What can I say about my garage? It really should be torn down and re-built. But I'm doing everything I can to keep it in decent enough shape until I win the lottery (or something) and can fix it. The real goal of this project is to get the garage painted. It needed it last summer, but never happened, and time is slipping away. Alas, the whole nature of, well, nature is that we can't control it. If it rains, I won't be able to be doing much for painting it, so I'll also work on some other projects. Cleaning and organizing it would be one example of work that needs to be done, but it's a lower priority.
Last summer I did replace the windows. The East windows were broke out two winters ago, and I put in plexiglass where the glass was, but the North window had a crack in it, and the frame was rotting away. More specifically, we discovered, carpenter ants were eating the frame away. We--my dad and I--replaced the windows, sills, and moulding with vinyl. It's a slow process.
But one of my higher priorities is getting my security light fixed. The placement of my garage--in the far back of the property--means it's very dark. I'm scared of the dark. I don't like walking from my garage to my house in the dark. My dad and I installed a motion sensor security light not too long after I moved in. However, it quit working a month ago. In a large surprise, we realized the interior lights weren't working, and had to replace those sockets before we could test the bulbs in the security light. They worked. However, after checking all the wiring, my dad switched the lights to the test mode, and they turned on. Fabulous! Except when it got dark, they didn't turn on. When I drove up, they didn't turn on. When I got the ladder out and turned on the test mode, they didn't turn on. I really need to get that fixed.
But painted. That garage needs to be painted. As far as I can tell it either was never primed, had the wrong primer used, or was painted when it was wet. The paint is peeling off like it's a snake shedding its skin or something. (Ew! I hate snakes!)
From my research, the steps I will need to take is to power wash the garage, scrape the peeling paint off the garage (which, as far as I can tell, is ALL of the paint. I'm not sure any is sticking), prime the garage, and then paint the garage. No big deal.... :sigh:
So, here's a few before pictures.
That's the front of the garage. I'm standing by my house there. There are no lights from the neighbors houses, and with the fences and trees, it gets pretty dark. Plus, that tree back there? It really needs to be trimmed so it's not actually touching my garage!
I really need a new garage door, but for now, I'm going to try to fix it as best I can. In positive news, the other parts of the garage door seal were falling, and I've managed to glue them up with construction adhesive. When I finish with the adhesive, I'm going to use some caulk to seal out the moisture in hopes of making the garage door last longer. If I'd paint the garage door and trip, it would only be because that color green doesn't do anything for me.
You can see the peeling paint in this picture. Plus the branched hanging from the gutter (which I removed after taking the picture--I still need to clean the gutters, though! I'd like to add some leaf catchers on the gutters so they don't get jammed up and need cleaning regularly. I'm lazy!).
I don't know what this is. Maybe the garage door used to be bigger, and they just made it smaller by adding a piece of plywood. In fact, I'm fairly confident that is the case: it was a larger door, and rather than special ordering, they changed the opening for a standard sized garage door. But, even that needs painting!
I've got my work cut out for me. Join me on my wild ride!
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