Recent content by tboicey

You know, I may be too afraid of underground. But I am in Canada so I expect anything underground to just become a reservoir of salt, slush, rust, and decay. It would be only a couple of meters from the street so it would be abused by everything that can fly off a winter tire. But that might be...

Original poster here. Much appreciation for the comments so far, especially RAY916MN for the insights into lift loading. The project hasn't been built yet, but is in "architect" stage and should really be designed with the hoist in mind because it's a big factor. Basically, it's my house in a...

I need it as kind of a working solution, actually, not just a one time thing. I want to be able to have project cars in a workshop, but the tight location means that the street-level footprint has to be small. So I'm looking for ways to fairly conveniently move cars from street level into the...

Does anyone on the forum have experience with hoists designed to move cars between floors? I have a design in progress that would have to lift cars from street level up about 3m (10ft) to where the garage would open into a working area. This is an urban project so space is limited at street...

I'm coming to this thread a bit late... I'm just up the highway here in Ottawa. I am still trying to do my "underground" garage. The lay of my land is such that my house is 23 steps up from the road, and my cars park at street level in front of the hill the house is on. (fall angle is about 45...

See Jay? I'm only building this garage so I don't have to sell my hoist below value! :)

Hello back! 930dreamer, named after the Porsche I assume? I have a 1986 Carrera. p_mori7: Closer to Dow's Lake, but indeed not far.

Hello from Canada's capital! Two months of summer and ten months of hockey, and all those stereotypes. Up until 2008 I lived in a perfectly sensible suburban property with a 4+ car garage, hoist, running water, and natural gas heat. Then in a mini-mid life crisis I decided to move to the city...