I just wear earplugs.
The manspace is looking great.
The manspace is looking great.
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ManSpace....20 sheets of sheetrock, 55 bats of R13 fiberglas...(!! Now with PICS !!)
- Thread starter Greg72
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original balzer
1/2 ton status
I cant wait to build my manspace. It will be a big expencive project though and will probably be a while before I can build it. I need it to be 60x80 and have a 14ft celing. Has to have room for my semi and trailer to get in, plus a few projects.
Yours is lookin good, youll realy like the brightness rather than the dingy dark dungon like set up it was before.
Balzer
Yours is lookin good, youll realy like the brightness rather than the dingy dark dungon like set up it was before.
Balzer
Couple quick comments:
CRI on those bulbs is 84. Please educate me on what that spec means...
The compressor is pretty darned quiet. I guess it depends on what you're used to...but it's a 4-cylinder, low RPM design. I can't put it outdoors like I'd have gotten away with in CA, because the temps get well below 0 degrees in the winter and I'm sure that will not be good for the oil thickness, etc.
I'm just about done with the left-hand wall now. One sheet to go!!!!
More pics later. It IS getting brighter just from the drywall and a bit of ceiling paint...
CRI on those bulbs is 84. Please educate me on what that spec means...
The compressor is pretty darned quiet. I guess it depends on what you're used to...but it's a 4-cylinder, low RPM design. I can't put it outdoors like I'd have gotten away with in CA, because the temps get well below 0 degrees in the winter and I'm sure that will not be good for the oil thickness, etc.
I'm just about done with the left-hand wall now. One sheet to go!!!!
More pics later. It IS getting brighter just from the drywall and a bit of ceiling paint...
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Just a thought here, I have heard that heaters and water heaters placed in garages are to be at least 24 inches above the floor as gas fumes and other flammable fumes will not collect any higher than that so when the pilot light fires there won't be an explosion. Check my dimensions with someone else that would know more than me though. Just hate to see something go wrong after all the hard work. Looks nice. I am jealous.
CRI is "Color Rendition index"
The sun is perfect. In the sunlight objects appear to be the color that they are.
Incadescent light bulbs have a high CRI. From what I understand usually around 95.
The lower the CRI number goes the further away from true color you will see.
So, a flourescent light bulb with 84 will show less true color than an incandescent light bulb with a CRI of 95.
Probably really don't mean much in a garage unless your doing some kind of color matching thing in which case you should step outside into the sunlight to compare. Although, I believe there is a eye fatigue scenario at play with these numbers as well.
EDIT,
air compressor noise can be reduced considerably just by placing a corner shaped shroud around the compressor. Bounce the noise off something before it gets to your ears.
Space is looking good. My garage is a joke. Holes in the roof, walls and worse than all that, its lower than the alley its positioned on, so when it rains the garage floor gets wet. It needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt. I'll video tape that part!
The sun is perfect. In the sunlight objects appear to be the color that they are.
Incadescent light bulbs have a high CRI. From what I understand usually around 95.
The lower the CRI number goes the further away from true color you will see.
So, a flourescent light bulb with 84 will show less true color than an incandescent light bulb with a CRI of 95.
Probably really don't mean much in a garage unless your doing some kind of color matching thing in which case you should step outside into the sunlight to compare. Although, I believe there is a eye fatigue scenario at play with these numbers as well.
EDIT,
air compressor noise can be reduced considerably just by placing a corner shaped shroud around the compressor. Bounce the noise off something before it gets to your ears.
Space is looking good. My garage is a joke. Holes in the roof, walls and worse than all that, its lower than the alley its positioned on, so when it rains the garage floor gets wet. It needs to be bulldozed and rebuilt. I'll video tape that part!
55Willy
3/4 ton status
CRI is 0-100 with sunlight being 100 and incandesents being dang close with the new lower mercury flouresents they are closer to 80-90 CRI
your kelvins is the temp. of the light 5500K is roughly the measurement of sun.
our most popular lamp is a 745 which sylvania's way of saying 70 cri and 4500K's
your kelvins is the temp. of the light 5500K is roughly the measurement of sun.
our most popular lamp is a 745 which sylvania's way of saying 70 cri and 4500K's
Greg, aren't you gonna insulate and sheet the ceiling? You're gonna lose a lot of heat if you don't. Its clearly known and said in some info I've read that the ceilings are where you benefit the most when heating a building. Walls aren't doing the job of holding in heat as much as ceilings are.
Patience, patience....my good Wes-hopper!
