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I started on another basement project to make better use of the floor space. In short, I'm moving my workbench from a room 20 feet from the garage to another room much closer to the car. Some might remember the door hole I made in a wall of the garage last summer. The room behind that new door is kind of small so I decided - after discussing the matter with my wife - to move the wall a little. Like two feet.
Whet we also decided to do was to tear down another wall, creating a larger open space where we can park the bicycles. That way they won't take up precious garage space. What was really stored between the two walls I tore down was ... junk. But I've moved it out of there and into what is currently my work area, the one where I removed a sauna and put up a lot of shelves last year. So that room is really full out storage now but with a nice work bench for tinkering with other stuff.
Anyway, here's what I started with (this is looking in from the garage, my car is just to the right of me):
Thru the open brown door on the left you can see my previous work area:
All this crap needed to go outside before work could begin (well, not the rust sculpture on the left, it was never in there to begin with):
All clear. Crowbar out.
This being an old house, I found a squatter who met her maker. Not too pleasant since I wasn't wearing any breathing protection.
There. All tore down.
The green door at the end is new and behind it is the trunk of my car. I'll be putting up a new wall right where the first window ends. That'll give me some more room and the door will swing open all the way, getting it out of the way if I don't need to have it closed.
I've already cleared out all the debris and will be going shopping for material. I will be using metal joists (?) and drywall. I prefer that over wood in the basement to eliminate mold and fungus. There wasn't much in what I tore out, but better safe than sorry. We've had the garage flooded a few times.
I'll probably put a 3-phase outlet in the work room while I'm at it. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to afford a proper drill press and a beefy air compressor.
I started on another basement project to make better use of the floor space. In short, I'm moving my workbench from a room 20 feet from the garage to another room much closer to the car. Some might remember the door hole I made in a wall of the garage last summer. The room behind that new door is kind of small so I decided - after discussing the matter with my wife - to move the wall a little. Like two feet.
Whet we also decided to do was to tear down another wall, creating a larger open space where we can park the bicycles. That way they won't take up precious garage space. What was really stored between the two walls I tore down was ... junk. But I've moved it out of there and into what is currently my work area, the one where I removed a sauna and put up a lot of shelves last year. So that room is really full out storage now but with a nice work bench for tinkering with other stuff.
Anyway, here's what I started with (this is looking in from the garage, my car is just to the right of me):
Thru the open brown door on the left you can see my previous work area:
All this crap needed to go outside before work could begin (well, not the rust sculpture on the left, it was never in there to begin with):
All clear. Crowbar out.
This being an old house, I found a squatter who met her maker. Not too pleasant since I wasn't wearing any breathing protection.
There. All tore down.
The green door at the end is new and behind it is the trunk of my car. I'll be putting up a new wall right where the first window ends. That'll give me some more room and the door will swing open all the way, getting it out of the way if I don't need to have it closed.
I've already cleared out all the debris and will be going shopping for material. I will be using metal joists (?) and drywall. I prefer that over wood in the basement to eliminate mold and fungus. There wasn't much in what I tore out, but better safe than sorry. We've had the garage flooded a few times.
I'll probably put a 3-phase outlet in the work room while I'm at it. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to afford a proper drill press and a beefy air compressor.