Next home improvement project?

[falafel]

I know that some people with epoxy floors keep a squeegie around, but I hadn't really thought that much about the water. That might be a problem since I already have a low spot on the floor where water tends to gather.

I do love the look of a nice garage floor.

Why don't you just paint the floor but leave off the sealant? I'll bet its not as water repellent that way.

[kccougar]

Why don't you just paint the floor but leave off the sealant? I'll bet its not as water repellent that way.

Won't last more than one summer. Parking a car with hot rubber on a painted floor will pull the paint off real quick.

[venkman]

Well I finished my basement two years ago, so I'm good for a while.

Actually, not.

I've done a few landscaping projects here and there, had to tear down and move my whole south fence (property dispute, I won!).

I'm a garage organization fanatic too, I've built massive amounts of shelving.

The bathrooms all need finishing, but that'll wait a couple of years, at least.

Only pressing project is to increase our kitchen lighting - I'll probably install some can lighting this winter.

Our front steps/railing is a weird set-up. I'm going to jack that out and pour new steps and install new railing. Next spring/summer.

[falafel]

Won't last more than one summer. Parking a car with hot rubber on a painted floor will pull the paint off real quick.

You don't like paint chips stuck to your tires? To each his own, I guess.

[pellegrino]

You're right - that doesn't sound fun (kitchen walls).

The frustrating thing about it is that in the basement they installed wood floaters so they could install wood paneling easily. Why in the hell they didn't do the same with the kitchen walls (galley style kitchen) is beyond me. I thought about furring it out, but that would have taken away precious space and I'd still have to use tapcons to attach the furring strips, so instead, we'll just tapcon each cabine. Not looking forward to that.

[pellegrino]

The frustrating thing about it is that in the basement they installed wood floaters so they could install wood paneling easily. Why in the hell they didn't do the same with the kitchen walls (galley style kitchen) is beyond me. I thought about furring it out, but that would have taken away precious space and I'd still have to use tapcons to attach the furring strips, so instead, we'll just tapcon each cabinet. Not looking forward to that.

Got all but one of the uppers in today. 7 hours for five cabinets. I was living in shim city.

[Surfah]

Got all but one of the uppers in today. 7 hours for five cabinets. I was living in shim city.

That sucks.

Are the walls that bad?

[pellegrino]

That sucks.

Are the walls that bad?

It's complicated, but basically we had to shim the top six inches of each cabinet, in some places as much as 3/4." The walls are actually pretty good, but there is a plaster line where the old cabinets met an old bulkhead. We're putting in 42" cabinets that extend above the plaster line so the old bulkhead came down and there is about 20 " of bare cinder blocks . The walls are really quite level where there is plaster, but the individual blocks are really out of whack and then excess mortar had to be chipped away in spots.

So for each cabinet we had to attach a 1x6 to the bare blocks to make sure they had something to hold to up top. In some cases we had to shave off as much as 1/4" to make sure it met flush with the plaster below. The tapcons weren't working well in the cinder blocks so we had to abandon them and go with lead sleeves and screws. So for each cabinet we had to drill as many as seven holes in the blocks. It was a long, long day.

[falafel]

Pilgrim, you got any before and after pictures? Sounds like a cool project (for those not involved...).

[pellegrino]

Pilgrim, you got any before and after pictures? Sounds like a cool project (for those not involved...).

I hope you were thinking in a John Wayne voice when you wrote that. Whether you were or not, I still got a good laugh out of it.

I've got some pictures from before. I'll see if I can't get some afters and share them. Although it took a lot longer than I anticipated (cutting off the back corner of one of the cabinets didn't speed things up either) it has been a good project, mainly because I've been able to solve the problems that have come up. It gives you a real sense of accomplishment when you can do that successfully.

[TheBYUGuy]

I know that some people with epoxy floors keep a squeegie around, but I hadn't really thought that much about the water. That might be a problem since I already have a low spot on the floor where water tends to gather.

I do love the look of a nice garage floor.

For the snow problem, my FIL just gets a bunch of fresh snow from the lawn, and dumps it on top of the muddly spots. Give the snow a couple minutes to absorb the snow, then sweep it out onto the driveway with a push broom.