Got enough trim painted to go ahead and schedule the final inspection.
New achievement unlocked: Letter of Completion from the county! I'm on my own from here on out.
Love the view of my county-approved erection from our patio.
Feels pretty amazing, not gonna lie. Time for the great migration of construction tools to the shed, car tools from the old garage to the new garage, wife's car from the driveway to the old garage, and the 2-post lift columns to their final resting place...
In reply to maschinenbau :
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In reply to maschinenbau :
Most people only get their erections approved (or disapproved) by their significant other.
YOUR erection has been inspected and approved by the government! 😂🤣😂
Very nice 👌
Genuinely remarkable (days off and after hours) progress. Awesome.
Great work! Congrats!
New garage provides quite a bit of privacy for your backyard too. Added bonus!
I don't know whichi si built better, the garage or the cars in it! Great work!
Had a team of friends (future lift moochers 
) yesterday so we got this far on the lift install. According to my digital level. both posts are within 0.20 degrees of vertical in each direction without any shims.
No shims?! Lucky duck
I am emotionally supporting the lift install.. That has to qualify for future Mooching on the way to the challenge right?
In reply to nocones :
Challenge cars, especially ones on the way to the Challenge, will always have priority on this lift!
If you plan to put any finish on the floor, better do it before the grease and oil spills. Just saying.
I still haven't given much thought to finish coatings. Maybe just a sealer of some kind. Already spilled a bucket of trim paint the other day.
I used VSeal "industra-coat" in my garage/shop and its great, did a 24x32 for around $500
Lift is open for business! My favorite car gets to ride it first.
What a journey. Can't believe I did this.
awesome!
Purple Frog said:If you plan to put any finish on the floor, better do it before the grease and oil spills. Just saying.
Back when I built my shop like 15 years ago, the plan was to epoxy the floor. But all the epoxy instructions said that the pad had to be at least 6 months old before application.
By the time the shop was 6 months old it was well populated with tools and stuff that would have required a second shop to store while I prepped the pad for epoxy. And by then I realized that stains were just the story of stuff getting done in the shop, so I got over the whole epoxy idea.
In reply to NOHOME :
My thoughts too. I do some real dirty GRM E36 M3. Metal work, painting, junkyard engines, crusty suspension rebuilds, this floor is gonna see some stuff and I've damaged epoxy/coated floors everywhere I've lived before. That's why I'm thinking just a sealer to keep the inevitable ATF spill from soaking into the concrete too much.
I'm honestly more open to "pretty" finish in the attached garage, like that speckled epoxy stuff, since that one will just be for parking.
Yes, I got over the epoxy floor too for the same reasons! Great to see this and the lift in action. Enjoy your new shop!
When I went through this with a past shop, I hired a very high end concrete guy. His advice was no sealer, no epoxy, raw concrete. YRMV.
Lovely shop on so many levels. Congrabulations!
I wish I'd heard this advice (no epoxy) when I was building my shop. Instead I heard "Epoxy, epoxy, epoxy!".
I gave in, and have regretted it ever since.
What a glorious sight that is.. what project gets built in there first?
We talked about coating our garage floor and ended up not doing it. I have a hose bib right outside the door and a gallon of simple green on hand. So far... it's dirty but not slippery.
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