my friend John Phillips is joining me
from A1 Garage Door Service in Phoenix
Arizona John how are you I'm good Joe
how have you been fantastic hey a while
back we were discussing a lot of things
and one thing that came up which kind of
was the fact that you said that the
garage is the most underutilized space
now I use my garage to put my cars in I
so tell us about what that means it's
the most underutilized space in the home
yeah so whenever it comes to the square
footage of a home the garage isn't
included unless it's been permissed to
be a livable space so whenever you go
into a home and it says it's 1500 square
feet uh 2 000 square feet a thousand
square feet whatever it is that's not
including the garage so when people want
to consider this I mean the average
one-car garage is around three to four
hundred square feet and then a two-car
that's a lot of square footage that's a
lot of square footage that you didn't
consider in your home and a lot of
people they just got a Pandora they just
park their cars in there they use it as
storage but there's so many options now
to where I mean if you want to go to the
city and get it all done up and make it
to a livable face yeah you can do that
with the storage options and the options
that we have with doors and epoxy floors
that we have in like the Las Vegas and
Phoenix markets you can make that 720
square foot of dead space into something
that actually adds value and adds space
yeah you know one could argue it is
livable for the guy who wants to go out
in his garage with the epoxy floor and
his little workshop and there's
something at least for a guy I think the
garage right it's it's their space so
you know they've got the pegboard up on
the wall with the tools and they've got
the cabinets and they've got the floor
they have a TV probably so the game is
on they put the lighting up and it's
really kind of their man cave outside
isn't it yeah and probably whenever it
comes to man caves probably my favorite
type of garage door makeover or redo is
a lot of people you have a seven foot
door well a lot of people have vaulted
ceilings where these ceilings go up 10
12 feet and then you have a door that
kicks over but when it's up in the open
position it's just kind of
right there in the center of the garage
because the ceiling's so high so then we
have high lift conversions and high lift
doors so instead of going up only about
seven and a half eight feet we can get
that thing as close to the ceiling as
possible and back to the man cave a lot
of people like to do this because they
want to make it into a home gym or golf
simulator or any one of those things and
now the door goes up high enough to
where they can fit all that in there and
then turn it into the dream man cave
that they've always wanted because they
you know that's fantastic so A1 started
with Tommy mellow years ago as really a
garage door repair company replacement
and now you guys just are the garage
yeah the entirety of it because now we
we know how to make as much space as
possible with your door but also with
the epoxy floors we're also super big
into overhead and wall mount storage so
in that storage we're able to do ceiling
mounts there are traditional things
you've seen you know nice and clean
hanging down from the ceiling but we're
also working on motorized versions to
where you don't even have to get up on a
ladder or load anything up you can just
have it come down to the ground all
controlled by your phone you load up the
Christmas decorations or maybe the
memorabilia that you want to keep nice
and then just click of a button it goes
all the way back up to the ceiling and
then instead of just the old khaki
particle board shelves on the metal
framing that looks industrial now we got
these super Sleek wall mount ones where
you can slide shelves and hooks off and
it just anything that's involved with
the garage from the floor to the walls
to the overhead storage to the garage
yeah that's fantastic hey John thanks
for joining us today on the show yeah
thank you so much for having me check
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yeah and growing and growing once again
John thank you so much for joining me