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5 Critical DIY Tips to Protect Your Garage from Flooding and Flood Damage
Excess water can damage the structure of your garage, including the foundation, walls, and floor. Furthermore, water can damage the valuable possessions that you store in your garage. Besides the immediate harm that water causes to walls and stored items when it floods your garage, there are lingering effects as well. Floodwater that is left unattended can lead to the growth of mold and other microbial organisms that destroy your belongings and create health problems. Garage flooding is a serious issue that you must fix as soon as possible to protect your home, possessions, and well-being. There are five easy steps to securing your garage from future harm when thunderstorms roll through or when snow piles up and melts quickly. 1) Use Flood Barriers and Sandbags to Protect Your Garage from Flooding If you are looking for a quick fix because storms are heading your way, you can use sandbags and other flood barriers. This is not a permanent solution to ongoing flooding troubles, but it can help you while you work on a long-term solution. Sandbags redirect water away from your garage towards the street, storm drains, and roadside gutters and drainage ditches. Flood barriers like sandbags do not provide a seal for you garage, but they usher away enough water to reduce garage flooding when experiencing a massive downpour. 2) Install Adequate Drainage to Protect Your Garage from Flooding Street drains and gutters sometimes overflow during flood conditions, and the excess water can collect in your yard and driveway, and eventually land in your garage. When your drains and gutters cannot keep up with storm conditions and regularly create a swamp in your garage, you will need to install a tre

Simple Hacks To Make Your Small Garage Appear Bigger
Making your small garage bigger without renovating can’t be done with magic – however, there are ways to make its appearance look larger. It’s totally okay if you don’t have enough budget to renovate your garage door or do a garage makeover to upgrade your space. The technique in getting a more spacious garage is doing the right organization and choosing the right materials to make it work. If you have a small garage and you want to make its appearance bigger, here are some tips you need to know of. Read along!
What Suits a Small Garage?
Narrow workbench Having a narrow workbench in your small garage doesn’t only make your small garage look bigger, but it’s also beneficial for people who consider their garage a warehouse, a toy shop, a workshop, and maybe even your favorite place to hang out with. Install ceiling drawers Having a ceiling drawer is ideal storage for a small garage. It hangs between the ceiling joists and things can be easily accessed when a drawer is down. Depending on the quantity you want to store, you can customize the shelving to your own liking. Just a quick tip, make sure to only put light materials on ceiling drawers for safely opening and closing. Garage Shelves Installing garage shelves is the perfect home storage solution for those with small garage spaces. To make it easier for people who get their things on easy access, we suggest you get a HandyMan -FLEXIMOUNTS’ newly
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7 Tips for Garage Spring Cleaning
Spring is here! With the dark, cold days of winter behind us, and the promise of fresh air and summer fun around the corner, many homeowners find that spring is the perfect time to refresh their homes through spring cleaning. Typical annual cleaning tasks include decluttering closets and scrubbing often-neglected areas like baseboards and doorknobs. One chore that’s commonly overlooked is garage spring cleaning. It’s easy to turn this area of the home into a repository for items we don’t quite know what to do with, and since we’re often only passing through the garage, we’re not confronted with the problem every day as we are with a messy pantry, for example. Garage clutter is so overwhelming that in a 2015 survey, 23% of Americans reported that their garage was too disorganized to fit even one car inside. What can we do about our messy garages? Check out our list of garage spring cleaning tips and start thinking about how you can clean and organize your garage to make it work best for you.
1. Create a goal and plan accordingly.
Other than the obvious car storage, what do you want to use the garage for? Often it can be the right space to work on car repairs, woodworking projects and other hobbies. Maybe storage is a priority and you could free up limited indoor closet space by optimizing the garage in new ways. Think about what makes sense for your needs.
2. Declutter.
Plan your process based on what makes sense for your schedule. Maybe you want to take everything out of the garage during a nice weekend and sort it on the driveway. If that’s overwhelming, maybe you can work in sections instead and com