What's up everyone. I recently went through some renovation on my garage and figured I would show everyone.
I work for my family's funeral business who has been in business for 66 years. We just recently opened our second funeral home which also has a crematory within the same facility (only 3 funeral homes in the state of CT have an onsite crematory). For about a year now, I have been running the original location by myself, with my parents being at the new facility.
Long story short, the business purchased a 3 family house that borders the funeral home, which we needed to buy to build a 4 car garage to store our limo's and hearse's. The 3 family has a 2 car garage detached which I have been fortunate enough to park my car in, along with my father's 1961 Cadillac. I've always wanted a lift to work on my car and the purpose of this project was to make that happen.
Here is a picture of the "before".
One of the biggest problems was there was such minimal electrical coming into the garage. I dug a trench to the house and had more brought it.
The second biggest problem was ceiling height. It's hard to see but in the first pic, there are trusses going across the entire garage. I had my friend who's in the construction business come and look at it. He said with some modifying, you can take the trusses out on one side of the garage and add some support beams to even out the structural stability of the garage. That is what we did. I didn't take any before pictures, but you can see where the old trusses were cut, and where the new ones were added (the light colored wood, obviously).
Now that this was taken care of, I wanted to paint the floor. I ended up using the rustoleum DIY kit. It was a pain in the ass to prep but it came out great and I'm super happy with it. I spent around $300 on everything.
First I bought the degreaser. Poured it on the floor, let it sit, scrubbed it, then power washed it. Then after, I wanted to treat the oil spots, so I bought a kitty litter like absorbing powder, made circles around the oil spots, poured TSP on it, let it sit, scrubbed it, then put the powder on top and let it sit overnight.
After that, I used the etching solution that comes with the kit and followed the instructions from there.
I also had my garage door guy come and switch the old motor out for a side mount with a custom track to ride the angle of the ceiling. Then I had the lift installed, and after had my electrician come back, wire the lift, add 6 LED lights, some outlets, and put a second switch for my vintage sign. When we built the new funeral home, we had a left over EXIT sign from the construction which I had added above the door just because. The sign on the wall was from my family's original funeral home. The sign was made in 1952 and STILL WORKS! They don't make them like they used to. The sign reads ALBINI which is my last name.
I have been so busy with work I haven't even been able to throw the Hellcat on yet, but I will soon so I can see how she look with her dancing shoes on :rockon:
(Also, for those wondering, the lift is made by Gary Bloom and it's their 9ft tall post 9,000 lb lift).
I didn't take the best progress pics, but here is the final product!
I work for my family's funeral business who has been in business for 66 years. We just recently opened our second funeral home which also has a crematory within the same facility (only 3 funeral homes in the state of CT have an onsite crematory). For about a year now, I have been running the original location by myself, with my parents being at the new facility.
Long story short, the business purchased a 3 family house that borders the funeral home, which we needed to buy to build a 4 car garage to store our limo's and hearse's. The 3 family has a 2 car garage detached which I have been fortunate enough to park my car in, along with my father's 1961 Cadillac. I've always wanted a lift to work on my car and the purpose of this project was to make that happen.
Here is a picture of the "before".
One of the biggest problems was there was such minimal electrical coming into the garage. I dug a trench to the house and had more brought it.
The second biggest problem was ceiling height. It's hard to see but in the first pic, there are trusses going across the entire garage. I had my friend who's in the construction business come and look at it. He said with some modifying, you can take the trusses out on one side of the garage and add some support beams to even out the structural stability of the garage. That is what we did. I didn't take any before pictures, but you can see where the old trusses were cut, and where the new ones were added (the light colored wood, obviously).
Now that this was taken care of, I wanted to paint the floor. I ended up using the rustoleum DIY kit. It was a pain in the ass to prep but it came out great and I'm super happy with it. I spent around $300 on everything.
First I bought the degreaser. Poured it on the floor, let it sit, scrubbed it, then power washed it. Then after, I wanted to treat the oil spots, so I bought a kitty litter like absorbing powder, made circles around the oil spots, poured TSP on it, let it sit, scrubbed it, then put the powder on top and let it sit overnight.
After that, I used the etching solution that comes with the kit and followed the instructions from there.
I also had my garage door guy come and switch the old motor out for a side mount with a custom track to ride the angle of the ceiling. Then I had the lift installed, and after had my electrician come back, wire the lift, add 6 LED lights, some outlets, and put a second switch for my vintage sign. When we built the new funeral home, we had a left over EXIT sign from the construction which I had added above the door just because. The sign on the wall was from my family's original funeral home. The sign was made in 1952 and STILL WORKS! They don't make them like they used to. The sign reads ALBINI which is my last name.
I have been so busy with work I haven't even been able to throw the Hellcat on yet, but I will soon so I can see how she look with her dancing shoes on :rockon:
(Also, for those wondering, the lift is made by Gary Bloom and it's their 9ft tall post 9,000 lb lift).
I didn't take the best progress pics, but here is the final product!
