The Obsessed Garage Project
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The Obsessed Garage Project
I'm getting closer and closer to building the garage I've been dreaming about ever since I can remember. God willing, it won't be long, so I've actually started putting pen to paper to organize my thoughts.
This past year, I've come to the realization that it is not the cars that are the anchor of my obsession. Since I'm not interested in being a “track-rat” or having grease all over the floor, I've had to come to grips that the cars are just a by-product of my passion for what is The Garage.
The general theme of this project could be the use of the word “sterile.” Well lit, super clean, highly organized, and overly simple with ample tools and great tech are my primary goals. My vision for this sanctuary is in my head, but I would say it’s blurry. I intend to dump down what I know on this thread and reason out the rest as I work through design.
For the construction of this, I have a very simple vision that includes a myriad of complex issues and careful planning. I wish to take you on this journey with me, and my hope is that you will add your input and share your thoughts as I progress.
Rather than being overly redundant, and in the interest of time there are some links to how I’ve gotten to this point in my signature. I’d like to pick up this thread from this point forward but here is the short story.
- Got a GT3
- Built What I Call "The Temporary Garage"
- Started a YouTube Channel
- Designed a Website to Dump What is in My Head onto the Net
- Sold My Old House at the 11th Hour and Moved Into the New One in May
Now that you're up-to-date let's start talking about the new project. Until construction starts, (fingers crossed sometime late '16), I intend to share the design process. I figure I can't explain to a builder what I want unless I have a solid grasp on what that is, so I bought Home Designer software. If you haven't used this software, I'd highly recommend it. I messed around with Sketch-Up and some other software, but found it too difficult to navigate without spending tons of time learning how to use them. Someone suggested on my first video about the new garage that I get the Home Designer Suite. I bought the $99 version, and it's been great to work with. I'd highly recommend it.
https://www.homedesignersoftware.com...dOsaAplX8P8HAQ
Initial Ideas
My initial ideas were to save cost and add onto the current pole barn. I also had grand plans to wash inside the garage. If you care to see the evolution of my thought process, these videos below explain it.
Actual Design
I decided after getting a quote for about $300,000, that adding onto the existing barn wasn't a good choice. It's not what I really wanted anyway, so I decided to build a car compound instead. This is the survey of my 5.67 acres and where the house is placed on the property.
I have 8' set-back requirements, so the main garage will run along the property line. This isn't to scale.
So this is what my dream looks like using my crude Home Designer software skills. The pole barn that currently exists will become a dedicated car washing bay complete with a 19' x 13' room for all the awesome stuff I use to wash cars.
This thing is pretty awesome. It is 30' X 40' with 11' ceilings.
The relationship of the two structures are going to look something like this.
The main garage is going to be 36' wide x 90' long with 12' ceilings. The doors on the front will be 10' x 10' and the back door will be 10' x 18'.
I'll be sure to update you as I continue on this process.
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I'm not a "barn" kind of guy, but this thing it pretty sweet. At some point, we will probably change the color of the house, but for now the yellow is going to stay. Here is what it looks like with the cars and trailer in it.
Here is my vision for what the room facing the washing area will look like. This isn't large enough to fit a car and will simply store all of my washing equipment. I have a lot of stuff. This is completely unnecessary, but so is a 3500 sq.ft. garage...
The walls are painted plywood. I want cleaner looking drywall. You can see where they added onto this a few years back. I want this to be one open room.
The week after I moved into the new house and had all of my boxes unpacked, I decided I would take a peak behind the walls of the pole barn.
Pulling that one panel off turned into a massive demolition project where I ended up having eight friends stop by to swing a sledge hammer over the course of two days. All or nothing is the way I do things. Despite have 50 other things to do in the new house, this was the most important to me, so my wife let me go.
There were two buried electrical lines coming into the garage, so it looked like we were good. My friend James, aka The Mad Scientist, looks at them and knows they are 30amp four conductor wires. This was good, but we ended up spending the rest of the afternoon coming to the conclusion that I only had about 20amps of service coming into the building. This isn't going to fly with the amount of gear I plan on putting in this thing.
This thing was cockroach crazy, so I had my exterminator come out and decontaminate this this. I guess it's part of living in the woods, in FL.
I decided to do it right and hired an electrician to come out and put a 100 amp service in. That way I'll have more than enough power to run whatever I can dream up. This meant we needed a 8" x 2' trench dug. I called my landscape guy that understands my level of obsession. He dug a pretty darn nice ditch and cut the driveway.
Here is my vision for what the room facing the washing area will look like. This isn't large enough to fit a car and will simply store all of my washing equipment. I have a lot of stuff. This is completely unnecessary, but so is a 3500 sq.ft. garage...
The walls are painted plywood. I want cleaner looking drywall. You can see where they added onto this a few years back. I want this to be one open room.
The week after I moved into the new house and had all of my boxes unpacked, I decided I would take a peak behind the walls of the pole barn.
Pulling that one panel off turned into a massive demolition project where I ended up having eight friends stop by to swing a sledge hammer over the course of two days. All or nothing is the way I do things. Despite have 50 other things to do in the new house, this was the most important to me, so my wife let me go.
There were two buried electrical lines coming into the garage, so it looked like we were good. My friend James, aka The Mad Scientist, looks at them and knows they are 30amp four conductor wires. This was good, but we ended up spending the rest of the afternoon coming to the conclusion that I only had about 20amps of service coming into the building. This isn't going to fly with the amount of gear I plan on putting in this thing.
This thing was cockroach crazy, so I had my exterminator come out and decontaminate this this. I guess it's part of living in the woods, in FL.
