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I've been sorting out garage in the house I moved into late summer during lockdown. This might sound daft but I'm now in my 7th week for my sins. I'm doing 95% of it on my own, just have a labourer in for the stuff that's too heavy on my own. Never done this sort of thing but it's not rocket science and fairly rewarding if knackering. Main issue is working round a garage full of stuff.
The previous owner divided the double garage into two using stud walls held together with what feels like 2 million 6 inch nails. Every piece of wood joined to another had five nails, one from each side and one down from the top. Took me a week just to take it all apart. He also used polystyrene as insulation. Mmmm Napalm is polystyrene dissolved in petrol. Just what you need in a garage.
So far I've removed the stud walls, reused the wood for a stud wall to provide insulation to the single rear wall with a membrane. Side walls are cavity luckily. Then I've insulated and boarded all the walls. I fancied something different so used cheap wood effect wallpaper on the board. Looks so real even close up rubbing your fingers on it. It looked a bit OK Corral at first but that was bear walls.
Completely strengthened the rafters, boarded and insulated the roof. Then did the ceiling. Soffit works a treat if anyone is doing similar.
To do this as cheaply as possible, I brought my 16 year old ikea kitchen from my old house and old flooring. Cabinets went in easily enough with some ingenious balancing the cabinets on ladders etc. Here's were I'm up to. Flooring next week. Aldi are doing 50" TV's for ?279... be rude not to. I've found 1200 x 600 LED Lighting panels to put up next week.
I'm looking forward to decent Securoglide doors going in and then the electrics... by a professional.
Here's pics of the build so far. I'll update them as the finish comes closer. Then electrics... by a professional.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSr2F9X
The previous owner divided the double garage into two using stud walls held together with what feels like 2 million 6 inch nails. Every piece of wood joined to another had five nails, one from each side and one down from the top. Took me a week just to take it all apart. He also used polystyrene as insulation. Mmmm Napalm is polystyrene dissolved in petrol. Just what you need in a garage.
So far I've removed the stud walls, reused the wood for a stud wall to provide insulation to the single rear wall with a membrane. Side walls are cavity luckily. Then I've insulated and boarded all the walls. I fancied something different so used cheap wood effect wallpaper on the board. Looks so real even close up rubbing your fingers on it. It looked a bit OK Corral at first but that was bear walls.
Completely strengthened the rafters, boarded and insulated the roof. Then did the ceiling. Soffit works a treat if anyone is doing similar.
To do this as cheaply as possible, I brought my 16 year old ikea kitchen from my old house and old flooring. Cabinets went in easily enough with some ingenious balancing the cabinets on ladders etc. Here's were I'm up to. Flooring next week. Aldi are doing 50" TV's for ?279... be rude not to. I've found 1200 x 600 LED Lighting panels to put up next week.
I'm looking forward to decent Securoglide doors going in and then the electrics... by a professional.
Here's pics of the build so far. I'll update them as the finish comes closer. Then electrics... by a professional.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSr2F9X
