Roger555 Official TL Garage build thread
Roger555 Official TL Garage build thread
Somebody found a video of my garage build and posted it in the general section so I felt it was about time I finally share some of my garage build!
It all started when we (fiancé & I) bought our first house in December. Since then I have pretty much been working on house and garage projects ever since. Due lack of funds and lack of time I had to do a complete forum boycott for a few month to hold back the urge to buy any new car toys. It was actually pretty nice just driving my car and not constantly thinking about what little thing I could do next. However as the garage to do list winds down & i've started poking around the forum my mod bug is definitely creeping back.
I don't really like to make "build" threads personally I like to have everything finished which is why I held off so long. Officially I will consider the garage "done" once I do the epoxy floor which might not happen for another month or so.
Well here it goes, I tried to organize them the best I could lots of pics though beware! Hope you enjoy!
Small Paint Booth for car parts!
Ramps!
Some pics I took today
This program look familiar to anyone?
Video Link
Well thats it for now thats for looking! Stay tuned for the epoxy floor!
It all started when we (fiancé & I) bought our first house in December. Since then I have pretty much been working on house and garage projects ever since. Due lack of funds and lack of time I had to do a complete forum boycott for a few month to hold back the urge to buy any new car toys. It was actually pretty nice just driving my car and not constantly thinking about what little thing I could do next. However as the garage to do list winds down & i've started poking around the forum my mod bug is definitely creeping back.
I don't really like to make "build" threads personally I like to have everything finished which is why I held off so long. Officially I will consider the garage "done" once I do the epoxy floor which might not happen for another month or so.
Well here it goes, I tried to organize them the best I could lots of pics though beware! Hope you enjoy!
Small Paint Booth for car parts!
Ramps!
Some pics I took today
This program look familiar to anyone?
Video Link
Last edited by Roger555; Jul 28, 2012 at 07:27 PM.
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awesome garage Roger, now you can help me with my steering wheel mod. 
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beautiful. and I thought I had OCD. Where's all the wifey's stuff. My garage has more wife stuff than tools 
I love the shelves next to and under the cabinets with all the products on them.
I love the shelves next to and under the cabinets with all the products on them.
OCD you are roger! i'm about to epoxy a garage floor this week! why didn't you do it before you put built everything there?
this made me really wanna see everything in person!
this made me really wanna see everything in person!
Holy shit Roger.
Thanks everyone!
PM sent!
I actually wanted to do the floor first but it was winter when I moved in a way too cold out. However i'm glad I didn't now because with all my projects I would have scuffed it up to some extent. If you look around the garage everything I built besides the large bench is actually suspended off the floor so I wont need to move much before doing the epoxy. I just need to rent a diamond sander to resurface the top then I'll be ready to lay the epoxy! This is the look I'm going for.
you're welcome to stop over! Give me another 2 weeks I might have the floor done
you're welcome to stop over! Give me another 2 weeks I might have the floor done
Last edited by Roger555; Jul 29, 2012 at 11:07 AM.
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Very nice garage, with a lot of smart touches. I like that it's all DIY, too.
If you haven't the visited Garage Journal site, you should. Lots of guys there would enjoy seeing what you've done.
Before you jump on epoxy, you might want to consider ceramic or porcelain tile. Everyone loves epoxy until the first time their hot tires peel up a section of it, and the prep (diamond grinding, acid) can be pretty intense. I did my 20x21 garage in inexpensive ceramic tile, and it's held up to a pretty serious amount of work (engine drops on the car, welding, lots of fabrication work). I installed the tile myself and the total outlay was only around $400 -- which is a lot less than most epoxy systems.
Since you've wrung a lot of utility out of a two-car space, you might enjoy reading about mine. I made a website for it at:
www.12-GaugeGarage.com,
and there's also a thread about it on the Garage Journal.
If you haven't the visited Garage Journal site, you should. Lots of guys there would enjoy seeing what you've done.
Before you jump on epoxy, you might want to consider ceramic or porcelain tile. Everyone loves epoxy until the first time their hot tires peel up a section of it, and the prep (diamond grinding, acid) can be pretty intense. I did my 20x21 garage in inexpensive ceramic tile, and it's held up to a pretty serious amount of work (engine drops on the car, welding, lots of fabrication work). I installed the tile myself and the total outlay was only around $400 -- which is a lot less than most epoxy systems.
Since you've wrung a lot of utility out of a two-car space, you might enjoy reading about mine. I made a website for it at:
www.12-GaugeGarage.com,
and there's also a thread about it on the Garage Journal.
Jack! What are you doing on the TL forum?? I am on the garage forum i've looked at your garage many times 
. I especially like your recessed floor lift I'd really like to do that some day.
About the floor I know there can be many issues with cheap epoxies but there shouldn't be any hot tire problems with the good 2 part epoxy with the proper prep of course. I laid ceramic tile (16x16) in my kitchen and it is very durable but quite a bit more work than laying epoxy (IMO) and I know my floor is not completely level which I know is important with tile. Did you apply any type of backboard when you did your garage tile? I've read due to the expansion rates differences grout directly on concrete eventually cracks.