I decided to do it right and hired an electrician to come out and put a 100 amp service in. That way I'll have more than enough power to run whatever I can dream up. This meant we needed a 8" x 2' trench dug. I called my landscape guy that understands my level of obsession. He dug a pretty darn nice ditch and cut the driveway.
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I've gotten a lot done over the past few weeks on the wash bay.
1. Electrical roughed in
2. Prewired for picture and sound
3. Stringers put in for mounting TV, cabinets, fans, pressure washer, and deionizer
4. Plumbing Done
5. Hose reel and bucket filler mounted
6. Received flooring, pressure washer, boom pole, windows
I finally found a plumber that gets what I'm doing here.
Test fitting the CR Spotless. I have the wall mount version coming, DIW-20.
Putting a waterline stub in so I can get drywall done.
30 amp 220V wiring for the Kranzle K165STS Pressure Washer
This is the Mosmatic 6'9" Boom Pole that will go overhead of the washing area. This thing is built like a tank. It costs about $600.
These Prier Quarter Turn hose bibs are absolutely amazing. I scoured the internet to the tune of 5+ hours over several nights figuring out what bibs to use. I learned that, although unnecessary for Florida, the frost-free version was the only acceptable enough quality for my high standards. Check these things out if you need one.
http://www.prier.com/index.php?optio...342&Itemid=118
I chose the quarter-turn, with built in anti-siphon(makes sure water doesn't pull back into the line or only comes out not in) P-164. These are really nice. I chose the threaded 4" pipe version. You can order the pipe with Pex ready end (not as secure) up to 24" long.
http://amzn.to/1Yuxu8v
I added a Gilmour quick connect to the end of all three bibs, so I can quickly adapt to any of my hoses. I'm super proud of my engineering prowess on my bucket filler idea. I thought about doing some sort pot filler faucet, but stumbled on a braided hot water heater hose at Home Depot. This was perfect. 20" long, pliable, and easily adapted to work with a hose bib. You just need 3/4" threaded adapters to convert the higher pressure treads to regular hose threads.
Crappy old hose bibs went straight into the trash.
I also had time to get all of the low-voltage wiring done. I'm doing center channel on a floating shelf above the 65" Panasonic plasma, left and right that will sit on the countertop, subwoofer, and HDMI.
I also prewired the AirKing fans to be switched.
Center channel (Will be Dynaudio Excite X24)
Home Run back to the receiver and right speaker (Dynaudio Excite X14)
Subwoofer Prewire (JL Audio E112)
Stub for the pressure washer/deionizer. I'm not sure what piping we are going to use to plumb/valve it. That's next week project.
I also installed my Eley hose reel.
http://www.obsessedgarage.com/home/g...unt-hose-reel/
1. Electrical roughed in
2. Prewired for picture and sound
3. Stringers put in for mounting TV, cabinets, fans, pressure washer, and deionizer
4. Plumbing Done
5. Hose reel and bucket filler mounted
6. Received flooring, pressure washer, boom pole, windows
I finally found a plumber that gets what I'm doing here.
Test fitting the CR Spotless. I have the wall mount version coming, DIW-20.
Putting a waterline stub in so I can get drywall done.
30 amp 220V wiring for the Kranzle K165STS Pressure Washer
This is the Mosmatic 6'9" Boom Pole that will go overhead of the washing area. This thing is built like a tank. It costs about $600.
These Prier Quarter Turn hose bibs are absolutely amazing. I scoured the internet to the tune of 5+ hours over several nights figuring out what bibs to use. I learned that, although unnecessary for Florida, the frost-free version was the only acceptable enough quality for my high standards. Check these things out if you need one.
http://www.prier.com/index.php?optio...342&Itemid=118
I chose the quarter-turn, with built in anti-siphon(makes sure water doesn't pull back into the line or only comes out not in) P-164. These are really nice. I chose the threaded 4" pipe version. You can order the pipe with Pex ready end (not as secure) up to 24" long.
http://amzn.to/1Yuxu8v
I added a Gilmour quick connect to the end of all three bibs, so I can quickly adapt to any of my hoses. I'm super proud of my engineering prowess on my bucket filler idea. I thought about doing some sort pot filler faucet, but stumbled on a braided hot water heater hose at Home Depot. This was perfect. 20" long, pliable, and easily adapted to work with a hose bib. You just need 3/4" threaded adapters to convert the higher pressure treads to regular hose threads.
Crappy old hose bibs went straight into the trash.
I also had time to get all of the low-voltage wiring done. I'm doing center channel on a floating shelf above the 65" Panasonic plasma, left and right that will sit on the countertop, subwoofer, and HDMI.
I also prewired the AirKing fans to be switched.
Center channel (Will be Dynaudio Excite X24)
Home Run back to the receiver and right speaker (Dynaudio Excite X14)
Subwoofer Prewire (JL Audio E112)
Stub for the pressure washer/deionizer. I'm not sure what piping we are going to use to plumb/valve it. That's next week project.
I also installed my Eley hose reel.
http://www.obsessedgarage.com/home/g...unt-hose-reel/
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Lovin what you're doing. I have to plan a shop/garage myself soon so I am looking at as many of these posts as possible to get ideas. Good to see someone else sees the swiss trax as a great way to go. I love putting it this way, if you paint, #1 it's not permanent, you will damage it and wear it to the point it needs to be done again. #2, paint is a huge effort, in my garage it would take a week just to move everything out, then there's the prep, the paint, the cure, the move in. With my swiss trax, one bay was a 2.5 hr job, total. Clean the floor, laydown the tiles, park the car. So the whole garage was less than a day.
