This article lists some general ideas for organizing outdoor items that are stored in your garage in the winter. It’s nothing we haven’t talked about before in this blog. Quality shelving is important. Make sure there’s enough room movement. Be careful where you store hazardous items and so forth.
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Should you insulate your garage?
If you’ve chosen to add a heat source to your garage, or even if you haven’t, you may be considering adding insulation to keep that heat in. This article offers another reason to consider adding insulation. It adds a layer of soundproofing to the walls to reduce the sounds that travel outside the garage. Here are a few basic points about garage insulation.
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Garage heater safety
Piggybacking on our last post on heating your garage, we need to pass along some safety information for gas-powered space heaters. Because they’re typically mounted to the wall, they don’t carry the danger of falling over like other heaters, but there are still precautions you need to take. Once again, this HGTV article offers some good points.
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Heating your garage
Typically garages go unheated during the winter, although with more and more homeowners using their garages as workspaces, they’re looking for ways to add heat. Space heaters offer the easiest option for adding heat, but as this article points out, there are several things to consider when looking at heaters.
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Garage winterization products
Recently, we’ve been encouraging homeowners to winterize their garage and focusing on what they should look for. Now we like to recommend this article that provides some steps homeowners can take if they identify problems.
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Winter epoxy floor cleaning
Many garage floors now feature an epoxy coating that prevents liquids and stains from penetrating into the concrete. The coating makes cleaning easy with just a little water and mopping needed. In the winter however, you still have to worry about the situation we wrote about last week of the water freezing on the floor. Fortunately, this page offers an effective solution (literally) for the problem.
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Winter cleaning tips that will floor you
This winter the floor of your garage will probably take another beating. There will be snow melting off your car, snow shovels, blowers, and plows. Along with this snow comes all the road salt and dirt. Leaving standing water on the floor or hosing it down periodically risks freezing after your car or equipment cool down, and freezing water risks damaging the floor especially if it’s in cracks. This article offers some good alternative suggestions.
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Winter garage maintenance
Winter is getting ready to level its annual assault on our homes, and garages usually take a fair share of the brunt of cold weather and frozen precipitation. Whether it’s from more items being stored in garages or more outside elements coming in, garages require routine maintenance throughout winter, and we wanted to pass on a few tips.
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DIY garage organization
If you’re set on reorganizing your garage yourself but not sure how to do it, there are helpful online guides that can get you going in the right direction. This article from This Old House provides some great advice, and we’d like to point out some important things.
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Is your furniture ready for winter?
It’s getting to be the time to store porch and patio furniture for the winter. Many homeowners use their garages for this purpose, while others use sheds or basements. Still others leave the furniture out on their decks or patios. Whichever way you do it, you should review some of these tips to store your furniture properly so it’s ready next spring.