Garage Resto

Some Pictures of the garage redo. It is a 20x20, all block, attached garage with a stucco interior. The ceiling had water damage, and had to remove the drywall from the entire ceiling. The ceiling joist were on 20 inch centers, so I added fabbed beams and sistered them to the exising joist to allow for full 48 inch panels to be installed. I needed alot of light, so semigloss paint was used on the entire interior to reflect the 8, 8ft 4 tube fixtures.
Old garage

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Half the removed ceiling

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I tapped into the houses boiler, and added a 43,000btu heater. The center beam was jacked, and 2x10’s added to make it clean (from all the nails and mesh from the previous stucco) and level.

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All cleaned up, cracks filled, and painted

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Above the garage doors was water damage as well. The stucco was on there so good that it was easier to adhere drywall over the damaged area, and replace the center support for the openers.

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The lights are on 2 switches, for low and high beams, so that I can keep power bills down a bit, and not blind people. The older openers were gone through, and had wireless modules installed on them.

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The door rail brackets were screwed into 2x6’s that I put behind the drywall before installing it, and the holes were drilled with a hole saw so I can hang stuff easily. You never know when you have hang stuff.

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I did 100 percent of the work, to include drywall, heater/plumbing and electrical.

Thanks to ieatpaint for all the help getting the product I want, and the spot on color blue (mixed from a cap to the spray paint) that matches my Miller machines and the spray painted brackets and opener covers.

Love the blue… is that benny moore paint???

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looks great

Nice job :tup:

Hot stuff. That blue is perfect. You need to get your boy Ramiro over there to paint some clouds and shit on your ceiling haha.

you have a damn nice garage

Looks great, you should paint floor blue to top it off.

Nice, thinking about doing anything with the floor?

Yea, replacing it. The floor is far from level, this spring I am adding 40ft to the back of the building, and when the foundation is getting poured, I am having them replace the floating slab in the garage and raising it 2 inches to be above the driveway grade. Then maybe some epoxy :slight_smile:

Looks clean, I am jealous.

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Nice!

Wow. Looks great.

More info on adding heater? I have a boiler system but never really dug into adding another zone.

Looks great man, nice job. Oughta shoot your tool cabinets and / or job boxes that blue and get some Miller vinyl made up.

Awesome garage. Super jealous over here.

The boiler in my house was way over sized, 80,000+ btu. Boiler in a 1,200 sqft house. I added another zone valve, 80 ft of 3/4 tubing through the attic and super insulated it. Then hung a Modine HSB63 unit that is a 43,000btu with 200 degree water and plumbed it up. The thermostat is a standard one, that controls the zone valve, heat call and i added a line voltage contractor to control the fan with the same thermostat.

The thing can crank out some serious heat, and move a lot of air.

It’s like forced air, but i kept only one heating source, and there is no combuster or external vent piping to deal with. In the end it was a 1,000 dollar cost for everything, and i did all the work myself.

Having a heated garage is a dream.

nice

Awesome.

I have 3 zone heating on ~2,000 sq-ft right now. I may be able to add a 4th zone or a 2nd unit. I have a stand-up propane heater right now but it is in the way when I am working.

Thanks for the info.

screw epoxy on the floor… 99% chance it’ll peel no matter how much prep time you invest. look into Armstrong VCT tiles, $0.73 a sq foot retail, and come in plenty of colors like a blue that would be awesome in your garage. Seal it with a clear coat so you don’t have to wax it constantly.

Or better yet have them add color to the concrete when they pour it, then you only need to roll a coat of waterbased clear on it every year/couple years to maintain it.

looks good. I envy your welding table.

Looks good… At 1st glance I thought you went crazy with painters tape, then I realized it was already painted.