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The new Garage
- Thread starter r3dd0g
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I'm tired of working in my tiny 2 car garage so I'm finally building a big (30'x60') shop to work in.
Yes, it's definitely better than that, but not very good.
The original quote was with texture too, but I told him I didn't want it. Maybe the current tape job is good enough for texture, but not good enough for no texture...
The original quote was with texture too, but I told him I didn't want it. Maybe the current tape job is good enough for texture, but not good enough for no texture...
I hate knock down texture. Drives me f'n crazy. I've been so close to sanding and refloating my walls in the house....
But looking good dude, you're getting close when the doors go on? What lights did you order for the garage?
But looking good dude, you're getting close when the doors go on? What lights did you order for the garage?
I don't mind the knockdown texture in my house, but in the garage I think it would make it harder to keep clean.
The doors and final synthetic stucco coat should go on in 2 weeks.
I ordered 2 boxes of these lights, if it's not enough I'll order another box, but they seem pretty bright:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0797RT5JJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The doors and final synthetic stucco coat should go on in 2 weeks.
I ordered 2 boxes of these lights, if it's not enough I'll order another box, but they seem pretty bright:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0797RT5JJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Been needing to redo the lights in my humble garage... let me know how they work.
Those at 5000 should be bright. I used 5000 can lights, but I don't have a REAL shop.
The reason I did no texture is so years from now. I can scrub everything clean to repaint easier.
So a base level of smooth for a typical garage should be at minimum Tape and 1 coat over that, and two runs over the screws with sanding. It's sort of regional and up to the contractor and owner on that third coat of mud on the joints and the screws. My garage is better than what Eric showed but isn't any show piece and honestly I can't really recall being upset over it.
I third the no texture, prime and the two coats of the brightest ass white gloss paint you can get.
I third the no texture, prime and the two coats of the brightest ass white gloss paint you can get.
For clarity there is 3 coats over the tape, 1 over the screws and no sanding that I'm aware of.
I'm not a fan of gloss paint, but I plan on doing some off white semigloss. It's going to end up that color anyways so I might as well start there.
I'm not a fan of gloss paint, but I plan on doing some off white semigloss. It's going to end up that color anyways so I might as well start there.
I started mine so I suck. My cousin looked at it and said you know I'll help ya. So mine is absolutely a firetape job. No sanding at all. But it was a do it as quick as possible
Mine is a gloss and I absolutely love it, but I think a semigloss would be pretty decent too
My shop is just fire taped, but I did do a quick sand on the walls. It made a big difference compared to the ceiling which I didn't sand.
This isn't specifically garage related, but with the shed relocated and with having some down time while waiting for the garage to be finished, we decided to pour a sidewalk to the shed. It was always annoying to drag tools through the gravel where it was before. We also poured some concrete between the shed and the wall. One of my dogs had dug a hole back there that went all the way under the slab about 2 feet back... All that was filled in then we topped it with concrete so he can have a nice cool place to lay, but can't dig.
Progress has been slow and it's killing me! Last weekend I climbed up in the attic and cut away the wood that was blocking the 2nd floor house attic to the garage attic. No exciting pictures of that, but that will allow me to run low voltage (networking) and plumbing (water supply) between the areas.
Today they mostly finished up the electrical. The only thing left is the outside light (waiting for stucco to be finished there). I have a sub-panel and an outlet!
Plenty of room to add all my circuits!
I had them just install an outlet and plug in a couple of the lights I bought so it would pass inspection. I'll be able to see how well they work tonight (I have 18 more to install).
The synthetic stucco was dropped off earlier this week.
The doors go on next week and the final stucco coat goes on the week after that, then I'll get the final inspection and finally be able to start getting it ready to use! It's getting close
Today they mostly finished up the electrical. The only thing left is the outside light (waiting for stucco to be finished there). I have a sub-panel and an outlet!
Plenty of room to add all my circuits!
I had them just install an outlet and plug in a couple of the lights I bought so it would pass inspection. I'll be able to see how well they work tonight (I have 18 more to install).
The synthetic stucco was dropped off earlier this week.
