More Garage than You can Stand

Finally finishing up with the garage. We have a couple more shelves to put up before I’d declare it “finished”. I’m also looking for some kind of rack to put Cheryl’s kayak on, so it’s not in the way when it’s not being worked on (and, when it gets finished, it’ll need a place to live). If anyone has any suggestions ..

This weekend (and most of last week) I worked on getting protective epoxy coat on the floor. I probably spent more time on it than necessary, but it turned out pretty nice. Since the floor was a mismatch of different concrete slabs, I thought this would a) make it look a lot nicer, and b) be super cool to have. I mean, all the “serious” mechanics and tinkerers have something like this, right? Right! I ended up using a water based epoxy from a company called UCoatIt.

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One thing I knew but never really realized: when you epoxy the floor, you really are just painting it. It’s not like it’s some thick coat that’ll hide all of the cracks. Think of how thick paint goes on your average wall and that’s about as much epoxy/paint that gets on your garage floor. Don’t get me wrong, it came out great but it would require you to fill in cracks and sand away rough spots if you didn’t want them to show.

On to the next topic .. Cheryl’s garden is very nice this year. Here’s a couple of pics from it:

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Now that the garage is done, hopefully I can make some leeway on my airplane. It’s been sitting for quite awhile as we waiting for this garage to get finished up. I have a whole fuselage kit just sitting there, begging to be opened let alone worked on.