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Smart idea on the mockup for the lift posts. I'll bet you'll reveal something you would not have thought of.

They sell all kinds of sizes of this stuff on Amazon and the big box stores. Just get the right height for the RaceDeck. It can be glued down. I'd probably do miter joints at that section where it looks like you are prepping for the upcoming drive-thru door so it looks 'finished'.

In my experience, in you want to keep a refrigerator in a garage, you are looking at a thorough yearly cleaning at minimum. Preferably every six months.

Just as a data point, my Liftmaster openers seem to have a very big range through which they could be adjusted. Makes sense if you think about a 5-panel door for an RV garage for instance.

I'm saying 43-45" as measured from where the door seal hits the floor, provided the high-lift tracks are properly snugged up to the ceiling with a max of 3" clearance there. A real pro can get them an inch or less.

More power to you but there is no way I would park my truck by 'bumping' into the wall or, alternatively, spend 10 minutes checking clearance to park my truck. I'd either leave it outside, build a bigger garage or move.

Your door is going to be between 43 and 45 inches horizontal given the measurements you posted. The wiggle room is simply due to uncertainty on how tight you can get the tracks to the ceiling. As an aside, you do realize that you can adjust how far up the openers will lift the doors, right...

Mine is a 25' in the current house and I would never go shallower. I don't even drive trucks but anything shorter and I would feel cramped. Those 20' x 20' garages in newer homes are useless. Of course, it seems like 90+% of homeowners keep $5.00 worth of disorganized ******** in their...

x2 on the used tire places. Sometimes you gotta go to the 'other side of the tracks' to get stuff done. There exists a whole world of goods and services that keep the working poor going outside of the liability-conscious corporate system. Glad you got the new tires mounted.

I've been down this road twice with family that were emotionally invested in a property and ignored any and all wisdom on what to do about a litany of issues. Neither one listened. Both times it ended up exactly as I told them it would. I hope you have better luck than I did. It seems like...

If it were me, I'd write a check and happily watch my building go up. But I'm almost 50, don't have access to the equipment and have a bunch of money at this point in my life. I don't know all your particulars but the access to the equipment alone is a game changer. What about a middle ground...

If you're going all in, are you going to do one end as a walk-in humidor with glass partition and humidity control? That would be cool but I don't know if you are that big of a cigar guy or just a dude looking for a place to smoke occasionally that won't piss of the wife.

No rattlesnake is going to live in the siding of an occupied house. I also doubt it is a copperhead either as their markings are pretty distinctive and I'm sure your wife would've noted that. 99% this snake is completely harmless to humans and is eating vermin. But, yeah, listen to all the...

You can tell those form panels have ancient cured concrete all over them and are rough as all get out. Just pure laziness and no pride in the work. This is on the stuff you can see, imagine what you can't see? I would refuse to buy that house unless I was in some kind of a bind where I had to...

I would not close on that until it was fixed. Either they are going to have to break out a bunch of it and repour or grind a lot of material to make that flat. The grinding method will probably just improve it but not completely fix it. It looks like 1/4" or more between the highs and lows.

There are no overall dimensions listed but that post in the middle of the space would annoy the hell out of me. You might also want to look at the option of just having it very close and tucked up under your existing soffit so that the structures are no physically tied together. Depending on...

Looks amazing! That is going to be an awesome space when finished. Keep at it, almost there....

No chance for a variance? It's only about 2' that you need. You might even be able to get away with 19'. 18' can physically fit 2 cars but causes issues day-to-day or if, ahem, one of the drivers is not so attentive. Even at 20', you're probably looking at parking 2 wide in the back one...

There is no way to go wider than 18'? That is frustratingly close to a 2-car size. It would be a bummer to sink all of that money into the shop and then wish in 5 years that two cars could fit if it were just two feet wider.

I don't think $86/sq ft for that is out of line. It's not a screaming deal but it's fair. You're getting 30-year shingles and 2x6 framing. Also, a big concrete apron in front of the shop. There are ways to get the cost down but you're going to be compromising on some of those things.