Garage re-born

thorny · 10-06-2011, 11:15 PM

With the arrival of my new beauty queen, I decided to refresh my garage. Floors are coated with Epoxy Shield from Lowes. First I thought about doing tile, but then decided to save money for future mods. In general I am happy with results.

JZBDCT · 10-06-2011, 11:27 PM

Very clean and very nice. Great work!

Daft · 10-06-2011, 11:29 PM

Clean!

TRY...M3 · 10-06-2011, 11:33 PM

Just did mine toooo!

cvcabran · 10-07-2011, 12:12 AM

Looks great. What's the installation process like?

THE TECH · 10-07-2011, 08:23 AM

Looks good!

Will911t · 10-07-2011, 08:35 AM

Looks great!

thorny · 10-07-2011, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by a240reef

Very clean and very nice. Great work!

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Originally Posted by Daft

Clean!

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Originally Posted by cvcabran

Looks great. What's the installation process like?

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Originally Posted by THE TECH

Looks good!

Thanks guys!

Here is the "Before" shot for comparison. This is the best one I have

Installation process is easy if you know how to paint which I don't

1. Paint the ceiling with ceiling paint
2. Paint walls with primer and use blue painters tape to tape off the ceiling and all the switches, trim, etc. Painting walls is not as bad as ceiling
3. Painting floor with epoxy shield is a little tricky, I just followed the instructions, they even include the video. As long as it is not freezing temperatures it will be ok. The most time you spend on is preparing the concrete (cleaning, degreasing, drying)
Good thing about doing the whole garage is that you don't need to worry about a drop cloth. Next time, I'll hire a pro painter tho

bigjae1976 · 10-07-2011, 10:32 AM

Looks awesome!

In fact, I'm repainting my garage floor today. I just use white concrete paint...my concrete is too rough and crappy to do epoxy.

Cyrax91 · 10-07-2011, 11:18 AM

Im working on mine right now. Yours looks great man. Where's all your stuff though ha? I have so much crap in the garage and need most of it (mostly tools and car parts). PITA!

Raz@Gintani · 10-07-2011, 01:23 PM

Looks great, good job!

jrlee53 · 10-07-2011, 01:41 PM

Looks awesome. Going to display the ski's as well?

J-boogey · 10-07-2011, 02:16 PM

nice! i wish my garage was clean its all hoarded out

prichards516 · 10-07-2011, 02:28 PM

your garage is cleaner than my bedroom lol

VCP · 10-07-2011, 02:59 PM

You should get a wall sticker made of the ///M or something in that fashion. Just an idea

catch · 10-07-2011, 10:13 PM

looks great!

GOLFFRR · 10-07-2011, 10:21 PM

sweet

Montoya · 10-08-2011, 01:11 AM

Ski waxing and tuning, so much fun, but what a mess! May I suggest that you use the drop clothes you saved when painting the garage for the next time you tune up the skis? Paper doesn't work so well...

Garage looks great, really, now that the floor is painted you'll want to do that somewhere else!

Getting colder, starting to think about skiing....

thorny · 10-08-2011, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by bigjae1976

Looks awesome!

In fact, I'm repainting my garage floor today. I just use white concrete paint...my concrete is too rough and crappy to do epoxy.

I agree, I had a few rough porous spots and those spots absorbed a lot of epoxy. If my floor was in a bad shape, I'd probably settle on primer/concrete paint combo.

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Originally Posted by Cyrax91

Im working on mine right now. Yours looks great man. Where's all your stuff though ha? I have so much crap in the garage and need most of it (mostly tools and car parts). PITA!

haha, thanks. I bought a custom sized 10'x4' Tuff Shed and moved all my crap in there. This is my dirty little secret

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Originally Posted by JDy80

Looks awesome. Going to display the ski's as well?

Thanks. Bimmers only. And, well, some bicycles. Tuff shed is full

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Originally Posted by prichards516

your garage is cleaner than my bedroom lol

Believe it or not, my garage is cleaner than my own bedroom. Who cares about bedroom! LOL

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Originally Posted by VCMperformance

You should get a wall sticker made of the ///M or something in that fashion. Just an idea

This is in the pipeline. I am going to hang frames with my best shots from the ED trip and possibly frame my ED tourist plate

I am married, so hot chick posters were not approved.

thorny · 10-08-2011, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Montoya

Ski waxing and tuning, so much fun, but what a mess! May I suggest that you use the drop clothes you saved when painting the garage for the next time you tune up the skis? Paper doesn't work so well...

Garage looks great, really, now that the floor is painted you'll want to do that somewhere else!

Getting colder, starting to think about skiing....

Yeah, I am an avid skier and I have always tuned my skies myself. I do use a drop cloth, for whatever reason I didn't have one when I took a picture. Mammoth just got dumped on, can't wait for the first ski trip of the season!

dmw16 · 10-08-2011, 08:08 AM

Looks really good. I did mine about a year ago with the Rustoleum stuff. It worked pretty well. One spot has pealed up after sitting under a very warm Pilot Super Sport tire. Other than that it's held up very well.

Brucewonder · 10-08-2011, 12:55 PM

love it, i really need to get off my lazy butt and spiffy up my garage too

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