Speaker 1: Welcome to Car Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio. Hello,
Speaker 1: and Welcome to car Stuff. I'm your host, Scott Benjamin,
Speaker 1: and I'm Ben Bullin and I am Kurt Garen. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know what, today, let's do something just a little
Speaker 1: bit different than what we normally do. I know, we
Speaker 1: like to you know, dig into uh you know, like
Speaker 1: maybe a make or model or you know, something like that,
Speaker 1: or we talk about the history of a person. But
Speaker 1: today I would like to kind of talk about our garages,
Speaker 1: if that's okay with you. Oh, this is interesting to me, Scott,
Speaker 1: because you know, my friend that I like seventeen percent
Speaker 1: of the US population currently live in an apartment where
Speaker 1: I do not have a garage, but I have some plans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love I'd love to talk about this because you
Speaker 1: know what, I miss my garage, having a living in
Speaker 1: a house. The best thing about it was that space. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it can be a nice place to go sometimes.
Speaker 1: I mean it can actually be kind of laxing. It
Speaker 1: can be calming, and it could it could be the
Speaker 1: other as well. It can also be infuriating. And I
Speaker 1: had a garage for a while that was infuriating to me.
Speaker 1: It made me just kind of tense to be out there,
Speaker 1: and it was because it was so crowded. It was
Speaker 1: like the lighting was terrible. Um, just it was not
Speaker 1: a great place to be. I was cold in the winter,
Speaker 1: it was hot in the summer. I still got a
Speaker 1: couple of these issues going on. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: But I've done some things recently that I think we're
Speaker 1: really you know, some fantastic improvements and cheap you know,
Speaker 1: things that I could just do simply that helped out
Speaker 1: a lot. And I think if you know, anybody out
Speaker 1: there has got a similar situation where you know, it's
Speaker 1: not the most comfortable place in the world to be
Speaker 1: out there in the garage. But if you have something
Speaker 1: like that going on, there's some things that you can
Speaker 1: do to make it a better place for you and
Speaker 1: make you want to go out there and make you
Speaker 1: want to take on those projects you know that you
Speaker 1: might not have done in the past. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just find it very therapeutic to go out there
Speaker 1: now and just kind of, you know, spend a little
Speaker 1: time sorting, organizing, straightening, you know, working on some things.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever it happened is to be it's a
Speaker 1: nice place to be now. And again, I've got some
Speaker 1: things that I you'll need to do, and we can
Speaker 1: talk about what I haven't done yet versus what I
Speaker 1: have done. But there's a lot of really simple things
Speaker 1: that just about anybody can do with either zero money,
Speaker 1: which is you know, the best price or um, you
Speaker 1: know you can find yeah, you know, real bargains, I
Speaker 1: guess bargain ways to do this. So what we're not
Speaker 1: doing today is we're not talking about, you know, these
Speaker 1: million dollar upgraded garages that we've you know, we've all
Speaker 1: seen on um, you know online. Of course you do
Speaker 1: a keyword search for you know, expensive garage options or
Speaker 1: you know whatever. You're gonna find people that have elevators
Speaker 1: to a second level in their garage, you know, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna have um, I don't know, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: priceless works of art hanging on the wall, you know,
Speaker 1: with I guess art gallery lighting all around it. And
Speaker 1: I think we're at Another example would be those really
Speaker 1: cool parking spots that recess into the ground. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, and we're not talking about those today.
Speaker 1: Oh they are, they're really those are really cool and
Speaker 1: I think We've done another episode on some some outlandish garages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have that type of thing. So what I'd like
Speaker 1: to do is maybe talk about making your garage a
Speaker 1: a functional place versus you know, having kind of like
Speaker 1: a show garage. I guess where you know you have
Speaker 1: friends over and you've got a couch out there and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, you know, a big screen TV on
Speaker 1: the wall. We're not talking about stuff like that. We
Speaker 1: want to we want to make it something that you know,
Speaker 1: you're comfortable to go out there and work on your
Speaker 1: projects or whatever. You can even take other stuff from
Speaker 1: the house and work out there on your workbench, and
Speaker 1: you've got space to do it. A workspace, a workspace, yeah,
Speaker 1: comfortable workspace. Yeah. I proposed that we start at the beginning.
Speaker 1: When most people move into a house, you know, you'll
Speaker 1: find several areas of the house that tend to be
Speaker 1: a little rough around the edges, where they tend to
Speaker 1: be unfinished. You know, sometimes in the suburbs, these are
Speaker 1: called like bonus rooms. Right, We'll have an unfinished attict,
Speaker 1: you'll have a basement that still has a dirt floor,
Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, the garage is often one of
Speaker 1: those spaces. The garage is the most likely to just
Speaker 1: be a room, and who knows what condition the door
Speaker 1: is in. Right, So for a lot of people when
Speaker 1: they move in, if they're gonna start building their garage
Speaker 1: from the ground up, they look at two huge things,
Speaker 1: the door and the floor. These can get expensive, right,
Speaker 1: But there are some very reasonable things you can do,
Speaker 1: even a little bit kind of d I Y style,
Speaker 1: to give your garage some insulation. Because that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that stuck out to me when you were
Speaker 1: talking about this in the beginning. You said, sometimes garage
Speaker 1: is too hot, too cold. It's weird because I've seen
Speaker 1: more kind of clutter stuffy garages that I have operational ones.
Speaker 1: Kurt and I were talking about this earlier off air,
Speaker 1: of course, we were talking about how it seems like
Speaker 1: a lot of garages don't really get a car parked
Speaker 1: in them ever. I mean a lot of people just
Speaker 1: simply use it for storage. I mean, or there is
Speaker 1: a car under there somewhere. Uh, you know that that
Speaker 1: at one time was a project or at one time
Speaker 1: was driving or you know whatever, it's grandma's car or whatever,
Speaker 1: and you parked it here, and you left it there
Speaker 1: and you just started piling stuff on top of it,
Speaker 1: and it became the most expensive show. It became it
Speaker 1: became a storage area, right, instead of instead of, instead
Speaker 1: of a car storage area, it's a it's a stuff
Speaker 1: storage area. It's like an extension of your basement or
Speaker 1: your attic or whatever. It's where all the things that
Speaker 1: you didn't like enough to have in your house but
Speaker 1: you couldn't throw away end up. You know, that's exactly right,
Speaker 1: the limbo. It's the holding area. Yeah, like stuff that
Speaker 1: was in your yard that you know you want to
Speaker 1: bring in from the weather mowers or at least these
Speaker 1: days more and more garages seemed to be just like
Speaker 1: a catch all of storage. And I have a I
Speaker 1: have a point I want to make about that real quick.
Speaker 1: It's a larger philosophical point, and it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: huge role to play in today's episode. But I think
Speaker 1: a big reason that a lot of that clutter begins
Speaker 1: to acrete is it's twofold. First. Many of us, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when we are doing a task at home, whether it's
Speaker 1: auto repair, whether it's yardwork or something like that, we
Speaker 1: tend to think of the task just as us accomplishing
Speaker 1: the thing so you're tilling the yard, right, or you're
Speaker 1: changing the oil. Then once you screw that oil filter
Speaker 1: back on and once you put the new oil in
Speaker 1: the system, then a lot of us tend to think, well,
Speaker 1: the job is pretty much done. Let me just you know,
Speaker 1: seal up the container I have for the old oil.
Speaker 1: Let me just put it somewhere because I'm quote unquote done,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to take care of all this stuff later.
Speaker 1: And then that's how we end up just throwing stuff
Speaker 1: willy nilly into a garage. And then once you have
Speaker 1: a small pile of crap somewhere, it becomes so much
Speaker 1: easier to make more small piles of crap. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happens. And you know, one of the tips
Speaker 1: I guess that that I've kind of picked up along
Speaker 1: the way here is that, you know, it's great to
Speaker 1: organize your garage. Sure, I mean that, I think we
Speaker 1: can all agree that, you know, a well organized garage
Speaker 1: is it's it's any room actually is better off when
Speaker 1: it's well organized, right, it really is. But I have
Speaker 1: recently reorganized my garage and kind of figured out where
Speaker 1: everything goes and got things kind of you know, clustered
Speaker 1: together where they should be. The chemicals in one area,
Speaker 1: you know that, the electrical stuff in one box over here.
Speaker 1: You know, I know where everything is and I can
Speaker 1: I can easily lay my hands on everything. The problem
Speaker 1: is that if you don't do that about twice a year,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fall behind. And it's the truth. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just what you said. Like where you know, you
Speaker 1: start gathering more things and putting things in front of
Speaker 1: other things, and it blocks your view, it blocks your
Speaker 1: access to those items, and you know, things get a
Speaker 1: little dirtier because you don't pick it up to you know,
Speaker 1: clean underneath it or whatever, and you know it's just snowballs.
Speaker 1: The whole problem starts to snowball. But you have to
Speaker 1: if you do maintain garage that is well organized. I mean,
Speaker 1: I really do feel like it's just an easier place
Speaker 1: to go and access whatever you need because you know
Speaker 1: right where it is. I mean, it's it's it's been
Speaker 1: so helpful to me to be able to do this
Speaker 1: recently that I had some time that I was able
Speaker 1: to straighten everything up and again I can just go
Speaker 1: in there right now and I could access anything that
Speaker 1: I need. I know, exactly where it is. And that's
Speaker 1: so helpful because before it was kind of scattered all
Speaker 1: over the place. It might be in the basement, it
Speaker 1: might be you know, out back on the porch, might
Speaker 1: you know, who knows where it would be. Right, So
Speaker 1: now I can go in there and I feel like
Speaker 1: I can put my hands on anything that I need
Speaker 1: to right away. And it's very very helpful. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think I derailedy here on the on the installation.
