Brendan Macdonald`s Home Issue » garage http://www.brendanmacdonald.com Furniture, Design, Home Remodeling, Renovation Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Garage spring cleanup http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/garage-spring-cleanup http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/garage-spring-cleanup#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:40:35 +0000 admin http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/?p=89 Imagine a beautiful spring day. You want to go biking, go fishing or even enjoy a picnic with your family. When you
enter your garage to gather your gear and head to having fun you have a tremendous surprise: your stuff is all over
the place, on the floor, messed up in corners, misplaced in various drawers. Organizing your garage is as easy as
figuring out where to start. The first thing is to purchase some cabinets, some shelves and hammer a series of nails into
the walls.

The storing and sorting goes as follows. Categorize each object and place it in a place specially designed for it. For
example sporting gear should be placed in a cabinet or on some shelves, tools should be placed in drawers or hung on
to some peg boards. Be ruthless about throwing away and don’t think twice before you throw away anything that you haven’t used recently or anything that’s broken. If you haven’t repaired it yet, chances are you won’t repair it. Seasonal gear should also be sorted, boots and out-of-season coats should be organized in small closets.

After you finish organizing, sorting and throwing away unwanted items you will be surprised to see your garage  floor and corners again. Maybe your car will fit in the garage again.

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]]> http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/garage-spring-cleanup/feed 0 Your workshop-garage heater http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/your-workshop-garage-heater http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/your-workshop-garage-heater#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:16:03 +0000 admin http://www.brendanmacdonald.com/?p=31 Why do you need a heater for your remodeled garage? The answer for this question is pretty obvious: one of the major disadvantages of using your garage as a workshop or a home office is that it wasn’t meant for that. The garage is the special place reserved for your car, the garage is the room where you keep your lawn and garden accessories.

If you start using this space for other projects that you have, you need to deal with one of the major inconveniences, that is warmth. During the summer you don’t have to worry too much about this but during cold seasons you might find some difficulties in continuing your project because of the very low temperature.

You can find many ways to warm up your workshop- garage. You can try one of the porcelain heaters; they work great and can warm up a good area but they are not meant to warm a large space for a long time.

Another solution for you would be to use a kerosene heater. These heaters are easy to turn on, most of them have an electric starter. It should have a thermostat to be able to regulate the temperature also they have a specific scent, they do function on kerosene! So if you think you cannot handle this smell, a kerosene heater wouldn’t be a good choice for you. They are quite dangerous for your children, if they have access to the garage and you would definitely want to ventilate very well the garage!

A very good and popular choice nowadays is a gas heater. Of course you have to hire a professional to install it. You can find a gas heater suited to your budget for remodeling the garage. There are many models and almost all of them are fairly inexpensive. The main advantage of a gas heater is that it gives you a consistently warm environment. They are available in both manual and thermostatic control types. You would probably prefer a model that has a thermostat, even though its price is a little higher than the price of a manual temperature control model. The only thing that you have to do is to set it on a desired temperature and leave it to do its job.

There are two types of gas heaters: vented and vent less. The vent less unit uses air from the room and the vented model has a system that vents directly out of the garage. The disadvantage of the vent less model is that you have to keep the room vented at all times because the unit uses the air from the room where it has been installed. The main advantage for the both types of gas heaters is that they have a pretty low running cost compared to the kerosene and electric heaters.

Remember that if you choose to install a more advanced heating system like a gas heater, you must ask for a professional’s help.

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