Man Cave Is Go!

Look for the "Meross" Smart Garage Door Opener on Amazon. If you look back through this thread, there are some photos of the install. If you need any help then drop me a PM....Topo

 

Getting around to completing some of the final fixtures and fittings for the garage. Today was the LED undershelf lighting. I found a perfect solution to hiding the LED strip by inverting a bathroom seal trim and bonding it to the front of the underside of the shelf, this not only hides the strip but directs light back and downwards onto the tool chest and worktop. The hardest job was cutting and fitting all the conduit to hide all the wiring. This is a Govee RGB strip so multiple colours and different modes, so can flash and change colours in time with music, or you can set it to a permanent colour, adjust intensity and of course control it by a timer or to react to another event through IFTT or control it via Alexa or Google assistant. Total overkill when a straight fluoro strip will do, but hey ho.

Conduit and control panel box (on the left)



Here is the Control panel, where you can select the lights off or on, the mode you require, or the colour (seen here in blue). I have some white "snap caps" to cover the shelf bracket screw heads, that will go on later



Cool white is the default colour



There are 24 million other combos (as with any RGB system) but here it is in red.



In case anyone is wondering the white box on the tool cabinet is a Smarthings 3.0 Hub, which when I have time, will go into the network cabinet on the wall. It provides Z-wave and Zigbee services to some of the security devices in the garage and work independantly of the CCTV.

 

Sadly I was away when the base layers went down. I do know they had to go down an additional half a metre with the foundations (on the advice of building control inspection) due to in part the clay soil IIRC. If I can garner any more info I will let you know.

 

These look a little thin and flimsy having watched their installation video. Evident from the fact that you can cut them with a mere Stanley knife. In addition they sit flat on the surface of the concrete beneath, unlike the Racedeck tiles which are around 12mm thick, and which sit on "feet" that allow any spilled fluids, such as water, oil or hydraulic fluid to seep/drain underneath. Horses for courses ultimately but it might be worth you shopping around. I can't vouch for the longevity of these tiles but my Racedeck tiles are almost ten years old and virtually bombproof. Yes expansion is an issue (as with any flooring system) but only becomes a problem if you have not allowed a sufficient gap at the edges of your floor. My skirting boards sit on top of the tiles with a lower rubber strip that rests on top of the the tile surface. This allows the tiles to expand and contract freely whilst still hiding the necessary gap. Somewhere further back in this thread, I added in the contact details for their European suppliers. I'd highly recommend you give them a call.

 

Managed to put together a time lapse of the build in 2020. This is merely for the main construction. Obviously a lot more work went on inside with wiring, security and networking systems, flooring, decorating, electrics, plumbing etc.

 

Two new additions to the man cave. Bloody brilliant fun to ride.