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More progress in the garage
Sep. 4th, 2006 11:43 amOver the past few weeks the garage has been getting torn apart from the inside. The corner shelves were removed, the old base cabinets torn apart, new cabinets built and new tools brought in that needed homes. I have been doing all of this and some organization and shuffling of things instead of grouting the bathroom inside. The last several weeks the garbage pile at the curb has been large, and will be for several more, helped along by the new garbage cans.
My dad came down for the weekend and a lot of progress was made in the garage. Saturday morning after dropping![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alyska off at the Farmer's Market I stopped by home and picked up a coupon that I was informed came in the latest Shopper Stopper in the mail (if anybody still has one, can I have the Harbor Freight coupon that is in it?) I then proceeded to go get a bunch of stuff at Harbor Freight including a Dust Collector on sale then 20% off. I also got more anti-fatigue mats in the picture. If I can find another coupon I will most likely go back and get a rolling tool chest that is also on good sale before the 20% off. Then it was home to continue with the deconstruction of cabinets and wall surfaces. Shortly after returning home my dad arrived and helped me get the rest of the wall de-skinned.
After getting back from pickingalyska up my dad and I went to Menards with our list and got another roll of insulation, some damaged 1/2" BCX fro cheap and some electrical supplies to wire in the expansion. Then while he pulled the new wires I cut and fit the insulation in the walls and ceiling. We ended up doing from the East end of the back window all the way around to the West side of the garage door. The door itself is already insulated so that didn't need to be done, and the other wall might get done some other time, like in a few years. After the insulation was in then the BCX went up on the walls and the massive cabinet also got hung on the wall. By this time it was getting late so we put stuff away and called it a night (early morning)
and it looked like this.
The next morning, since the cabinet was up and could help hold up the ceiling we started on the ceiling. I still need to put some of the fixtures back and drive more screws to keep it from bowing but it is up there. After that we did some moving around of tools and tables and brought in the new cabinets that my dad brought with him. They are desk height instead of standing height so I need to figure out how I am going to integrate them with the one in the foreground. I think I am going to make a riser box on top of them to bring them up to height and maybe add another drawer or something so there will be a continuous counter along the back wall. Before that happens though I will be building the miter saw workstation to go along the West wall. I should also make the shelves and doors for the massive cabinet too.
( current state )
My dad came down for the weekend and a lot of progress was made in the garage. Saturday morning after dropping
alyska off at the Farmer's Market I stopped by home and picked up a coupon that I was informed came in the latest Shopper Stopper in the mail (if anybody still has one, can I have the Harbor Freight coupon that is in it?) I then proceeded to go get a bunch of stuff at Harbor Freight including a Dust Collector on sale then 20% off. I also got more anti-fatigue mats in the picture. If I can find another coupon I will most likely go back and get a rolling tool chest that is also on good sale before the 20% off. Then it was home to continue with the deconstruction of cabinets and wall surfaces. Shortly after returning home my dad arrived and helped me get the rest of the wall de-skinned. After getting back from picking
alyska up my dad and I went to Menards with our list and got another roll of insulation, some damaged 1/2" BCX fro cheap and some electrical supplies to wire in the expansion. Then while he pulled the new wires I cut and fit the insulation in the walls and ceiling. We ended up doing from the East end of the back window all the way around to the West side of the garage door. The door itself is already insulated so that didn't need to be done, and the other wall might get done some other time, like in a few years. After the insulation was in then the BCX went up on the walls and the massive cabinet also got hung on the wall. By this time it was getting late so we put stuff away and called it a night (early morning)and it looked like this.
The next morning, since the cabinet was up and could help hold up the ceiling we started on the ceiling. I still need to put some of the fixtures back and drive more screws to keep it from bowing but it is up there. After that we did some moving around of tools and tables and brought in the new cabinets that my dad brought with him. They are desk height instead of standing height so I need to figure out how I am going to integrate them with the one in the foreground. I think I am going to make a riser box on top of them to bring them up to height and maybe add another drawer or something so there will be a continuous counter along the back wall. Before that happens though I will be building the miter saw workstation to go along the West wall. I should also make the shelves and doors for the massive cabinet too.
( current state )