Speaker 1: We were talking about installation, right, Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: very easy d I Y project. This is for the
Speaker 1: giant door, right right. This is for the child door.
Speaker 1: First off, make sure the door works. You know, there's
Speaker 1: there's just nothing sadder than driving by a house and
Speaker 1: you see the busty garage door because it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that people don't really want to fix because
Speaker 1: it can be a pain. Right. It's the it's isn't it.
Speaker 1: I think the garage door is the largest movable object
Speaker 1: in your house. I think, yeah, I think it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it weighs a ton, right, I mean it's it's and
Speaker 1: it's all resting on that one little motor that's up
Speaker 1: there in the center of the center of the ceiling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that thing gets a lot of work, it does. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So garage door manufacturers have found that if you insulate
Speaker 1: your garage door, it's gonna be about twelve degrees warmer fahrenheit.
Speaker 1: It's nothing crazy. In the winter months in about twenty
Speaker 1: five degrees cooler. In summer cooler. I could use cooler
Speaker 1: out there, yeah, yeah, because weird Georgia. Yeah. So one thing,
Speaker 1: one thing that sneak about this is that unlike installing
Speaker 1: a garage door, it's pretty easy to insulate a garage
Speaker 1: door on your own yourself. Well, it's very easy actually,
Speaker 1: and they make kits even for this if you want
Speaker 1: to buy a kit, or you could just simply do
Speaker 1: it yourself, right, I mean, there's there's like three types
Speaker 1: of installation that you can buy. Can either do the
Speaker 1: bat type, which is kind of like the I don't know,
Speaker 1: I guess that's the stuff that you see on new
Speaker 1: build homes, you know, like the stuff they roll out
Speaker 1: in between the walls. It's flexible, it's you know, they
Speaker 1: got the paperbacking. It's the least expensive option out of these,
Speaker 1: and these are all very low dollar things to it.
Speaker 1: There's also a foam board that you can buy that's
Speaker 1: that's cut for the panels specifically, or you can cut
Speaker 1: it yourself, custom cut it. There's also reflective, is that
Speaker 1: the yellow foam with the reflective film over it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like silver looking off to me. That would be
Speaker 1: crazy distracting in the garage, you know, to have something
Speaker 1: that's like reflective like that, especially if you have a
Speaker 1: work light on and it's bouncing off the work like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but hey, maybe that works right, Maybe that's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe it's a benefit to have a reflective
Speaker 1: garage door on the inside. But either way, I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, Ben, I had no idea that the
Speaker 1: temperature swing could be so great just by insulating the door.
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense. It's just a piece of
Speaker 1: metal that is between you and outside, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: count the windows, it doesn't count any other installation. Just
Speaker 1: doing that to the or will end up saving money,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I will. I mean, but it just makes
Speaker 1: it again, like everything else that we're gonna talk about today,
Speaker 1: I hope, I will just make it more pleasant to
Speaker 1: be out there, a little bit more pleasant time. Now
Speaker 1: I've in my own garage, I haven't done insulation yet.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that I haven't done. I
Speaker 1: haven't changed the lighting or anything like that yet. I
Speaker 1: haven't done anything really big yet. But these are all
Speaker 1: low dollar things that we can we can talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones that I'm still missing. But I
Speaker 1: will say this that, you know, when I'm out there
Speaker 1: in the summertime, I bring a small fan just to
Speaker 1: like a box fan helps out tremendously, just to have
Speaker 1: something like that in the in the space. And that's
Speaker 1: one thing that I think everybody can do that just
Speaker 1: to make it easier on yourself out there. Just it's simple,
Speaker 1: simple thing. Bring a box, Get a little box fan
Speaker 1: from your local department. Go crazy, go crazy, get get
Speaker 1: get a twenty five dollar box. Find one at a
Speaker 1: thrift shop or you know whatever. You can get it
Speaker 1: for three bucks. I don't care. But that's one thing
Speaker 1: you can do. And then I've got Also this is
Speaker 1: also effective. And it's a two car garage, so it's
Speaker 1: it's a bigger space. Just a tiny little ceramic heater.
Speaker 1: It's very very small, like it's I'm holding my hands
Speaker 1: out like everybody can see this, but it's it's only
Speaker 1: like about you know, eight or twelve inches across, and
Speaker 1: and you know it's like a little cube, right, it's
Speaker 1: a ceramic heater, and the thing really cranks out the heat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's fantastic to use in the garage
Speaker 1: in the wintertime because you can put it right near
Speaker 1: you without the fear of having you know, kind of
Speaker 1: like an open flame anywhere nearby, or any kind of chemicals,
Speaker 1: like if you have a kerosene heater or something like that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's beneficial to have something like this on hand
Speaker 1: if you're in a colder climate, just a really simple
Speaker 1: plug in ceramic heater, and it makes your area so
Speaker 1: much better. It takes a little while to to get
Speaker 1: it warmed up in there. You don't you know, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be blistering hot or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: it beats back the cold enough that you're able to
Speaker 1: work and you can keep your hands functioning because you know,
Speaker 1: when it gets really really cold and your hands don't
Speaker 1: seem to want to work the right way, That's what
Speaker 1: I felt like anyway, when it gets really really cold,
Speaker 1: like you just can't get your fingers to do what
Speaker 1: you want them to do with you're so cold. And
Speaker 1: you can't wear gloves because you need yeah, yeah, either
Speaker 1: or you'd wear those little thin mechanics gloves and those
Speaker 1: aren't really meant for like warmth or anything. I mean
Speaker 1: they they sell insulated ones. But again you've lost all
Speaker 1: tactle sense, you know, so sometimes you need that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's just too simple, really really inexpensive things
Speaker 1: that you can do that that help out a lot
Speaker 1: out there. I am going to say though again and
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you on this one, Scott, but
Speaker 1: I must point out that before you buy any new
Speaker 1: thing for your garage counting a car, clean your garage,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, get rid of all this stuff you don't need.
Speaker 1: Because for most people, if you if you look through it,
Speaker 1: you'll find things that you you just don't need. You
Speaker 1: just put them somewhere and you forgot about them. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have a half finished project, you know,
Speaker 1: and it can be tough to swallow your pride and
Speaker 1: be honest with yourself and say, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess I actually don't care as much about building this
Speaker 1: what magtiic airplane? Yeah, building this stick or whatever? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just somehow like if you had a hobby or something,
Speaker 1: and you've got, you know, all the stuff associated with
Speaker 1: that hobby, but you no longer do the hobby, then
Speaker 1: maybe it's time to get rid of it. You got
Speaker 1: old skis laying around, but you know, like we're here
Speaker 1: in Georgia and rarely when you use skis unless you
Speaker 1: you know, travel with them obviously, But things like that
Speaker 1: just you just use common sense. I got rid of
Speaker 1: a ton of stuff in my garage, you know what
Speaker 1: I find? You know what I finally got rid of.
Speaker 1: It made me feel so good. It's like it just
Speaker 1: helps you feel better, lighter, to get rid of all
Speaker 1: this stuff. I know. So do you remember, many many
Speaker 1: years ago we we tore apart that old mg Yes,
Speaker 1: oh boy, yeah, it was a long time ago, right,
Speaker 1: and I think most of our listeners have seen photos
Speaker 1: of us in that thing, you know, kind of you know,
Speaker 1: we were elbow deep in that thing for long, right,
Speaker 1: crawling all over it. It was great, though, to completely
Speaker 1: dismantle the car without worrying about putting it back together.
Speaker 1: Funny because like broke, Okay, fine, you know, it's all right,
Speaker 1: But all we're doing is to get to the parts,
Speaker 1: so we could then describe the parts and see them
Speaker 1: and you know, like and do that kind of thing. Right.
Speaker 1: We the project ended up going nowhere really, I mean
Speaker 1: it was a lot of it was fun. We spent
Speaker 1: several days doing this, but it was kind of a junk.
Speaker 1: It was a junk card up with a ton of parts.
Speaker 1: I got bins and bins and bins and parts, you know,
Speaker 1: like pistons and rings and the crank shaft and cam
Speaker 1: shaft and you know, all the stuff. I got all
Speaker 1: these like heavy metal parts I've got. I've got the
Speaker 1: head sitting in a bin. But all that stuff has
Speaker 1: been in my garage for years and years, almost a
Speaker 1: decade almost, Yeah, it's been. It's getting close, and um,
Speaker 1: I finally got rid of it. I just took it
Speaker 1: to I tried to get it, you know, to somebody
Speaker 1: that had an MG, and they didn't want it. No
Speaker 1: one wanted the parts. I don't know if they thought
Speaker 1: they were hot or what. No, that wasn't that wasn't it.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, it's very specific and you don't
Speaker 1: know the quality, you know, the condition of all the shore.
Speaker 1: It was actually was remarkably well preserved all that stuff
Speaker 1: because it's all oily and you know, so it's it's
Speaker 1: all plain and it's usable. But I could not get
Speaker 1: anybody to take that stuff. So I just finally had
Speaker 1: to scrap some of it. And you know a lot
Speaker 1: of it was beat up in old and bad anyway,
Speaker 1: so I didn't feel too bad about it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: years and years of that stuff sitting around and just
Speaker 1: taking up space. Again, it just feels so good to
Speaker 1: get rid of stuff like that. And I got rid of,
Speaker 1: you know, like a power washer. I got rid of,
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of stuff that was just clutter
Speaker 1: that's not working anymore. I have to ask, did you
Speaker 1: go did you go to your neighborhood rushing landfill to
Speaker 1: get rid of those parts? I did, and it's changed hands. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Have we talked about this again recently,
Speaker 1: not on air? Okay, I went back. I went back
Speaker 1: again to this. I did go to that place, and
Speaker 1: I made several trips, not for just the car parts,
Speaker 1: but for other stuff I had laying around, just you know,
Speaker 1: scrap metal type things. One thing was from the garage door.
