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Along those lines, gray with speckles is a crappy color for doing actual mechanical work because it will camouflage small things like nuts and bolts and even small tools. I'm thinking about this practically now (I need to do something like this for my garage floor), and I do things like maintain my small engine yard tools. I think I'd rather have a bright yellow or orange urethane floor, as long as it wasn't slippery.
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Kiroy
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Lanx
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yea thats why i was looking at tan, rustoleum seems to only have gray/tan colors
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That was the entire beginning of my massive Garage project (detailed elsewhere in this thread). When I got my CTS
Mrs. Haus
insisted that it be properly taken care of and that means putting in the garage, which at that time was like yours and full of crap. Over time we have purged a HUGE amount of that crap in the process (to the order of around 3x the volume of my car it seems) and now I can store what I need in there and park both of our cars in it. Of course our crap was over 15 years of accumulation....
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you ppl with garage storage issues ever think about overhead storage?
i've been thinking about this i-beam setup for future storage, i think it looks sleeker
just have to buy more uniform storage bins.
Actually... Yes.
FIrst, I have "overhead in the rafters/attic of the garage space which I'm leveraging now....
Next are the shelves I built along one wall which had space....
Then as an experiment I added some overhead, which I think I will be expanding.... With the left over wood I had from the Garage rebuild.
As for capacity, I know I did pull ups on that overhead after I put it up, so it's good for at least #230.
Admittedly I don't have the fancy finished looks you do on the walls, but I don't mind my redneck level functionality. heh
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it's just drywall, it came like that heh, i think the ibeam storage for you would be good, it would use less wood and you seem pretty capable. You already have shelving for "odds and ends", so you wouldn't have to build out an overhead shelf imo, the ibeam storage idea saves space (unless you wanted to double stack storage, which i believe imo is a safety hazard anyway, you don't want to fiddle w/ double stacked anything while on a ladder)
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i think i settled on this, called "large format kitchen backsplash"
you'd think being from ny, i'd like subway tile, but i actually have an aversion to, b/c i've been in subways for so long. This seems easy enough to do, just get a bunch of 12x24 and rip cut em for the thin strips.
no grout lines tho, how does anyone feel about that?
you'd think being from ny, i'd like subway tile, but i actually have an aversion to, b/c i've been in subways for so long. This seems easy enough to do, just get a bunch of 12x24 and rip cut em for the thin strips.
no grout lines tho, how does anyone feel about that?
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I like the look of the I-beam stuff. My one concern is that it somewhat locks you into using on particular type/brand of storage tubs and if you have to change, then you might have to redo the spacing on all the beams....
i think i settled on this, called "large format kitchen backsplash"
you'd think being from ny, i'd like subway tile, but i actually have an aversion to, b/c i've been in subways for so long. This seems easy enough to do, just get a bunch of 12x24 and rip cut em for the thin strips.
no grout lines tho, how does anyone feel about that?
I like the look of that backsplash. I would also stay away from Subway style staggering because do you really want to be reminded of how dirty subways are when you're in your kitchen? My only concern with that picture would be keeping that much pure white looking clean (i.e. the counters and cabinets)
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You guys dont even wanna see my garage, lul. shit is aids.
I wanted to build a storage shed to store all my lawn and snow shit but alas, city rules state you need a rat wall which costs about $1200 and no concrete place even wants to come out and do one up, because they want full driveway work not some shit job that pays nothing. I called like 5-6 places a year back and none even called me back for estimate.
I wanted to build a storage shed to store all my lawn and snow shit but alas, city rules state you need a rat wall which costs about $1200 and no concrete place even wants to come out and do one up, because they want full driveway work not some shit job that pays nothing. I called like 5-6 places a year back and none even called me back for estimate.
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I don't mind the look of no grout lines, it's hard to do well, though. I'm more worried about the uneven surface and how hard it is to keep clean.
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yea all the 12x24 i've seen is gonna be slate, so it'll have the "natural" stone look.
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Yeah, try to wipe that down. Be interesting to see how it ages with food all over it.
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Plan B could have been inviting FOH peeps over, handing them tools and providing alcohol.
Of course, that kind of requires some level of self-doxxing, so maybe Plan A was a better idea.
Did you just pay a family to come over and owrk on your yard, though? Did I see a mother/grandmother out there doing yard work? Am I high right now?
Kiroy
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if you've bolted it into studs you can put a lot of weight on it, I probably had like 800lbs on my old 8x4
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mexican cleaning service is rife w/ mother-daughter combo on the east coast. wouldn't be surprised if they expanded to landscaping.
Plan B could have been inviting FOH peeps over, handing them tools and providing alcohol.
Of course, that kind of requires some level of self-doxxing, so maybe Plan A was a better idea.
Did you just pay a family to come over and owrk on your yard, though? Did I see a mother/grandmother out there doing yard work? Am I high right now?
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