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NCFJ said:
Best I can recommend is to not attach anything to the wall if you can get away with it. This leaves you with a modular set up that can be reconfigured as you add new tools or storage units to the mix. You can never have enough storage. Don't worry, you'll be adding a storage shed in a couple years :)
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That's hilarious...I mentioned to the wife that our current '3 sided' shed attached to the house might get moved to out near the garage and I'd add the 4th wall.

She was like WTF!! I don't want to have a shed village in the back yard - ha!! Looks like I'll be taking a different approach ie tearing it down.
 
Too funny, just mention that you stay out of kitchen design soo..........

I say this because the base of our division of labor around here is I handle outside and Heather handles inside. Although she has had a good bit of input on the design for the barn we are hoping to build. Either way, if :princess: ain't happy, no one's happy
 
The pics don't show much for yesterday's progress but electrical work continued and we should be ready for final inspection Friday. I also found time last night to get paint on the walls (painted the ceiling Monday night) and plan to finish the corners with a brush tonight.

I also plan to run window/door trim and baseboards this weekend. Lift is scheduled to be installed on the 23rd. Coming together very nicely!


Exterior lights...my massive RAB flood light should be installed today.
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Should have tons of room to expand electrically :skull:
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Electrical is done and final inspection tomorrow.

I finished painting tonight...but now am contemplating painting the bottom section of the walls a gray color. What's the consensus? Leave all white or go two-tone?

Also plan to run trim tomorrow evening then coat the floor this weekend!
 
S4Cruiser said:
Electrical is done and final inspection tomorrow.

I finished painting tonight...but now am contemplating painting the bottom section of the walls a gray color. What's the consensus? Leave all white or go two-tone?

Also plan to run trim tomorrow evening then coat the floor this weekend!
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All one color. If you stick with the modular theme, ie can just pull everything away from the walls when it is time for new paint, your life will be easier. Two tone just makes the repaint a bigger hassle.

Are you "coating" the floor or sealing it?
 
Rice said:
All one color. If you stick with the modular theme, ie can just pull everything away from the walls when it is time for new paint, your life will be easier. Two tone just makes the repaint a bigger hassle.

Are you "coating" the floor or sealing it?
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Actually neither. I'm applying a densifier that will be burnished in with a floor buffer. It's kinda like a sealer but acts more as a stain guard and will leave a semi wet look. It leaves my options open long term as I was torn b/w acid stained or epoxy flake.
 
S4Cruiser said:
Actually neither. I'm applying a densifier that will be burnished in with a floor buffer. It's kinda like a sealer but acts more as a stain guard and will leave a semi wet look. It leaves my options open long term as I was torn b/w acid stained or epoxy flake.
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Good move. In my experience even the best epoxy flake jobs end up looking rough after a few years of dragging floor jacks across them. What's worse is if you use the anti-skid granules in the epoxy. That stuff holds dirt like there's no tomorrow and it will not mop up. In my mind epoxy is a one way street you don't want to travel down unless you have no other options. Sure epoxy is great for a nasty old unsealed and cracked floor but why would you ever want to do it on a fresh floor and create a constant maintenance headache? To me it is like painting a brick house. The main reason to build a brick house is so you don't have to paint it!

Sealing or coloring/sealing and buffing is the better option. In 20 years if it starts looking bad, you can always go the epoxy route.

End of rant. Sorry epoxy guys....speaking from personal experience I hate the stuff. Never again!
 
I agree. I have epoxy in my garage and only because it came with my house. I'd rather have sealed concrete.

You garage looks like the one I built! I love it!
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Busy couple of days! I got the windows, door and walls trimmed out Friday evening, caulked, filled nail holes and painted Saturday, then wrapped things up and started cleaning today. I ended up going two-tone on the walls. It took a good amount of extra prep time...but I'm very happy with how well the lines turn out!

Got the walls taped off this evening and plan to clean the floors real good tomorrow night. The garage door guys are actually out there now (late Sunday night) swapping out the chain opener to a jack shaft style motor.

I had to order special floor buffer 'burnishing' pads as HD doesn't carry them. Hopefully they'll be in mid week so I can finish the floor and start moving stuff in!

Final electrical inspection passed on Friday and should have power within 10 days! Final building inspection tomorrow! This all wrapped up quick.

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Oh, that's nice.
 
You've got to give us more info on that opener setup. That's slick as s***.
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
You've got to give us more info on that opener setup. That's slick as s***.
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Yeah it's pretty neat and I'm not sure why they aren't used more in residential applications. I'm not really sure how long they've been readily available but at least 5 years or so. I don't think the setup would work with a 'spring' tensioned door as you would need a torsion bar setup.

Here is a post of garage journal that talks a little about them, but in simple terms it has an internal mechanism that attaches to either end of the door's torsion bar (which is attached to the corner end of each door with a cable) and turns the torsion bar to raise/lower the door.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36006&highlight=jackshaft

It's much quieter than the typical chain drive overhead openers and the only downside I can think of is it seems just a tad slower. I'm very pleased with how clean it looks now not having the overhead motor hanging off the attic truss area.
 
Well...failed final building inspection yesterday. Not the contractors fault, but my grading doesn't conform to code. No big deal just get to move more dirt this weekend - yeah!

Got the floors cleaned and prepped last night. I'm ready to coat the floors once my burnishing pads come in (hopefully tomorrow).

This evening I installed my ceiling mount fan. It's ~30" diameter so should move tons of air!

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