garage & living space addition thread

[spockcat]

Oh trust me, it could be much worse.

LOL, pair of 12' overhead doors. Someone with two motorhomes?

[cmoar]

LOL, pair of 12' overhead doors. Someone with two motorhomes?

Actually, it's someone with one sedan.

[Slayer]

We finally finished painting all of the cabinets that we picked up for the new garage. The tall 2 door one was finished first, then we did two small 36x28 (a 2 drawer, and a sliding door cab), and finally we did the 3 big stand up drawer units. Had a 36x64, 42x64, and a 42x53. Two of them are lateral file cabs with the doors that flip up, and one is just drawers.









Got a total of $35 into everything you see here that is red

[Slayer]

I think these cabinets should work out great.. started loading a little of our liquids and general car supplies in there.

Got all the usual stuff.. 5 gallons of 5w40 Rotella, Harley oil, Hydraulic fluid, tranny fluid, brake fluid, coolant, spark plugs, oil filters, grease, thinner, mineral spirits, 4 gallons of window washer fluid & Heet (meth injection supplies), rags, paper napkins, garbage bags, plastic rolls, and a small bin of detailing stuff.

[Visheau]

this thread and the project are awesome. I'm glad I just found it so I could enjoy 3 years of progress in an hour or so

[Slayer]

this thread and the project are awesome. I'm glad I just found it so I could enjoy 3 years of progress in an hour or so

I wish I could have enjoyed 3 years of it in an hour


We went to a cookout, then decided to go see if there was anything small we could do in the garage.. which turned into moving a bunch of crap, and putting up some more pallet rack

I got to play monkey and climb up there. I stood on the transmission of the motor, then the top bar of the engine stand, put a grate up on the shelf, and climbed up to put the top pieces in. I'm getting too fat to be doing that spiderman ****! hahah




We need to make a rolling base for that damn blasting cabinet.. not sure where it's going, and we keep moving it around. I still have to put some top shelves on the left side

[Slayer]

We picked up some metal drawer / bin units today 17x 38x60 for $80

[Slayer]

Whew! I just finished fixing ALL of the image links in this thread, and the same thread on another forum.

Apple decided that when they moved to the new iCloud setup, that they were discontinuing the mobile picture galleries that I had ALL of my pictures uploaded to. I had to recreate the galleries on Picasa, and then re-link each one.. . I love Apple, but that was a dick move on their part.

I didn't want the thread to go to **** since it would be useless without pics

[.T.o.n.y.]

[Slayer]

Not much new on the house, but we bought a lathe over the weekend



If you want to see more about it, I have a post on the garage journal - http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=156806

[FlashRedGLS1.8T]

You stole that thing Slayer. Very nice.

[Robski92]

Looks really nice, I love seeing projects like this when an addition gets incorporated nicely into the pre-existing structure.

[onevrsix]

Well done sir, well done indeed

[Slayer]

I just realized that I haven't updated this in months.. We got some stuff here and there done.

Electrical is 100% done now.. fire alarms, smoke detectors, and all the plugs, including the 220 stuff for the welder and whatnot. Still have to hang more lights in the garage though

BEST $72 FAN EVER! It moves almost 10,000cfm of air on high


Picked up a Kohler cast iron sink, and a nice Kraus faucet with a big springy sprayer. Not sure what the hell you call it, but it looks awesome


I bought a bunch of Ikea's Akurum Abstrakt high gloss white cabinets like these:


Looks like an Ikea store in the garage:


Here's a few of the open boxes without drawers or anything just sitting on the floor for a quick idea of what the shape will be. They aren't all there, we just needed some quick measurements. Still not sure what we are going to do on the backs of those cabinets there since that's where the breakfast bar is. Probably have to cover the back in wood and paint it or something.


Yay, hangy lights for over the breakfast bar.. need to cut about 6ft off the cords though


We found a wood guy and had him make some stairs, risers, railings and styles for the up and downstairs hallways, as well as some ~2.25" black oak countertops (tops aren't done yet). They are the normal depth except where where the breakfast bar area is, that will be ~36" deep to have an overhang. We are going to do the final finish on them ourselves, so its all planed / sanded raw wood at this point.


