Progress on our garage

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Got the middle doors in.

We custom built these, we decided not to go with the roll up door route (mainly because of expense) and nobody sold 10ft by 4ft doors, so we ended up buying 3 metal fireproof doors from a salvage place at $35 each. We cut one of the doors in half and put 2ft on each of the other doors. We also bought the windows from teh same salvage place at $20 a window. On the outside we just used an epoxy to glue wood to the outer door, and used bolts to secure it, and also match the other doors we will be installing. A weeks worth of fabrication and theyre up

They are just primed right now, we will need to put the final coat on later.

 

[SilverLexus]

Very nice. Love how the wood is set off by the nice white window frames.

 

[theeloved1]

Great garage, and bravo on your craftsmanship. I love to see people do their own work. People always are telling me I'm crazy for being a do-it-yourself'r.

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Thanks guys, its been quite a project so far. I don't see any problem with doing the work yourself, in fact for the most part I feel like I have a much better understanding of things after being so involved with it. Not only that but the money we are saving by doing it all ourselves is incredible. Although I will admit, it does get VERY tiring coming home from school in the evenings and having to work on it.



I'll try to keep the updates rolling as we keep working, thanks for the support and compliments!

 

[Setec Astronomy]

I guess I still don't understand that middle door. I thought I understood that you didn't want an overhead door because it would interfere with the lift, but why does that door need to be a non-standard size? Why didn't you just do barn doors in the same size as the other two? Or is that middle door not the same width (it looks narrower, but I think that's just an optical illusion)?

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

It IS narrower but only by 1ft, the reason for having the tall doors in the middle is because several of our vehicles will not fit in a standard door (my truck has a small body lift and will not clear) as well as our conversion van.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Ohhh...that's what you meant by interfering with the lift... :doh

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Got the bathroom started :getdown

 

[LightngSVT]

Sweet! All you need is a small living room/kitchen and youd never have to leave.

 

[Joshua312]

Any updates on this project...would love to see the finished project

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Wow, havent posted updates in FOREVER...just been busy with it I guess!

What's happened since the last post:

Put up a loft, which was later revised

(but we don't know that yet)

And also added some windows..that hadn't been there before

We decided later that for just a tad over $400 more we would have 100sq ft more storage if we extended the loft an extra 4ft

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

We went ahead and did all of the wiring, which actually took a good bit of effort because we put so many thigns on seperate switches. Think we have enough of em?

After the wiring was approved we were able to go ahead and move onto the insulation, and soon after we began sheetrock. We did the sheetrock over the loft first and realized what a pain it was going to be to do the whole garage by hand..epsecially with the hight ceiling. We decided that it was WELL worth the $40 a day to rent a sheetrock jack, and since we rented it over a holiday weekend we got two days rental for free. $80 had us a 4 day rental, and we were able to hang all of the sheetrock.

The holes you see are for recessed flourescents and access holes for the attic.

Believe me, that sheetrock looked a lot more menacing when it was stacked up

May not be able to see it in the pictures, but we went ahead and painted all of the cinderblock walls a grey color. Right now we are working on doing the sheetrock work, prepping it for paint. It's honestly one of the worst things I think we have done...I hate it.



Anyways..thats how she sits now :2thumbs:

 

[cwcad]

Thanks for the update!! You should be very proud of your work(and tired...LOL).



One fo the best threads that I have ever followed. Continue to keep us posted.

 

[LightngSVT]

Wow, I dont what else to say besides wow!!!! You want to come and finish mine when your done?

 

[Accumulator]

Things are sure moving along :xyxthumbs



I think you'll like having all those switches, it's good to have options with regard to what's on/not.

 

[LaOrange]

Wow...and here I was debating if I should build a 10x12 garden shed or buy one...you've built a garage that's larger than some city libraries!



Q: Why go to the expense of adding sheetrock to the ceiling? Why not keep it open to the rafters?

 

[Accumulator]

Why not keep it open to the rafters?

I had a shop like that (beautiful old oak rafters from the turn of the century construction), the dust/cleanliness issues drove me nuts- all sorts of stuff accumulated up there and then fell on the cars. Had to rent a lift-cart to clean 'em off, what a pain...

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Really it also helps keep heat in a smaller enclosed area. Also having the ceilings in place really helps brighten the shop up, before we had the ceilings in the garage would stay dark even with our lights...now its well lit with very minimal effort.



Thanks for all of the compliments :hifive:

 

[Accumulator]

Good point about the light, having a white ceiling *does* help a lot.

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrv]

Almost ready for paint...need to sand it again and hopefully we will be able to move on. This has been the worst thing we have done yet, in my eyes. I absolutely hate sheetrock work. If I've learned one thing from this it would be this: if I ever build my own house...I'm hiring someone to do the sheetrock. It's just tedious, smooth it out and sand it down..then do it again. Not to mention the mess, that has gotten on EVERYTHING. I'm OK with messes, I just happen to hate the work. I guess the fact that I can't seem to get the hang of it also contributes to my hate for it. I'm sure its not bad for the professionals..but I am not a professional. My dad has had past experience with it, so its not so bad for him. Anyways...I just wanted to rant about it :nixweiss .