Introducing Hoovie's Garage 3.0! An empty shell with endless possibilities.

Thanks youtube.com/@epicentergarage4952 for the tour and tips, and give him a sub! What would you do with an empty 6000sq foot building (other than fill it with cars)?

Hoovie working with a Betterhelp therapist has done nothing for his car hoarding disorder

I can not emphasize this enough, Tyler. DO NOT put in a spiral staircase. You will kick yourself. Its impossible to move things up or down a spiral staircase. Don't ask me how I know, but trust me.

I built my dream garage which holds 8 cars comfortably (2,300 SF). Suggestions of things to do now (because you will wish you did them later): Put in at least a half bath; lots of lighting and receptacles, putting some recessed receptacles/plugs around all the walls about 6 to 7 feet off the ground, this will allow you to plug in neon signs without seeing electrical cords running down the wall; polyaspartic floors, professionally installed, in a light to medium color flake combination; set aside a seating area where you can sit with buddies and watch a big screen TV. Also, if you can, build yourself an office area distinct from the parking area....you may want to have it on a separate hvac line/thermostat so you can keep the office area where you spend time more comfortable (cooler or warmer) than the rest of that huge space and save some money on HVAC costs. It will be interesting to watch your progress.

Tyler, you can send those SDM airbag modules out to several companies online to get reset/reprogrammed for under $100. I buy, fix, and sell salvage cars, this is what I do. No need to get a new one.

Assuming this is your forever home (and forever garage), I wouldn’t recommend putting in a spiral staircase in. They just aren’t friendly to our aging bodies and the older we get the more we tend to avoid them, which for you means at some point that’ll make the loft pretty much a dead space if you put a spiral staircase in.

Can’t wait till we go full circle and have the Car Wizard coming into Hoovies Garage 3.0 with a high pitched “HOOOOVIEEEEEE!”

Depending on the configuration of your doors, run the mezzanine like an "L" over the lower door an d construct your stairs between the two doors. This is always dead space. By doing that, you can simply drive in, stop next to the stairs and offload stuff from your vehicle directly to your stairs. Much easier than trying to maneuver a vehicle to carry stuff. In the centre you can also explore a hoist across half the garage - 1 column in the centre between the doors, and over the mezzanine. That way heavier or bulky items can be lifted straight off the vehicle and moved upstairs. A 1000 pound hoist crane should be ok. Check for concrete thickness and reinforcing, but if its ok for a car lift it should be good to go. Btw - i am a retired civil and structural engineer if you wondering..... And an insane petrolhead

From a farmer in the Dakotas, theres some things you should do to your shop while you still have the chance. 1st, I know you feel you don't need a bathroom, but if you're going to have a workshop and maybe even a lounge area you need a bathroom, you'll thank yourself later when you don't have to walk to the house everytime. You don't need a shower, just a sink and toilet. This is one of the biggest regrets with our old farm shop. Not to mention having running water in front of the building to wash cars off would be very nice. A hot water spigot is a great addition too if you'd put a water heater in. 2nd, for lights I'd highly highly recommend Hyperlite high bay halo lights. We put 14 150W lights in a 104x50 building and theyre fantastic, they'll light up your shop even better with the white insulation everywhere. Theyre in a bare cold storage building with a dirt floor on our's, and you'd think it was daytime inside. They also don't seem bothered by bitter cold. I've turned them on in -20 weather and they flipped right on. 3rd, put radiant heat in. It keeps a shop so much warmer in the winter than forced air. All the warmth doesn't blow out the door when you open it like it tends to with forced air. 4th, whatever you're building for a storage area, make it bigger than you plan, if you can. We built a 8'x16' parts room that is now overflowing with consumables, oil, filters, and parts. We actually plan to add another 8' this summer if we can. Granted ours is a farm shop, but the same will apply to a collector I am sure. I can't wait to see how your building turns out.

Tyler, you should do a simple restroom in you shop. As you get older you will find that the need really gets in the way of the fun.

The first cold rainy day with the wind howling across the plains you're gonna wish you had built that bathroom.

Paint a small bit of it white on the floors. As an aircraft mechanic, it’ll help you find bolts when you drop them. Also be a nice space to work because the white will reflect light upwards a little bit.

Man I would absolutely put a bathroom in there. You will appreciate it a ton when you’re older.

Epoxy coat the floor, and add a toilet and a sink, at minimum. 16:30 Listen to this man on insulation and sealing.

If you're going to be opening the big doors a lot, do a radiant heater. Little bit more up front, but FAR FAR more economical in the long run. Once it's in and running, they heat the objects in the room which then radiate heat into the room. So your cars themselves stay warm and heat the air. Vs a forced air system where you're simply heating the air and hoping it drifts around and heats other things. Big thing is that WHEN you open the doors, the cars (etc) don't get instantly cold - they keep radiating the stored energy as heat.

Be sure to leave space in the mechanical room for a decent compressor. You'll want that in a separate space due to the noise.

As someone following your channel almost from the beginning on (had to put away a little tear when you said that grammy is dead 4 years always, it's like yesterday when you told us, that you made kind of a little roadtrip with her) it's amazing to see hoovies garage 3.0 coming to reality. I wish all of you the best possible life!

New place! Car Ninja! Car Wizard!! A fun moment for your viewers too. Congratulations on a new season in Hoovies Garage!!!

You DEFINATELY wanna put in a small kitchen and bathroom in the new hangar. For when friends etc. are over hanging out. Maybe even a shower in the bathroom while you're at it. Put it all up on the mezzanine. Then when the Wizard retires you hire Daniel-San and have a complete shop of your own :)

Good for you Hoovie 👍👍👍 glad you are doing well with everything that went on last year 🙏🙏🙏