Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

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Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #60 – January 15, 2011, 08:26:43 PM

Looks good! It's really comming along.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #61 – January 15, 2011, 08:58:49 PM

Quote from: 1Bad88tbird;349836

Looks good! It's really comming along.

Thanks! Its starting to look like something.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #62 – January 17, 2011, 11:27:03 PM

You know, if you keep making progress like that, you're going to have to rename this thread. lol. Keep up the good work!!

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #63 – January 18, 2011, 08:43:22 PM

Quote from: FLSTCI71;350024

You know, if you keep making progress like that, you're going to have to rename this thread. lol. Keep up the good work!!

I got a good chuckle out of that!

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #64 – January 18, 2011, 09:12:34 PM

things are looking great...I should've put a lift in mine when I did my addition

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #65 – January 28, 2011, 07:21:08 PM

Looks like I've crossed the line and have a mini Garagemahal.

It's been a few weeks and progress has been made. An item which slowed things for a few days was some floor grinding to flatten out some humps. That was not an enviable job.

Windows are all in and the spray foam insulation was completed yesterday.

Here's shots of the ground floor.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #66 – January 28, 2011, 07:32:52 PM

The upstairs appears bigger with the light colored insulation.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #67 – January 28, 2011, 07:40:41 PM

The Electric hoist and trolley to get the heavy stuff up there.

It's a pretty simple set up of 2 pieces of 2" angle iron welded together w/1" angle iron brackets. The hoist is a Harbor Freight 440/880 Lb unit. The bracket was modified for the wheels, which are for in-line skates.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #68 – January 28, 2011, 07:42:21 PM

Quote from: 86T-bird;351077

Looks like I've crossed the line and have a mini Garagemahal.

I KNEW it!!

Lookin' good!!

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #69 – January 28, 2011, 07:46:14 PM

Yeah... You busted me on it!

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #70 – February 20, 2011, 06:01:39 PM

Looks real sweet man. I may have missed something, but why did you step down the addition's roof? too much work to match it?

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #71 – February 20, 2011, 06:47:58 PM

Thanks! I have some recent updates to post on the progress. It's getting close, but little has been done lately...

Living in a Historic District (or as some say "Hysterical District) has it's drawbacks. One of the interpretations of "Secretary of State's Guidelines for Historic Preservation" is: you may not attach to an existing roof line. Going above the existing roof is really frowned upon, so it had to be stepped down. But hey, I was lucky they didn't require the walls to be stepped in too! My addition is almost invisible from the street, so they let me slide on that one.

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #72 – February 20, 2011, 07:21:19 PM

Quote from: 86T-bird;353466

Thanks! I have some recent updates to post on the progress. It's getting close, but little has been done lately...

Living in a Historic District (or as some say "Hysterical District) has it's drawbacks. One of the interpretations of "Secretary of State's Guidelines for Historic Preservation" is: you may not attach to an existing roof line. Going above the existing roof is really frowned upon, so it had to be stepped down. But hey, I was lucky they didn't require the walls to be stepped in too! My addition is almost invisible from the street, so they let me slide on that one.

Whew, that would have really sucked! hey, what's a foot or so of headroom anyway, right? Can't wait for those updates!

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #73 – February 20, 2011, 09:12:22 PM

I like the idea of putting the electric hoist in the upstairs portion. That should come in very handy! Looking good (I'm jelous).

Mini Garagemahal - Update 5/25/11 Check out the Racedeck floor and the cars are home

Reply #74 – February 21, 2011, 09:29:01 PM

Quote from: 50tbrd88;353484

I like the idea of putting the electric hoist in the upstairs portion. That should come in very handy! Looking good (I'm jelous).

Thanks! I've had a little snag with the hoist: The switch was wired backwards from the factory! Harbor Freight...