Speaker 1: I had a great big greasy bar that was you know,
Speaker 1: like the main bar that the track was on. You know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that I just had a bunch of little
Speaker 1: things laying around an old gas grill, you know, it
Speaker 1: kind of falling apart as a rusty um. But I
Speaker 1: went there and it was it was owned and operated
Speaker 1: by someone new. Now it's not that it's not it's
Speaker 1: not the Russian mafia or whoever was running this place before,
Speaker 1: because I really had that strong feeling that that was
Speaker 1: what was going on there. I really did, and we
Speaker 1: I know, we talked about but it's completely different now. So, um,
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite a uh, it wasn't. It wasn't as
Speaker 1: much fun as it used to be, you know, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't as exciting, Like it wasn't as
Speaker 1: thrilling to go back, you know. But um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm still still good though. Oh can I tell you
Speaker 1: one thing that I think maybe I talked Ac Curd
Speaker 1: about this off air, but um, you see crazy things
Speaker 1: at a junkyard, right, So I go there and I
Speaker 1: threw all of my junk, you know, including like an
Speaker 1: old water heater and a gas grill. Like I said,
Speaker 1: all these engine parts and everything, I throw them on
Speaker 1: this pile that is like it's the size of like
Speaker 1: a four story house. It's huge, giant junk pile. Right,
Speaker 1: So I back up to it and I, it's gonna
Speaker 1: heave all this stuff over there. And after I had
Speaker 1: driven away and I got up to the you know
Speaker 1: the area where you get paid almost nothing for your parts, right,
Speaker 1: you're for you know, the weight of your parts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get my my check for ten dollars or whatever
Speaker 1: it was and twenty cents I think it was. And
Speaker 1: this is like hundreds of pounds of metal. Right. So
Speaker 1: I look back and I swear to it looked like
Speaker 1: I could hardly even see my pile of stuff there.
Speaker 1: That was you know, it's it's taken up so much
Speaker 1: space in my garage, but on that pile it looked
Speaker 1: like nothing. It looked like a you know, another grain
Speaker 1: of sand on the beach. It was like that. It was.
Speaker 1: It was amazing how small that pile of stuff was.
Speaker 1: And then I was thinking, okay, well this is got
Speaker 1: kind of a rough edge to it, you know, like
Speaker 1: it kind of gets strung out over the over the lot.
Speaker 1: So a guy gets in this uh, this this crane,
Speaker 1: it's almost like not a I guess maybe not a
Speaker 1: front loader, but it's like a crane and it's got
Speaker 1: a grasping arm like a like a pincher, and so
Speaker 1: they can pick up things and move them. So he
Speaker 1: goes over and and kind of motors this thing over
Speaker 1: to the side, and he picks up this ball of
Speaker 1: iron that's like all twisted and tangled up. It looks
Speaker 1: like a Brillo pad, only it's like a Brillo pad
Speaker 1: like the size of like too minivans. It's that big, right,
Speaker 1: and he and he like puts that on the on
Speaker 1: the ground and he starts like wildly swinging the arm
Speaker 1: left and left and right, and he's using this big
Speaker 1: massive metal as like a broom, and he's like sweeping
Speaker 1: the stuff up onto the pile and he would like
Speaker 1: drag it across and then give it kind of like
Speaker 1: a little up lifted end and it would like pick
Speaker 1: stuff up and kind of throw it on the top
Speaker 1: of the pile. But he was just bizarre. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like they're getting to play with these massive toys
Speaker 1: like that. It looks like it looks so much fun
Speaker 1: to be able to do that, and and this this
Speaker 1: way of doing it. I'm sure that other junk heards
Speaker 1: do the same thing. I had never seen this before,
Speaker 1: and that that tangle of metal was so it looks
Speaker 1: so dangerous. So you know, it looks like if you
Speaker 1: got near that thing you would get cut. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: because imagine it's moving at speed. Oh yeah, he's like no,
Speaker 1: I mean even even like I didn't even want to
Speaker 1: approach it, like when it was just sitting still, like
Speaker 1: I didn't want even because it looked like um, just
Speaker 1: like a tangle of weeds almost. But it's but it's metal.
Speaker 1: It's like jagged metal, you know, and that probably makes
Speaker 1: it lighter to swing. Yeah, So how about this man,
Speaker 1: how about the next time you dropped some stuff off there,
Speaker 1: instead of taking a check, you ask if you can
Speaker 1: take a swing with the broom. It's not a bad idea, yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you can keep your ten dollars, But let me
Speaker 1: drive that crane for just a few on the crane,
Speaker 1: it looks like so much fun. I mean, it looks
Speaker 1: like it would be a blast. I'm sure it's just
Speaker 1: another task for them, you know, but sure looks that's
Speaker 1: a crazy thing. How quickly the coolest stuff becomes normal,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like I was, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been traveling a lot I was recently
Speaker 1: in a plane flying over the Pacific last week and
Speaker 1: I got irritated because I was trying to work on
Speaker 1: some stuff and I thought, man, this WiFi is being slow,
Speaker 1: and I had to pause for a sect it. I
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, I'm flying like thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: feet in the air at this crazy speed. You're going
Speaker 1: like six right, And I have the audacity to be
Speaker 1: like to be like, oh no, this page is loading slow,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It is funny, isn't it.
Speaker 1: How you get like so you you jaded, I guess
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Yeah, you know, and it's really
Speaker 1: remarkable that you're able to do it at all. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Before it waxed to philosophic about how
Speaker 1: ungrateful I am as a person in general, I want
Speaker 1: to go back to the point you made about getting
Speaker 1: rid of stuff, because I know it's it can be
Speaker 1: tough for a lot of people to hear. And also
Speaker 1: we're all familiar with Tetris, and Tetris is such a
Speaker 1: useful game because it shows us the value of organizing
Speaker 1: space and putting things where they fit. For a lot
Speaker 1: of people listening today, the problem isn't that there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that they could get rid of and
Speaker 1: they just haven't. The problem is that there's stuff you
Speaker 1: have to keep and you have nowhere else to put it.
Speaker 1: So I want to say, you don't have to throw
Speaker 1: everything in your garage way, really, why not just invest
Speaker 1: in some organizational tools? Yeah, and you know what, Online
Speaker 1: is a beautiful place to be able to do this
Speaker 1: because you can you can go and to kind of
Speaker 1: lay out your plans or lay out your ideas. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be expensive. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there there are some ridiculously expensive cabinets and
Speaker 1: countertops and all. There's there's the opposite end of the
Speaker 1: spectrum for all this stuff. So you can get affordable cabinets,
Speaker 1: you can buy pre made shelving, or you can make
Speaker 1: your own. You can you know, d I y this thing?
Speaker 1: You know, so send your blocks into two by fours,
Speaker 1: I mean really, milk crates and and you know boards.
Speaker 1: That's all you need, really, I mean, honestly, that's all
Speaker 1: you really need. It's so simple. You can you can
Speaker 1: do a lot with what you have already, or you
Speaker 1: can just kind of make what you have work. A
Speaker 1: little bit better for you. I mean think about storage,
Speaker 1: like maybe storing things. You know, if your garage door
Speaker 1: goes up, but you've got you know, like a nine
Speaker 1: foot ceiling, you've probably got unused space above the garage door.
Speaker 1: You know that one interfere exact or stuff up there,
Speaker 1: like you know they have hanging racks. You can do that,
Speaker 1: or you can simply I saw the coolest idea you
Speaker 1: just make. It's almost like like wouldn't eye beams almost
Speaker 1: and you can slide your bins onto those things and
Speaker 1: you can slide you know, I guess you can put
Speaker 1: a stop on one so they don't slide off. But
Speaker 1: you can access all that stuff really easily. I mean
Speaker 1: you're not pulling down that you have to pull the
Speaker 1: whole bin down, but think about putting stuff up there.
Speaker 1: Like I think the recommendation was, like, you know, stuff
Speaker 1: you don't use very often, like seasonal things, camping gear,
Speaker 1: things like that that you know you only need a
Speaker 1: few times a year or even once a year, but
Speaker 1: it's a great place to put it. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you don't have a basement, or you don't have an
Speaker 1: addic storage or something like that that you know that
Speaker 1: that space above your door is valuable space that's being
Speaker 1: you know, left unused and and a lot of people
Speaker 1: just kind overlooked that one prime real estate. On this note,
Speaker 1: I want to show you guys something. This made me
Speaker 1: feel like a genius when I read that someone else
Speaker 1: had done this online. When I was a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: one of the dumbest parts of our garage was the
Speaker 1: corner where we just had to throw all like the
Speaker 1: rakes and the shovels and the pics and the hose
Speaker 1: and stuff because we didn't have a super great place
Speaker 1: to put it, and we didn't have room to you know,
Speaker 1: make a corkboard hanging wall. But we had this idea
Speaker 1: where we had small palettes laying around and we put
Speaker 1: one up on its side and we did this. I'm
Speaker 1: showing Scott the picture here. Uh you want to describe that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's up against um um exposed studs
Speaker 1: on the wall. But it it gives you a space.
Speaker 1: It like carves out of space there if you put
Speaker 1: the palette up against the wall vertically and nail in place,
Speaker 1: scrutin place, or whatever gives you a place to put
Speaker 1: those long handled tools that you know, are oftentimes either
Speaker 1: just leaning against the wall or you know whatever. I
Speaker 1: made my own tool rack, not like that, but the
Speaker 1: kind with like just hooks that you can hang things on,
Speaker 1: you know, like you'd buy them for like maybe uh,
Speaker 1: you know, hanging a bike on the ceiling or something
Speaker 1: like that. You make all different shapes, and I got
Speaker 1: some that are shaped like, um, almost like a y
Speaker 1: that has a little bit of a lip to it.
Speaker 1: And I screwed it two by four to the wall
Speaker 1: and into the stud so it's really really solid. And
Speaker 1: I hung up my tools on that you know, on
Speaker 1: these rats on these spaced everything out and you know,
Speaker 1: measured it all out so everything goes right where it
Speaker 1: should so that you know, it doesn't interfere with the
Speaker 1: tool next to it, doesn't knock it down every time
Speaker 1: you take it off. And then I did this cool
Speaker 1: thing where, um, I think this is cool. Anyways, I
Speaker 1: hung up just an eye hook and I put a
Speaker 1: carabeener through it with a little loop on the end.
Speaker 1: And then on every power tool that I have, like
Speaker 1: my leaf blower it's an electric leaf blow or trimmer,
Speaker 1: you know, electric trimmer, I tied a corresponding loop on
Speaker 1: that object that stays on there all the time. It's
Speaker 1: just a little maybe like a foot long piece of
Speaker 1: rope that I tied into a loop and then all
Speaker 1: I have to do is just hook it on the
Speaker 1: carabeener and that hangs dead. Then those hang down below
Speaker 1: in that in that void space in between the tools,
Speaker 1: so like it's all it's all like, it's really, it's
Speaker 1: sorry toot my own horn here, but it's it's it's
Speaker 1: really I feel like it's well laid out. And I
Speaker 1: tried to like use that idea or that that way
Speaker 1: of dealing with things to organize the rest of the garage,
Speaker 1: and it's gone pretty well so far. I mean I've
Speaker 1: been able to figure things out and place things accordingly
Speaker 1: so that you know, it all fits. Like you said,
Speaker 1: like tetris, you know it gives you, um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just gives you a um, a much more open
Speaker 1: feel to it, and it allows you again to access
Speaker 1: anything you want right at you know, a moment's notice,
Speaker 1: and you know right where everything is. And the good
Speaker 1: thing about something like that, a lot of people will,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll think like, well, big deal. You can
Speaker 1: buy it an old bucket and throw your tools in that.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but that takes up a lot of floor space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so so that's a smart way to do it,
Speaker 1: like you and your family have done or did in
Speaker 1: the past. I don't know if your dad still does
Speaker 1: that or what, but still using the old the palette
Speaker 1: there against man, he's he's retired, so that means that
Speaker 1: the garage is getting this crazy, crazy mop down. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went through Gosh, I guess starting about a year
Speaker 1: and a half ago, he started getting rid of stuff,
Speaker 1: and uh, I thought that was cool. But you know,
Speaker 1: anybody who has had parents or family members start cleaning
Speaker 1: stuff out of the house, you know what happens. I
Speaker 1: was getting calls like once or twice a week just
Speaker 1: just to pitch me on whether I wanted this ridiculous item.
Speaker 1: And he's like, you know, hey, I've got this this tiller.
Speaker 1: Do you want a tiller? And I'm thinking, well, that's
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm gonna put that in my
Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment. But I appreciate the thing is like,
Speaker 1: you hate to see stuff like that go. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like he doesn't need it anymore, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to just give the thing away,
Speaker 1: and he's got two tillers you don't need to with
Speaker 1: like my gas girl. Okay, gas girls laying around, but
Speaker 1: it's a it's a pile of garbage. But eventually just
Speaker 1: had to just get rid of it for you know,
Speaker 1: the scrap metal, and no one wanted it. I mean
Speaker 1: and no one. I probably wouldn't feel good giving it
Speaker 1: to somebody even you know, it's just that in that
Speaker 1: pour of condition, and I had another one that had
Speaker 1: replaced it, so why not get rid of that one?
Speaker 1: It just makes sense, like if you can just kind
Speaker 1: of pair things down a little bit in there and
Speaker 1: give yourself some rooms, some elbow room, because now I've
Speaker 1: got a a small it's a modest size work area.
Speaker 1: It's not very big at all, and I've I've even
Speaker 1: got some things on there that I still want to
Speaker 1: get rid of, you know, some bench type things that
Speaker 1: I kind of want to get rid of and clear
Speaker 1: out the area. But it's so nice to have a
Speaker 1: functional space to work in again. And I really do
Speaker 1: appreciate that, you know, having that space to go to
Speaker 1: and you know sometimes after I'm done, you know, working
Speaker 1: on the yard or whatever, just kind of hang out
Speaker 1: in there. It's it's not a bad place. I put
Speaker 1: a stereo in, yeah, you know. And that's another thing
Speaker 1: like this is so simple, you know when it cost
Speaker 1: me to put a stereo on my garage, like less
Speaker 1: than forty bucks probably, and it's it's pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: like a ken Would sound system that I went and
Speaker 1: got it. I got it like a goodwill or thrift
Speaker 1: store or something like that. It's a great receiver. Um.
Speaker 1: I was looking for one of the old dial in types,
Speaker 1: you know, with like the the old real old school
Speaker 1: silver front you know, I think I couldn't find one.
Speaker 1: They were too expensive when I did. This one is
Speaker 1: a you know, a really nice system. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have to model a number in front of me
Speaker 1: right now. But um, I was able to get some
Speaker 1: floor speakers, you know, like those old floor speakers, the
Speaker 1: big ones, um killer speakers. They're really really cool and
Speaker 1: they look cool. And again I think they're I think
Speaker 1: they're ken Would. I think it's a matching, said, I
Speaker 1: can't remember now, um, but I just put them on
Speaker 1: top of a shelf somewhere. I've got four of them.
Speaker 1: I've only I only put up two and that's more
Speaker 1: than enough. You only need one really and barely turned
Speaker 1: the volume up on the thing because in the garage,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty that goes, yeah, it does, so
Speaker 1: you know you just have it on soft. But um,
Speaker 1: it's nice and it and it passes the time, and
Speaker 1: it's something it's so simple to do. It is so
Speaker 1: inexpensive to to move like an old stereo out there
Speaker 1: or just something cheap. You can get them anywhere really
Speaker 1: for just a few bucks. It just makes it that
Speaker 1: much more pleasant to be out there for a longer
Speaker 1: period of time, whether you're working on something, you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of tune everything out and and get to work.
Speaker 1: It's it's nice. Yeah. I think that's when you know
Speaker 1: you're going in the right direction. It's when you reach
Speaker 1: the point with the garage where you walk in and
Speaker 1: you think, yeah, I get just hang out here for
Speaker 1: a second, you know what I mean. That's when you
Speaker 1: know that you've done something right. I do also want
Speaker 1: to add to that excellent point about using the ceiling
Speaker 1: is real estate. It's depending on the type of ceiling
Speaker 1: you have and the type of type of hooks you're
Speaker 1: able to get in there. It's a fantastic place to
Speaker 1: put ladders. Oh yeah, yeah, that's another thing to get
Speaker 1: all that stuff up off the floor if you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it just takes up space. It's just usable real
Speaker 1: estate that you're that you're losing if you have, you know,
Speaker 1: especially a ladder, big ladder, you have it kind of
Speaker 1: leaning against the wall takes up even more room if
Speaker 1: it has to stand out from the wall and lean
Speaker 1: against it. Um if you understand, I mean, the footprint
Speaker 1: of it becomes bigger because of that. I mean if
Speaker 1: you can somehow get it up against the wall or
Speaker 1: even off the floor, all the better. You know. Again,
Speaker 1: just simple hooks. I mean, hooks have saved me so
Speaker 1: much space in my garage. Is it's unbelievable. And I
Speaker 1: don't even have like a big fancy wall system or
Speaker 1: anything like that. It's just an open shelving unit and
Speaker 1: it's like very industrial looking. It's very it's just you know,
Speaker 1: very functional. But it's not like covered. I don't have
Speaker 1: everything like concealed or anything like that. In fact, I
Speaker 1: wish I did. I wish there was a you know,
Speaker 1: I know, I could just put up like a piece
Speaker 1: of cloth over it or something and that would conceal it.
Speaker 1: If you wanted a cleaner look to it. No man,
Speaker 1: go crazy, get like a Murphy bed type mechanism, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, It pulls down. Yeah, that's That's
Speaker 1: one of the things I'm probably gonna build when I
Speaker 1: get a garage that is my own again, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: build some fold down tables. They're super simple to build
Speaker 1: and they're great for space management because the last garage
Speaker 1: I had was from a house built in the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties and the garage was just smaller than a lot
Speaker 1: of garages you'd seat now, so so I had to
Speaker 1: do stuff like that. It's very narrow, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty narrow. It's like it was. So it was essentially
Speaker 1: a car poard where someone had put some just enough
Speaker 1: of a wall up that you could say it was
Speaker 1: a garage. So it wasn't insulated. It's probably like the
Speaker 1: you know, the the bottom half of the wall was
Speaker 1: brick from where the car poard originally was, and then
Speaker 1: the rest was like would and would That was that
Speaker 1: was treated, you know, anxiety on the outside. It wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't just straight up plywood, like it didn't look
Speaker 1: like I lived in a in a drug dealer's house,
Speaker 1: but it was so small that it was it was
Speaker 1: crowded to parks like a Honda Civic in there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I needed to have those
Speaker 1: full down shelves whenever I was going to do anything.
Speaker 1: And I also had to going back to being ungrateful,
Speaker 1: I used to complain when I would have to back
Speaker 1: the car out and work on it in the driveway
Speaker 1: because I had to set up everything else inside the
Speaker 1: actual garage. But man, that is way better than replacing
Speaker 1: stuff in a parking lot. Oh yeah, it definitely is.
Speaker 1: And you know some people do have to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's the thing we and again, Kurt,
Speaker 1: we talked about this off air. Maybe we should talk
Speaker 1: about it right now on area. I mean, what we're there,
Speaker 1: um portable garages. People buy portable garages. This is crazy. Now.
Speaker 1: I guess it wouldn't be a place you'd normally want
Speaker 1: to kind of go hang out or anything, but I
Speaker 1: think it's it would be uh smart to mention these
Speaker 1: right now. So what did what did you find? Well?
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, you know, sometimes you have a
Speaker 1: project going on. It might be a two day job,
Speaker 1: or it might even bleed over into the next weekend
Speaker 1: and you don't have a garage, so you would want
Speaker 1: some covering for the car elements so you can't leave
Speaker 1: things as they are as well, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have to button everything up just to take it back
Speaker 1: apart again. Yeah, exactly. I've seen some, you know, there's
Speaker 1: some real basically tents. Yeah. I don't know how well
Speaker 1: they work, though, I get the idea that they're not
Speaker 1: too stable. You want to check the weather before you
Speaker 1: did this type of activity. I've looked into these because
Speaker 1: of our discussion, so I looked into these, and you know,
Speaker 1: these these portable or temporary garages are a thing that
Speaker 1: people do want. Typically they'll have like a steel frame
Speaker 1: with a fabric cover. Although that covering that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of this changes. I mean the the the sturdiness
Speaker 1: of the frame and the fabric that covers it. So
Speaker 1: you know whether it's a weather proof, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: um it's opaque enough that you know no sun like
Speaker 1: gets through, or if all the sun like gets through,
Speaker 1: you know, like like you think about like a tent
Speaker 1: or something. You know, there's every variation, there's everything in between,
Speaker 1: so um, you can find one. I mean like they
Speaker 1: come in like barn style or you know whatever. They
Speaker 1: have like a little pitched roof on them so that
Speaker 1: you know, if there is weather, rain or snow, that
Speaker 1: it would kind of like rush off the eaves. I
Speaker 1: guess off the roofline, I should say, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: get you know, heavy weight up there and collapse, because
Speaker 1: I think that would be a real danger with something
Speaker 1: like this um or even high winds. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: not for everybody, and they're not for are all situations.
Speaker 1: But you can get one that's like twelve by twenty
Speaker 1: by I think about nine ft tall for you know,
Speaker 1: a ballpark around a thousand dollars and that's pretty pricey still.
Speaker 1: But if you don't have an area to do what
Speaker 1: you were describing, Kurt, where you can you know, tear
Speaker 1: something apart and leave it apart for a day or
Speaker 1: two if you have to or exposed or you know
Speaker 1: whatever you're happy to be working on. You know, you
Speaker 1: want it protected or you want to you know, you
Speaker 1: want to protect yourself. You don't want to be out
Speaker 1: in the in the the elements doing this. It's a
Speaker 1: great solution and they can stay up for extended periods
Speaker 1: of time. I mean with some level of confidence that
Speaker 1: it's going to remain in place if you anchor them
Speaker 1: correctly and weigh them down and all that, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you get to like the big ones. There
Speaker 1: are some big industrial size ones that are you know,
Speaker 1: like forty ft or more. I mean we're talking like
Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars for some of these. I mean, at
Speaker 1: what point do we stop calling those things portable garages
Speaker 1: and started calling them portable barns because there's really big ones,
Speaker 1: like some of those are the size of a small shop.
Speaker 1: Well sure, yeah, some of them. You see, like you'll
Speaker 1: see a photo of the one that I was just
Speaker 1: talking about, the twelve one, and someone's driving a forklift
Speaker 1: into it to store lumber or you know whatever it was.
Speaker 1: It could be a temporary outbuilding for a company. You know,
Speaker 1: they're that they're that big, like a pre manufactured garage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, exactly right, Yeah, it's like exactly and
Speaker 1: it's something that's they say it's portable. I mean it's
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of an iffy term for something like
Speaker 1: it's big, right, But I mean it's more portable than
Speaker 1: a garage that is attached to a house. I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess it is more portable than that. Yeah, So anyways,
Speaker 1: I think it's a good solution for some people, but um,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work in every situation, and they are kind
Speaker 1: of expensive. But like this is a good place to
Speaker 1: mention this anyway, for the parking lot type or the
Speaker 1: out in the street type that does their work in
Speaker 1: that environment. You know, how many times do you get
Speaker 1: involved in a project that takes you longer than you
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be kind of like wrap everything
Speaker 1: up real quick and then go back home for the
Speaker 1: night or whatever. How many companies now are doing like
Speaker 1: dent repair and things like that in parking lots, you know,
Speaker 1: like they'll come to your office and do that, or
Speaker 1: wheel repairs. That might be a decent use for something
Speaker 1: like that where you want to keep you know, like
Speaker 1: bugs and debris and stuff like that off of it,
Speaker 1: or if it's raining that you can't do that work,
Speaker 1: and if it's raining, but you could set up a
Speaker 1: temporary shelter around the vehicle if you have that, you know,
Speaker 1: that luxury of space to do it. Going back to
Speaker 1: your point about how portable are these things, Like I
Speaker 1: think we've all seen maybe an emission's shack or something
Speaker 1: that is pretty much one of those. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, like we're like, it's just in a
Speaker 1: parking lot somewhere and right you drive through. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I know there are laws and stuff, but I treat
Speaker 1: emissions the way you like to treat landfill. Scott want
Speaker 1: a little bit of edge in there, a shape, I
Speaker 1: will have to look too hard. I want to know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know rather whether that emissions place
Speaker 1: is going to be there tomorrow. I just want to
Speaker 1: cruise in, you know, ships in the night. I'm a ghost.
Speaker 1: Just hand me the paper, put me in the system. Right.
Speaker 1: It seems like it seems like most of them are
Speaker 1: that way. Do they really want to even do the
Speaker 1: test or do they just wanna want some exchange. It's different.
Speaker 1: It's different now in Georgia. You guys remember when you
Speaker 1: used to just get the physical badge instead of the
Speaker 1: paper and electronic entry into a system. Sure, man, corruption
Speaker 1: was rife. No I'm not saying I ever did it,
Speaker 1: but I was in so many situations where you'd be
Speaker 1: hanging out with like a mechanic acquaintance, because you know,
Speaker 1: almost every solid mechanic has the garage they work at,
Speaker 1: and then they have their house, which also slowly over
Speaker 1: time turns into another garage. And so I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many times I had somewhat like I was
Speaker 1: fixing the car of a girl I was dating or
Speaker 1: trying to get it up to the snuff for emissions,
Speaker 1: and that I would have one of my mechanic buddies say,
Speaker 1: you know, we can just get a sticker. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty illegal, and they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh but uh, we can just get a sticker.
Speaker 1: And for the record, again, I never did it. I
Speaker 1: never did it because I don't think that's a good move.
Speaker 1: But where was I going with this? I'm not sure exactly. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: temporary buildings that you that's right, soon, that's what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, temporary buildings are a great idea. You guys know,
Speaker 1: there's also this thing that popped up that I had
Speaker 1: never heard of before, communal garages. Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you don't have the space that you want
Speaker 1: for something like this, so you know, we're exactly the
Speaker 1: right set up, go to a community garage where you
Speaker 1: a communal garage, I guess where you rent the space
Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time. Now you have to
Speaker 1: bring and I think most of those you have to
Speaker 1: bring your own tools. Um, they might have some for rent,
Speaker 1: or you can borrow some. Somebody that you know is
Speaker 1: there using the communal garage. I guess if if there
Speaker 1: are more than one bay or or something. I've never
Speaker 1: used one before, but I've heard of them. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if there are any operating around here or not.
Speaker 1: I'm just not even sure. But yeah, if you don't
Speaker 1: have the space, you can read it. Yeah. I do
Speaker 1: want to add one other thing. I've heard about this
Speaker 1: and I've never run into someone who's actually done it.
Speaker 1: I want to see if you guys have heard about this.
Speaker 1: Let's say you have a major repair, you know how
Speaker 1: to do it, and you have the tools, but you
Speaker 1: don't have the garage. I have heard that it's possible
Speaker 1: to go to an auto mechanics school and use their
Speaker 1: garage with the understanding. I mean, you're going to do
Speaker 1: the work and you're going to bring your own tools, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I've heard. I've never seen it confirmed. I
Speaker 1: did not know that. That's interesting. I have to look
Speaker 1: into that too, and I know that UM. I long,
Speaker 1: long time ago, there was a community college near me
Speaker 1: that had an UM automotive program, and I know that
Speaker 1: students would bring their cars in and it was kind
Speaker 1: of their project, you know, for the term. They'd be
Speaker 1: able to kind of work on their own car as
Speaker 1: there as there. You know that they're learning tool I guess,
Speaker 1: you know. So they had cars over there, you know,
Speaker 1: they had specific problems that they would teach you how
Speaker 1: to fix and repair and all that. But UM, if
Speaker 1: you let's say that you're taking a painting class and
Speaker 1: you've got an old car that you want to paint,
Speaker 1: there's your project. I mean you can you can do
Speaker 1: it on that and learn on your own vehicle, and
Speaker 1: you'll be graded on it. Of course, you know, as
Speaker 1: you would, but it's but it's your own thing at
Speaker 1: the very end, you know, of course, you're also more
Speaker 1: likely to treat it with care. Yeah, you're right, you know.
Speaker 1: It makes me think of though. I like the fact
Speaker 1: that everything I've read about taking it to a mechanics school,
Speaker 1: everything I've read about it emphasizes you doing the work yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, you're basically renting the space. Yeah, because otherwise
Speaker 1: it would be like another weird life hack I've heard
Speaker 1: of but I've never seen officially confirmed, which is saving
Speaker 1: money on a haircut by going to a cosmetology school,
Speaker 1: which feels like a real trust pull, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I think that you can do that. I
Speaker 1: do think that they have that. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, have
Speaker 1: you done that? Okay, maybe got the got the beard
Speaker 1: trimmed up there so you can tell, right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I mean, yeah, do you pay extra to get
Speaker 1: a like a week three person? I think, isn't it
Speaker 1: the thing? Like, I don't know if you pay. I
Speaker 1: think that maybe you go and maybe there's varying degrees
Speaker 1: of this, but you might pay for the supplies if
Speaker 1: you have to have your hair diet or something like that. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that you pay, and it might
Speaker 1: take you a long time to get your hair cut
Speaker 1: because I think they're learning, you know, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: teaching somebody when you're doing it. But um, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting idea though, to take it to an automotive
Speaker 1: school and uh and rent the space. But you have
Speaker 1: to do the work yourself. So if you if you're
Speaker 1: knowledgeable with that kind of thing, or you have the tools.
Speaker 1: That's a smart thing to do. We should probably buzz
Speaker 1: through a couple more of these real quick. Just because
Speaker 1: we're a little bit behind on on my list. I
Speaker 1: guess we're not gonna get to everything on the list.
Speaker 1: We never do right, um, because we have always I
Speaker 1: love oursel conversations, So talking about the junkyard, talking about
Speaker 1: the hair college or whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: the GUI the whole time. No, that's all right, I
Speaker 1: like that stuff. But um, I guess overall, really, I mean,
Speaker 1: the the the lesson here, if there is a lesson
Speaker 1: to be learned, is get rid of the clutter, get
Speaker 1: rid of the junk. Hang stuff up off the floor,
Speaker 1: you know, get it off of the off the ground there.
Speaker 1: If you can that way, you've got more real estate
Speaker 1: to use. And once you do do that, then maybe
Speaker 1: flooring is another thing that a lot of people kind
Speaker 1: of neglect or or overlook. I know there's been recently
Speaker 1: kind of not maybe not even recently, a big push
Speaker 1: to use like those epoxy systems you can do at home.
Speaker 1: I mean there's kids that you can buy and the
Speaker 1: materials come practically ready to go. I mean you just
Speaker 1: have to do the cleaning yourself, and you know, there's
Speaker 1: step by step instructions about how to do that, and
Speaker 1: it's non skid and all that. But there's a ton
Speaker 1: of flooring options and one of these on this list
Speaker 1: really surprised me and I was shocked by I'll just
Speaker 1: quickly go through the list and we can if you
Speaker 1: wanted to stop and talk about any of them, we can.
Speaker 1: But there's I don't have any of these. By the way,
Speaker 1: My floor is painted, which is one of the cheapest
Speaker 1: ways to do it, and it's peeled up a little
Speaker 1: bit here and there, but it's it's held pretty well.
Speaker 1: It's not the epoxy, but it's definitely like a harder paint.
Speaker 1: I think it's an outdoor paint that they used, and
Speaker 1: it's it's okay. It does the job. It keeps the
Speaker 1: fluids from going right onto the concrete, which is nice.
Speaker 1: You know, you can clean them up pretty easy. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the cheapest things you can do, is
Speaker 1: paint the floor. Also not the best option. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that you can do any variety of coatings. Of course,
Speaker 1: you can do you know, epoxy, or you can even
Speaker 1: do just concrete sealer. If you have a nice clean
Speaker 1: floor already. You can't do that if it's already stained
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of a mess. And that's the
Speaker 1: same thing with concrete stain. If you do concrete stain,
Speaker 1: which by the way, it looks really cool when it's done.
Speaker 1: But if you have a dirty floor, crack floor, you
Speaker 1: know it has imperfections. You're going to see that through
Speaker 1: the stain. Even if you try to cover it up,
Speaker 1: try to patch you to whatever, You're gonna see those
Speaker 1: cracks and things, you know. So you've gotta have a
Speaker 1: floor that's in decent shape to begin with to do that. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: there's like other surfaces that you can add to your
Speaker 1: garage floor that I know a lot of people have done.
Speaker 1: I'm a little area of these, but um, like what
Speaker 1: like the interlocking tiles, I don't know why. I just
Speaker 1: feel like they'll be slick um, you know, like they'd
Speaker 1: be like if you've got any oil or grease on
Speaker 1: them or if But again that's concrete as well, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe that's maybe there's something to that,
Speaker 1: but they look like they're they'd be slick even in water.
Speaker 1: To me, it just don't seem and they're they're a
Speaker 1: little bit pricey. I mean, you know the interlocking tiles,
Speaker 1: they're they're designed for heavy load and you can put
Speaker 1: them on an uneven floor or semi uneven. You have
Speaker 1: to kind of do a little bit of work ahead
Speaker 1: of time to get it ready, but it can be
Speaker 1: a simple fix. It can make your garage look really
Speaker 1: nice if you want it to look really nice. It's
Speaker 1: functional because I guess some of that stuff does drain away,
Speaker 1: you know, underneath, as long as you can access below
Speaker 1: it to clean it up. Eventually, you don't just have
Speaker 1: fluids and laying around and you know, of course one
Speaker 1: gets damaged or you want to change it out. You
Speaker 1: can do that pretty easy with tile. Instead of being
Speaker 1: one solid piece or paint or you know whatever, it's
Speaker 1: it's harder to come back from that. There's also, you know,
Speaker 1: the option you can put down like you know those
Speaker 1: titles real heavy duty tiles they use in a lot
Speaker 1: of elementary schools use those tiles, you know, like the
Speaker 1: um then I think it's vinyl flooring, but there the
Speaker 1: vinyl tiles, the you know the one they have the
Speaker 1: oh it's not corrugated, you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: the surface is like a non slip surface. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's a decent thing to do. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can you can do that. It's again, you can get
Speaker 1: them really cheap. You can also get them very expensive
Speaker 1: depending on the surface treatment that you want. You know,
Speaker 1: the colors and all that, and all this stuff is customizable.
Speaker 1: So if you buy you know, a pattern that you
Speaker 1: want to put down on the ground, you can do that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool. Um, a lot of people have,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a variety of ideas for flooring, you know,
Speaker 1: what you should do, what you shouldn't do on this.
Speaker 1: But but one thing that that really stat with me
Speaker 1: that now, actually, you know, I'm gonna wait for just
Speaker 1: a second. I'm gonna say two more that I think
Speaker 1: are interesting, but then I'll get to the one that
Speaker 1: was the most interesting to me. Right. Uh. There's also
Speaker 1: peeling stick tiles that are kind of like what I
Speaker 1: was just talking about, but they're vinyl, so it's you know,
Speaker 1: self adhesive type thing that you know, you put on
Speaker 1: put them down. That's an okay, fixed a little cheaper,
Speaker 1: but um, you can still do it. And then there's
Speaker 1: also a solid one piece vinyl role that you can
Speaker 1: put out like um, think about linoleum, you know, like
Speaker 1: the old linoleum only made specifically for garages, and it
Speaker 1: might have a texture to it. The problem is if
Speaker 1: you damage it or something, you know, it's harder to
Speaker 1: patch in and replace something like that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that's one of the benefits of it is that there
Speaker 1: are no seams, so that you know, stuff won't gather
Speaker 1: and seems stuff won't build up, and and if you
Speaker 1: start cutting holes to patch in that, you know, that's
Speaker 1: where the problems start. Really. Now, the most interesting one
Speaker 1: on this list that I found for for flooring options
Speaker 1: for garage carpet, and I thought, okay, that's a little crazy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you think like this is like we're getting
Speaker 1: into that million dollar garage territory, right you put down carpet.
Speaker 1: It's not the case. It's it's stuff that's called and
Speaker 1: I've got a brand name here for it, because I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of people talking about the specific brand.
Speaker 1: And again we're not selling it or anything like that
Speaker 1: or getting any kind of money kicked back this thing.
Speaker 1: But the brand of the product is called Tough Carpet.
Speaker 1: It's t u f F carpet, all one word and
Speaker 1: apparently the stuff is like peeling stick squares like you
Speaker 1: would find, you know, like in an office or something.
Speaker 1: You know, if you you know, put down carpeting in
Speaker 1: a small room or something like that. This stuff is
Speaker 1: really really durable. You get this. It can be like
Speaker 1: power washed if you need to. Uh yeah, And it
Speaker 1: still has the give and the feel of real carpet.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have, um, I don't want to put this.
Speaker 1: It's it's like what they use on pro football stadiums,
Speaker 1: like you know, the turf, only it's not like you know, AstroTurf.
Speaker 1: It's it's not like all you know, prickly and pokey
Speaker 1: like that. It doesn't feel like plastic. It feels like carpet.
Speaker 1: When you put your hands across it. It It feels like
Speaker 1: it's got the give. It's got the plushness to it,
Speaker 1: just a little bit, not a lot. It's not real
Speaker 1: thick shag or anything like that, of course, but it's
Speaker 1: got like a low I guess you call it a
Speaker 1: low nap carpet. I don't know carpet really, but I
Speaker 1: think that's what they call it. Low nap. And again,
Speaker 1: you can you can hour watch the stuff. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to resist petroleum products. So you know, you're thinking, like, well,
Speaker 1: if my car is leaking a while, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to park it on this carpet. But apparently that's no problem.
Speaker 1: It'll just wipe right off. So I thought it was
Speaker 1: a cool solution. And they've been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: I've I've seen articles about this product for many, many
Speaker 1: years since, you know, at least eight nine years ago
Speaker 1: now at this point, so there, I think they're still around.
Speaker 1: The latest reference to it I found was right around eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think, Um, so who knows, you know, maybe they're
Speaker 1: maybe they're still there doing it. Maybe they're not. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I thought carpeting was an odd
Speaker 1: thing to include in this list. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: if it's built for it, why not. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: you're right. I'm not. I'm still kind of I shouldn't
Speaker 1: be skeptical. I'm just so used to a bare floor garage.
Speaker 1: It just seems like the simpler solution. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again all this, I feel like you
Speaker 1: can almost make like pathways to your car, like you
Speaker 1: could like the area that you step out of your
Speaker 1: car onto, like that could be carpeted or maybe like
Speaker 1: I guess, a runner on the side you know where um,
Speaker 1: you know you could put your shoes or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: keep the garbage cans over there or something whatever, um,
Speaker 1: but maybe not where your wheels are actually parked. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much more I have to add it.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course there's gonna be lighting option. You
Speaker 1: want to have good lighting in your garage, and a
Speaker 1: couple of things that that I want to mention here,
Speaker 1: like you could. It doesn't have to be expensive. I've
Speaker 1: got I'll tell you right now. In my garage, we've
Speaker 1: got like two bare bulbs in the in the ceiling.
Speaker 1: That's terrible. It's terrible lighting. But I want to change that.
Speaker 1: I want to change it too again to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I don't know, just it'll look better.
Speaker 1: It will also provide better light, I guess, because the
Speaker 1: placement of them is not exactly right for me. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of where they they where the builder wanted
Speaker 1: to put them. You don't this there's the thing. I
Speaker 1: just found something. I know this has been around a while,
Speaker 1: but have you've seen these tape l E D s as?
Speaker 1: I think are pretty cool and I don't know if
Speaker 1: that really would be a good option for me. I know,
Speaker 1: you can dim them, you can get just you know,
Speaker 1: the white ones there there's something that you can change
Speaker 1: all different colors um and that's cool too. But like
Speaker 1: these tape L e d s are such an interesting
Speaker 1: idea that you know, they run off of like a
Speaker 1: low voltage power supply, doesn't take a whole lot to
Speaker 1: to operate them, and you can put them anywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're intended for you know, well for anything really,
Speaker 1: but you know under cabinet type lighting, that type of thing,
Speaker 1: you know, to replace the old fixtures that you'd have
Speaker 1: to bolt up there. But yeah, if you've never seen
Speaker 1: tape L e d s, look up, you know, look
Speaker 1: look it up sometime and might be surprised by what
Speaker 1: you find if if you're not already hip to that
Speaker 1: type of thing. I'm not crazy about the quality of
Speaker 1: fluorescent lighting. And I know that's one thing though that
Speaker 1: you can you can buy a lot of fluorescent lighting
Speaker 1: cheap relatively. You can buy the fixtures. You can get
Speaker 1: the fixtures that you know, like again Goodwill, thrift store
Speaker 1: places like that, same place you can go to get
Speaker 1: you know, an old cabinet. It doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a cabinet that was built for the garage. Put an
Speaker 1: old cabinet out in the in the garage, you know,
Speaker 1: there was an old bookshelf or whatever. That's great storage.
Speaker 1: I mean you could even find a way to put
Speaker 1: a door on it if there isn't one. Use an
Speaker 1: old armore if you want, you know, put that out
Speaker 1: in the garage's story. Like, just repurpose things and use
Speaker 1: things in a smart way that is useful to you
Speaker 1: where you need the most. So you know, even if
Speaker 1: you have old furniture around your house you're not using,
Speaker 1: see if it'll be if you can repurpose that thing
Speaker 1: in your bride in some way. Yeah, yeah, it just
Speaker 1: it makes sense. There's a lot of really affordable, i
Speaker 1: mean even free ways to do things to your garage
Speaker 1: to make it just a better place to be. And
Speaker 1: I think I'm getting to that point with mine. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I haven't done insulation or lighting or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Trying to think of what else I haven't done,
Speaker 1: like flora POxy yet or anything like that. But the
Speaker 1: paint is holding up. Okay, it's not fantastic, but it's
Speaker 1: all right. The survival is slash Pepper in me wants
Speaker 1: to point out that you can, like I know your
Speaker 1: garage pretty well from way've described over the years, you
Speaker 1: probably have room for a deep freezer in there. Ian
Speaker 1: consider that. Uh, maybe maybe get one of those portable
Speaker 1: garages that Kurt hip just to start smoking some meats
Speaker 1: because you never know, you know, sure to be prepared. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see what other ridiculous things can I suggest?
Speaker 1: A pinball machine? Well I might as well, like you know,
Speaker 1: etch out an area on the floor and then start
Speaker 1: digging the shelter. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one thing, you know what I saw it. Just I
Speaker 1: know we're getting tight on time, so so we'll wrap
Speaker 1: it up pretty soon. But um, I was thinking when
Speaker 1: I was talking with Kurt, you know, like let's not
Speaker 1: talk about like car lifts and like you know, elevators
Speaker 1: and things like that we said we started out this podcast.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, like if you want, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to discourage anybody from doing this, but
Speaker 1: you can put in a lift in your garage. It's
Speaker 1: not as expensive as you might think. It's it's expensive,
Speaker 1: but it's not as expensive as you might think you
Speaker 1: look at it and think it's like, well, that's fifty
Speaker 1: do not at all know? The home versions of these
Speaker 1: are relative and I'll say relatively affordable for something, you know,
Speaker 1: and I would say comparatively comparative comparatively, And you've got
Speaker 1: to have the right set up. You gotta have a
Speaker 1: high seat, high enough ceiling. I think it has to
Speaker 1: be like eleven or twelve feet tall to safely operate
Speaker 1: one of these things. Really, I mean with the post
Speaker 1: and everything. There's a there's two post versions, there's four
Speaker 1: post versions. You can get a two post version. You
Speaker 1: know where you're the posts are on the side next
Speaker 1: to the doors. I guess when you pull up you
Speaker 1: kind of pull through this thing. Then there's the four
Speaker 1: post versions, which sometimes will have ramps you can like
Speaker 1: fully secure the vehicle on top of it and then
Speaker 1: raise it up. And then there's also the versions where
Speaker 1: you know you can block those in park another car
Speaker 1: below it, which is really cool. Yeah, that's the one
Speaker 1: I would go for. But you know those are I mean,
Speaker 1: and you might think that again really really expensive, like Bucks,
Speaker 1: maybe less one. I saw one Bucks you can get
Speaker 1: see the only thing with that, And I say, this
Speaker 1: as an avowed cheapskate. The only thing with that is
Speaker 1: I would be very careful about how thrift y I
Speaker 1: was I'm buying on especially because because you want I
Speaker 1: want the kind where I'm going to have living people
Speaker 1: under it, yeah, doing repairs, or ideally the kind I
Speaker 1: might have another very expensive vehicle under it, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to wake up to that going wrong. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no one does. No one wants to hear that noise.
Speaker 1: That's not the kind of a long clock I want
Speaker 1: in the morning. One of your cars crushing the other
Speaker 1: one of your cars. Yeah, that'd be a terrible noise,
Speaker 1: and you know, one last quick. So it's not out
Speaker 1: of the question to do something like that in your garage.
Speaker 1: If you've got the means to pay you know, bucks
Speaker 1: for a four post lift, do it. And you've got
Speaker 1: the place to do it. One thing that I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's no way we can we can do this. It's
Speaker 1: just too expensive. I've seen do it yourself pits dug
Speaker 1: in garages, and I have mixed feelings about this, but
Speaker 1: it is. But I've seen some really nice ones, really
Speaker 1: really are they like are the is the property on
Speaker 1: a hill? And they're built into it or so it's
Speaker 1: it's yeah, nope, this is someone chiseling right through the
Speaker 1: floor of their garage as long as they're you know,
Speaker 1: right through the concrete, putting some steps in. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: put steps in, and so they don't have to like
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have another access in another play
Speaker 1: part of the building or anything like that. Nothing fancy. Um.
Speaker 1: But like the guy that I saw doing one, he
Speaker 1: had dug a hole in his garage, a very narrow garage. Um.
Speaker 1: They call it an inspection pit, but really it's for
Speaker 1: like weel changes and things about how deep would say
Speaker 1: it was, well, you know what you'd want to be
Speaker 1: either sitting on a stool, you know, so you're comfortable
Speaker 1: underneath it, or standing if he wanted to stand underneath there. Um,
Speaker 1: So you have to kind of like you have to
Speaker 1: measure everything very carefully. Of course, he had tiled his
Speaker 1: in with stone and the stairs, so the way he
Speaker 1: gets into his is he um uh. Since this one
Speaker 1: person operating this, he'd drive in right to a set
Speaker 1: point and then kind of like almost like kind of
Speaker 1: worm his way underneath there onto the stairs to get
Speaker 1: underneath the car. So it didn't look very comfortable to
Speaker 1: get into because you know, it wasn't If it was longer,
Speaker 1: you could just stand up right and walk right in
Speaker 1: go into the car. But he had a smaller garage area,
Speaker 1: so you know, even though there are stairs there, it's
Speaker 1: great to help me climb out, but you're doing that
Speaker 1: on your hands and knees. Probably, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I felt a way of a claustrophobia just hearing that description. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not. But again, the thing is like
Speaker 1: it's not out of the reach, and it's not something
Speaker 1: for the ultra wealthy. It's not something that you know,
Speaker 1: you have to have a pile of money layer on
Speaker 1: to do. You can do it, I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: You should definitely have all this stuff inspected and checked out.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're not comfortable doing something like this,
Speaker 1: you know, please have somebody come in and install that
Speaker 1: lift for you. Of course, I mean you want to
Speaker 1: be safe about it, but and you might even have to.
