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garage flooring

Mike95060 said:
Can I get an Amen for soft jaws?
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Amen, brutha.

A guy I worked with liked the jaws with a step in them, with a little dovetail machined into them (knife jaws?), that bit into the part when tightened up. I didn't like changing the jaws every time I flipped the parts over to knock the excess off the bottom after profiling the tops.
 
I'll get a pic of my garage up later. Its a 2 car but maybe 18" on either side if 2 cars were parked, kinda narrow. I parked in garage for a little bit but havent in a year. One stall has saw horses and a coffee table I'm working on. Other side is router table and saws.

I did install my old kitchen cabinets on the wall as uppers and my dad did a remodel and brought over an old full set of kitchen base cabinets (lowers). It's clean with a formica top BUT having cabinets means you need the space to open the doors. Often I find I'm moving stuff just to get the doors open and thought about just removing all the doors. Might look more cluttered though.
 
Dubbington said:
I'll get a pic of my garage up later. Its a 2 car but maybe 18" on either side if 2 cars were parked, kinda narrow. I parked in garage for a little bit but havent in a year. One stall has saw horses and a coffee table I'm working on. Other side is router table and saws.

I did install my old kitchen cabinets on the wall as uppers and my dad did a remodel and brought over an old full set of kitchen base cabinets (lowers). It's clean with a formica top BUT having cabinets means you need the space to open the doors. Often I find I'm moving stuff just to get the doors open and thought about just removing all the doors. Might look more cluttered though.
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I was going to put our old kitchen cabinets in the garage, but they looked soooooo shitty , even Habitat for Humanity turned then down.
 
Garages are like boats. Never big enough. I try and keep as many things as possible mobile/storable etc. Anything I'm not going to use on a regular basis just needs to get out, period. Not an option for everyone but a shed is nice for that sort of thing-keeps the mower/garden tools out of the shop space.
 
We've got a shed piled to the ceiling with unused kitchen chairs, old bicycles, about 9 gas cans (I am not a hoarder), plumbing snakes and garden sprayers. All covered with dust and probably junk by now. At least I sold my lawn mowers after I went drought resistant to and got rid of the lawns.
 
auntiebling said:
BMFV goes with the BFH?

I wish that listing were up here, those little palmgrens are rarely available in the bay area and peopleask silly.money. it is yet another consequence of manufacturing leaving the area, the machine shops close up and used tooling gets scarce
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I have a truck going through Ventura today. Want anything?
 
^^^ A club sandwich and onion rings from the Vagabond on Main.
 
corndog67 said:
We've got a shed piled to the ceiling with unused kitchen chairs, old bicycles, about 9 gas cans (I am not a hoarder), plumbing snakes and garden sprayers. All covered with dust and probably junk by now. At least I sold my lawn mowers after I went drought resistant to and got rid of the lawns.
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Full on Hoarder! Rob...we need to schedule an intervention!
 
I'm afraid I have no update. the aggressive timing in the sale of our old house and buying the new one led us to have zero buffer to do anything to the garage prior to moving in. My dream garage setup with appropriate flooring is still on my plate. Just more of a pain since we have since moved in and the garage is full of stuff.
 
I just did redid my entire garage, removed the older SportCourt tiles and installed Race Deck Free Flow. Absolutely love it. Looks great, was super easy to work with, very nice to walk on, etc. Highly recommend it if you're considering tiles instead of epoxy.
 
Trying to finish mine now too. Framed a storage attic/ceiling earlier this year with recessed lightning, and finally got around to getting the drywall done (they're finishing up today). Part of the area is going to be covered with a rug anyways, so I'm pretty sure I'll go with the epoxy. Situation now is I have everything cleared out and it'd make things easy to go for the floor later today or tonight after they finish spraying the wall texture. I looked at some of the premium coatings like Berto mentioned, but are these available locally at some place I could buy today?

Going forward, my biggest challenge is finding some reasonably priced cabinets. The back half of the garage is really more for laundry and kitchen/household storage so wanting a large pantry cabinet and some matching uppers along the back wall. Tossing around the idea of building the cabinets frames and buying the doors, but would really rather find some unfinished units. Was going to check KB Homes in Santa Clara, but wondering what other places people might recommend.
 
mlm said:
Trying to finish mine now too. Framed a storage attic/ceiling earlier this year with recessed lightning, and finally got around to getting the drywall done (they're finishing up today). Part of the area is going to be covered with a rug anyways, so I'm pretty sure I'll go with the epoxy. Situation now is I have everything cleared out and it'd make things easy to go for the floor later today or tonight after they finish spraying the wall texture. I looked at some of the premium coatings like Berto mentioned, but are these available locally at some place I could buy today?

Going forward, my biggest challenge is finding some reasonably priced cabinets. The back half of the garage is really more for laundry and kitchen/household storage so wanting a large pantry cabinet and some matching uppers along the back wall. Tossing around the idea of building the cabinets frames and buying the doors, but would really rather find some unfinished units. Was going to check KB Homes in Santa Clara, but wondering what other places people might recommend.
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I don't think you'll find much in the way of premium coatings same day.

Reasonably priced decent cabinets I would go to uni-tile in Hayward (I think they have another branch somewhere). Perfectly reasonably quality-I've put them in a kitchen and a couple bathrooms.

Buy the right size lowers and snag a cheap granite top to throw on there-fold laundry in style.
 
MrIncredible said:
I don't think you'll find much in the way of premium coatings same day.

Reasonably priced decent cabinets I would go to uni-tile in Hayward (I think they have another branch somewhere). Perfectly reasonably quality-I've put them in a kitchen and a couple bathrooms.

Buy the right size lowers and snag a cheap granite top to throw on there-fold laundry in style.
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Thanks. Looks like they have a place in San Jose so I'll try to stop by and look.

Here's a rough plan for the cabinet wall. I'd agree with having a small countertop/bench but the wife (ex teacher) is stuck on the school style coat cubby in the place where it's go. Also trying to avoid flat horizontal surfaces as they tend to just accumulate junk

"My" wall is on the opposite side of the SUV, where I'll have a Full size tool chest, some heavier duty cabinets, and still debating some sort of bench space.
 

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Check ikea for cabinets.

I can't imagine a floor coating that is worth the effort that only takes a day to apply. They're 2 part epoxy paint, prep is everything and it'll probably take a full day just to do that. Curing takes days till you can park a car on it
 
auntiebling said:
Check ikea for cabinets.

I can't imagine a floor coating that is worth the effort that only takes a day to apply. They're 2 part epoxy paint, prep is everything and it'll probably take a full day just to do that. Curing takes days till you can park a car on it
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Thats what I'd heard (IKEA), but I'm going to have to take a look first


Understood (prep) and not expecting to do it in a day, just don't want to start until I have materials in-hand. Biggest PITA is dealing with the washer and dryer...the rest of the stuff is pretty easy to shuffle around.

The more I think of it, the more I'm thinking I should do the floor last, and worry about painting, trim, and cabinets first. Probably just power wash and patch cracks for now.
 
Ah ok I misunderstood. My cousin did a mMc megamansion and their painter did the epoxy floor. Just a thought.


if the washer and drier are such a pain just coat around them. They don't move much afterall :teeth
 
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