This Old Garage: Show us your garage

This was the culprit for the tear down. From the overdrive unit.
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Joint Custody said:
Great looking floor. Question how does it hold dirt and other messes. I ask because I have acess fo the same floor for free but I didnt know how it would clean up.
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Very easy. You can pressure wash right through it or hose it out. If you really want to, you can slide a section out once a year and clean it normally.

I didn’t want to mess with puddles or piles of dirt. Everything goes right through and you always have a dry clean floor to walk on.

You really need to be careful with jacks or jackstands, I set them on pieces of wood but I’m rarely doing that kind of work in here.
 
Carver370 said:
Almost done with a pretty big project to finish out this garage. It’s so nice to be in there now.

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Is that an electric heater ?… my wife has a friend with this 220v heater she keeps the garage at 55degrees and claims it only cost $20/month….. any thoughts ?

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In my case the price to run gas has no payback if it’s only $20/month for electric
 
Blueone said:
Is that an electric heater ?… my wife has a friend with this 220v heater she keeps the garage at 55degrees and claims it only cost $20/month….. any thoughts ?

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Yes it is, we do the same. It was about $25 last month but the door was opening and closing a ton bringing things in and out. The entire garage is spray foamed and pretty tight.

I’m guessing this month will be a little more with the super cold temps we have been having.

This is the one I have, I’m pretty happy with it. I was almost convinced to do a mini split, but I can pay a lot of electric bills for the 3-4 months a year this will run vs what HVAC guys wanted for the mini split installed.

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Carver370 said:
Yes it is, we do the same. It was about $25 last month but the door was opening and closing a ton bringing things in and out. The entire garage is spray foamed and pretty tight.

I’m guessing this month will be a little more with the super cold temps we have been having.

This is the one I have, I’m pretty happy with it. I was almost convinced to do a mini split, but I can pay a lot of electric bills for the 3-4 months a year this will run vs what HVAC guys wanted for the mini split installed.

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I looked at a heat pump split too but cost and install was rediculous…. Thanks for the info
 
Carver370 said:
Yes it is, we do the same. It was about $25 last month but the door was opening and closing a ton bringing things in and out. The entire garage is spray foamed and pretty tight.

I’m guessing this month will be a little more with the super cold temps we have been having.

This is the one I have, I’m pretty happy with it. I was almost convinced to do a mini split, but I can pay a lot of electric bills for the 3-4 months a year this will run vs what HVAC guys wanted for the mini split installed.

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That 7500 watt heater would run 24-7 to heat my garage which would cost approximately $660 per month. I put a 4 ton heat pump in my garage mainly so I could keep the humidity down in the summer.
 
Carver370 said:
Very easy. You can pressure wash right through it or hose it out. If you really want to, you can slide a section out once a year and clean it normally.

I didn’t want to mess with puddles or piles of dirt. Everything goes right through and you always have a dry clean floor to walk on.

You really need to be careful with jacks or jackstands, I set them on pieces of wood but I’m rarely doing that kind of work in here.
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I've had a similar floor (Racedeck) since 2012 and find it's a lot less mess to vacuum the floor once a year than it is to use water. Wait for a day it's 100% dry and use a good vacuum to pull the junk up through the floor. I can fill half a bag every spring with road dirt/salt. Every few years I'll use simple green on mine as well, brings back the shine in the heavy traffic areas.

These things rock:
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My floor:

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If I could get in mine I would get a pic
 
I put this 50K BTU propane heater in the garage when I converted the fireplace and kitchen stove over to propane. I keep the garage at 50. Turn it up to 60 when I am working in the garage, like today, 27 out and 60 in the garage.



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