Adding on to Detached Garage - question

[JoeKegg]

Hey all, I'm looking to expand my detached garage from 2 cars to 4. Current building is brick, pretty sure built in the 70s. Garage is 24' L x 22' w, plus a 10x22 shop in back. In back the property has just enough room to add another 2-car space.
My question is, would it be feasible to do the add-on with stud walls/sheet rock/siding, attached to the brick building? The lot backs up to an alley.

Thoughts? Thank you in advance.

Joe

 

[CombatNinja]

You can certainly attach the addition to the brick facade, no problem. That said, from your description of the space, it sounds like you have a 10 foot deep shop space running the full width of the garage. I would lean towards making that all one 34' deep garage space for the cars and make the addition the shop. But I have reasonably sized daily drivers and tiny "fun" cars so 34' deep would work for that, your situation might be different.

 

[rburke65]

I would think you certainly would be able to do it as you’re thinking.

 

[JoeKegg]

Thanks for your replies. CombatNinja, that crossed my mind. The idea is to have the shop between the car parking areas, as 34' would really not be enough for my vehicles, and that configuration will work pretty well. Two classic VW Beetles and a Polaris RZR would occupy the rear space most of the time. Main garage to house my Dodge Challenger and her Ford Flex.
When I do finalize the design and get it going, I'll post pics of the progress.

 

[teamextreme]

What you need to focus more on is the foundation/slab. There are very often restrictions on sizes allowed and limitations based on foundation type. First order of business is to check with the building dept to find out those limitations. For example, here there is a 700 square foot limit on monolithic slabs and I understand that's a pretty common restriction.

It's not clear to me in your description of your existing structure what exactly you've got going on, but 24x22 =538ft, so that only leaves 162 square feet if you're monolithic and have that restriction. If the 10x22 is included in that, you're already over 700.

 

[The Cobbler]

I don't think it would be monolithic with brick
but
you do need to check out with the proper authorities on what you can/can't do

 

[CombatNinja]

Give us some pictures of the current setup so we can get an idea of what you are working with. Maybe the building would lend itself to smoother configuration wherein all the vehicle parking space could be consolidated with the shop separate. I would find it extremely annoying to have my vehicles split into two spaces with a shop in between. It is not like you would want to buy two sets of tools to work on cars so you would be constantly back and forth to do even a simple job. I would highly recommend you try to get the vehicles all in one space.

 

[matt_i]

What you need to focus more on is the foundation/slab.

This would be my advice. There is the exterior detail of merging siding with brick that needs to be accounted for but imo to give the structure the best chance of long-term survival, the type of foundation for new should match the existing.

 

[billie]

Hey all, I'm looking to expand my detached garage from 2 cars to 4. Current building is brick, pretty sure built in the 70s. Garage is 24' L x 22' w, plus a 10x22 shop in back. In back the property has just enough room to add another 2-car space.
My question is, would it be feasible to do the add-on with stud walls/sheet rock/siding, attached to the brick building? The lot backs up to an alley.

Thoughts? Thank you in advance.

Joe

Sounds easy. What about roof lines, slope.
And will your municipality let you do it.
Building Bylaws can be a *****.

 

[BillK]

Joe,
You need to keep in mind that there are different types of "brick" construction. You really need to know exactly what you have before the questions can be answered.