Recent content by 62METEOR

A friend of mine is remodeling his kitchen. He gave me all of his old kitchen cabinets and the granite countertops to use in the garage I am building. My question is what to do with the countertops. I work on old cars - will the countertops be a good surface for this or should I cover them with...

My wife had no complaints about the size of my garage - her only condition is that all of my stuff had to fit in it! She wants it out of the house!

One of the great suggestions I received related to garage door placement. I originally was going to have a garage door on the dormer end of the garage and another garage door on the end of the side wall next to the dormer. Someone pointed out to me that the garage door tracks would interfere...

I second this! I posted my first post yesterday and received a ton of great suggestions re site planning

All great suggestions. I would love to go 30' deep but I am restricted by my property size and setbacks and I can only really fit a 24' deep garage. AS for your points about the Gambrel roof, I want the garage to match the house and I don't have a Gambrel roof. Also, I have a tight budget and...

Thanks for the suggestion (from you and others). I am seriously considering that now. My one concern is that I prefer the two door look and that is what I have on my house now. I want the garage to relate to the house as much as I can.

Thanks!

That is a great point about the garage door tracks!

Yes, I am doing that. Thanks!

Thanks - that is a good point about the width of the doors and the mandoor. I am going to make both of those changes.

Thanks for everybody's thoughts on the number of doors. The garage is park my vintage cars, which I drive a lot. I wanted at least two doors so that I dont have to move the cars around a lot when I want to drive one of them. The 24' of the garage without the garage doors will be workspace and...

Hi, I have been lurking on this forum for some time while planning to build my garage. I have finally saved up the funds to build a 24x48x12 garage. I would like to share my build with you if the group is interested The garage will have one 10x10 door on one gable end and two 8x8 doors on the...