ScottyB's Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

[ScottyB]

looks great scotty, love the garage! nice and big and i like the nook.
looks like rocksolid has a great formula! when I read about the previous formula, it hardened way too fast

thanks man! it WAS big. good thing too, amazing how 1 child's toys and our 2 workbenches totally eat that up.... :lol: honestly though its just fine and if we need more space than this right now, we should probably look harder at the amount of crap we own. i mean, except for the 240Z i want as a third car. and a steel hardtail 29er. and that welder i saw....

yes the original Rocksolid stuff had issues with that apparently. i was really on the fence about it but took a chance. i think all of that old inventory is long gone, because we had an easy 25 minutes to get the coating down. we never to a point where it went tacky on us before we had already used the whole pouch.

[Goodspeed]

Nice work Scotty! I looooooove garage restos like this. Looks damn good.

[ScottyB]

some shots from tonight. i just finished "building" the blue workbench....it came as a modular bolt-together frame, and i found 2 solid doors on craigslist for $25 that i cut down as the tabletops. i originally wanted to show current shots in the first post of this thread but its been chaos in there over the last month (everything takes 4x as long with a kid) with saws and sawdust everywhere and transferring all my crap from my old bench over to my new one so Jen can use the old one for a gardening bench. still a lot of organizing to do, its a bit of a heap of stuff right now.

finally, cleared out the other stall for Jen's truck. it was unintentional, but we ended up organizing the garage so that its mostly Jen's stuff on the left and mine on the right if you split it down the concrete seam :lol: weird. don't think for a minute i'm not the one who has to mow, though.


this is basically what you see when you walk out of the house into the garage. from left to right:
work/fab area in front of the car / bike area in the corner / car & detail shrine / small fluids cabinet and poster (out of shot)


here's the ugly crap that still needs work. we'll install the screen door in a week or 2 on the back of the house and the sawhorses will be stowed under Jen's bench for random woodwork. however, we have to figure out a good solution for making the best use of the cubby area. the back cubby wall is a big junction behind both our shower stall and the clothes washer so we'll probably try to fit a small utility sink in there along with some slim shelving on the right cubby wall to hold a bunch of gallons of paint, pest killer, and assorted home improvement crap. i'd love to put in a small stowage area for some of my son's outside toys, too.


some thoughts:
- i would love to have cabinets over my bench+tool chest but the whole story with this garage has just been customizing and tweaking on a here-and-there budget. we already had all our equipment and tools so it was a challenge of basically finding the best of whatever fastest/cheapest storage solutions presented themselves first and then we'll re-approach it again later
- i ended up using Gladiator brand wall tracks for both garden tool hanging and the detailer stuff baskets. purely due to a sale. i do like the white color so that it matches our walls better than some of the Kobalt track.
- i'm going to a lot of effort to keep almost everything aside from the toys, jackstands, and a few parts under my bench off the ground. our last garage had a serious mouse problem and no way in hell am i leaving anything easy for one to ever reach again. plus, we have roaches, spiders, and anole lizards down here that are big enough to literally fight you. i don't need to be reaching my hands into some dark corner on the ground.
- the lighting is pretty standard contractor junk. there needs to be at least 2 more rows of fixtures to be ideal but its a project so far down the list that i'll probably forget it bothers me eventually.
- speakers for the TV would be nice. another thing that i probably won't bother spending money on. i use the TV for viewing tutorials and assembly instructions via chromecast when i'm working on stuff. came in real handy when i rebuilt the front hubs on the xterra a few months ago.
- i would love a minifridge. because malt beverages.

[.RJ]

Cabinets are cheap at Ikea. I have them in my basement - super easy to set up too.

[navin]

^ikea cabinets in my garage as well.


Have you thought about adding storage on the ceiling... I can't tell, but it looks like you might have enough room right above the garage door tracks to use something like this:

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**Those usually go on sale for $150.

[Evan]

believe it or not, the welded steel gladiator cabinets (when on sale) are only marginally more expensive than the cheapest ikea cabinets.


bench looks real nice. is that the kreg bench kit?

[ScottyB]

believe it or not, the welded steel gladiator cabinets (when on sale) are only marginally more expensive than the cheapest ikea cabinets.

that's awesome. there's an ikea in atlanta that i could pass by a couple times a year while seeing family but i'd much rather snag something local.

bench looks real nice. is that the kreg bench kit?

yep! 64W x 28D x 30H. very solid and easy to customize.