On January 28, 2013, Gary started working on our garage. Without a basement in Florida, the garages here become the catch all for anything that doesn't fit in a closet or under the bed. Its amazing all the stuff you accumulate over the years and simply cannot part with.
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| Working on garage cabinets and yes that is a dog buggy. |
Our garage was as outdated as the house so Gary had his work cut out. This would have been a big job for an empty garage. Ours was full. So Gary started working around most of our stuff building the cabinets to store the stuff we seldom use. The cabinet making took about a month and we finally can hide the stuff we cannot give away.
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| Gary working on another wall of cabinets. Table saw in middle of garage. |
The garage floor was next. Gary had a really really hard time deciding how to fix the floor, it was between tile and epoxy. Since this coincided with the pope selection, we decided to go with the smoke signal. Black for tile, white for epoxy. White smoke finally billowed from a plane we saw one day and we could rejoice in the epoxy decision.
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| Garage floor after cleaning. |
Everything had to taken out of the garage and stored outside while Gary had to thoroughly clean the floor before applying the epoxy. This was probably the hardest part and we were especially concerned that the chemicals would be really strong but surprisingly they didn't smell any worse than the nite following the chili contest last week.
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| Cabinets and floor finished. |
After waiting a day, he carefully applied the epoxy. This has to be done pretty quickly because it dries fairly fast and the mixture only lasts 2 hours before it is no good. As I watched from the couch, I made sure he didn't take any breaks.
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| Will it ever look this clean again? |
So now the garage is complete and all our stuff is put away. Its kinda fun now to open a cabinet out there and actually find stuff. Kinda like Christmas. Margaret
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