Building my garage / workshop (56k death)

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Originally Posted by marko138

Get to work, slacker.

I will hurt you.

Originally Posted by JoJoYZF

Somehow I missed your response, but unfortunately it is true. I work there part time since Im still in school and I get asked all the time if people can use my discount, but like I said, we dont get one. Cheap bastards in Georgia making decisions...

Cheap ass HD fuckers.









This past weekend (Easter weekend) I was able to get out there for all day Saturday and the morning of Sunday to get some work done. I finished everything involving all three doorways, did a couple bits of trim work, and did a little more mudding.

I gave another coat of paint to the door that goes into the main basement and painted the whole frame that it hangs on. I chiseled out bigger hinge cutouts on the frame and the door and hung it up. Looks 1000x better now:









I repainted some of the trim on the small door, and attached a doorsweep to the bottom. Cashmoney:



I boxed in the corner near the door because it was still exposed and drywalled it:



For the main doors I used some rubber weatherstripping to cover the gap near the hinges. I nailed some on the inside (forgot to take pics) wrapped around the corner so that as the door is closed, the strip gets compressed between the door and the frame. Then, for redundancy, I tacked a sheet over the gap on the outside as well. I think I'll probably dab all the nailheads with black paint just to improve the appearance next time I'm out there.





I put door sweeps on the bottom of both doors. They didn't come long enough so I had to buy three and chop one up:



Now comes the only real mistake I've made in this whole build (besides a couple small electrical brainfarts which I fixed). When building the doors, as I was putting on the sheeting on both sides, I used tons of construction adhesive as well as nails/screws for the back/front. After this, I stacked the doors on top of eachother and left them on my work table. But, I forgot to put some weight on top of the top door, so as the adhesive dried and hardened, the sheet moved/warped. This manifested itself when I hung the doors as the doors appearing to not be square, which is not the case.

In order to seal the gap in the middle of the doors, I decided to get extra large door sweeps which had a wider piece of rubber sheet than most, and just mount them vertically. But, due to the screwup I just mentioned, the doors don't line up perfectly and the flap wouldn't seal all the way. So I traced the error onto a board and used a belt sander to create my own 'shim'. Worked great:





Then I painted those trim bits and you don't notice them at all:



I decided to paint the sweeps in the middle because I thought they looked funny. The paint didn't go on too well so they will need a couple more coats, this was on sunday right before I had to leave to do Easter stuff so I didn't do a great job. I'll fix it next time:



I painted the crossbar and tacked some rubber to it so it doesn't scratch the door when putting it in:





I did a little more mudding in the corner and on the ceiling: