MusPuppis Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 4 car garage. The garage I've been working out of is about the size of a walk-in closet, so the massive amount of room, open and well lit workspace and 10ft ceiling should be a hell of an improvement. You may notice I didnt include pics of the rest of the house.. Thats because its a peice of crap. Its actually a double-wide built on a foundation and made to *look* like a regular house. Now, dont get me wrong, nothing wrong with a double-wide at all but this one seems to have seen some hard living and the folks who renovated the place had a little more motivation than skill or ability. Leading to some astoundingly shoddy repairs. The vinyl flooring looks like the ocean at high tide, lol. I could surf on the waves.. I also dont think they ever heard of mud. Looks like they just painted over every blemish, hole and screw-up on the walls. The backyard smells like cow ****, but I like that. Spent alot of happy days on my Grandfathers farm when I was younger. But, I really dont give a fart. I'm moving there the 17th, along with a friend, his wife and child and my cat. Jeff (my dog) cant come.. he'll stay here and my family will watch him for me until I get back. I'll be attending Somerset Community College's course on Auto Body Repair. Should help me get into doing what I love for a living. We'll be in the house for a year or so. Theres a few things I'll be fixing but for the most part, we're just gonna cover whatever we find ugly or stupid with furniture and decoration. I did take about 65 pictures of the house, inside and out, documenting all the screw-ups and damage. I'm gonna burn the pics to a CD and mail it to myself. Should give a decent way of time-stamping everything so when we do leave the landlady cant try and snipe my deposit claiming we did any of the damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 73TPIZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Congrats on the place. I know you're gonna love that space to work in. My wife says i would be happy in a single wide and a 50X60X12 shop but she's dead wrong. With that big a shop, i'd be happy sleeping in a cardboard box inside the shop. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 4 car garage!?!!! Man, that must be sweet. I can only imagine.... My 2 car garage is filled with everything except for 2 cars... Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusPuppis Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 Yeah, that garage is slick. We did a test with an F-150.. We pulled it in as far as we could fit it, then marked the back, pulled it out and pulled back in up to the mark and closed the doors. Not only is it a 4 car garage, it'll for 4 standard sized trucks with reasonable elbow room! HA! of course, the rest of the place looks like it was refinished by gradeschoolers, but I totally agree with 73TPIZ, I'd be happy in a tent or the like if the shop was large enough! Hell, if it was large enough and stocked with all the fun goodies I dont have (tig, brake, lathe, lift, plasma ect) I'd sleep in a closet standing up amongst mops and the like, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerware Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Just have a meeting with the landlady and show her the pics. Have her sign something showing that she is aware of the condition apon move in. I would bring it to her attention now. Not like she can't see the high seas for herself. You could always take the pictures and print them and have a notary stamp them. It will cost you like 15 bucks but would be better than mailing them in court. Nice garage by the way. Too jealous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonsZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Yes I was happy with my 1&3/4 car garage which could BARELY fit two cars that is if you liked crawling out the window. But I came up with some really crafty ways to save space and such, however, when I moved to this 200 sq.ft bigger house with a 3 car garage I'd have to say I am very happy, but of course your use of space expands to fill the space... But it's sideways so that the longest part of is parallel to how you park the cars so you can pull 2 cars way in and have enough room to park a car sideways behind the two. I could park two Fiesta's tanden if I really wanted 2 Fiesta's. It's sheer bliss I gotta tell you. 4 car would be awsome... then I could park the project car next to the daily driver and still have room for the wife's car. Instead the project car stole a space for 9 months and I scraped ice off my windows in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusPuppis Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 Instead the project car stole a space for 9 months and I scraped ice off my windows in the morning. Thats what I've been doing with my truck, lol. We'll have my Z shell (when I can afford to rent a trailer to get it down there) and my friends '67 Mustang in the back row. The front will be his wife's Cav and my F-150 most of the time. In bad weather we'll swap my truck out into the elements (bleh) and put the little peice of crap Honda Civic we bought for 50$ (no kidding..) so when we get up at 7am for school or work or whatever Blinky (the name I gave the Civic) wont be an ice cube. I hate that Civic but 35mpg for 50$ cant be beat. It was also wrecked up front so the hood is held on by a chain and a wingnut and one headlight was replaced with a Briggs and Straton tractor headlight the previous owner RIVITED to whats left of the fender. Since his wife needs her Cav, his Mustang gets 12mpg and my truck about the same, we needed a little POS gas saver. Blinky gets the job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonsZ Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Have you thought of putting the honda motor in the Z just so you aren't driving a honda around, it's not going to be a screamer, but at least you'll drive in style? then again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tannji Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 That garage rocks... similar to one I am looking at now. (attached to a house we are also looking at, can you tell which one matters to me? = ) This garage is set up 2x2, with a 2 garage doors out front, and a single offset door out the back. Even better, it is attached to the house by a 10'x14' breezeway.... so I think sound will be a very minor issue. Downside is that the lot is 3/4 acre, and the folks liked lawns and landscaping. I am convincing the family that we need a concrete utility pad for basketball and such, with some trails around it for bikes. Figure that will eliminate at least a 3rd of the mowing, and I am not out of ideas for the rest.... = ) I think I would actually put in a curtain wall or something similar to separate parking from workshop, and allow heating and AC to be a little more reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonsZ Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 That garage rocks... similar to one I am looking at now. (attached to a house we are also looking at, can you tell which one matters to me? = ) This garage is set up 2x2, with a 2 garage doors out front, and a single offset door out the back. Even better, it is attached to the house by a 10'x14' breezeway.... so I think sound will be a very minor issue. Downside is that the lot is 3/4 acre, and the folks liked lawns and landscaping. I am convincing the family that we need a concrete utility pad for basketball and such, with some trails around it for bikes. Figure that will eliminate at least a 3rd of the mowing, and I am not out of ideas for the rest.... = ) I think I would actually put in a curtain wall or something similar to separate parking from workshop, and allow heating and AC to be a little more reasonable. At least you don't have to water 3/4 acre! I mean in San diego, if you don't water every week even in the winter and twice a week in the hottest summer the grass dies or goes dormant (brown). Then you have to mow it every week spring and fall and every other week summer and winter to keep it from getting out of hand. I straight refused to take care of the lawn when working on my Z now it's totally dead and the wife asked last weekend if I could throw some weed and feed on it, only trouble is it's mostly weeds and dead grass we need to water it first. My water bill with my 1/10 acre of grass and non-indigenous plants was 125-250/mo. Sad but true. But it looked really nice at least. Now we look at weeds and dead weeds and that's ok by me for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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