Garage Ceiling and Lights Part 4

A couple of months ago I installed insulation material at the garage ceiling/underside of the deck and boarded out the ceiling with OSB sheathing. At the time I didn't staple any of the lighting cables to the ceiling because I wanted to paint it, so it looked like the photo below. It could have stayed like this indefinitely, but, as it happens, one of the cables was hanging right above the front of the '68, and it kept getting in the way when I opened the hood. 

I had to choose between stapling the cables to the ceiling "temporarily," or getting the painting done. Once the ceiling is painted, I can hang all my "art" back up inside the garage, so that is the way I decided to go. I started by taking down the lights at the back of the garage. The lights at the front are recessed into the sheathing so I can paint round them.

This is after the paint has dried, the lights have all been re-installed, and the cables are in the process of being stapled to the ceiling:

The ceiling is made from Oriented Strand Board (OSB) which has a very rough surface. I used an appropriate high nap roller to hit it with two (2) coats of primer/sealer. I didn't bother with any topcoat because it's the garage and what I have done is plenty good enough.

I also painted the area at the front left where the plywood paneling has been replaced:

A few days later, I backed the '68 out onto the driveway for the first time in months. To do this I first had to move the '67 F250 out of the way, something that will be covered in a future post. I'm taking the time to property clean out the garage since there are still small bits of fiberglass insulation here and there and traces of drywall dust all over the place.

I started by removing everything that touches the floor except the benches and toolboxes and the engine hoist, and then the floor was swept and hosed down with the pressure washer. While the floor was still wet, I blew down everything in the garage with compressed air and then swept the floor again.

I finished up with a second go round with the pressure washer and then dried the floor with the wet vac. The floor doesn't get perfectly clean anymore which is the legacy of using a light-colored epoxy coating and pulling/dropping at least three V8 engines in the last couple of years.

Wall cabinets re-filled and signage re-installed: