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The Man Cave reno starts

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Finally after many years I find myself with enough spare money to finish the inside of the garage. Nothing fancy mind you. Just insulation, vapour barrier, drywall and lights (lots of lights!). Today since I wanted to do some work on the bike (actually I wanted to ride but the weather was lousy), I decided I would also like to see what I was doing for a change. I went to Home depot and picked up an 8' dual bulb flouresent (2- 60 watt bulbs). Install took about 15 minutes and what a difference! I will be installing 2 more of the same once the ceiling is done. I will also be putting in some flooring for the corner that the 3 bikes sit. The Garage is a free standing(not attached to house) that is 24' by 22' with a 8~12 pitch, shake roof. No windows for security and good sized storage built into the engineered trusses. It has to hold 2 cars and 3 bikes along with all the yard maintenance junk. I like doing this sort of work, and look forward to being able to work out there this winter.
 
Nice! Lights make such a big difference. Post up photos as you go.

I'm closing on a townhouse in about three weeks and one of my first projects is proper lighting in a garage. It's finished out in real, genuine 1981 wood paneling. :frown: About two gallons of Kilz primer, and three banks of lights and I'm good to go.
 
I rocked the wood veneer in my 1976 singlewide.....shall never be soooo lucky again......literally

As if redoing the inside (floors/paint/trim) was not enough last year.....I find myself pushing the evenlope for more things to build....but the planning committee says it is a "NO GO!"
 
Mine is much like your cave Lee. I do have a beer fridge (small one) and have given thought to the urinal! ;) Mister Miser Folding Urinal | ecogadget

I have a detatched 24' x 24' with a 10/12 pitch and engineered loft trusses. I've insulated and rocked the walls (no tape or mud yet) and will do the ceiling before this winter.

Billy and Tony will see why I am reluctant to do the ceiling when they see it this weekend. I have quite a bit stored on top of the rafters as this point and not a lot of space to put it if I take that away. But, it has to be done.

Biggest issue right now is all three kids use my garage for storage! Granted some of it was recently dropped off for a couple weeks and then it will move up to Maine where my oldest boy is securing an apartment... But I've got more of their stuff in there than my own. Also in there is a lot of the stuff I bought for the new mudroom going up in the next couple weeks.

I really want to add on a 10' expansion off the backside of the garage to relocate most of the stuff we are storing plus move all the lawn, deck and garden stuff out there for winter... and the bikes for the winter.
 
Saturday a.m. delivery

We have a long weekend coming up, so on Saturday morning the garage materials will be delivered. It is supposed to be cold and raining on Sunday (cool and cloudy on Saturday). Perfect weather for doing insulation and drywall. I also have the stair ladder coming at the same time. It will be a one man job but with an extra day I should get it all done but the mudding. I am in no hurry for that ugly job. That part may take years..... Oh and Aaron, sorry no urinal.
 
two things I can do, but really hate to....and they involve mud....

sheetrock and the other being finishing concrete.

best of luck on the rock, but you can always build shelves to hide everything.....
 
It's a garage... mud it with best effort... make it look like stucco and you can be almost as careless as you'd like. :D

I've yet to tape and mud mine and now the walls are covered with hooks and shelving. It is likely to never happen now.

Wish I was there to help. I don't mind manual labor when I work in a cube all week!
 
BroHay said:
two things I can do, but really hate to....and they involve mud....

sheetrock and the other being finishing concrete.

best of luck on the rock, but you can always build shelves to hide everything.....
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Thanks. I really like doing this sort of work. I have worked with sheetrock since I was a kid, helping my father do renos'. I have also renovated an old house (My first, built in 1918), tearing out lathe and plaster and putting in drywall. NEVER again! I don't even mind the mudding, it's the sanding that really drives me nuts. Maybe if I was better at the mudding, and wasn't a perfectionist.
 
Major progress

I spent the Victoria long weekend in my Garage. While the roofers put the new roof on the house, I put the new interior in my Garage. The bikes got a bit of mileage just moving from one corner to the other. I put in the fiberglass insulation, vapour barrier, and most of the sheetrock by myself over 2 days. The ceiling is not complete as I ran out of juice by noon the third day. Ten foot sheetrock is hard to do by yourself. I am going to rent or make a drywall lift and do it this Saturday as it is going to be raining again.

Paused to take a shot of the cousins on day 3.

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Another wet week-end, work

While the snow and rain came down all weekend, I worked in my garage. I was not enjoying the ceiling sheetrocking, so I rented a "Drywall Lift" on friday on the way home from work. It breaks down into 5 peices for easy transport (even in my vintage Tercel hatchback). By midnight on Friday the ceiling was finished! Too easy with the lift, 10' sheets of wallboard by myself and no sore head, no broken sheets, no trouble, the lift doesn't get tired holding. Returned it on Saturday morning, job done ($35.00 at Home Depot Rentals-Well Worth It). Then I installed a second dual 8' flouresent light at 90 degrees to the one I installed previously. That should do it for lighting (it's bright in there now). Next I installed moulding around the "man door" and the attic stairs. I found a product called "safe door" at Home Depot while I was there and installed that as well. It is a metal "C" channel that slides over the edge of the door where the bolt goes through and is glued on with silicone. Most metal door have a weakness in that the edge of the door is wood and is vulnerable to kick in. The metal channel eliminated that weakness and comes with a Heavy duty strike plate that is about 10" long with holes for the door latch and dead bolt, and comes with 6" screws (long enought to go into the double studs around the opening. When I was building the garage I installed cross braces on each side of the door between the studs to prevent the opening being spread (with a jack) as some thieves will do to get past locks. This makes me feel a bit better about the security of my Toy Shop. At the very least the thieves would have to work much harder! Safe Door Systems - Door Safe System
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After all that I installed a new shop vac (wet / dry) that hangs on the wall, I got a smokin' deal on it ($50.00 off at Canadian Tire).

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Then I sorted out all my tools and put them in a proper tool cabinet.

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Finished off with a bit of cleaning. It is still raining and I am out of things to do. I will take some pictures today of the progress, (it will give me something to do.
 
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