one final idea. My neighbor is a big woodworker and organization freak, he has something very interesting installed in his garage. Basically the roof is covered with threaded holes that allow jars to be pretty much twisted in there. He labels it from the bottom so he has every single nail and such very neatly organized.

 

i forgot to wax it!

 

BradB and others that have done the black plastic trim at the bottom
of garage walls.... how hard is it to cut those (utility knife ok?) and
also, what do you use to attach them to the walls?

HomeDepot have them?

thanks.

 

I just used the rolled rubber-like vinyl. Cut it with a utility knife and glued it with the vinyl mastic you can pick-up from HD. Went up very easy, but need to be mindful of the glue: it is water based but hard to remove any exposed extra. It was like $47/120ft which was enough to do my two-stall with some left over.

 

Post pictures when you do! Be sure to mask off that beautiful graphic before you take the RO to it.

 

thanks! vinyl mastic glue... is there a particular brand that
works better than the other?

how do wrap the trim around right angles? does the glue dry pretty quickly?

 

but might not be a bad idea to wax the winking half domes as
they are chrome. don't want any watery stains from like pop cans...
i'll NXT it tonight.

 

Yep, as others have mentioned, it's a piece of cake. The whole garage can be done in an hour.

 

For the glue HD has it sitting right next to the trim in the tile section. It dried pretty quick - I thought I could come back and wipe off the squeeze excess after doing a wall, but it was nearly dried in about 10 minutes - so I began wiping as I went.
The stuff folds very well for an inside 90 degree. I had two outside 90's in my garage and I could not get it absolutely flat so it has a very slight radius (I held it in place with some staples until the glue dried). You could cut and bevel to go around an outside 90 I guess.
I guess the main tip here is to wipe off any excess with a wet rag within about 5 minutes. The rag will get real sticky and snotty so have some extra. That glue is gluey!

Good luck -

Chuck

 

thanks for the info and tip!
i will go look for it today at HD.

Update...
i got 4 strips of the gray ones and
the adhesive (Rogers) that they sold right
next to it. I have a caulking gun so, total
only cost like $15.

Update again... got it on the wall.
looks very nice. thanks again!

http://www.easy2diy.com/cm/easy/diy_...t2=Brand#steps

here's the trash can again but with the wall trim.

 

Very cool. Makes me wish I wasnt looking at moving.

Side note, hows that NXT'd trash can?

 

I NXT'd the chrome moon halves last night. looks great!

btw, what i meant by my garage wall not finished, finished is
that im only doing the trims and will post picts when im finished
with the trims. not finishing the whole garage. i dont plan on
drywalling it yet as i want max space.

 

I've got five pair of those red tire hangers (enough for five sets of wheels), but only two or three pair are from Griot's. I found another company (Sporty's) that sells basically the same thing except the post is square, the post is a little longer, and they are significantly cheaper. I like to store my wheels/tires on them with the face of the wheel out, and the Griot's hangers weren't quite long enough for some of my wider tires. I put rubber hose over the center post to avoid transferring red paint from the hanger to the wheel.

-Keith

-Keith

 

Keith - do you have a link for Sporty's?

 

http://www.sportys.com/

It is in their "Tool Shop" section.

-Keith

 

Hey Mineon I like that site! Did you see this...


http://sportys.com/acb/Category.cfm?&DID=10&CATID=6

How cool is that!

 

^^ im not sure if i want my duster so close to the wash bucket though...
even one drip of water on the duster will make it smear on the paint.

 

Here's something I do that y'all may want to try (or not ). My friend stopped by the house today while I was vacuuming out my husband's truck. I borrowed it to take on an overnight trip with my son's cross country team and I like to give it back to him all clean and shiny! Anyway my friend asked what I had sprayed in the truck to make it smell so good. I said I hadn't sprayed anything and then thought about it for a bit and realized it was the shopvac she could smell. Whenever I clean out the shopvac, I wash out the foam filter and then before I put it back onto the shopvac I give the filter a few spritzes of Febreze for Autos. Then I put about 6-8 vacuum beads in the canister of the shop vac. It really smells much better than the usual musty odor and makes the garage smell great while you're cleaning!
Here are the beads, the directions say to put a "handful" in, but I'm sure it's so you'll go through the bottle quicker. I've found that a half a dozen is fine.

http://www.goodhomeco.com/docs/buy.html
Annette

 

^^ very interesting! my shopvac only eats dry dust so
no musty smell, but i will keep that in mind!

maybe those with rodents in their garage can throw
a couple of moth ***** in their vac for the ultimate
scent...

 

Now I could see myself using it in the house. My luck, I bump into it and it tips towards the car leaving a nice long scratch.

 

Unfortunately I have a gravel driveway, so that wouldn't work for me. If I would get something like that which might prove useful when I finally get my driveway paved, I'd shorten the legs to improve the high center of gravity, and I'd pad the exposed metal parts to avoid any potential scratching. Several places sell bucket platforms that sit very low to the ground as well, which are typically all plastic.

-Keith

 

HERE is the link to the tire hangers - they were a bit hard to locate in there. Now I wish I had an open wall to use these.

 

i wonder how well my studs would hold up if i had 60lbs+ wheel sets
hanging on those things... (my G35C's rear wheel/tire set is pretty
heavy running 19x10 with 275/35/19 S03's).

 

On average a pair of my wheels weighs 60-70 lbs, and I've had as much as 80 lbs worth of wheels per wheel hanger hung up for several years now with no problems. Since I haven't put drywall or panelling up yet, my studs are still exposed, and I added a second 2x4 along the stud to help distribute the load a bit, and I also added horizontal bracing in a couple of places since my studs are 13' high without any other bracing. This way they don't sway or move at all. When using tire hangers like these, predrill the holes for the lags, and use lags that are at least 2 1/2" or 3" long.

-Keith

 

^^ thanks for the tip, Mineon!