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Re: New 35x24 Garage Build - Veeps' Garage The Concrete walls were poured yesterday. Everything is covered in blankets because of the cold.

So we're going with two 10ft doors and a 36" walk in door. Similar to this. I'm drawing up the door locations for the concrete contractor as he said to give him the locations the day they form the walls. They will be starting the wall formwork in about 12hours.

Good point. Right now all my shelving and cabinets are 30” or less deep. I don’t like deeper shelving as things get lost. I like the idea of keeping the garage door 48” away from the wall. That gives me 40” once I factor in the foundation wall thickness. I could go 42”. That give me enough room...

Concrete footings are in. The guys were here early yesterday morning to get the rebar in. They were able to push all the mud out before pouring and added more wood to the bottom of the footing forms to keep the mud from going back in. I didn’t get a picture with the vertical rebar in place and...

The 35ft side will be facing my house and driveway. So if I do a layout similar to my this garage, it will allow me to see the everything with windows in the garage doors and walk in door.

I’m wasn’t planning on walling it off. That way I can back out the car and use the middle bay when working on larger projects.

I’m thinking that spacing is close to what I want. Man door on the left side though. Starting from left to right.this was the other configurations I’m thinking about 3’-3’-3’-10’-3’-10’-3’

I think a window next to the walk in door would look nice too and give me more workshop area before the garage door.

I just bought lorex cameras for my house and garage with built in sirens and led lights. Hopefully they do the trick.

Concrete footings are being poured Thursday and the forms for the walls should be in by Monday. I’m still undecided on the garage door and walk in door layout. I originally wanted a large garage door (16’-18’) and a small garage door (9’-10’) on the eave side which will face my driveway. My wife...

Re: New 35x24 Garage Build - Veeps' Garage Well I can do two 10ft doors and a 36” entry door and keep 3 feet between each door and wall. It would look something like this image. I think I’m going to do scissor trusses over both garage doors so I can put the 4 post lift in the middle or...

Honestly we don’t plan on moving m. All our family is close and we are adding 1200 square feet to the house. And when we get old, our bedroom will still be in the first floor. In reality, I will never park a car in the 3rd bay side as it will be packed with tools and workbenches anyway. So...

Well the excavator didn’t follow the layout and digging 2 feet on each side of the wall. The south side (right wall of the garage) is a little too close. They will be back on site in a few hours. Let’s see if they can dig out. If not, I will just cut my losses and have a 35ft wide garage...

So I need to make a decision on garage doors. I’ve had many comments to go with 2 doors with more space in the side. My wife prefers 2 smaller doors. I’m thinking two 10 foot doors and a man door on the 36ft side. What should I do?

Happy Thanksgiving! The inspector was happy with everything. Concrete forms should be set Saturday and concrete sometime between Monday and Wednesday depending on weather. The possibility of rain Monday and Tuesday

The good news is that the inspector comes out tomorrow.

Exactly. The beauty of this pandemic and working from home. I would have been way too stressed this past week if I wasn’t able to verify the work being done. Thanks.

I had the concrete contractor stop by to finalize what was getting done.m and timeline. I also had him talk to the excavators. Basically, I told the excavators I need the trench dug out 2ft on each side of the foundation wall location which I precisely marked. It didn’t look wide enough and...

24ft is the max space I really have. Any bigger and it will look way to big in comparison to my house. Trust me, I’m already pushing it. My wife was questioning the height because she saw a garage going up in town and it looked too tall. Haha. I also need that 2 additional feet for my driveway...

So the full story is this. Our family outgrew our current house and need an addition. We want to stay in the same area where we live and to sell and buy a new house would cost more than an addition/remodel, and we would still probably have to renovate what we buy. We went with an idea of just...