Building my garage / workshop (56k death)

[ceo012384]

From the outside, the place looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. Especially considering the doors I built cost about 3% of what I was quoted to have a set built.



Inside looked alright sat night:



Unfortunately I've got a shitty couple of weeks with work, this one and next week, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get much/anything done for a bit

But I'm going to put Katherine to work when she comes to visit

Left:
- One small bit of trim work
- Mudding, sanding
- Clean the whole joint out, throw away scraps, etc to get ready for paint. Lay down plastic sheeting over the whole floor
- Priming, painting
- I want to use a baseboard that I can seal to the floor to make it waterproof. Since the place isn't that big I think I might splurge on these because they'll look fuckin' badass. Then I'll use clear caulking to seal the joint at the floor. Will make mopping the place really easy.

- Design and build workbench. Put a beer fridge under it.
- Build all shelving. The small room will be all shelves, and there will be shelves for the stereo.
- Set up tool chests, fill, organize, etc. In general organize the whole joint.
- Down the road, I want to do the epoxy flooring. We'll see when I get the money and time to do it.

I'm also going to tackle a job in the main basement as well, but that is a story for another day

[Gas Man]

F'in bad ass man... LOOKS GREAT!!!

I love the corner molding! Do that and those rubber floor squares.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

F'in bad ass man... LOOKS GREAT!!!

I love the corner molding! Do that and those rubber floor squares.

We just had that done in our service drive and express lube at work.
Looks sweet as hell, and is nice to walk/work on... but it was BIG $$$ too.

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

F'in bad ass man... LOOKS GREAT!!!

I love the corner molding! Do that and those rubber floor squares.

Thanks dude!!!

Yeah, I don't want to do the rubber piece-together floor for a lot of reasons, as I said before.... but I am leaning towards the baseboards. I think I can swing em.













I was able to get one good day of work done in the garage this past weekend. I had Katherine up, and she wanted to see it and help a bit. She rocks Next weekend will be dedicated to garage work and starting my bike prep for the track in 3 weeks and for the season in general.

Basically applied the rest of the 1st mud coat after doing a bunch of moving and organizing of things, and then sanded half of that first coat. Three coats and three sands should do it, so it's coming along...

Here's a few camera phone pics, and a couple Kat took, being a paparazzi smartaleck:











At this point, I'll have sort of a double focus for the next few weeks until my track days: the garage, and doing some bike prep for the track is in order since I am a little anxious about all of that getting done (new tires, 4kmile service, new SS brake lines and HH pads, tank sliders, etc.)

[Mr Lefty]

ok... but where's the pics of Kat?!

[Katherine]

I'm in one of those pictures. You just can't tell because CEO was in a mudding mood and mudded me.

[Mr Lefty]

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