Before we had AC in the house, we had a window swamper. That thing would about freeze us out some evenings.
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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.
It's been a long time since I've done any drywall and even then it wasn't more than a couple hundred square feet total. So after becoming officially YouTube certified Amber and I started mudding and taping (My buddy couldn't make it tonight). We did the first coat on the bottom half of about 40 feet of wall tonight, including the outside of the bathroom. Not bad for the first night. If I can get some good help this weekend we may be able to get all the taping and mudding done.
We got a lot done in the last couple days. All joints have tape and the primary coat of mud, all screws also have a coat of mud. We also finished the drywall on/in the bathroom and painted that.
After working a full day with 3 people in the shop, it's clear I need some sort of sound deadening. With an evap blowing it's impossible to hear what anyone says with all the echoing unless you're only a couple feet apart and looking at each other. I'm really going to look into popcorn ceiling stuff, I think it's the most economical answer.
After working a full day with 3 people in the shop, it's clear I need some sort of sound deadening. With an evap blowing it's impossible to hear what anyone says with all the echoing unless you're only a couple feet apart and looking at each other. I'm really going to look into popcorn ceiling stuff, I think it's the most economical answer.
bp71k5
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We got a lot done in the last couple days. All joints have tape and the primary coat of mud, all screws also have a coat of mud. We also finished the drywall on/in the bathroom and painted that.
After working a full day with 3 people in the shop, it's clear I need some sort of sound deadening. With an evap blowing it's impossible to hear what anyone says with all the echoing unless you're only a couple feet apart and looking at each other. I'm really going to look into popcorn ceiling stuff, I think it's the most economical answer.
Is the popcorn ceiling stuff out there a sound deadener? Out here they just use it to avoid sanding the ceiling, I never realized there was any sound deadening properties. Are you planning on only the ceiling or everywhere?
Yes there is. It’s actually called acoustic out here
What he said.
I'm trying to decide if it will be enough though. All I know is it was very difficult to communicate with a radio playing, evap coolers running or any power tools. With both doors closed just the sound of your voice will echo around the garage for a full second before it dies out.
Most of what I'm reading says it doesn't make a noticeable difference, but that's mainly talking about in a house environment, not an industrial environment like my garage.
bp71k5
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Yea, that’s what I was assuming. We had it on our ceiling and removed it. Didn’t notice any difference other than being nicer looking.
Bummer, that would have been a fairly easy fix.
I’ll bet the flooring has alot to do with it too. I noticed a big difference when I replaced my carpet with tile.
I’m sure once you get your MH back in there and all your other stuff, the sound waves will be broken up much better.
I’m sure once you get your MH back in there and all your other stuff, the sound waves will be broken up much better.
There's an idea, I can do wall to wall carpeting in the garage!
Yeah it’s too bad you can’t weld on it! I used to have a piece of carpet I would throw down when I did mobile heavy equipment repair. It was quite comfortable haha!
Asbestos carpeting!
Just don’t grind it...
I know the carpet is a joke, but hanging stuff on the walls will acomplis5the same thing.
... got like 100 velvet portraits of elvis you could hang up?
... got like 100 velvet portraits of elvis you could hang up?
Putting 'stuff' in there will break up the sound. If after you've put 'stuff' in there it's still too loud you can look into making/hanging acoustical panels from the ceiling and/or from the walls.
It's been a while since I've updated this thread, I've been busy (out of town for work, etc.) and haven't got much done. While I was gone, my friend managed to put 2 more coats of mud on all the walls so it's about 90% ready for paint. Nothing that's noticeable in pictures, but it looks good up close.
I did manage to get the bathroom functional though, the door is on and the toilet is installed.
I also picked up a wall mount kit for the sink and got that set up (Thanks Brent(B3)!).
This weekend I did some vehicle maintenance in the new garage, it's so nice to actually have my Silverado and shop truck INSIDE to work on, no more rolling around in the driveway or having it pulled halfway in. Plus the epoxy coating is super easy to clean up.
I did manage to get the bathroom functional though, the door is on and the toilet is installed.
I also picked up a wall mount kit for the sink and got that set up (Thanks Brent(B3)!).
This weekend I did some vehicle maintenance in the new garage, it's so nice to actually have my Silverado and shop truck INSIDE to work on, no more rolling around in the driveway or having it pulled halfway in. Plus the epoxy coating is super easy to clean up.
We haven't been doing much on the shop lately, but we finally decided that we needed to make it usable so I can prep the S-10 for Blazer Bash (whatever that entails). We only had 6 weekends left now to figure out what's wrong with it and fix it, so we decided to spend one getting the shop usable.
We spent some time on the bottom 8 feet of the wall closest to the house, a lot of time trying to make it fairly decent. Apparently we suck at drywall, but it came out OK. It looked great till I put paint on it of course.
Once we got the wall where all the toolboxes and work areas will be painted we installed lights and fans. There's now 15 lights installed and 4 ceiling fans. Yesterday was a long day, we finished up around 8:30PM, good thing it was only 111 yesterday.
I needed some parts to finish up the switches, so that didn't happen until this afternoon. Once that was done I realized that one of the fans didn't get wired up properly (last one of the day, go figure), but the other 3 are working great!
I need to move my 2 big toolboxes in as well as the welding table, welder, plasma etc. (and I still need to plumb air in), but for the most part, we're in business.
I've got the Blazer Bash in September and a big overland run in October, so maybe between that and KoH I can finish up the paint after the weather cools down (and insulate the ceiling).
We spent some time on the bottom 8 feet of the wall closest to the house, a lot of time trying to make it fairly decent. Apparently we suck at drywall, but it came out OK. It looked great till I put paint on it of course.
Once we got the wall where all the toolboxes and work areas will be painted we installed lights and fans. There's now 15 lights installed and 4 ceiling fans. Yesterday was a long day, we finished up around 8:30PM, good thing it was only 111 yesterday.
I needed some parts to finish up the switches, so that didn't happen until this afternoon. Once that was done I realized that one of the fans didn't get wired up properly (last one of the day, go figure), but the other 3 are working great!
I need to move my 2 big toolboxes in as well as the welding table, welder, plasma etc. (and I still need to plumb air in), but for the most part, we're in business.
I've got the Blazer Bash in September and a big overland run in October, so maybe between that and KoH I can finish up the paint after the weather cools down (and insulate the ceiling).
It's gotta be hot in there with no ceiling insulation down where you live. I lived in my new house for about a month with no ceiling insulation, ac ran all the time and never cooled down. As soon as they came and blew in the insulation in it made a world of difference. I now wish I would've spent the extra to do the garage ceiling but I guess I can always do that myself later. My garage should be ok with a decent window ac unit though I think.
It was 116° yesterday, the evap got it down to a chilly 100 while we were working in there... Unfortunately up by the ceiling it is much hotter.
My old garage doesn't have wall or ceiling insulation, so this is a step up from that, plus I grew up here so I'm used to it somewhat.
When I have more time this winter we'll finish up the paint and I plan on blowing in cellulose to an R30 level which should make a huge difference.
My old garage doesn't have wall or ceiling insulation, so this is a step up from that, plus I grew up here so I'm used to it somewhat.
When I have more time this winter we'll finish up the paint and I plan on blowing in cellulose to an R30 level which should make a huge difference.
