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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:59 pm
by shafnutz05
I am obscenely jealous of the cleanliness of NTP's garage.

My standard for a clean garage: Can we fit both the sedan and SUV in and open the doors without issue? Good to go.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:08 pm
by NTP66
That photo is missing the stuff I removed from the garage, but I do keep everything pretty organized. And anything I can hang on the wall goes on the wall.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:17 pm
by shafnutz05
We have a lot of peg boards for tools and what not, but when we moved in we had plywood shelves/work benches that were already in there along the walls. And of course, we need to have somewhere to store the 28 containers of laundry detergent and 13 gallons of Clorox that my wife has bought at BJ's because "they were on sale" :face:

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:19 pm
by NTP66
13 gallons of Clorox? Who the **** did you murder?

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:34 pm
by Lemon Berry Lobster
No one, yet...

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:35 pm
by Ad@m
I’d love to finish the interior of my garage with corrugated metal roofing.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:36 pm
by mac5155
I personally don't care about painting the garage. My wife is the one who recommended doing so, so if she forgets about it in the spring, it'll stay the way it is.
I plan on just priming it If for nothing else than to seal the plaster.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 5:39 pm
by NTP66
If we do paint it, I’ll be using something like Zinsser/Killz.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:40 pm
by Factorial
I personally don't care about painting the garage. My wife is the one who recommended doing so, so if she forgets about it in the spring, it'll stay the way it is.
I plan on just priming it If for nothing else than to seal the plaster.
Did you have plaster walls put in your new house?

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:33 pm
by mac5155
I personally don't care about painting the garage. My wife is the one who recommended doing so, so if she forgets about it in the spring, it'll stay the way it is.
I plan on just priming it If for nothing else than to seal the plaster.
Did you have plaster walls put in your new house?
Yes. It was standard with my builder. Hardcoat plaster over wallboard. Initially I wasnt thrilled about it but couldn't be happier now. It also made painting so much easierthe skip trowel finish in most areas (other than kitchen and bath) hides the fact that a bunch of booze and pizza filled guys painted it :)

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:41 pm
by Factorial
Yes. It was standard with my builder. Hardcoat plaster over wallboard. Initially I wasnt thrilled about it but couldn't be happier now. It also made painting so much easierthe skip trowel finish in most areas (other than kitchen and bath) hides the fact that a bunch of booze and pizza filled guys painted it :)
:thumb: , I didn't think anyone did that anymore.

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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:12 pm
by mac5155
Yes. It was standard with my builder. Hardcoat plaster over wallboard. Initially I wasnt thrilled about it but couldn't be happier now. It also made painting so much easierthe skip trowel finish in most areas (other than kitchen and bath) hides the fact that a bunch of booze and pizza filled guys painted it :)
:thumb: , I didn't think anyone did that anymore.
Yeah, it was definitely something we looked for in a builder. I know our house was built with quality. Stuff like 2x12 joists, copper pipe (versus pex), R21/R15 insulation, just overall know that they didn't cheap out on stuff.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:28 am
by NTP66
Source of the post copper pipe (versus pex)
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:36 pm
by Factorial
I'm in West Palm Beach and meant to bring my garmin gps but forgot it. Get my rental and google maps won't work. Try mapquest (who knew they still existed) and that worked but it sucks but now google maps works and it's sucks even more. Always recalculating, non-specific turns, etc. **** you google!

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:41 pm
by Shyster
Waze, Waze, Waze.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:46 pm
by Factorial
Also WPB traffic is worse than Atlanta. I hate this place.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:04 pm
by Factorial
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:05 pm
by NTP66
I don’t even want to guess how much time it took to complete that.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:07 pm
by Factorial
I don’t even want to guess how much time it took to complete that.
Or how much it cost.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:07 pm
by Factorial
Waze, Waze, Waze.
Downloading now and will try tomorrow, thanks.

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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 7:14 pm
by dodint
we went to the car show this weekend. overall, busier than i remember but it seems like the participation from the manufacturers was less. the actual show was on the 2nd floor where historically it spanned both (its been a few years since ive been). the technology in new cars is pretty awesome
The only manufacturer that I noticed was absent was Lotus. Porsche put in zero effort again.

Sat in a ton of stuff that I always wondered about. Now I know for sure I have too much torso for an MX-5. :lol:

The original GT-40 was special.

Ran into the tint shop I use. They did the DMC and they're going to do the house eventually. Was talking to them about vinyl wraps and they agreed to do my new helmet which is cool, no job too small I guess.

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:37 am
by tifosi77
Do you have a design for the helmet wrap?

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:56 am
by LITT
we went to the car show this weekend. overall, busier than i remember but it seems like the participation from the manufacturers was less. the actual show was on the 2nd floor where historically it spanned both (its been a few years since ive been). the technology in new cars is pretty awesome
The only manufacturer that I noticed was absent was Lotus. Porsche put in zero effort again.

Sat in a ton of stuff that I always wondered about. Now I know for sure I have too much torso for an MX-5. :lol:

The original GT-40 was special.

Ran into the tint shop I use. They did the DMC and they're going to do the house eventually. Was talking to them about vinyl wraps and they agreed to do my new helmet which is cool, no job too small I guess.
agreed on the gt40. was great to see the nsx again. same thoughts on the mx5. i couldnt fit in the passenger seat, could make it work on the driver side tho

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:36 am
by dodint
Do you have a design for the helmet wrap?
Yeah, it's a simplified version of the Vettel helmet when he was the 2007 BMW Sauber test driver. I got a fantastic deal on the helmet, but it's white. Given that I drive BMW I'm going to leverage the white and make the helmet a roundel, basically.

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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:38 am
by dodint
agreed on the gt40. was great to see the nsx again. same thoughts on the mx5. i couldnt fit in the passenger seat, could make it work on the driver side tho
Fun thing about the new MX-5 is that it has the spring assisted top. You just release a latch between the seats and then pull the top up and over. Since I was too tall for the car it felt like slipping on a hoodie. :lol: