New Home For Chevys

[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by rambler

I dont like the taping and mudding part,, that is going to look great when you are done, it will be so nice, you wont want to work in it, be afraid to get it dirty.. LOL.. also looks like you wont be in any short supply of electical outlets.. LOL.

nice job!

I plan on being able to have my grinders and drills and everything else plugged in with out lots of extension cords everywhere. I also have cordless tools but they have batteries that use chargers that plug in.

[pickup67man]

I mudded the seams and squished the tape into it. Let it dry and sanded any wild ridges I had. Then I did one more layer of mud with a 14" knife. If it was a house I might have done one more coat in the bad spots but its a garage.








After it was dry I started to sand. I spent most of the day in the fluffy white powder.




I looked like the ghost of Dusty Rhodes. I was wearing a black hat.

Yes I had a mask on. I didn't want the mud forming in my lungs.
I would have taken a picture of the walls after sanding but there wasn't much to look at.

[pickup67man]

Now you can see how long I've been at it. When the concrete was poured it was 86 degrees. Now look. Had around 5" of snow. The next day we had about an inch of freezing rain. That willow tree behind the garage lost an 8" branch that hit the fence 20 feet from my back wall.


This funny wood contraption was holding my cable line high enough so construction trucks could back under it. Comcast raised it up now so this is gone.


Now some better inside shot. Sheetrock is done and painted.




Now I need to move into the cabinets

[pickup67man]

There have been lots of pictures and now I am caught up to current.

Conduit on left side of window carries all the speaker and RCA wires.


I also stuffed this into the corner.


Again the wiring bothered me so I put it into conduit.

[DanSan c 10]

Oh man I have garage envy!

[pickup67man]

I'm not computer challenged but I can't seem to figure out how to post a short video without a link that opens a new window. Maybe I'm just tired

Click this link to get a good perspective of the inside of the garage. The music wasn't added to the video. It was cranked up in the garage. I couldn't even hear my neighbors complaining.


http://youtu.be/n-GEgfCrIgo




And yes it is still a mess.

[pickup67man]

Ok I figured it out. Still doesn't make sense to me. I had to copy and read other posts to find the right embedded language. Photobucket and Youtube aren't providing the correct language to post correctly. But when I manually type what it needs to be I got it.

Stereo Too Loud?

[jmedero]

What's the slab size of the garage? Building looks awesome man.
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[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by jmedero

What's the slab size of the garage? Building looks awesome man.
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The garage is 20' wide and 26' deep. I wanted bigger but the city wouldn't let me.

[pickup67man]

Spent some time rearranging the yard.
There was my parts truck in the way, it looked like this.



Then I started taking parts off.








I didn't need the antique V6 or 4 speed or 3/4 ton chassis. It should be gone by next weekend. All the body parts are next to the garage for my suburban project. Soon I will be able to move my suburban into the garage.

[pickup67man]

I was going to move in the suburban this weekend then remembered I needed to trim the lights and windows. So I did that instead. Boxed in the windows and installed trim, then did all the lights and attic ladder and the door. Then primed and painted all the trim. DONE with trim. I got cheap and cut my own from old 2x4's that came from the old garage. They are not perfect but its a garage.

[pickup67man]

Well I got so much done yesterday that I could move the suburban inside today.




Also finished the edge of the driveway.


This is where the suburban lived for 9 months.


Still more work to do but am getting close.

[NONHOG]

Looking good!..... Puyallup ! either all rocks or all mud.

[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by NONHOG

Looking good!..... Puyallup ! either all rocks or all mud.

I'm in the valley so I have the mud. I've gone down over 4 feet and didn't find any rocks.

[pickup67man]

Really all I wanted to do was grind a stump so I could finish my driveway. I started to dig the dirt away so a stump grinder could do its job then I found this.

The yellow pipe is a natural gas line to my neighbors house. It was only inches under the dirt. The roots had pushed it up almost 1 1/2 feet putting a large bend in it.



So I called the gas company and they sent out a guy within an hour on a Saturday to inspect the issue. He said someone would be out soon to fix it.

The rest of the weekend I did other landscaping projects to finish the backyard.



Now I need to plant grass and it will look good.

[pickup67man]

Today the crew showed up to replace the gas line. The problem was they had to replace my neighbors gas line but it was connected to mine under my driveway, so they have to replace mine also.




There are lots of holes in my driveway and my neighbors yard.


They got the lines run but need to connect them at both ends.
Here is mine.


And here is my neighbors



Remember this was all because I wanted to grind a stump that was in my new driveway.

[pickup67man]

Ok stump is gone. This was the toy of the day.



This was the stump I battled



Now it looks like this.





The wood chips from this one stump more than filled my trailer.



Now its time to add to the fence.

[pickup67man]

Things I don't like about the Puyallup valley in March. The water table is too high. I needed to dig 3' down for the 6x6 posts and found water after 6". I set my fence posts in a sonotube to keep the dirt out. Water filled up the sonotube but concrete is heavier than water.





I then waited a week to do the fence.





The double gate is 15 feet wide so I built it pretty good.




Spent today moving the rest of the gravel and cleaning up driveway so camp trailer will fit.

[Lippyp]

Cool, looks great.

I'm slowly working on my garage although mines a 100 year old brick cowshed (moved into this house just before christmas last year), should get electricity out there in early may as we've had a similar saga to yours recently. Was refurbing the bathroom, turned out the nice shiny chrome bath filler (they don't call em taps any more!) wouldn't work with our current gravity fed hot water system as the pressure was too low compared to the mains cold water so we had to replumb and replace the boiler which then led to the fact that the gas pipe from our bulk propane tank (we're out in the sticks so not on mains gas) was old and way too small to feed the new boiler so we had to dig a trench from the tank to the house across the cobbled yard where we park, to do this we had to cut down two trees that had been planted over the gas line and live with no gas for a week whilst the trench was dug, the pipe installed and then connected and the new boiler fitted. The bonus of this was I took the opportunity whilst we had a trench open that went past the garage to drop in a length of 16mm2 three core steel wire armoured cable from the house to the garage and some water pipe as well. The backhoe guy also dragged all the stumps out for me too. The cable will get connected this end when we do the kitchen in May as thats getting rewired so the electrician will connect the garage in and then I can wire it up myself out there (which is slightly illegal unless I get it inspected and certified but I have a mate that may be able to do that for me)

Of course as you'll know from building your garage, all of the above connect directly to my bank account!

[bcubed]

That's a nice garage you got yourself there .. hate that the city limited how big you could build it.

[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by Lippyp

Cool, looks great.

I'm slowly working on my garage although mines a 100 year old brick cowshed (moved into this house just before christmas last year), should get electricity out there in early may as we've had a similar saga to yours recently. Was refurbing the bathroom, turned out the nice shiny chrome bath filler (they don't call em taps any more!) wouldn't work with our current gravity fed hot water system as the pressure was too low compared to the mains cold water so we had to replumb and replace the boiler which then led to the fact that the gas pipe from our bulk propane tank (we're out in the sticks so not on mains gas) was old and way too small to feed the new boiler so we had to dig a trench from the tank to the house across the cobbled yard where we park, to do this we had to cut down two trees that had been planted over the gas line and live with no gas for a week whilst the trench was dug, the pipe installed and then connected and the new boiler fitted. The bonus of this was I took the opportunity whilst we had a trench open that went past the garage to drop in a length of 16mm2 three core steel wire armoured cable from the house to the garage and some water pipe as well. The backhoe guy also dragged all the stumps out for me too. The cable will get connected this end when we do the kitchen in May as thats getting rewired so the electrician will connect the garage in and then I can wire it up myself out there (which is slightly illegal unless I get it inspected and certified but I have a mate that may be able to do that for me)

Of course as you'll know from building your garage, all of the above connect directly to my bank account!

I'd love to see where you tinker on old Chevys over there.

[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by bcubed

That's a nice garage you got yourself there .. hate that the city limited how big you could build it.

On my size lot it couldn't be more than half the size of the house. If I was only limited to setbacks I could only go 32 feet wide. I have a long narrow lot. 50x189. If I went too big it would just be a hallway.

[pickup67man]

My bad. I never got good finished outside pics. Grass is almost in. Seeded it the day before easter and spring rains work good.



There is only 20 feet behind the trailer. My property is 189 feet deep. Long way to back up, but it is nice having away from the street. Yes there is a 30 amp plug wired from the garage for the trailer.


Everything grows good here. I even have weeds in my new gravel. I took care of those, turning brown already.

[72 Super]

Very Nice shop, looks great!!

[71STPSDE]

Amazing build. I love going on Garage Journal to look at awesome builds. You might want to check it out.