Garage Makeover

 Our garage floor was deteriorated. It needed help. A few years ago we had to have parts of it lifted the cracks were so bad we would trip on them.

Since then it has become crumbling and stained.

When we got a door hanger from a neighbor (who we know) promoting his business of garage floor cement finishes and coating, I took it as sign that the time is now! So I called Jason and he came over that night. It was a Tuesday. He gave a great price (we had to pay in cash 😁) and told us he had an opening that weekend. 

Our garage is The place for all our outdoor needs. It was going to be a major job moving everything out. Our patio was crowded after the move.

Everything out the door or up off the floor

My first priority was to get the really old cabinets a new coat of paint before they come.

Before 

After

Jason and his crew showed up bright and early Saturday morning. 

They sanded 

 

They sealed all the cracks and put a coat of cement on our stoop into the house

They painted the base coat

They had so many color to choose from. I picked out 3 I liked and Mike choose (which he NEVER does) the final color. Desert Sand. 

The Crew

After they threw down the flecks and sealed up the garage - we had rain in the forecast. Sunday they came back put the final coat of sealer and we had an awesome new garage floor.

New brown floor

It is so beautiful. And the walls were so ugly we decided to paint them before we purged, and put the important stuff back in. The walls are all pegboard, so I had the bright idea to spray paint instead of trying to roll over all the holes. I ordered a sprayer on Amazon that was battery operated so Mike wouldn’t have to deal with an extension cord.

Mike painting

I covered all the areas I didn’t wanted painted with garbage bags and Mike went to town. That was until the batteries ran out. I may have gone too cheap on the sprayer - the batteries (it came with 2) lasted about 40 minutes and took 7 hours to charge. Plan B borrow a sprayer from the brother-in-law, Bill. Couldn’t get the thing to work. He warned us it was old. We broke down and got a better sprayer from Menards to finish.

A sprayer that worked

2 weeks later everything we thought we needed was in the trash. The garage was organized with the stuff we wanted to keep And Our cars are now parked in their garage with the new floor.