Pretty much, storage. And it is probably WAY more than I need. I also plan to eventually have a furnace (maybe even central air; this is mostly because my dad is talking about upgrading his furnace/central air system that still works). No rooms, no living space. Granted, if I planned some plumbing, I would have made a full bath lol!

 

5/9/2024 - They finished the roof and began the siding.

 

5-16-2024 - Well, the windows still haven't arrived. The guy running the crew today said the boss said to come out and finish the siding. He said they will have to pull panels of siding off to fit the windows in after they arrive. Not how he wanted to handle it, but that is what the boss wanted. Concrete for the floor is tentative early next week.

 

Looking sweet Maniac, namesake fits, jheesh from what I have read it will be a dream for a wrench turning car aficionado such as yourself. You know you can expect the random neighbor knocking on your door, looking for automotive help once you get the gas pump island and all the Shell, Mobil signs put up. So the pool is next? No, all kidding aside, you have every reason to be proud of this, your new home away from home (50 ft). Insulated, heated, mini-fridge, bed. Good job, above and beyond us poor folks garage. Now get back to work for 25 more years and get that paid off. Yikes!!

 

Insulation, electrical, gas coming later, but will happen. All baby steps lol.
But, yeah, definitely some bills to pay.

 

Today the guys from the seamless gutter company came by. This was very cool, a machine they have in a trailer takes a pre-painted roll of aluminum to a nicely formed gutter.

Sunday and today, may dad put a total of two coats of DryLok on the inside cinder block. I wanted to get the outside before they back filled, but they handled that so quick I never had a chance (but I will still try to get what is exposed in time). I wanted this done before the concrete slab is poured. And the slab is planned for pouring Wednesday.

 

Wow, thats pretty neat- never heard of it before. Saw some cool examples on YouTube

You're really flying on this project- almost looks complete already!

 

Raynor Overhead doors I used to be a dealer for them back in the 90's and then I gave that up.
When I had an issue with one that I had I called the Raynor Dealer that I always used for installation and they had a fully sealed Clopay insulated door and we got a energy credit for it too. It still works great. I service the doors every year( Clean the tracks, Oil or grease the rollers, make sure the tension is right, etc.)
avoid the extension spring setup if at all possible. go with Torsion springs they will mount on the Header, and when your spring breaks replace both of them.

 

Yesterday, 5/22/2040, the floor slab has been poured! I think all the concrete was in place in roughly 2 hours. The rest of the time was the work they put into it. Looks pretty darn nice. They were originally going to seal it (as the one guy said, it would look like glass). I let him know I plan to epoxy coat the floor, so they are skipping on the sealer. Odds are I will use the Rustoleum RockSolid coating and apply it myself. I Have used the Rustoleum epoxy coatings in the basement at my old home and we applied it to my sister's garage. It took a while in her garage, but it is showing some wear and tear. I used the RockSolid coating in my current garage. Overall, I am happy with it. Despite being confident I followed their prep properly, there are areas with small marks where the RockSolid did not adhere to specific spots of the floor (which was new concrete that had sat beyond the days they tell you to wait before coating). Out side of that, the coating seems to have held up well for what I do in that garage (which is not much, but I do slide a floor jack around and the floor seems to handle it).

 

Same here, although I think we're in a small minority there. We were over at a family friends house a few months ago and their door sounded like a Panzer tank rolling down a gravel road at full speed. They said they dont do any PM on it ever and the thing was easily 10+ years old. Never understood not taking the time to keep up your greatest asset (and potential liability when things start to break).

Its amazing how fast it goes once the pouring starts! On both of our recent pours, there were times we had 3 trucks on site limited only by the speed of the pumper (and even at that, they swapped out for a bigger pumper on the first truck of the first pour because it wasn't going fast enough with the long distance).


I will admit I'm very surprised how expensive they are. Id really like to go that route too due to the long trusses. Id like to keep as much hanging weight off them as I can to minimize the center deflection, and frankly the side openers look a lot cleaner.

But I dunno anymore at $400-500 a piece. We did Craftsman belt drives at our last place that were only $100ish 10 years ago and had zero issues. I see today they're running closer to $140. Not sure I can justify paying 3x for side mounts. $2500 in openers alone makes me a little sick, lol.