Starting on my garage project!

[Birdman]

I have been meaning to do this for the last two years I've been in the house! I have a smaller garage, plans say it is 20x20, but I think they built it 22x20. It's deeper than I think the plans originally shown because my old shop was 19x20 and I couldn't fit my workbenches in there. This place I have the workbenches in it and my Trans Am and still room to work.

I have huge shelves on the side walls, storage for car parts, camping/fishing stuff, and all our Christmas ornaments (Clark Griswold style!). Also have a nice big workbench I got out of a Pfizer plant when they were renovating. A few smaller shelves for tools, paints, etc. Plus the beer fridge, of course!

Lots of good tools - small air compressor, oven, band saw, big Craftsman rolling toolbox, auto rotisserie, and other goodies.

Well, I'm tired of working around an unorganized and cluttered space. I want to get it done nice before I start on the PatriotDream.org Camaro project, so it is time to dig in my heels!

I'm going to repaint my workbenches black with the doors and drawers red. Then I'm going to paint all my shelves black to hide them a little better. My ceiling I'm going to redo with a bunch of old license plates I've been collecting. Then I'm going to get some VCT flooring and redo the floor.

I'm going to do a cherry red outer border with a charcoal and black checkerboard center. Then I'm gonna install three more flourescent lights and see about having my garage door opener relocated a little higher.

I'll post pics as I go, can't wait to have a garage peopel are envious of instead of one people are afraid to go into!

 

[comp]

post some pics for us

 

[Birdman]

I'll take a picture of what it currently looks like, you guys will get a laugh out of it.

 

[JMURiz]

Why would we do that, a garage is a garage, if it works for you, it works for us.

 

[Birdman]

Well, it doesn't work for me, it's a freaking disaster area. That's why you'd get a kick out of it!

 

[Birdman]

This shelf seems to have accomulated camping stuff and random junk. Once I put a storage spot in the ceiling I may tear these down.

This is a useless ceiling. There is no insulation above it, but there is a lot of open space for storage. I'm gonna tear the ceiling down and add some plywood to use the open space for storage.

These three lights give me good light, I'm gonna add three more to the back of the garage so I can see better back there.

Gotta have a beer fridge. I'll probably leave this as-is, just clean the area up and organize it better.

My workbenches, computer, and toolbox. Gonna clean up a little, get the computer working(in the middle of a reformat the XP boot disc got corrupted), repaint the workbench, and organize those shelves a little better.

And more organizing to do. My bandsaw and oven, plus my shelf for car parts and powdercoating stuff.

I put the suspension back together on the Trans Am last night so I can roll it out and seal it up for storage while I redo the garage and build the Camaro. It was HOT out there, still in the 90s and about 150% humidity it felt like. And this was at night!

 

[Birdman]

OK, got my Trans Am out and all sealed up stored in the driveway. I'm almost done tearing down the ceiling in that area, there is a lot of room above it and I'll be able to get rid of one shelf along my wall to clear up some space.

Hopefully tonight and tomorrow I'll be able to finish up tearing down that ceiling so I can start adding the boards for the storage area up there. Then I can start organizing, painting, and getting ready to lay down the VCT flooring.

 

[dyson74]

about time! a shed that actually looks like you work in it.

 

[Birdman]

Got a lot done today! I got the flooring up in the ceiling and the sheetrock taken the dump. My wife is the organizer of the two of us, plus I tend to jump from one place to the next without finishing a project. She got right on it with me, we really made some headway. Tomorrow night we're going to knock out most of the rest of it and hopefully finish up the organization on Wednesday night so I can get the Trans Am in there to detail it for the TA Nats on Friday.

WHEW!

And check out my SWEET new AutoTwirler Plus rotisserie.

 

[Kevin54]

And check out my SWEET new AutoTwirler Plus rotisserie

Now that's a nice new toy

 

[Birdman]

Got a ton of work done, but still a bunch to do. I think my garbage man is gonna kill me. My trash can was overflowing on Tuesday and it looks like this next week will be more of the same. I am throwing out SO much **** that I have no idea why I was keeping.

Plus I'm selling off a ton of parts I keep coming across that I have no use for anymore. I now have a ton of space, and I keep getting more every night.

I've decided to take my time with the garage this time and do it right. No more Saturday clean and refills. This is an overhaul and a renovation!

I'm not gonna get much done till next week, though. I'll be in Dayton for the TA Nationals Friday-Sunday and the next two nights will be spent getting the Trans Am ready to take to the show!

 

[milkovich]

I'm jealous of the twirler! That is a bad *** toy.

Great taste in cars by the way! (I have a 76 with a 77 nose)

 

[enginerd]

$1400 powder coated for the hydraulic equipped twirler...not bad.

I have a race car project I could greatly benefit from having the twirler, only problem is I would probably never use it again...

I guess selling it to a local shop could work...might be a good way to offset some costs while benefiting from its use.