My garage and expansion plans

[B964]

Hello,
Great site and I have been getting many good ideas. My 32x24 garage works well but getting cramped. Car storage, working on them, wood working stuff and storage of home stuff and daytime dog house has made for quite a ordeal to do any projects. Looking into expanding off the left side. A building tall enough for a lift with a covered breeze way wide enough for a car to park in between. Maybe 24 wide and 48 deep for 2 cars end to end. It could also serve as a future RV garage minus the lift.

 

[Bronson]

Welcome, lots of great info on here!

 

[bobemmerich]

Wow. That's a nice space. keep us up to date. By the way, Love the vehicles!

 

[Nighttrain]

This will be one to watch! Welcome to GJ.

 

[Capstone]

Fantastic to hear yet another Garage Build Journal is breaking ground. I'll be watching and hopefully grabbing more great ideas! Thanks in advance for all the update and especially progress pics

 

[Jimmy_B]

Nice space you've got already. You might want to consider a 12' wide door if you really plan on an RV someday. I put a building up last year with a 12' door and it's not too wide. 10' would be tight.

 

[B964]

They started early Wednesday scraping the topsoil and today laying road fabric and bringing in base material. I am going to take the pine tree in front out. It's going to be in the way in a few years.

 

[B964]

 

[B964]

After discussions with friends and my contractor pole barn style made more sense. It will also allow me some breathing time until I have to pay for concrete. We are going with commercial girts on the walls using 2x6's so my interior walls will be ready to insulate or finish. Board on board siding with a shingled roof. Holes are dug for the poles and some material has been dropped off. I did end up going with a 14 foot interior height (after concrete), a 12x12 front overhead door and two 9x8 overhead doors on the rear of right side. Those doors will exit behind the existing garage. Those doors are going to service two 4 post lifts just for vehicle storage. That will give me a 22x24 front work space with a 2 post lift serviced by the 12x12 door.

 

[Ray916MN]

Looking good.

Your building is pretty much the exact same size as the building I built this year. I even looked at building it with pretty much the same layout as you're building. Are you thinking you are going to physically separate the 2 post lift space from the 4 post storage space?

My versions of the layout had a wall in between the two spaces to conserve on insulation and heating/AC costs or alternately had a pallet rack wall between the two spaces to make storage accessible to either work space while still making it possible to walk through the garage from one space to the other.

 

[B964]

I have thought about separating it with a wall. Insulate and heat the work space only and being able to paint or whatever without coating the storage cars. I had hoped to be at least 24 wide and have 2 front doors but 22 width is because of property line. It is right at the max now. A one car work space 22x24 is going to be great after years of jockeying everything just to do anything. I have 3 cars in the garage now with the mower, table saws and tool boxes. 4 in the driveway. Still thinking about how to tell the wife after this is done she still doesn't have a spot inside for her car.

 

[Ray916MN]

.... Still thinking about how to tell the wife after this is done she still doesn't have a spot inside for her car.

Based on what you've laid out as your plans, I don't get how you end up without an inside space for her car after you're done.

You have 7 cars. The new building should fit 4 cars in the storage space (two 4 post lifts), your existing garage fits 3 cars and you are still leaving the service space with the 2 post lift in the new building empty.

You've either got vehicles you're not telling us (or maybe your wife) about or ???

 

[B964]

I wasn't counting the service bay as a parking spot.

 

[Jimmy_B]

I wasn't counting the service bay as a parking spot.

Will the wife count it?

 

[B964]

Poles going in.

Front.

Right rear.

 

[B964]

Doesn't look like much changed but it was a lot layout and notching of the top of the posts. The girts are going to have center supports.

 

[B964]

First snow of the year.
The siding boards were delivered Friday. From independent saw mill about a mile up the road. One side planed one rough. I am thinking rough side out. It will take more stain but will also hold it better.

 

[B964]

 

[B964]

http://s293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/B964/?action=view&current=file-31.jpg

 

[B964]

Trusses going up.

 

[AndysMBgarage]

After spending the last few days belting (and bending) nails into 60 year old KD hardwood studs as I insulate and re clad my weatherboard home, I imagine working with frozen pine would be even harder to use! With cold weather coming in how do you go with the trades turning up?

Over here the first hint of rain and they generally disappear for the day.

I'm looking forward to watching your garage develop

Cheers

 

[B964]

They have been here almost everyday regardless of weather. It hasn't been that awfully cold, a few degrees below freezing, but on our hill the wind is steady and cuts right into you. We just received a foot of snow but that shouldn't slow them down to much.

 

[B964]

All trusses are up.

 

[bazzateer]

Sweet space!

 

[Modifieddriver]

Snow *****.

 

[B964]

Widows in and roof sheathing started.

 

[B964]

To dark for a picture but roof sheathing is done.

 

[B964]

Siding going up.

 

[seth928]

which way did you decide on your siding? rough in or out? nice progress looking good.

 

[B964]

which way did you decide on your siding? rough in or out? nice progress looking good.

Rough out. Holding stain better and longer was my main reason why.

 

[B964]

 

[B964]

Roof done. Siding getting finished now.

 

[B964]

Left front

Right front

Right rear

Inside

 

[B964]

Pretty much done with Phase one. Supposed to be about 50 deg this weekend so good for cleaning up and the minor details. Garage doors and gutters soon, concrete in the spring.

 

[B964]

Need some driveway work before coming in from the side.

 

[MoparTrucks]

Boy I really like your siding. You mentioned a covered breezeway, how are you going to do that with the different roof pitches? I want to put a 20' container to one side of my shop with a covered area between but I am struggling with figuring out how to do it so it looks right.

 

[B964]

The breezeway was temporarily scraped. If/when I do add it I would extend the roof line of the old garage. Using same pitch trusses just not as wide, maybe 20 vs 24. Then it would be lower and come onto the new garage below that roof.

 

[B964]

Got the gutters on today. Garage door estimate was 5,000. Insulated with windows and high lift on two rear/side doors. Same style as smaller garage.

 

[B964]

Garage doors done. Side rear doors are high lift.

 

[B964]

Started working on the retaining wall between the two garages.
It's about 7 feet from upper garage to wall edge so I could park a small car there but will probably be looking at placing a propane tank for heater and lawn mower storage.