My plan is to insulate the angled part of the roof up in the attic spaces. Since there is a huge gaping hole on the left bay, and a pretty good hole for the stairwell, the heat is all headed up there in a hurry.
The joists are 7-1/4" but I think the closest match is going to be some R19 insulation (6" thick).
This stuff takes time. I'm sure it's psychological at this point, but the man space is already feeling warmer to me!!
I'll keep stealing some hours here and there during the week, and then apply myself all next weekend to this project. I should be mostly done with the downstairs areas by then.
Get some R-30 insulation. Its 9" thick and we just got some yesterday at Lowe's for a buddies house. Thats damn good R value there.
Nice hopefully I will be tackling insulating my roof very soon, got an electric heater for my garage but not too jazzed to use it. The thoughts of the electric bill are more like nightmares. R 19 for me for now and more later. Also two words ceiling fans. They work wonders for keeping the warm air moving down I will have four in my shop by next week
mudboggink5
1/2 ton status
lookin good, I sure do miss my old garage. Good luck with the manspace build
NEK5
3/4 ton status
Looking good Greg!
Is that really a valid way to insulate? 9" thick insulation crammed into a 7" space.....??
I was under the impression that the voids in the fiberglas were just as important as the material itself. If I mash the material down too far it seems like I'll just be removing the air voids and diminishing it's R-value anyway.
lectric80
3/4 ton status
Although the air voids are important, you are only compressing 2", so it will still provide better insulation than R19 in the same space.Is that really a valid way to insulate? 9" thick insulation crammed into a 7" space.....??
I was under the impression that the voids in the fiberglas were just as important as the material itself. If I mash the material down too far it seems like I'll just be removing the air voids and diminishing it's R-value anyway.
By the way, it is looking really good. Can't wait to get me a new house so I don't have to work in the cold in the winter.
Thanks for the props!
This project is a little bit "extra" meaningful for me because this is the house I grew up in as a kid. I can remember as a teenager being out in this garage and telling myself "Man, if this were MY house, I'd make this space so awesome and I'd put more lights and paint it as nice as any room in the house!"
Back then, I was begging for the occasional access to the garage to work on my old VW Bug....and since my parents couldn't care less about having a "nice" garage, I had to make due with a dark and poorly-lit space. This project is sort of like keeping a 25-year old promise to myself....and I think that is what makes it a lot more rewarding than normal.
This project is a little bit "extra" meaningful for me because this is the house I grew up in as a kid. I can remember as a teenager being out in this garage and telling myself "Man, if this were MY house, I'd make this space so awesome and I'd put more lights and paint it as nice as any room in the house!"
Back then, I was begging for the occasional access to the garage to work on my old VW Bug....and since my parents couldn't care less about having a "nice" garage, I had to make due with a dark and poorly-lit space. This project is sort of like keeping a 25-year old promise to myself....and I think that is what makes it a lot more rewarding than normal.
yunit
1/2 ton status
Looking good Greg, better hurry up, the temperature is changing fast for us in the North East.
Looks sweet Greg!!!
Any plans for exhaust fans??
Any plans for exhaust fans??
That cool that it was a young dream of yours I always said when I got a garage it would always fit a car in it no matter what, course its my wife's suburban now but it still fits.
In seeing you work I'm think I am going for the steel building looks easier and faster, but it is more 
In seeing you work I'm think I am going for the steel building looks easier and faster
, but it is more
Updated pics...... A total of 8 sheets of drywall are now installed, along with insulation and all in-wall wiring behind each of them.
The ceiling is really tedious to paint. It's still bleeding-through but I'm using the heat from the halogen lamps directly underneath to help dry the paint faster. These are desperate times!
These shots almost look worse because of all the mess I'm creating.....it's always darkest before the dawn.
Yep.....those 6500K bulbs sure do look "blue" to me also!
The ceiling is really tedious to paint. It's still bleeding-through but I'm using the heat from the halogen lamps directly underneath to help dry the paint faster. These are desperate times!
These shots almost look worse because of all the mess I'm creating.....it's always darkest before the dawn.
Yep.....those 6500K bulbs sure do look "blue" to me also!
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Randy92782
1 ton status
Dude i'd have sh!t myself right there. I just don't know really what i'd do in that situation. Crazy!!I've got the opposite problem here. I need to install an evap system before next summer. This is what happens in July around here, if you leave the doors open. I about pooped my diaper when she started rattling. Need less to say, the skin is now mounted in my office.
