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bawfuls posted:Could use some AI advice on paint/epoxy/other sealant options for a cement garage floor. Garage Journal has hundreds of threads about this. Don't do Home Depot.
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bawfuls posted:Could use some AI advice on paint/epoxy/other sealant options for a cement garage floor. No experience with this company https://concretefloorsolutions.com/online-store/ but they from the videos they seem competent https://www.youtube.com/user/jkehnel/videos
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Apr 26, 2022 03:16
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I did the SPGX polyurea from Armorpoxy, and I've been really happy with it. I think I skimped on the prep on the first half of the garage, because I had a few spots that lifted off from tires over the last 4 years, but I'm hoping to do a recoat on that side of the garage this summer. I won't recoat the whole thing, I'll just do a better prep job on the spots that the tires tend to rest and recoat those spots with some overlap.
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Apr 27, 2022 01:35
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As with all things, prep is indeed the key and special tools like concrete grinders with a very thorough clean up. That is, however, where most of the non-pros suck because the first time they have ever done it is in their garage and just want to get it done.
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Apr 27, 2022 01:51
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Making progress on my garage refresh, every surface has finally been patched/repaired/washed/kilzed/painted around the entire garage. This corner I also added some cable raceway to protect the wiring from the basement to the 2nd floor, dmarc, attic antenna, etc. Once I can get a non-rainy non-windy day, I’ll re-spray the upper cabinets, door trim, door, trim around the workbench, etc. It’s been a lot of work but I’m almost done. Final pictures when complete!
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May 3, 2022 15:01
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Looking good, and I like the cat artwork too. I need to get out and do some cleaning myself, but I did add a little stereo setup to my garage to encourage that. Here’s a pic of my humble stall:
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May 3, 2022 15:58
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You can never have too many labels.
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May 3, 2022 21:27
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I find lots of colors to be helpful, particularly when trying to explain to someone else where something is. If I am under the sink and can't move because my finger is keeping water from going everywhere (not a real scenario), when I communicate to my wife that she is looking for a "grey box with purple writing on it, label says 'widget confabulators'", it helps us both. When I built the cabinets in my garage I made the inner panels of the Shaker doors out of white melamine so I could write contents on the doors with crayons or markers. I don't always follow through on writing down what's inside, but I do it enough that I can usually find the stuff in those cabinets. The markers and crayons both wipe away easily after application of pretty much any organic solvent (usually brake cleaner). PBCrunch fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 3, 2022 |
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May 3, 2022 21:43
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I used this company and got the polyurea coating. https://www.garageflooringllc.com/garage-floor-coatings/ I put it down on a brand new garage floor after roughing it up a little with a concrete grinder, and it's held up great for the last 3 years and I didn't even do a very good job of applying it.
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May 4, 2022 03:20
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ryanrs posted:As a newbie welder, I am obliged fabricate shop furniture whenever the opportunity arises. Lovely! I should get better at making my own brackets, this looks like a great hanger!
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May 4, 2022 17:40
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Maybe don't paint it. I painted mine, and I think the threads on e.g. the grinding wheels will quickly scrape off the paint. Might have been better to leave it plain.
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May 4, 2022 18:31
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ryanrs posted:Maybe don't paint it. I painted mine, and I think the threads on e.g. the grinding wheels will quickly scrape off the paint. Might have been better to leave it plain. Eh, Paint will help the non-contact surfaces look good. Around here, it'll help prevent rust, too.
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May 4, 2022 21:31
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ryanrs posted:Maybe don't paint it. I painted mine, and I think the threads on e.g. the grinding wheels will quickly scrape off the paint. Might have been better to leave it plain. Got an oven it will fit in? Try some gun kote https://shop.kgcoatings.com/kg/product/2417lav/ It'll still scrape eventually, but its a little harder and can be applied thinly. Also, it's more fun.
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May 4, 2022 21:45
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I just bought a Quick Jack and the hangers were OOS, and also more expensive than they should have been. Has anyone improvised hangers? I'll need to either anchor to concrete or put up a 2x4 and anchor to that. Thoughts? I also need to run some loving outlets. Two on the ceiling, one outside, two on opposing walls. All are in use or inaccessible except the outdoor one.
