Building my garage / workshop (56k death)

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by marko138

CEO...you're inspiring me a little bit with that talk. I gotta put a fence around the yard. My wife wants me to do it and I would rather just pay someone.

Fence building is hard work, but not very easy to screw up... digging the post holes and everything can be tough depending on the ground at your house. But it would be a good project. Give it a shot... it will end up about as good as you would have someone do for you, and cost about 1/4 of the money.

Then have the wife help you paint it. Afterwards, you'll be like "wow I built that... awesome." Then cut a deal with the lady... the money you saved, put half of it into your joint savings account, and the other half to spend on something fun/relaxing/etc.











As usual, didn't make quite as much progress this weekend as I would have liked, but maybe I just set lofty goals. I got a decent amount done, though. The weather (rain and snow) prevented me from doing some of the things I intended.

My camera was acting up so these are all phone pics, sorry.

There was bits of drywall to finish around the small door, big doors, and the door into the main basement. The frames also needed to be stuffed with insulation beforehand. I did that. Also, needed to prep a lot of the corners for mudding with j-strips and metal corner beads. At this point I was piecing a lot of the parts together with leftover drywall bits. It will add some mudding time but I didn't feel like making a Depot trip just for a sheet of drywall.

Here is the part by the big doors:



Hung some corner beads:



From the main basement looking at the small door after I stuffed insulation in the frame:



I also ripped down the door into the main basement becasue it was in rough shape and needed new hinges. There was a big steel sheet bolted to the front of it (previous building owner kept ~$100k stock of high-end fishing supplies in here, used to be a flyfishing shop) that weighed probably 80 pounds, I took that off. That is why the hinges had gone to shit. I cleaned it off and puttied all of the holes in it:



Hung the drywall around the small door, j-stripped the edges:



Used some of the 1/4" luon that I used to face the inside of the big doors to clean up the threshold:



Then, I used thick weatherstripping to insulate the whole frame of the big doors. The last inch or so that the doors are closed compress this stuff and make a weathertight seal. I could already feel the place getting warmer:



Then, used a gate latch to click the doors together, a short barricade (will paint black and rubberize the ends so as not to scratch the doors next time) for strength, and a cane bolt down into the concrete to secure them shut:



Started the mudding, did most of the main room 1 coat:





And painted one side of the door going into the main basement:



Next time, need to finish up all the door issues... couldn't this time because of the weather. I have all the stuff already:
- Door sweeps on the bottom of the small door and both big doors
- Extra wide door sweep/flap between the big doors in the center
- Rubber sheeting over the hinge-side gaps for redundancy
- Small trim painting bits outside
- Paint the other side of the door going into the main basement, rehang it on fresh hinges

There is one or two small trim things to neaten up in the garage as well, just little tit jobs though.

Then, it's all mudding... 3 coats, sanding in between. Yay fun. Not.

[Gas Man]

Keep up the good work!

[marko138]

My problem is this: I come from a family, both sides, of carpenters and construction workers. And my wife knows this. I know how to do the work...I just dont want to.

But yeah...my ground sucks. All kinds of rocks. I'm gonna just rent a post hole digger. The fence will be white vinyl...so no painting. I think I'm gonna tackle this in the next couple weeks.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by marko138

My problem is this: I come from a family, both sides, of carpenters and construction workers. And my wife knows this. I know how to do the work...I just dont want to.

But yeah...my ground sucks. All kinds of rocks. I'm gonna just rent a post hole digger. The fence will be white vinyl...so no painting. I think I'm gonna tackle this in the next couple weeks.

I hate these fucking things:

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I hate these fucking things:

I think he's talking about this

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

I think he's talking about this

Yeah I'm sure, but when your old man needs a hole dug and you're around it's, FMFL.

[JoJoYZF]

Nice work CEO, looks good so far.

And sorry to disappoint all of you, but Home Depot employees dont get discounts for working there. Unless other states are different but I highly doubt it.