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This is a thread about your favorite parking space. Everyone should be familiar with the Garage Journal forum with the fabulous garages where the rich and famous keep their exotic trophy cars, but this thread is for the rest of us. Like many, I have a smallish (19x19) 2 car typical SoCal garage these days, but I am fortunate in I own a repair shop that affords me all the convenience of repairs with none of the heartaches of fitting jacks and presses and all the stuff needed for maintenance at home. I used to keep my cars and motorcycles in a splendid 40x25 4 stall home shop with a private office and 18 foot gate. I chose to give that up, along with the 50 year old/always needs something house attatched to the much newer shop when my divorce arrived. A close friend of mine who is a complete motorcycle and car guy has shown me how nice a typical home garage can be and I am working on my newest parking space now. I will update this thread with photos of my progress in my current place, where I will keep my 2 MINIs (for now). As an aside, I did land in a pretty cool condo in a lakeside community in westlake (electric motors and paddles only on the water tho). My old commute to the shop was 1.1 miles, now it is a grueling 2.2 miles!
Here are some progress pics of the 19x19 2 car garage in the condo I currently rent-by summer I will hopefully have it outfitted in a pleasing car guy style
as it was when I first rented it in sept, before the demise of my 67 Fairlane
Last week the various holes and bumps and bruises on the drywall were smoothed out and a coat of white was rolled on
Then I started installing Racedeck flooring. I have about 450 sq ft of Racedeck tile floor at my shop and they have proven incredibly durable, supporting jacks and stands when needed, and always easily cleaned. Since I will only be parking on them here, they should hold up very well and if I move they are easily removed and transported. Racedeck.com has a floor configurator to help you with the amount of tiles you actually need and there are many color options. While I am a red and black car person, I avoid a red and black floor for 2 reasons. The black tiles show dirt a lot more and they make a small space seem darker and smaller. The red and silver (platinum) theme with a black line inserted in this garage show up much brighter overall.
Tile squares are shipped 4 clipped together in 25 inch square boxes. A simple snap of your wrists/arms inward disengages them so you can seperate into piles.
After seperating, I began in my front right corner and worked out the first 3 rows, then slid that manageable section to the closed garage door to determine the "front" spacing. Like laminate flooring in a house, this is a "floating" floor and you usually have to cut the line of tiles at one wall. A table saw works best for this, I used my sabre saw and cut off saw but they were difficult to get a clean cut on. I will be moving my table saw here next week to finish the rear row, as I want cleaner cuts than I am getting
It took me an average of 10 minutes per row to do these, with 2 people it goes much faster. Unfortunately my son is at his moms this week so I tackled it alone.
I have one row left before cutting around the step into the house and cutting one complete row at the garage rear wall. Table saw moves in tuesday, then I can cut precisely. You can rent a small bench top table saw from home depot, I happen to own a pretty nice large saw from 20 years of flipping houses and remodeling several of my own.
view from inside door-once you have the floor half done you can shift shelving, toolboxes etc onto the finished area to provide working space as you put down rows
Here are some progress pics of the 19x19 2 car garage in the condo I currently rent-by summer I will hopefully have it outfitted in a pleasing car guy style
as it was when I first rented it in sept, before the demise of my 67 Fairlane
Last week the various holes and bumps and bruises on the drywall were smoothed out and a coat of white was rolled on
Then I started installing Racedeck flooring. I have about 450 sq ft of Racedeck tile floor at my shop and they have proven incredibly durable, supporting jacks and stands when needed, and always easily cleaned. Since I will only be parking on them here, they should hold up very well and if I move they are easily removed and transported. Racedeck.com has a floor configurator to help you with the amount of tiles you actually need and there are many color options. While I am a red and black car person, I avoid a red and black floor for 2 reasons. The black tiles show dirt a lot more and they make a small space seem darker and smaller. The red and silver (platinum) theme with a black line inserted in this garage show up much brighter overall.
Tile squares are shipped 4 clipped together in 25 inch square boxes. A simple snap of your wrists/arms inward disengages them so you can seperate into piles.
After seperating, I began in my front right corner and worked out the first 3 rows, then slid that manageable section to the closed garage door to determine the "front" spacing. Like laminate flooring in a house, this is a "floating" floor and you usually have to cut the line of tiles at one wall. A table saw works best for this, I used my sabre saw and cut off saw but they were difficult to get a clean cut on. I will be moving my table saw here next week to finish the rear row, as I want cleaner cuts than I am getting
It took me an average of 10 minutes per row to do these, with 2 people it goes much faster. Unfortunately my son is at his moms this week so I tackled it alone.
I have one row left before cutting around the step into the house and cutting one complete row at the garage rear wall. Table saw moves in tuesday, then I can cut precisely. You can rent a small bench top table saw from home depot, I happen to own a pretty nice large saw from 20 years of flipping houses and remodeling several of my own.
view from inside door-once you have the floor half done you can shift shelving, toolboxes etc onto the finished area to provide working space as you put down rows
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