Originally Posted by
jtrosky
Trust me, heating the huge uninsulated 2-car garage with 2-story high ceilings is not an option without spending a significant amount of money. I rent the house, so I'm not going to install any sort of permanent solution and the cost for a temporary solution is way more than I'm willing to spend, especially since I will most likely be moving in the next year or so. I would need a very large heater. The typical single-room kerosene or electric heaters that I do have don't do a damn thing to heat up this garage - I've tried before. :-)
This is not about doing it "right" or not. We're literally talking about the color of the board I mount my equipment to - that's it. Like I said, this install will never be seen by anyone other than me - it is NOT a "look pretty" install. The only reason that I brought it up at all is simply because I happened to have a can of black plastidip here already and was just wondering if it was an option to make the board black or not. Not that big of a deal to worry about ordering carpeting or spending any significant amount of time and/or money just to make the board black instead of natural woodgrain - especially when 80%+ of the board will be covered up with the equipment anyway - not to mention that it will also be installed in the trunk, under a "trap door", where a spare tire would normally go - it's not like anyone else besides me will ever actually see it... And even I won't see it after the install is done. :-)