Also ordered some Viking appliances for upstairs as well, but they haven't come in yet.

[Slayer]

nein....

If you want to pay for them, I'll gladly use those instead

[Slayer]

The bathroom is all set other than the trim, and the wall needs to be cleaned, still got some grout smudge above the tile

[vwshloman]

Wow thats awesome. Im so close to you too. I work in windham. Nice build thread

[Slayer]

Hah, kinda funny how many people on the internet are so close by

[Slayer]

Apparently the appliances are on backorder.. Yay!. The poles for the railings are all shellac'ed and polyurethaned. Still have to get the large countertop upstairs for the finish to be put on so we don't scratch it on the way up, so not a whole lot has changed.

We did manage to get the mini server rack that was to go under the landing in the upstairs breezeway finished though. It started as a 42u (~6ft tall) 2 post telecom rack, but I disassembled it, and then we chopped up the rails to make it shorter, and to turn it into a make-shift 4 post rack so that I could put long server cases in it.

I forgot to take a picture of it before I disassembled it, but here it is partially chopped up:



We grabbed some 1" angle iron, and some 2.5" angle iron from the recycling place to make a frame with wheels and also to support the tops of the posts. Recently we picked up a new dewalt dwm120 portable bandsaw and a swag offroad vertical table for it so we could cut long lengths of metal, and it chopped through it like butter:



picked up 4 275lb straight casters from harbor freight ,bolted to the angle iron, and test fit on the rails before drilling holes


Got them bolted up and rolling. The front of the rack is 24u's, back is like 20, but that's the way I wanted it. I was mimicing a skeletek rack, but saving $260. This way I can have the patch panel and switch gear at the top, and the rest I could put rails and servers if I wanted


made some quick angle iron supports for the tops of the posts and jammed some self tapping tec screws in there


I was going to run some supports from the front post to the backs, but it's solid enough that it doesn't need it.. and all the heavy stuff is going to be on the bottom. Plus I ran out of screws



I might swap out the keystone patch panel for one of the two regular punch down style panels that I have, and use the keystone just for rg6 connections. Still waiting on a 2u 2200va rackmount ups, and 2u extended run battery tray to show up



I just used whatever length wires I had to get it operational for right now. Will make cables to length later on to tidy it up

[Slayer]

I got my ups and the extended battery tray in on Friday. I went to rack it and realized that I goofed up a bit when I sized the opening on the rack.. it's about 1/4" too narrow to put the rails on, then slide the ups inbetween the rails. The ups itself fits between the posts, but the thickness of the rails to hold it made it not fit. That's what I get for eyeballing it and not measuring, LOL. Anyways, I made it work by flipping the rails upside down, and putting the ups and battery tray on top of it (to get the full width of the posts), and then installed my small supermicro server inbetween the rails. It all worked out. Its fired up and all 12 batteries are charged


I also took the time to make some new cables and tidy things up a bit. No more 35ft network cords to go 14" and stuff. I also ziptied the power cords nicely so those aren't a tangled ball of **** anymore. The one thing that I need to mount properly is the cable line, but I'll do that some other day.

[Slayer]

Haven't updated in a while, got some stuff done upstairs, and got a few more goodies for the garage since then.

The countertops are stained and polyurethaned now, small cabinets are bolted to the wall, and counters mounted. The tops are 2" thick black oak, and the breakfast bar one is 37.5"x10'2"





The large breakfast bar top is sitting on top, not mounted yet. We're going to do the back of the cabinets there with some plywood, then cover with metal and do it up modern industrial style with bolts and stuff, as well as make some "feet" for the ends of the counter on the overhanging side



We were waiting for the appliances to show up before putting any stairs or railings in because of the weight.. damn stove was 410lbs, fridge was almost 400, so we luckily were able to borrow a stair walking hand truck from someone who owns a lock & safe company







Yay!



The small set of stairs in the upstairs hallway are done, as well as the floor on the landing now that the appliances are up there.