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May 4, 2022 22:00
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carticket posted:I just bought a Quick Jack and the hangers were OOS, and also more expensive than they should have been. Has anyone improvised hangers? I'll need to either anchor to concrete or put up a 2x4 and anchor to that. Thoughts? Do you actually need to have them hanging off of the floor? Mine just sit on the floor and then have chains halfway up to hold them to the wall. Edit: here's a pic of my setup 
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May 4, 2022 23:36
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Nope. I haven't unboxed them yet, so didn't have any idea what I'd need. Something like that would be pretty easy for me to do
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May 4, 2022 23:56
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I have left mine on the floor from day one. I just pushed them closer together so I can drive over them with no problem at all. If the hoses are a pain they are on QD so you can coil them out of the way.
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May 5, 2022 00:54
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I can't leave them on the floor as half my garage floor regularly gets covered in water.
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May 5, 2022 01:16
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carticket posted:I can't leave them on the floor as half my garage floor regularly gets covered in water. Maybe copy what tangy has done but put a cinder block under each one?
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May 5, 2022 03:44
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Commodore_64 posted:Got an oven it will fit in? Actually, yes. The shop has a Not For Food Use oven. The oven and the welder have to fight over who gets the 240V outlet.
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May 5, 2022 05:18
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Rhyno posted:Maybe copy what tangy has done but put a cinder block under each one? Oh, I meant like lying down on the floor. If I put a spot on the wall for them, they'll be fine.
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May 5, 2022 11:58
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Put some marine grade plywood or pressure-treated 1x12 or whatever under then and let them live on the floor.
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May 5, 2022 15:38
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So, actually related. I have a bunch of water resistant drywall for a basement room and leftovers from a bathroom. The wall with the doors has a total of about 2 ft across the entire length that's not door, and in the early spring it regularly gets submerged under a few inches of water. It's insulated, and some of the drywall has been cut back, but I'm wondering if I should just remove the fiberglass insulation and put something like closed cell foam in for that bottom foot or so. After that, I'd cover it with the good drywall. Any thoughts? E: also, to clarify, I'm not concerned about water and the quick jacks if I store them upright, because I can put them anywhere in the dry half. It's the under-car storage that won't work because of water (either the seasonal flooding or runoff from cars in winter).
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May 5, 2022 17:14
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Ha my quickjacks sit under a car in the driveway all year.
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May 19, 2022 00:16
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This QJ talk reminds me though, I want to attach some UHMW pads/channel under mine to help with sliding around and placement. It's a pain in the rear end.
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May 19, 2022 01:03
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Finally patched, primed, and painted the third bay workbench area, along with the top cabinets. This was the last area I had to do so now my garage has been refreshed on every wall. This grey extends to the right as an accent wall on the back wall of the double bay. Everywhere else is white with the exception of the front middle column that has the lawn equipment. It’s been a hell of a lot of work, over 26 years of PO neglect to deal with. Original primer, basically no patching of holes, filthy, etc. Still need to paint the door but that can wait. 
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Jun 1, 2022 16:34
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The artwork looks great and so does the painting. In the same amount of time I’ve managed to scrub my floors and replace the death trap workbench the PO left me. Thinking about one of those power strips now, but I’m unsure how sloppy I should be with the cord.
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I bought 4 normal ”L” or ”U” hangers (forgot which type) and put on the wall and hang my QJ’s on them. With the spacing if the wood beams of the wall, the QJ’’s need to hang in a specific way, with the frame slightly ”open” so make sure you check how it would work for you.
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I finished my mobile/modular workbench. Now I need to clean my garage and configure new homes for things so that I can put it in place. Its only a single stall garage so I don't have a ton of room but its long so the mobility is a huge benefit. I'm going to buy some hard board and enclose them on three sides to help keep whatever is being stored inside, clean. I think I'm also going to build a shelf in one or two of them. Its way sturdier than I thought it would be, and I love the idea of being able to move them around depending on what I'm doing that day. They've got holes spaced 12" apart around all sides and front so you can join them with large bolts to create one big bench in all kinds of positions. I'll also need to mount my vise.   This is the bench I made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MovF5vjmOQg
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bolind posted:Welp/Woot! Contract signed for new garage. It's going to be eye-wateringly expensive, but the result should be worth it. I made a whole thread about it!
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 long way to go but there's more than just a hole in the mess that the car slotted into. I even actually got down to a bare workbench before i started piling stuff back on it. I had ~5 pails of tools that came back out from the house after fixing stuff there over the past few years.
