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Got plenty already. Need a night job to tile the garage.

 

I have had every type of flooring in my garage from colored concrete, tile, VCT, epoxy paint, you name it. Last year I installed Racedeck and would highly recommend it. It floats so it expand and contracts with temps but cove base covers the gaps. Your palatial garage could be done in a day and vehicles parked on it that night. I did all solid tiles, but they have vented tiles for use in an area that you may wash your vehicle so it drains easier with the slope.

While I dont have a full-on shot for you, there are plenty online. Its made in Salt lake City and ships UPS. A jig saw (better that a chop saw) for cuts and a few hours and its done. Not sure if they are a sponsor, but members of another forum get a discount.

 

Interesting... But how it'll cope with metling show in a winter, and slope incline? For drainage? I have such a mess in winter in the main garage, where the winter beater is - it has melting snow with sand all the time. I have a few pounds of sand when I wash the floor in spring. I'm afraid it'll clog the vented tiles, and I'll have to dissasemble it yearly to clean?

 

Welcome to OC California.

We measure the garage by the inch not by the foot. When I pull the car in I have about 3 inches on each side from the most outer edge of the mirrors, almost 2 feet on the front, and 6 inches in the rear and I don't have that fancy ParkAssist thingy.

Only compact cars fit in the garage. My current Honda SUV and Lexus will fit as long as you don't try to get out of the car after you park. Only if they give my garage one foot longer and one foot wider

 

At least you have 3 car garage! I'm pretty sure it's a luxury in itself in CA!

Get this, it'll work with your liftmaster garage opener flawlessly. Even a bad driver can park to an inch with this thing. After trying it, I'm surprised it's not a standard equipment in every home. And it looks like you can mount it on the motor cover, so installation will be super clean and easy.
Chamberlain LiftMaster 975LM Laser Parking Assist - Amazon.com

 

I would love to have a bigger garage.... but at least I can keep them out of the Texas sunlight!

 

That's a very nice garage and you know it! My wife loves a Porsche SUV, but it's probably not gonna happen...

I'm surprised how ALL the garages in the US, even the super car garages, have those ungodly punched metal triangles to hold the door channel. You'd think somebody would come up with something clean and stylish for those who want their garages to look good.

 

I wish I would have had time, money and more cooperative builder when we built our house to finish the garage. That didnt happen so its nothing that special, it is 1150 sq ft, fits 5 vehicles with space to walk around and is fully insulated (inc. door) and drywalled and has hot / cold water and sink but thats about it. Oh it is prepped for cable and has a natural gas line run for a future furnace. It just has so much untapped potential currently.

 

Sounds like you better fix that haha.

 

Seriously though, how do you guys have such massive garages? I thought the 3 car garage in the $2 million home I was renting for 6 months recently was huge. You must have a $4 million+ home if you're rocking a 5+ car garage, no?

 

Nah, depends on how much property costs. When I added a garage on to my house a number of years ago, I put a 20 foot door on the car side, and a 10 foot door on the other side of an interior wall for my shop. Of all things my wife has a second car, and it parks in there with my stuff pushed to the sides. My house I bought for too low to publish, and is only ~4000 square foot.

I am currently planning on building a smaller house, and bigger garage, now that the kids are gone. Should end up with at least 3 slots and a garage, or straight up 4 slots.

I will post my current garage once I actually get my 981.

 

Here is mine.

I really need to clean it out of the years of accumulated junk. What the picture does not show is that the back side of the garage is probably 25 feet off the ground - supported by steel beams. I have always thought it would be cool to put a glass wall in the back - like Farris Bueller.

 

Here is mine.

I really need to clean it out of the years of accumulated junk. What the picture does not show is that the back side of the garage is probably 25 feet off the ground - supported by steel beams. I have always thought it would be cool to put a glass wall in the back - like Farris Bueller.

Who can tell me what car was used in the movie?

 

I thought the Ferrari 250 California was a replica based on a Ford Mustang. Can't recall where I heard or read that. Too many years ago.....

 

I hope it's all right to post an older Porsche and its home here.

I've got a detached two-car garage that has a lot of ideas in it for making the most out of a not-so-huge space. I do maintenance on the 911 in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did all the work on the shop myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than $3,800. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: The 12-Gauge Garage

(This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)

Work benches that fold down from the wall:

There is no 911 that's been lowered too much to fit on this lift. And there's nothing to trip over when the car is out.

And it's got its own a video:

The 12-Gauge Garage Video

And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:

My Garage Lift

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.

But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that.

 

I hope it's all right to post an older Porsche and its home here.

I've got a detached two-car garage that has a lot of ideas in it for making the most out of a not-so-huge space. I do maintenance on the 911 in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did all the work on the shop myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than $3,800. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: The 12-Gauge Garage

(This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)

Now that's what I'm talking about. A perfect garage! The lift and the clock being the best features. Did you get the lift second hand too? I love how everything is thought of and everything is accounted for... Love the car too.

Where did you get that Porsche sign on the left wall?

 

so sweet......

 

@Jack Olsen - Wow, all that for $3800? Best setup I see yet.

 

Pretty sweet garages guys!

You haven't seen a garage until you've seen Jay Leno's garage though! :taunt:

I've had the pleasure of going to his garage on a few different occasions. It's unbelievable. It's 4 massive connected garages. 300 cars. 200 motorcycles. 40,000 square feet. He's got a Segway just to get from one end of the garage to the other.

One of the 4 connected garages is the shop and there's probably about 10 vehicle lifts in there. It's got CNC machines, waterjet cutters, 3D printers, everything! He makes his own parts for anything that breaks if he can't buy it.

There's also a full blown gourmet kitchen. It's really something!

 

Of course I've seen Jay Leno's garage. But it doesn't impress me in a way the good self designed garages here do. If I had Jay's money - I do it much, much better, than just warehouses he has. It's a no brainer.

 

Here is her home View attachment 26802

 

Nice wall decorations! I use Gladiator products too. The bench is probably the best you can find this side of custom made!

 

No Boxster yet, but already have a Home for it. Need to clean up and put up a couple shelves to get a few more things off the floor.

 

Let me make a wild guess...You like white car with blue accents

 

Here's mine ...not exactly in the lap of luxury LOL!!!

 

Here's mine, with my 981 back where it belongs!

 

It must suck when you have to drive that CR-V. :hilarious:

Was thinking about possibly getting a cheap workhorse car alongside the 981 to do the chores, but honestly I'd rather only have the 981 and then just rent a truck whatever few times I need to haul stuff.

 

The more I look at these the madder I am I didn't get a house with a 2 car garage...Sadly that would have meant losing about 800 sq ft and paying about 200k more.

I should have just changed neighborhoods

 

God, could you not just build a garage? I could build a 2 car garage IN BRICK with a mother in law suite above it for about the same amount I paid for my 981.


Mark

 

$200k for a 2 car garage???? Whoa! My house came standard with a 2.5 car garage, it only cost about $35k to add the additional 3 car area.

 

I don't even have a full townhouse (its called a piggyback townhouse) and it cost me ~450k. Getting into a decent SFH in my neighborhood (to get the 2 car garage) puts me right around the 650 line. I cant even imagine what itd cost to get a 2.5-3 car garage. It wasn't so much the money it was that fact that im just one person and I didn't need, or really want, all the extra space. Hell, as it is one of my guest bedrooms has been a "cutting room" for the past three years for wood cutting.

 

I've been in my house for 20 years now. I renovated the attached garage when I built the "barn." I had the barn in my original plans, but just built it about 6 years ago. I added a silo about 2 years ago. Now my attached garage is my clean garage. I put all the "junk" in the silo, and now the barn is a pretty clean workshop. Here are some shots. (I'm always doing or planning the next update, but I think I'm done with out buildings.)

 

Sweet! Except for the balls on the string...

 

You're correct. If I'd gone the path of hiring someone else to do my garage, the thing could easily end up being the most expensive room in the house. But for me, the garage was the opportunity to learn a lot of new skills. I'd never set tile before the garage, or welded, or cut, excavated or poured concrete.

