Progress on our garage

I hear ya about the drywall. As a small contractor for many years it does not make sense for me to hire out my small jobs. So I end up doing the drywall myself. I can see from your pics that you have made more work for yourself. I could give yo some ips to make it easier but looks like you are in the final sanding stage so too late. Look at the bright side that yo will have one great garage when you are done! And you get to work with your Dad (enjoy him while you can, mine passed on reciently)
 
If you paint is with textured paint you do not have to worry about smoothing it out as much. Of course it really doesn't look SUPER professional in the end though....
 
Yes, but after the majority of our house having popcorn ceilings...you realize that over the years the popcorn begans to collect dust. Having a smooth ceiling in the shop will kep it looking clean, and if we need to clean it we can. Also another problem with textured ceilings like that, is that in more humid climates they can flake. If you figure the popcorn in our kitchen has gotten so dirty oer the past 10 years, in a shop where real work will be done it will deffiantely become dirty looking very quickly.
 
Yeah, wish I'd gone with an untextured ceiling in my shop :( Never even occurred to me what with all the other, uhm....issues...I was having with the builder's subs.
 
man that garage looks sweet! I just bought a house with a 2 car garage. Once in I am going to be finishing it. But its going to be so great to go from a townhouse, to a house with a 2car garage I can actually work on my cars without my neighbors asking how long my truck will be on jacks!!!
 
Thank goodness the sanding is finally over with!!! I was about ready to kill myself. I had thought about throwing myself off of the scafolding numerous times so that I couldnt work on it anymore (jk) :doh

We painted the ceilings today..and for cheap too. Actually all of the paint we have used in the garage has been clearance paint. The grey on the base was one of those 'oops' buckets of paint they sell at home depot for whatever price, because they mixed the wrong color. The ceiling paint was a 5gallong bucket, but unfortunately it was not enough to cover the loft, so we mixed all of the white paints we had and got our lofts ceiling. Tomorrow we will be painting the walls :2thumbs:

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I must admit, the sheetrock work we did is superior to many houses I have been in, where professionals had done the work. I really dig the color, too.
 
Holy sheetrock, batman! The photo of the pile of sheetrock...most of going to a ceiling, makes me quesy. At least your "Sistine Chapel" is done now! What a great project.
 
Ok, over the past two days we got the walls painted a darker grey, and put our HID's up. This is what a lot of money in lighting looks like.

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I love it, and we still have 13 other lights to hang! Its friggin bright in there, I took that pic at 11:30pm
 
The king of all Garages!!! lol...





I have something similar actually... .the HID's are friggin expensive too!!





Looking at that Garage it looks to be a $40-50k project and thats taking into account that you are doing it yourself. A contractor would probably take 100k to build that start to finish!
 
Got some more fixtures in, all along the sides and down the center. They look a little yellow in the pictures, not sure why. Some of them may be though, we alternated 34w lights in every other fixture down the center, because we ran out of 40w's when we were installing them. Soon we will replace all of them with the cool white's that occupy most all of the side lights. Hard to capture how bright it is, but it is pretty bright in there.

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Thanks for sharing your project with everyone! Fantastic work! :hifive: Please keep the updates coming!



Just curious, how many lighting fixtures total?

Never can have too much light, especially as the eyes get older.



Dave
 
Since my last post we have gotten a lot accomplished. We sprayed in about 50 bags of R13 blow in insulation, with a machine we rented from home depot. That was a great experience, the machine was broken and we had to fix it. One of the motor mounts had broken and the motor had fallen closer to the floor, and rubbed a hole in the hose...which made it nearly impossible to spray insulation, we riged it up to work, but it took much longer than it should have. After we had blown the insulation in we were finally able to put the covers over the attic access holes.

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After that we were able to move onto other things, because the insulation was finally out of the way. We sprayed the pegboard with an aluminum oxide paint, and put a clear over it to make it semi-reflective. In the pics it looks splotchy, but it's really not nearly as splotchy as they appear, they are just dirty from sitting. We also got around to putting all of the switch and outlet covers on. We hung trim as well, using some sort of vinyl that was supposed to be used to seperate the individual pieces of pegboard, but did not work out. Since we had lots of extra pieces of it left over, we used trim nails to hang it as trim..and it actually looks pretty friggin good.

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We finished all of that yesterday, last night my dad put shelving in on top of the block, we have 8in on one side and 12in on the other. It really doesn't get in the way of anything, and seems plenty sturdy.

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We also got the loft finished out, painted the loft floor, installed base trim and got all of the covers in place, but my battery ran out before I had a chance to snap a pic or two of it. We've also gotten a lot more 'invisible' work accomplished, and we are steadily moving along. The fact that I have started school again has taken a hit on our progress though, but its still not that big of a problem. Hopefully this weekend we will be able to pressure wash the floor and start coating it.

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Accumulator said:
IntrstlarOvrdrv- It just looks better and better :xyxthumbs Is it starting to feel like you're in the home stretch yet?
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Thanks!



It does and doesnt feel like we're in the home stretch, its wierd..things now are just as stressful because now we are trying to organize as we go. It goes though.
 
IntrstlarOvrdrv said:
Thanks!



It does and doesnt feel like we're in the home stretch, its wierd..things now are just as stressful because now we are trying to organize as we go. It goes though.
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That's an amazing garage you're building there and should be a joy to work in. You and your dad should be proud while the rest of us are envious. Keep the progress updates coming as it's been fun following your contruction.



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