The doors go on next week and the final stucco coat goes on the week after that, then I'll get the final inspection and finally be able to start getting it ready to use! It's getting close
Bump for updates!
Well, sorry for the delay but this weekend didn't go as planned. The doors were supposed to be delivered on Wednesday, but they're delayed. The GC thinks they must have been damaged in shipping as they have to be rebuilt and now the ETA is May 15.
Since the doors weren't being installed, the GC bumped up the stucco top coat. The primer went on Thursday, top coat on Friday.
I was super busy Thursday and didn't get a chance to look at anything until I got home Friday...
When I came home Friday, the first thing I noticed was that my back gate was destroyed. I looked up the video on my cameras and saw the stucco guys catch the gate with their trailer as they were hauling off the scaffolding. Then I looked at the garage, the stucco looks fantastic, however they didn't mask anything when they did the primer on Thursday. All the dark brown trim that we painted is covered with overspray and a good portion of it is going to require repainting. I was under the impression that there would be some touch up after the stucco, but this is above and beyond what I should have expected. I'm working it out with the GC to see how I'm going to be compensated for the sloppy paint and gate, so no pictures of that for now.
I will show the gate though, Amber and I busted our butts this weekend to make sure we had a gate by Sunday afternoon so I didn't have to leave my yard wide open. Here's what I came home to on Friday.
My GC was unaware this happened, the sub supposedly knocked on my door, but I wasn't home obviously.
I had big plans to make that gate wider with a custom sliding gate that would go around the corner, but that was a big project that I wasn't going to be able to get to for a while, however if you look in the first picture you can see the gate wasn't in that great of shape to begin with. The previous owner of the house made the "threshold" about 10" higher than grade which makes it difficult to get in and out of, the panels were also standard 70" panels that had been narrowed to 66" so the gate wasn't very wide. Both of these things made it difficult to get trailers in and out of (as the sub realised). If you look at the fence the end column is just strapped to the column next to it. This is because Amber drove the trailer into the back yard once... I'll leave it at that.
Because of all of this I just decided to do the gate right. We rented a jackhammer and took out the 1 foot thick threshold and the damaged column. I bought new 70" panels and hardware and picked up some 11 gauge 3x3" square tubing. We lowered the threshold by about 6" and repoured an 8" thick curb and set the posts into it.
That was all done Saturday, it hit 100°F for the second day in a row Saturday... Sunday we assembled the gate. I did end up taking the shop truck out to return the redwood slats we bought (only about 1/2 of them would actually fit, the rest were too warped or too wide) and swapped them for composite slats. It's much nicer driving through the gate with the lower curb and the new gate looks fantastic.
I still need to finish up a few things on the gate, I ordered a locking latch for it and I need to weld the hinges to the posts (they're just Tek screwed on right now). It was an unexpected pain in the butt, but it looks good!
Once I get the paint touched up I'll post some pictures of the stucco, it just looks so bad right now it pisses me off and I don't want to post any pictures of it.
Since the doors are delayed though, I'm working on getting the garage floor epoxy coated and the GC is working on getting the final inspection done so I can start working on wiring.
Also an update on the lights, they're incredibly bright. Those two lights light up the whole garage pretty nicely, I'm not sure how many of the 20 I bought that I'm going to end up using, I think it would be way too bright if I used all of them.
Since the doors weren't being installed, the GC bumped up the stucco top coat. The primer went on Thursday, top coat on Friday.
I was super busy Thursday and didn't get a chance to look at anything until I got home Friday...
When I came home Friday, the first thing I noticed was that my back gate was destroyed. I looked up the video on my cameras and saw the stucco guys catch the gate with their trailer as they were hauling off the scaffolding. Then I looked at the garage, the stucco looks fantastic, however they didn't mask anything when they did the primer on Thursday. All the dark brown trim that we painted is covered with overspray and a good portion of it is going to require repainting. I was under the impression that there would be some touch up after the stucco, but this is above and beyond what I should have expected. I'm working it out with the GC to see how I'm going to be compensated for the sloppy paint and gate, so no pictures of that for now.
