize that I hadn't thought of to take care of. I also want to paint that horrid cabinet I picked up from a work auction black to match the tool boxes.I'm working on my floor design with race deck and hope to have that installed in a month or so! TV going in there next month as well, I hope...
Thanks for looking!