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I tore down a wall in my garage, it had a big door in it anyway. I did this to make the place roomier. I also had a shelf full of junk that I moved into my shed which is still under construction. I am pretty certain the shed will get a concrete floor in the future and probably become a place to work on cars. Uninsulated sure, but eh. My current garage really isn't suited for working on cars...  Looks so roomy compared to how it used to be. And the new shed is getting filled up rapidly:  And last night I got the final thing to winterize the garage properly:   I've used direct electric until now.
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Aug 18, 2022 06:48
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Beautiful. Mini splits are amazing.
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High hopes for this one to put a real dent in my heating costs. It's a nordic adapted model, 100% efficiency guaranteed down to -15C and will work down to -25C before it's only as good as direct electric.
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His Divine Shadow posted:High hopes for this one to put a real dent in my heating costs. It's a nordic adapted model, 100% efficiency guaranteed down to -15C and will work down to -25C before it's only as good as direct electric.
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I just had my whole house outfitted with Mitsubishi mini-splits. It's been great for the summer. One of the units is like that one, for the room that is most exposed and the normal house heat can't keep up. Interested to see how it works out this winter. I didn't put one in the garage, but it is mostly insulated by the ground, and the exposed wall is proper insulated.
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Invalido posted:If your climate is anything like mine (Stockholm) you should realistically lower your annual cost for heating the shop to a given temperature to about a third compared to straight electric. "100% efficiency" isn't how heat pumps work, but in the documentation there should be a graph of the C.O.P. at various temperatures at a specific relative humidity. The lower the Δ-t you're pumping against the greater the coefficient of power in a nutshell. While they theoretically work at a C.O.P greater than 1 down to -25c you'll commonly get a bunch of icing below -15 that puts a real dent in how well they work overall, but it's still a great investment and Mitsubishi make really good units. Great looking shop by the way! When I meant 100% efficiency I meant it's stated to be capable of running at max COP down to -15C which is sorta what I consider the heat pump running at 100%. Heat pumps can be confusing though. Climate here is a bit colder than Stockholm though, nearly same level as Umeå. And thanks! I'm building an enclosure for it to cope with the potential icing issues.
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His Divine Shadow posted:When I meant 100% efficiency I meant it's stated to be capable of running at max COP down to -15C which is sorta what I consider the heat pump running at 100%. Heat pumps can be confusing though. Climate here is a bit colder than Stockholm though, nearly same level as Umeå. And thanks! Here's a typical COP graph:  If it's 12c outside and you want 20 in your shop the COP might be about 4.5, i.e. 1kW of electricity makes 4.5kW of heat. At -15 it's gonna be closer to 2. On the average over the year you might end up at 3 or so, possibly a bit better. From what I can tell from your pictures that install is perfectly fine and there's no need to enclose the outside unit. The ice I mentioned is formed on the evaporator sitting inside the metal box that gets cold when the pump is running. Moisture from the air condensates like it does on a glass of ice water (there's a drain hose installed so it can drip out) but when it's cold outside, and the evaporator gets even colder than the ambient air getting blown over it by the fan this moisture doesn't drip, it freezes. Your heat pump brain will notice that this has happened and de-ice itself periodically, usually by running "backwards" as an AC for a little bit, in effect turning what is normally the evaporator into the condensor, which get hot thus melting the ice. When this is happening, you're effectively pumping heat from inside your shop to the outside in order to get rid of the ice. This de-ice cycle needs to happen more frequently the colder it gets which is why the theoretical ability to run at -25c is purely theoretical (like at unrealistically low humidity I guess) and the most common practical limit is closer to -15. I grew up north of Umeå and even there temps colder than -15 were pretty uncommon in the grand scheme of things, so your heat pump is still a great idea even if it won't work perfectly more than 97% of the time for the next 20 years or whatever.
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Would appear you are right, these are the figures I found for various temps:quote:https://asennuspalvelu-hopiavuori.fi/tuote/mitsubishi-electric-ft35-ilmalampopumppu/ Still an enclosure is still in the cards, to make it look better and to protect it from rain and snow, which I am told is beneficial for perfomance, it's still an exposed location, perhaps the one most exposed to weather and wind on the whole yard.
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Most people here just build a little roof protruding over the outdoor unit if they bother doing anything at all. Whatever you do make sure nothing you build around it obstructs the airflow or causes recirculation of air through the evaporator as this will have the same effect as a lower ambient temperature and therefore hurt performance.
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