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The Dirtiest Garage Ever

by Brian on November 8, 2010 · 1 comment

in Flooring,Industrial,Misc,Twitter

Poking around Twitter, I came across the Flickr photo account for Construction Gone Wild!.

(The exclamation point is their addition, although I would’ve added it if they hadn’t already.)

It contained possibly the grossest garage I’ve ever seen – this is a wider shot:

H-P Lake Highland

If that doesn’t set the stage enough, this is the caption on that photo:

You can see how far the water has collected here. The entire garage floor is flooded, and the lake has begun supporting its own ecosystem.

Let’s assume this is the result of flooding and not just poor maintenance. I emailed the Floorguard bosses to see where they would start with this, assuming they would take it on.

In any case, this is probably cheap land, if you’re in the market for a fungus-infested open warehouse.

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The Elvis Garage

by Brian on October 26, 2010 · 0 comments

in Misc,Twitter

I’ve done everything I can to beg the man in charge for more before/after pics of garages and companies in Chicago we’ve treated with the wonder that is epoxy, and I’m out of options.

On my run this morning, I did see a garage that was a tribute to Elvis.

I ran home to get my phone to snap a pic, but by the time I got back the door was shut. As such, I searched the net and found this.

epoxy flooring chicago

What I’d kill for are pics of the United Center – the Bulls open the season this week and I’m a bit of an NBA junkie.

I was told once upon a time Floorguard laid down many surfaces over there…as for this season, I see Chicago coming in fourth or fifth in the East, which is exactly the same as the rest of the planet is picking.

Now, time to email this post to the boss and let him know this is what happens when I’m not fed pictures. lol

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A New Chapter in Epoxy Flooring Blogs

by Brian on August 25, 2010 · 0 comments

in Field Reports,Misc,Twitter

(I think this is the last pic in the series from that one job I went to go watch – I really went nuts with the photo filters/effects on this one.

I don’t remember taking it, so doubtful I could repeat it. Enjoy.)

You may get the sense reading this blog that I’m personally not exactly the Chicago expert in epoxy flooring and garage floor protection and such.

I’d say this is an accurate statement and often wonder about my place in the larger picture of the industry.

Will I ever be able to talk coherently with others, or am I destined to be shooed away from the proverbial cool table to go write my “silly internet stuff”?

Well, thanks to my new Twitter friend @VeeckAsInWreck, I believe my mission has been established.

@floorguard Thanks for the follow guardian of the floors! Gimme a shout if you ever want to head to a ball game!
about 1 hour ago via web

Guardian of the Floors has such a powerful ring to it, I instantly knew it was meant to be.

I have no idea what it means, though. I’m pretty sure if I go ask everyone at the cool table, I’ll get the same reaction I get now, i.e. the silly internet stuff, etc.

Alas, I’ve at least begun to establish my own little corner.

(By the way, you can follow me – via Floorguard – right here on Twitter.)

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Garage Door Sarcasm Running Rampant

by Brian on August 3, 2010 · 0 comments

in Field Reports,Garage Doors,Twitter

Over on Twitter I do a lot of monitoring for various topics – whether it be people talking about Floorguard itself, or epoxy flooring, or a new garage, or basically anything to do with garages in general.

By far, the highest number of garage-related Tweets are people getting new garage doors or garage door openers.

A rough estimate is that 100% of these Tweets are sarcastic in nature. Yes, that’s all of them.

Some examples, with the identities of the Twitter folk hidden for their own protection.

[redacted] has a new garage door……oh the excitement!

ok so the ridiculous people installing the new garage door woke me up at half 7 today. im not happy

To be fair, that last one isn’t the garage door’s fault – that was the installers that inspired the sarcasm.

Still, definitely a trend, and one that I’ve yet to see infect the world of garage flooring and organizational type activities such as the ones we offer at Floorguard.

Carry on – included here of course is some more of my expert photography for your enjoyment. And yes, that’s actual work being done this time!

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An Inside Look at the Garage Flooring Process

by Brian on July 27, 2010 · 0 comments

in Field Reports,Flooring,Misc,Twitter

I know I might be bleeding this one trip out into the field a bit far, but these pictures are just too well done.

My photography is that raw and powerful.

I didn’t even set the phone to widescreen.

Still, I understand that everyone – including, but not limited to the boss – is asking for pictures of an actual garage floor getting worked on.

Otherwise people might think I just took the truck home, parked it in the driveway, and took a bunch of pictures of it.