I will show the gate though, Amber and I busted our butts this weekend to make sure we had a gate by Sunday afternoon so I didn't have to leave my yard wide open. Here's what I came home to on Friday.
My GC was unaware this happened, the sub supposedly knocked on my door, but I wasn't home obviously.
I had big plans to make that gate wider with a custom sliding gate that would go around the corner, but that was a big project that I wasn't going to be able to get to for a while, however if you look in the first picture you can see the gate wasn't in that great of shape to begin with. The previous owner of the house made the "threshold" about 10" higher than grade which makes it difficult to get in and out of, the panels were also standard 70" panels that had been narrowed to 66" so the gate wasn't very wide. Both of these things made it difficult to get trailers in and out of (as the sub realised). If you look at the fence the end column is just strapped to the column next to it. This is because Amber drove the trailer into the back yard once... I'll leave it at that.
Because of all of this I just decided to do the gate right. We rented a jackhammer and took out the 1 foot thick threshold and the damaged column. I bought new 70" panels and hardware and picked up some 11 gauge 3x3" square tubing. We lowered the threshold by about 6" and repoured an 8" thick curb and set the posts into it.
That was all done Saturday, it hit 100°F for the second day in a row Saturday... Sunday we assembled the gate. I did end up taking the shop truck out to return the redwood slats we bought (only about 1/2 of them would actually fit, the rest were too warped or too wide) and swapped them for composite slats. It's much nicer driving through the gate with the lower curb and the new gate looks fantastic.
I still need to finish up a few things on the gate, I ordered a locking latch for it and I need to weld the hinges to the posts (they're just Tek screwed on right now). It was an unexpected pain in the butt, but it looks good!
Once I get the paint touched up I'll post some pictures of the stucco, it just looks so bad right now it pisses me off and I don't want to post any pictures of it.
Since the doors are delayed though, I'm working on getting the garage floor epoxy coated and the GC is working on getting the final inspection done so I can start working on wiring.
Also an update on the lights, they're incredibly bright. Those two lights light up the whole garage pretty nicely, I'm not sure how many of the 20 I bought that I'm going to end up using, I think it would be way too bright if I used all of them.
Jealous 
Of the gate? You can have it (the old one that is)!Jealous
Sucks that you had to push up a project you weren't ready for, but it looks like it came out fantastic! Really wish I had that much space on the side of my house to get a wide gate like that was only able to squeak out about 90" on the side of my garage. Makes it difficult to get a trailer back there...
I'm pretty sure you can't have a shop thats too bright inside esp once you start filling it w/ things..
I'm pretty sure you can't have a shop thats too bright inside esp once you start filling it w/ things..
I'll definitely be putting in two banks of lights so it doesn't have to be super bright all the time. Honestly for just going and getting into a car or grabbing a tool or something the 2 lights that are in there are more than bright enough. I'd say those two lights light up the big garage as much as two standard 4' florescents would light up my normal 2 car garage. Partially because of the 16 foot ceiling. But the majority of the walls are wood currently (not painted) and the doors aren't on. I'd imagine the lighting will be even better with big white walls and doors to reflect the light.
I really like the looks of your gate.
On the lights, you might find the need to put more fixtures in just so you don't end up with "problem" spots. For example, in our sign shop we replaced most all the lights with much brighter LED fixtures. One place we found a problem was the stomp shear. We ended up with a shadow from the guard and it was harder to see the cut marks. So we had to move a fixture directly over the shear. I've noticed LED area lighting is brighter but doesn't have the spread of other lighting sources. So you get a much brighter light in a particular area but it quickly drops off at the edges.
On the lights, you might find the need to put more fixtures in just so you don't end up with "problem" spots. For example, in our sign shop we replaced most all the lights with much brighter LED fixtures. One place we found a problem was the stomp shear. We ended up with a shadow from the guard and it was harder to see the cut marks. So we had to move a fixture directly over the shear. I've noticed LED area lighting is brighter but doesn't have the spread of other lighting sources. So you get a much brighter light in a particular area but it quickly drops off at the edges.
