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My attached garage is 19x20 measured inside. The builders claimed this was a two car garage...I think he meant 2 MGB's or something. 
The garage queen is a '70 Charger...measures about 18' from bumper to bumper, so my hip rubs the front bumper as I go to the other side of the garage. In addition to my garage queen, I have a TON more **** that I can never seem to talk myself into selling. 
I'm pretty embarrassed to show you guys my pit of a garage, but I know there's others out there like me, so maybe it's not so bad??
Last year, board member 428 (where's that guy been, anyway?) planted an idea in my head for a way of regaining control of my hopeless PIT of a garage in this thread; http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5397&page=2
Hmmm...not a bad idea! I do have a 10' ceiling in there, I bet I could use more of that space.
I wanted to make room for another vehicle in there, if possible & still have storage room. I decided to move the white storage shelves to an unfinished room in my basement, to store some of the less bulky stuff.
Started unloading the upper shelves first.
Then I attached 2x8's @ 16"oc, with the bottom of the boards being exactly 3" above my head as I walked under...anything above that was storage space. The left side is anchored to the existing house wall, the right side to a 2x10 countersunk into two 4x4's & anchored at the back wall.
Due to space problems, I had to work around the shelves until I could slap a partial floor above.
Finished loft floor. The end board appears bowed, it's not really. Dumb camera.
The nice big hood on the Charger sure is a tempting spot to lay stuff sometimes...ok, a LOT of times.
Sometimes were worse than others.
A few months later, I decided I wanted more of the upper area available for storage, so I attached another narrower loft shelf along the back wall, with part of the front end being supported from the other loft shelf.
I don't plan on putting much weight up there, but there was a little more flex than I wanted with my body weight up there, so I attached a brace.
The middle vertical 2x4 is attached to a metal strap at the top, slipped though slits in the sheetrock & anchored to a 6' long 4x4 spanning a few rafters, to eliminate loft/shelf flex.
When I sell the place, I can unscrew all my loft stuff, putty over the slits & screw holes & the sheetrock will look normal once again.
That's a sandblast cabinet up there (no room to use it, yet)...if I could figure out how to get that cherry picker off the floor, I'd be all over it!
I left a 3' area open in the middle, partly to get the lawnmower from underfoot.
This end attaches to the outer wall & also absorbed a pre-existing shelf I put up a few years prior, the end of which is visible on the right.
I also hung one of my 8' flourescent lights underneath...making sure to leave a space for heat ventilation from the light ballast.
It got dark under the larger loft in a hurry, once the floor was laid on. I had some small 4' florescent I'd been hanging onto for "some day", so I decided this was the perfect use for 'em!
Once the Exploder is out, it will be well lit enough to work on car parts under there.
Now I'm hanging some pegboard on the outer (unfinished) wall.
The garage queen is a '70 Charger...measures about 18' from bumper to bumper, so my hip rubs the front bumper as I go to the other side of the garage. In addition to my garage queen, I have a TON more **** that I can never seem to talk myself into selling. I'm pretty embarrassed to show you guys my pit of a garage, but I know there's others out there like me, so maybe it's not so bad??
Last year, board member 428 (where's that guy been, anyway?) planted an idea in my head for a way of regaining control of my hopeless PIT of a garage in this thread; http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5397&page=2
Hmmm...not a bad idea! I do have a 10' ceiling in there, I bet I could use more of that space.
I wanted to make room for another vehicle in there, if possible & still have storage room. I decided to move the white storage shelves to an unfinished room in my basement, to store some of the less bulky stuff.
Started unloading the upper shelves first.
Then I attached 2x8's @ 16"oc, with the bottom of the boards being exactly 3" above my head as I walked under...anything above that was storage space.
The left side is anchored to the existing house wall, the right side to a 2x10 countersunk into two 4x4's & anchored at the back wall.
Due to space problems, I had to work around the shelves until I could slap a partial floor above.
Finished loft floor. The end board appears bowed, it's not really. Dumb camera.
The nice big hood on the Charger sure is a tempting spot to lay stuff sometimes...ok, a LOT of times.
Sometimes were worse than others.
A few months later, I decided I wanted more of the upper area available for storage, so I attached another narrower loft shelf along the back wall, with part of the front end being supported from the other loft shelf.
I don't plan on putting much weight up there, but there was a little more flex than I wanted with my body weight up there, so I attached a brace.
The middle vertical 2x4 is attached to a metal strap at the top, slipped though slits in the sheetrock & anchored to a 6' long 4x4 spanning a few rafters, to eliminate loft/shelf flex.
When I sell the place, I can unscrew all my loft stuff, putty over the slits & screw holes & the sheetrock will look normal once again.
That's a sandblast cabinet up there (no room to use it, yet)...if I could figure out how to get that cherry picker off the floor, I'd be all over it!
I left a 3' area open in the middle, partly to get the lawnmower from underfoot.
This end attaches to the outer wall & also absorbed a pre-existing shelf I put up a few years prior, the end of which is visible on the right.
I also hung one of my 8' flourescent lights underneath...making sure to leave a space for heat ventilation from the light ballast.
It got dark under the larger loft in a hurry, once the floor was laid on. I had some small 4' florescent I'd been hanging onto for "some day", so I decided this was the perfect use for 'em!
Once the Exploder is out, it will be well lit enough to work on car parts under there.
Now I'm hanging some pegboard on the outer (unfinished) wall.
