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New Garage

What a great space I'm envious . Waiting for the boys to finish school then we're moving and I am going to build my garage or purchase a home with one I can turn into a shop .
I have a garage attached to the house now but in the subdivision were in there's not enough space .
Nicely done .
 
Progress is slow but always moving forward.
I got the basement door hung and an interior latch installed.
Still need to install the panic bar...
The mortar at the brick in front is almost dried out and has turned lighter...It actually matches the house pretty good...
All of the framing for the shelving is complete...plywood should go on tonight...

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The electric for the basement receptacles is tied into the panel upstairs and all of the plugs and covers are installed...
Basically everything on the east elevation is pretty complete...
I have one 8' x 8' section of insulation to finish and then tape everything on the west end and I can install the plywood for the in floor radiant heating system...


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Thx...
The slab above has pex in it and will be what heats the entire shop...Bad thing is the T-stat for it is upstairs in the garage...
In a perfect world it should stay warm...IF it's too warm I can address that...At least it shouldn't be too cold and trying to sweat...
With any luck I'll have the insulation finished and taped Saturday...hopefully have the plywood on the shelving for the totes and maybe get the plywood on the wall to start sorting out the in-floor radiant heating.
I have 1200 L' of 1/2" pex in the floor...I need to figure out what the volume of fluid inside the pex will be at some point. It is set up with 4 zones each 300' long.
I bought a radiant heating "panel" that was removed from a house that was to be demolished.
It has a newer controller...all of the return and supply piping and had 4 pumps.
Near as I can tell I can use the piping, controller and 1 pump and keep an extra for a spare.
Looked into an electric tankless hot water heater...In looking at the power requirements I'd just rather stick to the old plan of using LP Gas...I have no access to natural gas or that's what I would be using...
It's about 12 gallons.
 
It's about 12 gallons.

Thx...Pete Bell I missed your post above as we posted at almost the same time...Thx...

Working Friday night and Saturday I was able to get a few things buttoned up...
Plywood is completed where the shelving for the totes is...It should be enough space to put about 34 totes...
I finished all of the plywood on the west wall and installed the last piece of 2" insulation and taped all of the seams...
I also have been in contact with a company that designs in floor heating systems...I sent them all of the pertinent information and they are going to spec out the BTU's required to heat the space.
It is supposed to be a complete heating system list that I can pick and choose what is needed and order everything from a single supplier...
www.pexheat.com


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I permanently installed two of the lights and swapped the tubes out for the LED tubes.
These are just the cheap 4' tube fixtures from Lowe's at about 28.00 each with GE LED tubes added...I shot a ceiling clip to the metal pan deck and used 3 links of the chain included with the fixtures and bolted them up...Just plugged them in and they're finished...If ever needed I can unbolt them and swap them out in the future if anything happens...


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There has been a little more progress...
Sunday was decent enough to take the other set of shelving outside and sand and paint it. Once it dried I got it installed into the recessed blocking.
This corner area is supposed to be for all the home and construction related supplies rather than having everything upstairs in the garage...

With all of the insulation finished I was able to go through and remove all the excess insulation materials and start getting things organized.
I built a second overhead rack for storing long items and a place to store the 24' extension ladder.

The 3" x 3" tubing on the rack was two 21' lengths that were being thrown away at work...I'll turn them into something useful...


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I added a brace to the front of the wood rack that will store the totes...
Started scraping some of the mortar off of the concrete floors and cleaning them up some...

The basement slab set outside for over two years with concrete blocks stored on it so it's not going to clean up great but its only a storage area...

Third picture is before any construction....

Last picture is the front with the brick installed...


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Finished cleaning the basement slab and got the concrete stain finished. 2 coats applied and I have enough for a final coat.
I'm going to have to wait for warmer weather to finish this up.

I added 6" to the bottom plywood shelf since the longer totes wanted to hang off the shelf.


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I wasn't happy with leaving the foil insulation exposed...it just looked too unfinished...
Priced out plywood...then have to paint it...
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Decided to go another route using white Masonite....muuuuch better...
I added recessed blocking in the wall for a an old 3' x 7' door I had as a countertop. Then capped the ends with a 2x4 to keep things from rolling off.
With 24 1/2" deep base cabinets left over from the kitchen I still had a gap behind them so I built shelves that are 7' long for storing trim and roll bar tubing.
Then added 3 wall cabinets above...
The Masonite is the same as the white pegboard...I bought one sheet...cut it down and installed it where I needed to hang tools...


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I decided to use an MDF trim that is already primed white at the seams of the Masonite and as a base at the bottom of the wall.
Three different sizes at 1 1/2", 2 1/2" and 3 1/2" wide.
Installed the Masonite at the east wall and added another section of pegboard for construction tools only.
I also started moving tools and supplies out from the basement of the house and upper garage so that everything is organized in one area...
All of the different nails...screws...anchors...shots and pins and such makes for a lot of differing individual fasteners...
I bought 12" wide MDF shelving and created a storage system utilizing storage bins and empty screw containers to infill the area below the upper cabinets...
These are a small metal storage bins and the shelving is set up for two containers high and two containers deep in each row...
The red ones are just plastic but are also set up for two deep...
The best part is I still have a 24" countertop with 12" of storage behind it and plenty of room to tinker with stuff without being too small of a countertop...
It will all be a little less "crowded" once I get the upstairs finished and move the car related stuff upstairs...


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The also got panic bar installed on the back door...
Also finished moving some more tools down from the upper garage...
Believe it or not as cold as it has been (mid 20's at night) I have been able to heat this small space with only this tiny heater...(only slightly bigger than a candle Devon...)


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Well,if the wife doesn’t see you in house? She’ll know where you are, love it!
 
Love it, cabinets look great. Starting to look like a garage.
 
I was a furniture maker by trade and built and owned enough houses to choke a small army, probably overstated!! But that is well thought out, well built and as nice as any I have seen!!!! Very well done, congrats!
 
Thx for all the replies...:thankyou:

We had this organizer setting in the basement of the house...not sure where it came from but it turned out to be pretty handy.

I needed something simple to put like items in to get them out of the cabinet drawers and metal bolt bins...It's a little unconventional but worked out pretty well...

Again some of this will get moved upstairs once the working area of the garage is finished but for now everything is organized...

After the post that was in the General Forum on Moparts regarding garage insurance and taking pictures of tools and possessions I've been trying to document stuff as I go. You just never know...

I had a roll of labels left so I figured I'd label each bin to make everything easier...
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I'd suppose you could do the same thing with an old metal filing cabinet...
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Not a lot of construction going on but I have been moving parts over from the basement of the house...upper garage and storage for my 65 Coronet and 65 Belvedere II.
It's starting to fill up a little more...
There is a lot of parts condensed into the totes as nearly all of them are completely full.
Top shelf has odd shaped boxes of parts...and I have been trying to take an inventory of what else I need to get or need something nicer than I have...I really thought I had most everything for my 65 Bell II...Not so much...


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A few goodies that are already tucked away...
The last one is the inside of what has to be cleanest dash frame I've ever seen...


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