Speaker 1: You might have to have somebody install, um, you know,
Speaker 1: a safety inspection. I would bet the company that sells
Speaker 1: these things, you know, make sure that there's some kind
Speaker 1: of a certified um individual that comes over and check
Speaker 1: things out to make sure it's bolted down correctly and
Speaker 1: all that, because so yeah, you don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: want somebody putting something like that in their house and
Speaker 1: it's be just like this huge re liability for the
Speaker 1: company that built it. You know. Yeah, I just I look,
Speaker 1: I just don't want to be sitting under a car
Speaker 1: on a little stool in something that's slightly larger than
Speaker 1: a coffin. Yeah, you know, yeah, that's that's the way
Speaker 1: that these look to they look like, um, they're very
Speaker 1: very small. It's not like the big ones that you
Speaker 1: see at the oil change place, you know, like and
Speaker 1: you always will have an open hole in your garage.
Speaker 1: Then of course that's another danger factor is you know
Speaker 1: if somebody uh you know pulls in and they've got
Speaker 1: their you know, they're gonna make a sharp turn to
Speaker 1: get out of the garage or something, you know, to
Speaker 1: maneuver around something, and a wheel goes in there. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be expensive. I mean, no matter what kind of
Speaker 1: you could put a metal grade or something over it.
Speaker 1: But again you're starting to get more and more expensive,
Speaker 1: and you know, like you know, it's just it's it
Speaker 1: becomes more and more complex. There's something is still a
Speaker 1: little nerve racking about crawling under a car that's up
Speaker 1: on a jack or up on jack stands. Yes, there is.
Speaker 1: I take the whole Yeah, take the would Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean if I if I had my druthers, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with Kurt on that I would, I would want.
Speaker 1: I would want like a hole with an L shape
Speaker 1: at least that you know, it goes out from either
Speaker 1: the back or the front of the car and then
Speaker 1: curves around so you have a workspace under there and
Speaker 1: you can walk down the stairs like a man instead
Speaker 1: of a worm. Like. Yeah, but see, I mean you're
Speaker 1: just you're just opening up a larger hole in your floor.
Speaker 1: Every know, it's a great plan. Yeah, it's well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're an idea guy. That's it's you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: the thing is like, it's just it just becomes more
Speaker 1: and more complex as right as you think it through.
Speaker 1: And and yeah, these are great to have, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun to say it and everything, like, it'd be
Speaker 1: great to have a pit, you know, it would be
Speaker 1: so much so much easier to do this oil change.
Speaker 1: You know, if I had to pit down there, but
Speaker 1: just think of having that pit around year round for
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of times you needed or um,
Speaker 1: you know, not being able to do certain things. I
Speaker 1: think they would be frustrating too. It's like if you
Speaker 1: had if you had a great pit that was already
Speaker 1: dug in the bins basement, and there's certain repairs that
Speaker 1: you can't do in the pit, you know, like you
Speaker 1: have to do the above ground just because of acts
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have access to it. So, um,
Speaker 1: there'll be that frustrating side of the whole thing too.
Speaker 1: But I mean the lift would take care of a
Speaker 1: lot of that. I mean, it would take care of
Speaker 1: you know that's yeah, lift under the way you had
Speaker 1: access above you have four posts. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: to be safe, I guess it would be safest. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I think that, like again, I hope this
Speaker 1: this whole show didn't like just come on glued when
Speaker 1: I started mentioning all this other stuff. But I really
Speaker 1: do feel like there's just a lot of really smart,
Speaker 1: affordable or even free things that a lot of people
Speaker 1: could do to their grudge that they're just not thinking
Speaker 1: of right now. Are they don't have the time to
Speaker 1: to put to it. If they did, though, they might
Speaker 1: find it to be a much more enjoyable place to
Speaker 1: be and they might actually get more work done on
Speaker 1: the vehicle that they want to work on. You know,
Speaker 1: it might just be more pleasant place to to go
Speaker 1: in and hang out. And I hope that message is
Speaker 1: getting through to a lot of people, you know that,
Speaker 1: you know, just spend a little time decluttering and cleaning
Speaker 1: and thinking things through a bit if you can, you know,
Speaker 1: and have have somebody that's good at organization take a
Speaker 1: look at it with you and that helps too. You know,
Speaker 1: if you have a friend that's good at that type
Speaker 1: of thing, have them look at it. And there's a
Speaker 1: ton of information online and a lot again a lot
Speaker 1: of pensive ideas, but a lot of really clever ideas
Speaker 1: for storage and um you know, just simple like simple
Speaker 1: garage makeover ideas. A lot of them do get into
Speaker 1: the expensive cabinets and you know, stone countertops and that
Speaker 1: type of you know, stuff you don't need, um, but
Speaker 1: but look within your budget, you know, make it, make
Speaker 1: it work, and I think you're gonna be happier with
Speaker 1: it in the end. Really, I mean, I really do
Speaker 1: I think that that that's what I've learned through this
Speaker 1: whole process, and again I need to get mine in
Speaker 1: much much better condition. But I'm already seeing progress and
Speaker 1: I'm happy with it. Oh. I would also say, I
Speaker 1: think it's so cool to have a sound system in
Speaker 1: a garage. Uh maybe maybe not a TV. I'm still
Speaker 1: kind of torn on the TV. You know. I'm not
Speaker 1: big on the TV because I don't spend that much
Speaker 1: time out there, you know. I mean I do go
Speaker 1: there and hang out occasionally, just you know, sit on
Speaker 1: a milk crate in the corner, you know, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, listen to music and work on something that
Speaker 1: can hold in my lap or at the at the um,
Speaker 1: at the desk or the not the bench top, um,
Speaker 1: goof around stuff out there. It's it's just a nice
Speaker 1: place to do that. And yeah, I'm not crazy about
Speaker 1: like just going out there and hanging out. I don't
Speaker 1: have a couch. I don't have It's not like a
Speaker 1: like a den or anything like any like you don't
Speaker 1: have like a cooler, a yetie cooler or something. They
Speaker 1: don't have anything. Like Some people do that kind of
Speaker 1: thing though, like they bring you know, they stock a
Speaker 1: you know, refrigerator, full of beer and they pick a couch,
Speaker 1: like a couch they picked up again at a thrift
Speaker 1: shop or something, you know, throw throw a rug out
Speaker 1: there and you know TV on the wall, and you
Speaker 1: know they're watching the game out there, but it's not work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's transformed into something. Yeah. That that's what you just
Speaker 1: don't do the work you plan to do. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's really that's that's pretty funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good point. Yeah, and mine's not
Speaker 1: to that point. And I don't even think I wanted
Speaker 1: to be at that point. I just wanted to be
Speaker 1: functional and I wanted to be comfortable. And I think
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm getting there. Well' getting the lighting probably lighting, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think lighting, and maybe even the door instulation now
Speaker 1: that Ben's convinced me that that's the way to go. Hey,
Speaker 1: got beat that summer heat somehow. Yeah. And you can also, uh,
Speaker 1: you can get some pretty easy solutions if you want it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's lazy, but if you
Speaker 1: feel like time is it a premium for you, you
Speaker 1: can pay someone else to do it too. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: know that's another thing that I found is that. You know,
Speaker 1: people are treating their garage space now like they treat closets.
Speaker 1: Like when you get a custom closet made. A lot
Speaker 1: of people have you know, someone come in and consult
Speaker 1: them and say, here's what you need. You need these shelves,
Speaker 1: you need this many like crazy, Well I know, but people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have people come out and kind of consult them
Speaker 1: and tell them what they need. And you know, you
Speaker 1: you tell them what you want out of the out
Speaker 1: of the space and they will provide it. I mean
Speaker 1: it's expensive again, but um, that's the way people are
Speaker 1: doing this now. There's there's garage reorganization tricks that people
Speaker 1: are using, and you know they're also sharing them online,
Speaker 1: which is nice. So like if you if you have
Speaker 1: some ideas, get online sharing with with other people in
Speaker 1: the community that are excited about that type of thing too.
Speaker 1: And yeah, who knows, maybe you know, some of the
Speaker 1: stuff will be something that you can see yourself doing,
Speaker 1: or maybe some of the stuff is just so outlandish
Speaker 1: that you don't want it. Um, like I'm not crazy
Speaker 1: about like customer, you know, the lighting and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't need anything like that, And I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not really sold on like epoxy floor coating or anything
Speaker 1: like that yet. UM paint is fine for now, you know,
Speaker 1: just an outdoor paint, but something durable. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: certain there's like different levels that everybody's comfortable with. And
Speaker 1: just find your own level, find your own budget and
Speaker 1: uh and do it and you'll be happy with it.
Speaker 1: And let us know what improvements you have made to
Speaker 1: your garage. Let us know what you got hilariously wrong
Speaker 1: if you're in that situation, so that we and your
Speaker 1: fellow listeners can learn from those mistakes. You can send
Speaker 1: your garage war stories to us directly. We are car
Speaker 1: stuff at I heart radio dot com. We also, you know,
Speaker 1: we'd love to see any pictures you have. If you
Speaker 1: are one of those people who got a wild hair
Speaker 1: and dug your own inspection pit man, I want to
Speaker 1: see that. Yeah, I would too, before and after photos.
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of cool. That'd be super cool. That
Speaker 1: would be in the meantime, let's see, Uh, I'm going
Speaker 1: to start a shady emission stand. You're moving into the
Speaker 1: Russian landfill turf and and and Kurt, I guess you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna be selling secondhand portable garages. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we've got stuff to do between now and then. So
Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to get reports back from each
Speaker 1: one of us about what's what's up right, that's right,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do it all right, See you guys,
Speaker 1: see guys next week. Thanks for listening. Car Stuff is
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