Next thing to do will be the posts, railings, styles and the long set of stairs to the first floor. Since we're going for a modern industrial style, the posts are going to be attached with weathered lag bolts and metal plates. The pic makes the bolts look rusty, but they aren't. It's just the flash



The wall is going to be repainted, and the bottom rail for the styles is L shaped to go over the edge of the flooring and onto the wall, so all that will be covered



And here's a few new goodies we got for the garage that I don't think I've posted:

Pexto 36" 16ga sheet metal brake


Baldor 1.5hp 2" metal belt grinder


1950's Atlas 15" drill press. sorry for the potato camera pic


1940's? Craftsman power hacksaw that we're going to have to make a new base for and rewire

[Bill6211789]

this an an amazing transformation. Im and extremely envious, looking into buying my first house soon with a tiny single car garage ha.

great work and keep it up!!

[200HP4dr]

Just read the whole thread. First, how ridiculous is the guy that wants to regulate how everybody wants to build their house.

Second: Nice job. If it were my place, I'd do it the exact same way.

Chris

[Slayer]

Yeah, that guy was one of them architecture snobs who doesn't live in the real world. Anyways, here's some of the railings up in the hallway

[barry2952]

Mission meets Industrial Age.

[barry2952]

This is a box, or finger brake, isn't it? I want.

[Slayer]

yep, its a box / finger brake. All them green vertical blocks above the blade? unbolt, and those sections come out individually. There's some pieces that are narrow, others that are longer so you can mix and match for whatever your needs are size wise

[Slayer]

Mission meets Industrial Age.

That's a good way to describe the railings and stuff out there. Upstairs it will be more modern industrial once its done. Getting some cool metal items laser cut, and have some neat cast iron pieces for tables and shelves up there

[darkk]

Almost everything you see was made by us. There are a few items we did not have equipment for so we designed it and had it made to our specs. We have a vision and are just winging it as we go. Glad that any mistakes we make/made are minor and easily corrected as we go along.

[Slayer]

Still poking around with stairs here and there, not much changed, but half the first floor stairs are done. Had to figure out how exactly we were going to do the posts down there before going too far with it



We put a deposit on a bridgeport milling machine today though, totally jazzed about that Its got a 42" table, a vise, bridgeport power feed, and the guy is going to put a 220v 3 phase motor on it for us. We only have single phase 220 at the house, but we're going to buy a variable frequency drive for that converts single to 3 phase, and it allows the motor to run at any rpm. That way you don't have to stop, untension the belt, move it, and then fire it back up. With a vfd and 3 phase, you can just dial the speed, and the spindle will slow down or speed up on the fly. We're going to be picking it up in 2-3 weeks when the weather allows

[White Jetta]

Yeah, that guy was one of them architecture snobs who doesn't live in the real world. Anyways, here's some of the railings up in the hallway

Where did you get this style of railing from? I need to do my upstairs railings soon and i'm looking for a good source.

[spockcat]

Where did you get this style of railing from? I need to do my upstairs railings soon and i'm looking for a good source.

The spindles look like the normal metal ones you can buy at HD for exterior use. The plates are probably home made by the owner (all that metalworking equipment). The wood looks to be done by the owner too.

[Slayer]

Where did you get this style of railing from? I need to do my upstairs railings soon and i'm looking for a good source.

The spindles look like the normal metal ones you can buy at HD for exterior use. The plates are probably home made by the owner (all that metalworking equipment). The wood looks to be done by the owner too.

The railing styles / balusters (black metal poles) are from either decksdirect.com or deckorators.com and they are black aluminum. They are attached with these plastic bases that screw in from the center, and then the post is slipped over the top. The wood was our design, and we had a guy with a woodworking shop cut it all for us, and we picked it up raw unfinished. The metal plates we made downstairs in the garage

[White Jetta]

It's really nice looking. I'll have to do some custom work myself because I have a unique and somewhat different stairwell. I'm gathering ideas for something that looks nice like that but is overall simple in design and installation.

[Mtl-Marc]

It's really nice looking.

This.