Jon Phillips from A1 Garage Door Service, headquartered in Phoenix, AZ stops by to say hi to Joe. Joe asks Jon this question: "Is Your Garage The Most Underutilized Space In Your Home?" Check out this episode for the answer to this commonly asked question... For assistance with your garage doors please call A1 Garage Door Service - (844) 214-2025. Log on to - www.a1garage.com Podcast Episode Transcription: my friend John Phillips is joining me 0:05 from A1 Garage Door Service in Phoenix 0:08 Arizona John how are you I'm good Joe 0:11 how have you been fantastic hey a while 0:14 back we were discussing a lot of things 0:17 and one thing that came up which kind of 0:19 piqued my interest 0:21 was the fact that you said that the 0:23 garage is the most underutilized space 0:27 in the home 0:28 now I use my garage to put my cars in I 0:31 use it for storage 0:33 I use it to hide stuff 0:37 so tell us about what that means it's 0:40 the most underutilized space in the home 0:43 yeah so whenever it comes to the square 0:45 footage of a home the garage isn't 0:48 included unless it's been permissed to 0:51 be a livable space so whenever you go 0:54 into a home and it says it's 1500 square 0:56 feet uh 2 000 square feet a thousand 0:59 square feet whatever it is that's not 1:01 including the garage so when people want 1:05 to consider this I mean the average 1:06 one-car garage is around three to four 1:09 hundred square feet and then a two-car 1:11 garage it's like 720 1:14 that's a lot of square footage that's a 1:17 lot of square footage that you didn't 1:18 consider in your home and a lot of 1:21 people they just got a Pandora they just 1:24 park their cars in there they use it as 1:25 storage but there's so many options now 1:27 to where I mean if you want to go to the 1:30 city and get it all done up and make it 1:33 to a livable face yeah you can do that 1:34 but 1:36 with the storage options and the options 1:39 that we have with doors and epoxy floors 1:42 that we have in like the Las Vegas and 1:43 Phoenix markets you can make that 720 1:47 square foot of dead space into something 1:50 that actually adds value and adds space 1:53 to your home to utilize 1:56 yeah you know one could argue it is 1:58 livable for the guy who wants to go out 2:00 in his garage with the epoxy floor and 2:03 his little workshop and there's 2:05 something at least for a guy I think the 2:08 garage right it's it's their space so 2:12 you know they've got the pegboard up on 2:14 the wall with the tools and they've got 2:16 the cabinets and they've got the floor 2:17 they have a TV probably so the game is 2:19 on they put the lighting up and it's 2:22 really kind of their man cave outside 2:24 isn't it yeah and probably whenever it 2:27 comes to man caves probably my favorite 2:29 type of garage door makeover or redo is 2:34 a lot of people you have a seven foot 2:36 door well a lot of people have vaulted 2:38 ceilings where these ceilings go up 10 2:40 12 feet and then you have a door that 2:42 kicks over but when it's up in the open 2:44 position it's just kind of 2:46 right there in the center of the garage 2:48 because the ceiling's so high so then we 2:51 have high lift conversions and high lift 2:53 doors so instead of going up only about 2:55 seven and a half eight feet we can get 2:57 that thing as close to the ceiling as 3:00 possible and back to the man cave a lot 3:02 of people like to do this because they 3:04 want to make it into a home gym or golf 3:06 simulator or any one of those things and 3:08 now the door goes up high enough to 3:10 where they can fit all that in there and 3:12 then turn it into the dream man cave 3:13 that they've always wanted because they 3:15 have all the space now 3:16 you know that's fantastic so A1 started 3:19 with Tommy mellow years ago as really a 3:22 garage door repair company replacement 3:25 and now you guys just are the garage 3:29 yeah the entirety of it because now we 3:31 we know how to make as much space as 3:33 possible with your door but also with 3:36 the epoxy floors we're also super big 3:39 into overhead and wall mount storage so 3:42 in that storage we're able to do ceiling 3:44 mounts there are traditional things 3:46 you've seen you know nice and clean 3:47 hanging down from the ceiling but we're 3:49 also working on motorized versions to 3:51 where you don't even have to get up on a 3:53 ladder or load anything up you can just 3:55 have it come down to the ground all 3:57 controlled by your phone you load up the 3:59 Christmas decorations or maybe the 4:01 memorabilia that you want to keep nice 4:02 and then just click of a button it goes 4:04 all the way back up to the ceiling and 4:06 then instead of just the old khaki 4:08 particle board shelves on the metal 4:12 framing that looks industrial now we got 4:14 these super Sleek wall mount ones where 4:16 you can slide shelves and hooks off and 4:18 it just anything that's involved with 4:21 the garage ...
