Painted Garage Floor

Painted Garage Floor
Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma.

The real project of the Thanksgiving weekend is to paint the garage floor. I didn't take any pictures during the paint job because it was quite messy - the primer is actually a very tacky glue-like substance. This is the result though.. ain't it nice looking?

Tires Organized, Me Tired

Tires Organized, Me Tired
Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma.

We wanted to (i.e. the wife insisted) that we (i.e. I) paint the garage floor.

To keep stuff off the floor for good I built another shelf, this time for holding the winter tires and other stuff.

Photos for Logic board replacement

The business end of the logic board replacement.
Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma.

Sorry for the delay in posting pictures for the logic board for the garage door opener! They are mildly interesting, but I am overjoyed that the opener works properly again.

Logic board for garage opener arrived.

Last Friday I finally received the replacement logic board from Chamberlain. I installed it on Saturday and it works like a charm. I took some pictures and will put them up later..

Surge protector for Garage Openers

Surge protector in use
Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma.

Home Depot indeed has the surge protectors in stock. I splurged and bought two of them.

My garage opener is busted

I have two Chamberlain Whisper Drive garage door openers. They were installed one week after I moved in. They seem to work fine until recently. One day we came home to find the door opened. That was scary. Everything in the garage seems to be in order at least. We also found that my garage opener opens both doors, and the wife's ? not working at all. That's weird. After we closed it, the wonky side also opened by its own.

So today I called Chamberlain and asked for help, after discovering that the unit refuses to reset after I hold the "learn button" down as instructed by the manual's troubleshooting guide. After a few tests the customer rep says that the logic board is fried and they will send me a new one in 7-10 business days. So nice. I will see what happens after I replace the logic board. Meanwhile I guess we'll just unplug the unit when the wife is home.

Update: Simon has found that Chamberlain makes a surge protector for its Liftmaster line of garage openers. I'll see whether I can find them at Home Depot.

Update on my shelves in the garage

Epilogue...
Originally uploaded by Vincent Ma.

Finally able to take a picture of the "new" 3 layer shelving I installed in the garage after I last blogged about this project. Three levels of storage space for more crap! I don't need a proper toolbox.. my bottom shelf is now the tool storage.. Easy access to my growing tool collection!

DIY Heavy Duty Shelves

So our second major project is to install our own shelves in the garage.

We know we have a lot of shit stuff that needs to be put into the garage. So we looked around for shelving. Stuff from IKEA (search for GORM) or HomeDepot (such as ProRack) doesn't look too good, so in the end I decided to build our own.

As usual, I was my own photo-journalist and the pictures are up on Flickr.