Our new house came with two garages, a one car attached and two car detached out back. Since there is no basement I knew from the start that I would be getting the garage out back of the house for a workshop.
The garage has a loft that is 50% usable, 50% low ceiling good for storage. I may convert the one half with a high enough ceiling into finished space for a play area for Joshua. The other half already has Christmas decorations, old baby stuff and other miscellaneous items.
Though the garage was very well built, it has a few problems. It has a 60 amp sub-panel but only three outlets, a couple sets of old 2 bulb fluorescent fixtures downstairs and one fluorescent on a long extension cord upstairs. No power upstairs and all the outlets downstairs are on one wall. For some reason the previous owner had one outlet on #12 wire with a coil of about 40 ft of wire. I assume he pulled it off the wall and brought it to whatever part of the garage he needed his compressor at. It probably would have better for him to get a longer house.
A nice looking cement floor, 2x6 construction for the walls with no insulation on the inside. One window covered with a grill on the inside, one with a sheet of plywood and one apparent hole where a window used to be that is now a sheet of plywood.
On the outside there is OSB, than 1.5" foam, then house wrap and finally vertical wood siding.
My first plan is to put down a wood floor as my old workshop had concrete and I know how uncomfortable that is after a few hours.
No comments:
Post a Comment