[SANDOVAL]

I have been working on this "Project for almost two months now... When I first started she was nothing but a shell Brick walls, wood rafters, a couple of hanging fluorescent lights, a 16' wood door that was falling a part (probably older then me) and two count them two electrical outlets! So I have taken this two car garage that could not really get two cars into due to the angle of the driveway, house and Garage. You had to have the left car out to get the right car out. At one point in time the garage had an alley door. Now that we are a Historic Neighborhood and my Garage is 4' off the property line I can't go back. Solution I get my 1 car garage and work shop. She gets a new patio/garden area with fountain. With the money we saved from expanding the garage we installed pavers up the entire driveway and walk ways. ( I am glad that constuction is done!) After reviewing my expansion plans with the city I could only add another 200 sqft or so and it just was not worth it. So I settled with what I had.



Here is what I have been doing...



So far I have rewired the entire garage for 3 GFI outlets in the ceiling, 4 separate track lighting zones (30 Halogen Spot & Flood), 2 GFI's on the back wall and 3 8 outlet strips on the side walls, insulated the 8-13' ceiling, built 3 half walls, insulated walls, hung sheet rock Sanded until my arms fell off, textured walls, hung French doors, primed, painted, installed flooring, installed rubber base, hung cabinets, installed central Vac (Just for the Garage), hung Compressor reel, installed 2 500W Halogen motion lights outside, installed new fence posts for iron fence, installed and plumbed and wired fountain, Installed outdoor GFI outlet, Installed (By Wayne Dalton) new 9X7 Carriage house door and IDrive and I hung new siding.



Still to do:



Install lighting

trim doors

Paint and finish siding

install hardwired outlet strips

hang and wire Gulf fluorescent sign

Caulk ceiling

touch up paint

install cover plates

Put new work bench together (Costco 8' Butcher block work Bench)

hang wall storage unit over work bench

Put all wall unit pieces together

Run Air lines to work bench

hook up compressor

finish striping the walls

Install suround sound "Garage theater" system

Hang all my framed posters

ebay all of the stuff I did not end up using!

Get my tools back in order

Detail my poor car that has been sitting outside under cover for the past month and get her inside



I think by the end of the weekend I should be finished with this project! Next Nicole wants me to start laying slate downstairs in the soon to be Pool table room... Does it end?



   



   



   

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[Larry Currie]

Wow! You almost motivate me to go out and clean my gargage. I said almost. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Greimann]

[quote name='SANDOVAL' date='Jul 20 2005, 10:44 PM']...... Does it end?

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NO! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

I have been in my house 12 years and I am still not done! It is to the point where the things I did first need re-doing again. It is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge!



You have got a great start - keep going!

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[Eric_K]

Does it end?

If it does, you can come do my garage. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



Looks good.



Eric

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[SANDOVAL]

Thanks guys!...



Here are some pics to give you an idea of what I started with. I took these during the walk through with our realtor.





   



   



The ceiling had about 500Lbs of old wood and doors being stored on home made supports. It took me a day just to clean the wood out, and tear down the supports.

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[SANDOVAL]

Here is a shot from outside still some finish work to do out there too.







   

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[rustech]

"Put new work bench together (Costco 8' Butcher block work Bench)"



Your garage is coming together sweet! How much was the bench? Online order, or at the store pickup? Does it feel real stable?

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[SANDOVAL]

Welll I purchased the Rolling cabinet to see the quality before I went ahead bought all of the other peices. They had a deal going for for tall cabinet, tool cabinet, rolling cabinet with shelves, 2 hanging cabinets and a 8 ft butcher block work bench. All for $1699 shipped! It was a steal for what was offered. I got the cabinet in 2 weeks it weighed something like 140Lbs... Damn that thing was heavy. Well made nice butcher block top again heavy. Stainless steal door were very nice. The problem I had was that the foot print was to big for the space I had. The new work bench has not been delivered yet it has left the manufacturer so I would asume from previous experience it should be here this week. I can only beleive it will be the heaviest MF'er the butcher block was about 1.5" thick. My new cabinets (Sears online) are great and very well made too but no where near as heavy duty as the Costco cabinets. They will last you your entire life and will be passed on two your kids.



http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup....opnav=&cat=&s=1



The cool thing is that the price includes shipping. Since they are so large and heavy they have to use a freight company. You also can return them to any Costco at anytime if you are every unhappy.

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[rustech]

Ok, I know the set you're talking about, but did not recall the bench being included. I was drooling over the set but don't have room in the storage units I'm renting. I'm not moving into my next house until it's built in November-December-ish, and can't wait to start my garage project.



Are you still going with the lift or have you decided otherwise?

Again, very nice garage.

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[NeedPorscheSpeed]

Eric, I love your garage! It looks great! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[SANDOVAL]

Thanks guys!



I have a bunch of stuff left over that I never used since I downsized the plans.



Posted in the classifieds:



I have a bunch of stuff from my garage remodel I ended up not using I have listed some of the items on ebay...I have more coming I just need to figure out what I am going to use. I have a bunch of wall S2 Wall systems that I will be putting up over the weekend. The crush proof system is a great buy.





You can see my auction here:



http://motors.search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZ968s

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