. I especially like your recessed floor lift I'd really like to do that some day. About the floor I know there can be many issues with cheap epoxies but there shouldn't be any hot tire problems with the good 2 part epoxy with the proper prep of course. I laid ceramic tile (16x16) in my kitchen and it is very durable but quite a bit more work than laying epoxy (IMO) and I know my floor is not completely level which I know is important with tile. Did you apply any type of backboard when you did your garage tile? I've read due to the expansion rates differences grout directly on concrete eventually cracks.
Very nice garage, with a lot of smart touches. I like that it's all DIY, too.
If you haven't the visited Garage Journal site, you should. Lots of guys there would enjoy seeing what you've done.
Before you jump on epoxy, you might want to consider ceramic or porcelain tile. Everyone loves epoxy until the first time their hot tires peel up a section of it, and the prep (diamond grinding, acid) can be pretty intense. I did my 20x21 garage in inexpensive ceramic tile, and it's held up to a pretty serious amount of work (engine drops on the car, welding, lots of fabrication work). I installed the tile myself and the total outlay was only around $400 -- which is a lot less than most epoxy systems.
Since you've wrung a lot of utility out of a two-car space, you might enjoy reading about mine. I made a website for it at:
www.12-GaugeGarage.com,
and there's also a thread about it on the Garage Journal.
If you haven't the visited Garage Journal site, you should. Lots of guys there would enjoy seeing what you've done.
Before you jump on epoxy, you might want to consider ceramic or porcelain tile. Everyone loves epoxy until the first time their hot tires peel up a section of it, and the prep (diamond grinding, acid) can be pretty intense. I did my 20x21 garage in inexpensive ceramic tile, and it's held up to a pretty serious amount of work (engine drops on the car, welding, lots of fabrication work). I installed the tile myself and the total outlay was only around $400 -- which is a lot less than most epoxy systems.
Since you've wrung a lot of utility out of a two-car space, you might enjoy reading about mine. I made a website for it at:
www.12-GaugeGarage.com,
and there's also a thread about it on the Garage Journal.
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Jack! What are you doing on the TL forum?? I am on the garage forum i've looked at your garage many times . I especially like your recessed floor lift I'd really like to do that some day.
About the floor I know there can be many issues with cheap epoxies but there shouldn't be any hot tire problems with the good 2 part epoxy with the proper prep of course. I laid ceramic tile (16x16) in my kitchen and it is very durable but quite a bit more work than laying epoxy (IMO) and I know my floor is not completely level which I know is important with tile. Did you apply any type of backboard when you did your garage tile? I've read due to the expansion rates differences grout directly on concrete eventually cracks.
. I especially like your recessed floor lift I'd really like to do that some day. About the floor I know there can be many issues with cheap epoxies but there shouldn't be any hot tire problems with the good 2 part epoxy with the proper prep of course. I laid ceramic tile (16x16) in my kitchen and it is very durable but quite a bit more work than laying epoxy (IMO) and I know my floor is not completely level which I know is important with tile. Did you apply any type of backboard when you did your garage tile? I've read due to the expansion rates differences grout directly on concrete eventually cracks.
After reading this thread, my garage depressed me, then I went to that garage forum and saw some of those
Roger
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I didn't know you were on the Garage Journal, Roger555. If you haven't already, you should start a thread on your garage in the Gallery section.
With the tile, I just hit the concrete with a cheap pressure washer and used patching concrete to bridge some of the bigger gaps. But my floor is/was a long way from flat. You can use the thinset to bridge minor inconsistencies. In my case, there was one section that was about an inch and a half lower than everything else, so I filled it.
But if you look at the tile lines, especially where they meet the flat top of the lift or where they go under the cabinets in the back, you'll see that the floor is very uneven.
That said, the tiles have held up fine and I didn't do anything other than put thinset right on the concrete. I used the basic sand grout, too. It's held up fine, and I've dropped the engine out of the car a couple of times and done a lot of other work that has put the floor to repeated tests.
With the tile, I just hit the concrete with a cheap pressure washer and used patching concrete to bridge some of the bigger gaps. But my floor is/was a long way from flat. You can use the thinset to bridge minor inconsistencies. In my case, there was one section that was about an inch and a half lower than everything else, so I filled it.
But if you look at the tile lines, especially where they meet the flat top of the lift or where they go under the cabinets in the back, you'll see that the floor is very uneven.
That said, the tiles have held up fine and I didn't do anything other than put thinset right on the concrete. I used the basic sand grout, too. It's held up fine, and I've dropped the engine out of the car a couple of times and done a lot of other work that has put the floor to repeated tests.
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The pad had already had 85 years to settle. However, I'm right over the La Brea tar pits, basically, with (believe it or not) active oil drilling under my tiny 1/8-acre plot of land. So I had both a presumably stable piece of concrete and also the prospects of constant upheaval (worth noting: earthquakes). That said, I'm past the four year mark and the expansion joints have not done anything to the tiles up above them. I might be lucky, or the pad might just have worked out all of its issues back when Calvin Coolidge was still in the White House.