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Glenn 
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 Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:53 pm Post subject: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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My son bought a house last year and I told him I wish i painted my garage when I bought it 35 years ago. So a few weeks ago he asked me to help him paint his and organize it.
I just got home after spending 48 hours there helping him do just that. Only problem is the walls were 18 year old bare sheetrock and the garage is 20x25x12. It took 5 gallons of primer and 3 gallons of color and 15 hours for the 2 of us to do it.
We also put up 4 bike hooks, built a bench on the stair landing and bought materials for a few other project including a 4'x8' hanging platform for over the workbench we built a few months ago.
I'm just too old for real manual labor.
Here's the workbench and bare walls.
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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Very nice maybe a pegboard to hang tools near bench and of course a bench vise.  I’m going to paint floor with this industrial paint. Reflects light back up
Easy went right over old tile floor, tough as nails. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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Daily driver’s in a garage? I should probably try that one day 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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The day after I bought my house I painted the whole garage white and then installed florescent lighting and peg board when it was completely empty(16 years ago). The white paint helps make it brighter inside so I have more light when working on my cars.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 3:52 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| EverettB wrote: |
Looks good.
Nice tall garage too, perfect for a Bus with a roof rack |
Interesting comment. As I looked around this nice looking garage, I didn't see any VW parts nor VW's?
It would appear that Glenn FAILED to get his son to drink the aircooled Koolaid.
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Glenn
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 3:58 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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He has plans for some sort of tool storage and the addition of a 1x4 nailer around the walls. I told him if he puts up pegboard he needs to put furring strips so the board is away from the wall.
He wants to live with it fist to see where wants to put things. He also has 2 more bikes to hand but not sure where.
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calvinater
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| EverettB wrote: |
Looks good.
Nice tall garage too, perfect for a Bus with a roof rack |
Only lf the overhead door is tall enough.
Most people only have seven foot doors
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Glenn
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 4:38 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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I guess the doors are 7'.
BTW, my friend is finally building his "dream" garage... it's ENORMOUS. I told him that one of the doors should be taller for a hightop. But he's a Cheby man and said that's the next owners problem.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 5:16 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| Glenn wrote: |
I guess the doors are 7'.
BTW, my friend is finally building his "dream" garage... it's ENORMOUS. I told him that one of the doors should be taller for a hightop. But he's a Cheby man and said that's the next owners problem.
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Looks like 8' doors, that entry door should be 6'8"
A basket ball hoop for the grand kids would fit nice in there.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:12 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| Onceler wrote: |
| Daily driver’s in a garage? I should probably try that one day |
Give your head a shake man! Daily drivers have glass and paint so that they are weather proof. Garages are for projects, don't clutter them up with things that don't need to be in there!  |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
Very nice maybe a pegboard to hang tools near bench and of course a bench vise. I’m going to paint floor with this industrial paint. Reflects light back up
Easy went right over old tile floor, tough as nails. |
What product was that , and how did you deal with grout lines/ depressions ?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| EverettB wrote: |
Looks good.
Nice tall garage too, perfect for a Bus with a roof rack |
Interesting comment. As I looked around this nice looking garage, I didn't see any VW parts nor VW's?
It would appear that Glenn FAILED to get his son to drink the aircooled Koolaid. |
I was thinking he got him into bikes though 
| Glenn wrote: |
I guess the doors are 7'.
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Agree - definitely looks taller than my garage, I can tell by the height of the rails, unless that person painting is 5' tall.
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Glenn
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| EverettB wrote: |
| unless that person painting is 5' tall. |
He's 6'4"
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:50 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
Very nice maybe a pegboard to hang tools near bench and of course a bench vise. I’m going to paint floor with this industrial paint. Reflects light back up
Easy went right over old tile floor, tough as nails. |
It is not often that ones sees 4 toilets in a garage--------oh, wait a minute-----
maybe some of the toilets are actually bidets. |
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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Since I took that pic on a Friday after hours the workmen were gone but I will get the product name next week. They covered the tile floor by grinding and then chemically cleaning. Product seems to be self leveling and it took at least 72 hours to harden up. That 4 holer is actually a 6 holer and it smells bad on a Monday morning when it’s a full house after a weekend of cheap beer and hard boiled eggs. The tile floor soaked up piss which is why they went to this other flooring. Ah the things we learn.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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| cbeck wrote: |
| Too many sections for a 7 foot door. |
Yep, 5 panels should be an 8' header height, easy. That's becoming the standard in many remodels and customs. |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Next time i'll keep my mouth shut. |
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I'm thinking it's gonna be tough to see the washer and nut you just dropped given all the pattern in the finish, but maybe that's just me.
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