Remodeling the Home of My Cars

Posted by Packard53 On 2007/7/2 19:59:22

Some people decide to remodel their homes, I am over the next two month going to remodel my garage.

Eight years ago I built a two car garage 24ft wide by 24ft long. When I built I decided to build a wall down the middle of the garage. Then I insulated one half of the garage installing heat and air conditioning in this half of the garage, using this half of the garage as the work bay. Which I might add is were my Packard sits up on jack stands. The unheated side is were my Chevelle is stored.

Last year my Chevelle started running very rough, and I discovered that I had a burnt exhaust valve. I had good intentions of pulling the head last fall, but got busy with other things and then it got cold. This meant that I couldn't work on the Chevelle over the winter time. Other things came up this spring and summer which prevented me from pulling the head.

Since I now have sometime to think things over, and that even if I worked on the Chevelle, right now and got it back together most of the car showing season would be over with.

I have decided to take the next two months and remodel my garage. This will involve taking down the dividing wall and re-using the insulation and plywood sheating from this wall, to insulate and finnish off the other half of the garage.

Over the next two months I will taking pictures of my renovations of the garage and posting them in this thread.

Although this isn't about Packards, it is car related. I wish to share these improvements of the home for my two loved ones, with the people that come into this forum. I hope that this won't be too boring for all of you.

John F. Shireman