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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by rolson1
Anyone know anything about insulation and drywall? I'm doing my garage here pretty soon and some protips would be GREAT.
I insulated and sheetrocked my garage 10 years ago. Get some buddies over to help and rent a sheetrock lift.

If you go farther and decide to mud/tape and paint it, you might want to considering hiring the mudding and taping. Its sucks and takes some real talent to get it to look right.

Another option to give it a nice finished look it to put fire rated plastic panels (FRP) to put over the sheetrock. Its a waterproof finish and can stand up to scratches and scrapes. I'm considering doing this. But the panels are $25 a piece, so its kind of spendy. Here is a pic I found of garage done with FRP panels: http://i55.tinypic.com/2cge99f.jpg

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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 09:15 AM
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so.

who here is NOT a tax accountant/person? seems like that's what everyone does!
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by cgendron
I insulated and sheetrocked my garage 10 years ago. Get some buddies over to help and rent a sheetrock lift.

If you go farther and decide to mud/tape and paint it, you might want to considering hiring the mudding and taping. Its sucks and takes some real talent to get it to look right.

Another option to give it a nice finished look it to put fire rated plastic panels (FRP) to put over the sheetrock. Its a waterproof finish and can stand up to scratches and scrapes. I'm considering doing this. But the panels are $25 a piece, so its kind of spendy. Here is a pic I found of garage done with FRP panels: http://i55.tinypic.com/2cge99f.jpg

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Curt
Curt, your garage is HUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!! Guess its gotta be for all those whips!

As for drywalling, its not that bad. The #1 thing to remember though is its MESSY. Make sure you wear a mask the whole time, can really harmful. I did a lot of drywall work when I was in high school, and redid a few panels in my current garage myself. Also fixed all the imperfections in all the walls and painted them all myself. I also redid all the outlets and rewired them(MAKE SURE YOU JUST OFF THE CIRCUIT BREAKER) for black outlets rather then white and light switches. Only thing left is I need to decide on what type of trim I'd like to do....there's the commercial trim and then there's just 1x2's that typically are used at the bottom of the drywall to fill the gap to the cement.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ezpotato
so.

who here is NOT a tax accountant/person? seems like that's what everyone does!
Only Dan and Taylor do anything related to Tax???
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by ezpotato
so.

who here is NOT a tax accountant/person? seems like that's what everyone does!
Not me... im going into customer service.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:01 AM
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I bit the bullet and setup an appointment to have my coils installed Friday. I figured since my friend who would normally do it for cheaper can't get it done until mid April at the earliest and he has a wedding in June to deal with he was out Just debating if I should have a camber kit installed while they are in there.....I just don't wanna be spending all my money
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yeah man do it all together.. no point in waiting cause it'll just loom over you.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Alpha Ice
I bit the bullet and setup an appointment to have my coils installed Friday. I figured since my friend who would normally do it for cheaper can't get it done until mid April at the earliest and he has a wedding in June to deal with he was out Just debating if I should have a camber kit installed while they are in there.....I just don't wanna be spending all my money
Originally Posted by ezpotato
yeah man do it all together.. no point in waiting cause it'll just loom over you.
exactly...you have them already, why WOULDN'T you get them installed? The allignment would be pointless...you would just have to allign it all over again. In the end you'll be SAVING money.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:22 AM
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I know, I already factored it in and planned on it I was just checking to see if I got a "no" at all LOL
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:41 AM
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well you could not do it and just waste $, or you could do it and the $ you were gonna waste, let me have it.
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Alpha Ice
I bit the bullet and setup an appointment to have my coils installed Friday. I figured since my friend who would normally do it for cheaper can't get it done until mid April at the earliest and he has a wedding in June to deal with he was out Just debating if I should have a camber kit installed while they are in there.....I just don't wanna be spending all my money
ok, i'll probably make an appt with VIP unless we have a suspension day figured out??
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:50 AM
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ok, i'll probably make an appt with VIP unless we have a suspension day figured out??
I would talk with Janik since he will be needing to install some barely used springs
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ezpotato
well you could not do it and just waste $, or you could do it and the $ you were gonna waste, let me have it.
Haha, I'll put it into my FL "blow" account....gotta make sure I have enough monies. Since I won't be online I'll be doing lines
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by DGGal
ok, i'll probably make an appt with VIP unless we have a suspension day figured out??

Janik, Patriick, and I are for sure having some sort of suspension day.

What are you putting in Dawn? You are more than welcome to come over and we can get you all hooked up!
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 11:04 AM
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Yea we seem to be the only ones doing our installs haha. Although when mike said 50 bucks to swap springs, I was ready to make an appointment... Unfortunately, that's the booked guy lol.

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