New Garage Pictures

[Snkypete]

Since Glenn's post got us talking about garages.....we're in the process of building a new house and since it is custom and not a spec house I was able to customize the garage a bit.

The third bay is vaulted and DirectLift sells a lift that a SuperDuty will fit under so in went plans to finally have a killer garage.

This weekend my friend Ken who is a painter primed and put the first coat of paint on, we're hoping to have it finished up for the most part next week. The lower section will be painted as close to Performance Red as I could find (I brought my stock fuel door to be color matched but the computer stated 'it requires too much color to match'. Then there will be a black stripe separating the red/gray.

The floor will be done with UCoatIt and I have a friend who owns a vinyl shop who is making my logo to embed before we put the final coat down.

It's still a bit disorganized in there, I did a bit more cleaning today after I took these but it won't get a final cleaning until after all the workers leave.

Vaulted ceiling (the two beams will be painted red) - excuse the haze, there was a lot of dirt I was sweeping up.

This gives a pretty good perspective - the ceiling on the right is 11' :

Door and opener :

 

[MineralGray02K]

Damn dude, kick ass!!

 

[Snkypete]

Yeah I'm pretty psyched. I also have Internet and Cable in a data outlet. The garage is also wired through the security system and the CCTV just in case

Lift will be coming March/April hopefully (we're ridiculously over budget) and then I get to start building work benches, storage, etc.

The compressor will be going in the front left corner and (from the other thread) there will be a 45k BTU radiant heater on the ceiling between the 2/3 bays.

We also put a curtain drain around all three bays for car washing or floor washing and a simple squeegie to clean up.

 

[Timspony]

...Nice garage...I have a 3 stall, 26.7' x 36.0', 11' high (I play hoops when the wife is out), heated (Lenox 60k gas hot air) garage myself...plus a frig!

 

[Snkypete]

Very nice!

I hadn't thought about a small fridge...I might have to do that.

I like how your garage is setup! I specifically didn't have any windows in the garage though for security. I noticed your diecast, I have a bit of an obsession collecting too. Currently I have 4 shelves in my den and a showcase at the end of our hallway - the new place I have built a floor/ceiling niche 8' wide which should give me room to expand the collection a bit more.

I was thinking about putting all my plaques/car pictures/trophies in my office, but now you have me thinking they might be better in the garage. Have you noticed any of them getting in the way while you're working on the car?

 

[Timspony]

Very nice!

I hadn't thought about a small fridge...I might have to do that.

I like how your garage is setup! I specifically didn't have any windows in the garage though for security. I noticed your diecast, I have a bit of an obsession collecting too. Currently I have 4 shelves in my den and a showcase at the end of our hallway - the new place I have built a floor/ceiling niche 8' wide which should give me room to expand the collection a bit more.

I was thinking about putting all my plaques/car pictures/trophies in my office, but now you have me thinking they might be better in the garage. Have you noticed any of them getting in the way while you're working on the car?

Thanks...No problems with the windows, pretty safe around here...worst case I put up some blinds!

I do have Car Pictures, Plaques & Trophies in the Garage (I store a the lawn tools/rakes... in the basement)...No problems...Good conversation piece's...

Most of my diecast are signed! Dale Jr., Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch, Jack Roush, Michael Waltrip...I'm a huge mark Martin fan!

 

[Snkypete]

I'm admittedly a bit security paranoid....a decent amount of $ went into security for the house mostly because we're at the end of a culdesac, you can't see the house from the road and I don't see anyone getting a land loan for a few years and construction loans now require 25% down which is hard in this economy.

I'm a Force fan - for a while when I was doing consulting work I was keeping up with every car that came out. I have all of the Gatornational cars from '95 (the hard to get T/FD) to 2002 and a bunch of misc FCs, T/FDs, and then I started collecting the 1/64 haulers - they're pretty cool. My favorite though is a 1/24 John Force show hauler dually/trailer - it's almost 2' long.

 

[irishpwr46]

quick question. will you be able to open the garage door with a car up on the lift?

 

[Snkypete]

Yes with that specific opener. I will have to back the car in though. I need 11'7" to clear the top of the car with the truck underneath - I only have about 11'3". With the side of the roof coming in they couldn't really curve the track for the door any more vertically (although I might try it, a little heat should be able to bend the track a bit more). I also want to measure the car on the lift to see how far back it comes, the door might only go to the trunklid and then I'd have clearance pulling in forward.

If you have a Chevy 2500 or a F150, you can use the DirectLift standard 8000 lift and not require as much overall height.

 

[wildponies]

cool I have a sick garage in my florida house but there no car in it...its a 3 car so I set up so I can put 2 cars on the appoxy floor the later on I will install the pergo floor and set up a lounge area with a couch, tv, fridge, you know a mans room...

 

[irishpwr46]

nice. when the time comes i am probably just gonna get a short lift and build a pit

 

[wildponies]

good Idea lots of the guys I know have that and it woks out for them..I built a few for guys I know. I am a mason by trade and have fun doing it with them..

 

[irishpwr46]

i was a mason myself for a while. got out of it and into plumbing

 

[wildponies]

plumbing is a good trade. mason is good but its f#*#* heavy and lots of winter lay offs...

 

[irishpwr46]

exactly why i got out

 

[wildponies]

Thank God I am a good carpenter as well so I always have work..

 

[matt07gt]

sknypete....I have the same opener. The Liftmaster....it works pretty good. The install and pretty simple and its real quite. Nice garage.

 

[Snkypete]

Cool good to hear some other experiences with the opener. I wanted one at my current place when we built it 10 years ago, but they were commercial only then.

 

[1QWKVERT]

i wish i had a garage

 

[NYGT]

Very nice garage.