Garage workshop setup

The peg board looks crappy without anything on it. It looks great when wrenches, screwdrivers are arranged orderly. Hell my wife and kids find tools easily. All those boards look to busy to me. However it's your space.

You boys have inspired me to clean up my act. My garage is horrible. I got 2 cars stuffed in there. All the lawn tools. Car stuff. Engine blocks. transmissions, tires, crazy stuff that I dont need taking up precious space. I got stuff spilling out of the garage. its crazy. Ill be doing some major spring cleaning. I like your ideas of anything not car related (lawn tools, bikes, etc etc) is not in the garage. Ill get one of those little sheds. My dad is a helluva welder and he built me a steel table workbench. That thing is indestructable. So I'm good there. Vert I'm with you on the peg boards they can be a pain. I like the screws and hooks theory. More sturdy. Although Vibrant your peg boards look great! I have 2 ugly but strong shelves that stretch across the back of the garage. Im loving the floors too guys. Looks great. I will be laying one myself come April. Cant wait till the weather breaks. Sooooooo ready to finish up my car. Great thread Vibrant.

BlackVert said:

I know what you mean about the other being too busy.

What did you do about the way the hooks pull out of the board so easily? I don't know why that bugs me so much.

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I'll take a pic of my peggage this weekend. I think you mean if you pull a wrench off the pegboard the hook comes with it. Not the case. They have these black tabs that click onto the hook so they are pressed on the board. If you don't have the press tabs then the hook will come off.

I applied the U-Coat It epoxy floor covering with my dad in his garage about 7 years ago and it still looks great despite seeing -10* temps + salt + sand in the winter and 100+* temps in the summer. IIRC it was around $500-$700 for a 500 square foot garage floor kit and included the cleaning materials, the etching solution, rollers and roller covers, primer, epoxy paint, colored chips, and a clear coat. Definitely worth it IMO.

Also, depending on where you live insulating a garage can be an excellent way to save gas and energy in the winter. With an attached garage you can easily see a 20+ degree increase from the cold temps outside if you have an insulated garage meaning your car will warm up faster and not waste as much gas trying to warm up.

At my last house, I had a detached single car garage... I insulated, sheetrocked, and painted it for under $500 and when it was 5* outside in the morning it would still be around 30-35* in the garage. Anyways, like wythors and revhead said the best thing you can do is to declutter by moving the gardening/yard stuff into a backyard shed.

In my new house we have a large 2 stall attached garage and my plan is to build an upper level in the garage w/ a 9' ceiling at the garage level. Ultimately I'll be insulating and sheetrocking everywhere, and will install an attic ladder to provide access to the upperlevel in the garage. This will allow me to have storage space for christmas decorations, and other junk that we don't use often but for some reason continue to keep.

I turn 30 next weekend and my wife already told me she's buying me the race deck equivalent from Sams Club for my birthday! I can't wait... gonna do black/white checkered floor I think... here's a link... it's about $1-$2 per square foot less than race deck.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=prod4660075

Damn that stuff is less expensive than the damn Sams Club stuff and I like the tread pattern better... looks like I'll be ordering the same stuff

BlackVert said:

Looks about the same price to me. The difference is that Sam's Club sells them 30 at a time, while you can order exactly the number of tiles you want from BigFloors.

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What you're forgetting is Sams Club also charges 6.875% sales tax here in MN AND charges $10 per box for shipping... therefore the cost per tile is more like $2.56 as opposed to $2.19 on that website... when you're covering 500 square feet that amounts to $185 no to mention the fact that I prefer the pattern on the GarageTrak over the coin pattern on the sams club stuff.

I've done a bunch of U-Coat It floors. Without the Urethane it's just expensive floor covering. I wanted to go this route but the guy who lived at my house before me painted the floor. U-Coat It strongly suggests the concrete to be bare.

I've ripped out my rug and wanted to continue with the 12"x12" Race Deck Tiles (I have 30pcs) but they are just too expensive. So I'm going with the Sam's Club 9'x20' PVC Rubber 55MIL thick floor cover instead in burgandy. It's $158 a sheet.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/product.jsp?productId=143270&navAction=

Those mats are nice... but I really want the checkerboard look to my floor.