Reminds me of Scott Gulbranson's super clean garage/shop. :thumbsup:

Ryan, you have updated your garage. I could not keep my eyes off the Camaro long enough to see anything else. :thumbsup:

Nice job on the garage!

Ry, whats the distance from your floor to the bottom of the beam running perpendicular to the cars/lift.

I have a three wide and would love to have a small lift like that but my height is super limited...

thanx, mike

Thanks Skip, I wish Scott stuck around he had a great attention to detail.

Thanks Jay!

Mike to the underside of the beam is almost 10'

What size ceilings do you have? What did you have to do for your garage door to lift over the second car on top of the lift?

The overall ceiling is just under 12' I think it measured 140"

The garage door I removed the standard motor and low hanging tracks, installed a liftmaster wall mounted motor and spring, and re-routed the tracks up higher to the ceiling. My buddy is on garage journal steady and gave me the idea. The door does not open fully, but it opens about 90%. (The bottom of the door hangs down from the opening about 12") But theres more than enough room to drive a car in. Maybe even an SUV.

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The old workshop or showroom debate will go on forever. I guess everybody's got to hit their own sweet spot in terms of how they want to use the place and how they'd like it to look.

Mine is reasonably well known on the internets. If it's got a virtue, it's that I did a lot with a small space and a small budget. I'm at 20x20 and $3,500. I shop for damaged industrial stuff and then chop and weld from there. I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I did everything myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I also made a website for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com (This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)

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Work benches that fold down from the wall:

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And it's got its own a video:

The 12-Gauge Garage Video

And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:

My Garage Lift

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.

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But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that. :mad:

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Game Over.

Jack is the :king:

Your RSR is pretty quick too. ;)

Thats fine wine right there!!!! You can just see the experience in there....that lift has got me thinkin....i've only got 8.4' ceilings in my garage and have lift envy....

Jack always loved you garage over at GJ. You should post some of your shop tricks in the Handy home shop stuff thread.