The timing for when I started it was fortunate -- both my wife and I had to stop working because of the 100-day-long Writers Guild strike in 2007-8. That meant I had some time to devote to a project like this. But it also meant I had a powerful motivation to do it on the cheap. At the time, we had no idea how long it would be before we could work again.

The cool thing about working on a garage is that you can do a 'ten-foot job' (meaning: it looks pretty good from ten feet away) and be happy with it. I'd never be okay with that same level of work for inside the house -- I'd be re-doing it over and over and over. But in the garage, I can remind myself that the whole point of the place is to get other work done, not to simply keep working on the garage. (Although I'll be the first to admit that it's fun for me to keep finding time to improve the garage.)

In any case, thanks for looking at the site. The point of making it was to get those ideas out to people in a similar position to where I was when I started to work on my garage.

 

I could never be happy with 10 feet in my garage. I'm kind of guy who'll be uncomfortable even if problem is totally hidden. If I know it's there - I'll be worrying untill I fix it. And I did notice some pretty big holes at the base of your table by the clock. But I didn't say anything because I'm a nice guy! :cheers:

 

I know it's an old thread. But I'm still happy with a 10-footer -- and my garage (and car) just got a video made about them -- so I'm kind of psyched. The web site is called Petrolicious, and if you've got nine minutes free, click on the image below to watch the video.

And let me know what you think.



Link.

 

Thanks for sharing that. Very enjoyable and informative video. :thanks:

 

Mine needs work. I took down the Corvette signs and put up new Porsche posters and one sign in an effort to make my Boxster feel at home when it arrives, lol. I just have too much stuff. The RC planes will stay put, but I have talked about buying a shed to remove the lawn and garden things from the garage. If ever that is done, the Boxster home will look a little more pleasing to the eye. I'd love to have a real man cave around the Boxster with some seating, a TV, and of all things a jukebox, lol! Jon

 

Cool, another RC plane buff. Have you enjoyed the thrill and expense of flying twins yet? They are about a quarter of my garage space as well.

For the man cave idea. All I need is my Boxster, Jukebox = Bose and DVD 6 stack, Seats = Adaptive Sports seats + 18 way (very comfortable), TV = Well did I say that I ordered the TV tuner for the car now if I can only get my cable / sat service streaming to the car. :dance:

:cheers:

 

I don't keep my Cayman in this garage . . . just my motorcycles.

The motorcycles have changed (R1200RT & Triumph) but the concept remains the same.

A collection of German Beer glasses to the left. :cheers:

 

Now, that's a proper garage. Only strip pole and jacuzzi is missing

 

Thanks.

Westcoaster, I started the garage back in 2007-8, during the 100-day Writers Guild strike. I had nothing else to do, so I finally started on the garage, which had been packed full of junk since we'd moved to this house in 2003. After I did the tiles for the floor, the place stayed in that initial configuration for a long time.

Then I got bitten by the bug (and found some good deals on used cabinets), and started to go through it, pretty much one wall at a time, to get it where I wanted it. This was in 2010. By 2011, it was where it is now. I did the work when I had extra time.

Trusevich, the fenders and other body panels are fiberglass reproductions of the 2.8 RSR, which Porsche raced in 1973. Only the roof is still steel on my car.

 

Trusevich, the fenders and other body panels are fiberglass reproductions of the 2.8 RSR, which Porsche raced in 1973. Only the roof is still steel on my car.

Ah! it's beautiful. That wood be perfect look for my project car which I have no money, space or time for now and in foreseeable future. How do you widen the front track? Or is it just wider wheels?

Add 350 hp, nice seats and custom interior and I'd sell my kidney for it. Move the engine to the middle, as it's free to dream anyway.

Is nobody making full CF dashes and door panels for old Porsches? Interiors prior to 2000 are not exactly exciting, IMO. I'd think there is a market for it...

 

Amazing place and car. Great job and thanks for sharing.