Recent content by mirkoelek

Thanks, will do. Is this all you needed to show to the city?

Yes, I was thinking to be the general contractor and maybe do some electrical work myself. I thought about making a pass-through door, but I was going to lower whole garage 3ft compared to the rest of the house and backyard. House level is 3ft above the street and I'm not a big fan of the...

35-40k

I will look into this. Good suggestion!

Agree I will have to continue doing research. Like this thread and forum is helping already. I will have to do some research on CSI categories.

Matt, I'm not sure if I understood. Maybe you can highlight where you are suggesting change?

Makes sense. Thanks for the advice.

I'm an electrical engineer and somewhat handy, but never did anything this large. I'll be mostly general contractor. So for foundation, walls and roof, I will hire somebody. Cheapest quote I got to do the whole thing (1000sqrt) was 85k. There is one guy that quoted me $120 per sqft. I think it...

10ft side setback and 25ft front + back. I have 12ft to the back wall in the backyard so 13ft left for the front setback. Fist I wanted to detached garage, but I lose some area. I think it has to be 6ft between the house and aux structures. Also if I attach it I don't have any limits as far as...

I wanted to build bigger/extra garage for some time now. I'm lucky enough that I have the large area in my front yard that could be used for this. I want to do most myself... contractors want insane money and I know it can be done cheaper and probably better. I have visualized it all in my...

Did this in sketchup to show Im looking to build. 31x30 wxL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope not. 10ft is going to mess with my plans. I read somewhere 3ft... But you are correct it is another thing I have to check with building and planning department.

Are you recommending to hire local builder? what is their fee? Would they make whole process easier?

If you are correct that I cant build second drive way that will be a problem. I will have to check this with the city. Thanks I almost missed that.

I played around with sketchup and it is a good tool, something like on this picture. I will probably let someone else handle concrete work and as you mentioned. Thanks for the tips.