Garage is insulated and drywalled. Getting estimates on cost to have it prepared for paint (mud and tape). One contactor came on Saturday and getting a competing bid tonight. Would like to get the floor ground and polished on the shop side and ground and epoxy coated on the parking side.

Okay, so my cheapness is coming out again. I have two quotes to have the drywall mud and taping done. More than I was anticipating by almost double. Anyone have a good drywall guy that would be interested in giving me a quote? Hoping to get one more from a group that has already done work on the house. Highlands Ranch.

You are going to be hard pressed to find a reasonably priced anything right now with all the building around denver. They basically charge whatever they want.

One more quote on Saturday.

Garage has mud and tape done for the most part. There is some minor follow up that needs to be done. I started priming it all last night. I didn't get as far as I thought I would. The drywall and mud are thirsty. I was able to get most of the shop area/3rd bay primed. It took about 2 gallons so far.

As I was painting last night, I thought it would be interesting to paint the garage door rails and the garage door hangers black. I'll probably do that before painting the walls and ceiling.

First coat of paint is on the walls. Coverage was pretty solid. Some Painter errors left some spots to touch up, but since I ended up buying way too much paint, I'll probably do touch ups, then hit it all with a second coat...or just do the second coat.

Paint color on left, primer on right.


Just finishing up for the evening on Saturday. Ended up finishing on Sunday.

Looking good. Wanna do mine next, lol?

That looks so nice and clean. It makes me want to start over on mine!

It is difficult thinking that i will have to eventually put stuff in the garage. I really like nice open space free of clutter.

Although I really want to go to shelving next, realistically, flooring should be the next step so that I don't have cabinets and other stuff in the way. It is already open to do floors. I just don't have the confidence to grind the floor myself (renting the grinder from Home Depot).

With those beautiful white.... Sorry Drizzle walls you should look into a small projector for your youtube how-to's and to display service manual pages on the wall! Then when not in service it could just play a simple loop of F&F scenes!

That's a good idea DW

Dwduc wrote:With those beautiful white.... Sorry Drizzle walls you should look into a small projector for your youtube how-to's and to display service manual pages on the wall! Then when not in service it could just play a simple loop of F&F scenes!

That's what I do. I have a little Brookstone mini projector that I plug into the phone, plop on the roof of the Cougar and shoot onto the back wall.

I need to know more about this projector idea. The back wall adjacent to the freezer should generally be fairly open. The wall between the two 4 outlet boxes will also be fairly open above 30" and below 72". Does it need to be fairly dark for the projectors to be fairly visible? Seems that way in our work conference rooms. I like the idea. I figure I could project a pretty solid 36" wide by xx" high, which would be really nice for viewing.

I took a quick look at Brookstone. Seems fairly interesting. The 200 lumen wireless smart projector seems like a decent deal. I did see on one of the pocket projectors "semi-dark" room. That will not really be possible in my garage as it is wired/lit right now. It is either pitch black or lit.

Mine is the 100 lumens one, and is not good in bright light conditions. To be fair, we purchased it as an inexpensive outdoor/night time movie projector. I did use it when I was working in the evening the other day, and projected the torque specs up on the wall. I needed to use a shop light where I was working anyway, so I just didn't turn the overhead lights on.

I started putting together the garage last night. This means I repaired some paint on the ceiling, tried to put all of the outlet/switch covers on, and swept the floors. Unfortunately, I discovered that they did not do the drywall around my receptacles/switches as I had asked them (some of the cuts were too loose), so I still can't put on some of my plates...partly my fault for the cuts, but I expected them to fix those with tape and mud. They are going to come back and repair them, but that means even more time prepping and painting. I'm pretty tired of painting at this point.

The issue of me setting the boxes based on the marks on them is also now at a head. They are too deep. In some cases I can use the typical box extensions found at Home Depot, but in my welder and other large outlets, they will not work, or at least I have not found the type that would work. I'm planning to use some spacers to space the outlets out and the plate will mount to them. Need to get screws and a bunch of 1/4" spacers.

What I am fighting now is the feeling of settling for less than what I really want. I Already have to a large extent because I can see screw heads and other "significant" flaws in the drywall. Remember it's me we're talking about though. I fought with not filling them with spackle as I corrected the paint where the wall and ceiling meet. I honestly made a conscious effort to accept the level of finish as a compromise to going back and repainting a lot of the garage again. I guess I'm okay with a 10' finish on my garage walls and ceiling vs. probably another 20+ hours of work. All said and done, there would still be waviness to the walls I wouldn't be able to fix.

My plan is to get the outlet covers on and run the power down from the ceiling to be closer to the garage door openers and possibly extend out the safety eye wires tonight. For the garage door eye wires, my plan is to run it through small diameter conduit or find something else to keep the wires hidden or make it look more industrial.