(I’ve done that before, but those images are for me, not for the public.)

As such, what you see above is the garage that is getting worked on, if not the garage floor actually being worked on.

I think Matt is back there somewhere doing something – you can see him clearly back in those jet-black shadows.

Again, the sign of a good photographer is how deep the colors are in his or her images, and isn’t the point of this entire blog to validate my artistic self-worth?

By the way, the call is now out for you to leave a review over on Google should you be a former or current customer – we’d really appreciate it.

Don’t forget you can follow me on Twitter, also!

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More Garage Pictures From the Field in Chicago

by Brian on July 20, 2010 · 0 comments

in Field Reports,Misc,Twitter

Last week I posted some of the finest photography you’ve probably ever seen of a Floorguard truck sitting in a driveway.

Going through the rest of the shots I took while I was there, it dawned on me I had an even better one, which you see here.

Not only is this framed against a classic red fire hydrant, but the background is all washed out. You can barely tell it’s the scene of some real, actual epoxy flooring work.

In fact, you can barely even see a garage or anything else going on.

As my boss here at Floorguard might say, “this seems completely useless”.

My response is simple, and eloquent, and slightly defensive, because I’d like to keep working on this stuff.

“This is art, sir.”

Follow me (as @Floorguard) on Twitter over here – I have more dramatic and moody shots yet to share, including one that even shows actual work being accomplished on the garage you can’t see in this picture.

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Epoxy Garage Flooring Live

by Brian on July 6, 2010 · 0 comments

in Flooring,Misc,Twitter

Tomorrow I’m heading out into the field to see some epoxy flooring happen in a real, live garage.

Personally, I’m completely inept at all such industrial things, but like most people am interested to no end.

I’ll be taking my Android-powered camera, so enough pics for months of blog posts are imminent. Possibly some video, also – depends where in the process they are when I get there.

Anyway, as I’ve written about before, I’m somewhat of a novice in the epoxy flooring game, not even knowing it existed until my life collided into Floorguard.

I was curious, so I asked some people on Twitter the following:

Do any of you know what epoxy flooring is without looking it up.
4 minutes ago via web

Here’s the power of social networking – within a minute, I got three definitive answers of “yes”, two definitive “no” replies, one hardcore definition which was spot-on, an X-Files reference, as well as this:

its when u spill the mix in regular floor and give it a name

This Twitter person wins the prize, if I had a prize to give. I have no idea what that means, but I would buy it.

(The picture in this post was taken with the same camera I’ll be taking tomorrow. The camera is also my phone, but it shoots 720HD video – it’s a nice device.

I used the “action movie” filter. I don’t know how great of a filter that is – it still just looks like a tile floor to me.)

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People in Vermont Don’t Have Garages

by Brian on June 8, 2010 · 3 comments

in Garage Construction,Twitter,Vermont

(Picture courtesy of @its_me_aj on Twitter. This is his new garage…still a work in progress.)

I realize the title of this post sounds like a massive stereotype, but after some conversations on Twitter, this is the conclusion I’ve been forced to arrive at.

I was talking with @Gyandevi, who had written about how it was difficult to get a permit to build a garage up (over?) there.

Eventually it got to this:

Most folks don’t hava garage in Vermon’, ‘cludin’ me. S’pose I could putta tarp up, but they’re kinda hard ta shovel in winter.

I have no idea why Vermont in particular would be without garages – as far as I know, the rest of New England uses them.

Is it some kind of statewide architectural mandate? Also, she noted this when I asked if I could write about this whole thing:

Ayup, but be shor you spell in propah Vermon’ speak. Ya heah?

I’m left to wonder if Vermont isn’t a completely different place than I imagined it to be.

Admittedly, this is maybe the first time I’ve thought about Vermont in ten years or so, but still. If you have any knowledge about this, please let me know.

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Meeting Strangers and Their Clean Garages

May 29, 2010 Organization

I’m admittedly not a garage expert of any kind yet, but doing this social media work with Floorguard is pushing me into new and different garage-based thinking. For example, before when I drove down the street, I was just talking on the phone. Now I’m talking on the phone and looking into people’s garages. It’s [...]

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Why Such Unhappy Garage Doors?

May 22, 2010 Garage Doors

Part of writing blog posts and doing social media work is searching out information and chatter about the industry you’re “being social” in. With Floorguard, I search around and about Twitter for different things related to the garage flooring, epoxy coating, etc. Frankly, there not a ton of information to find on those specifics, as [...]

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