LilRichard
Well-known member
Gents,
I have been lurking for a while: learning, grabbing ideas, and soaking it all in. So first, thanks for having a great site for me to leverage your collective knowledge / experiences.
The wife and I live in a suburban area of Tampa, but are lucky enough to have a half acre to work with. We have a small two car garage currently - which after the detached garage is completed, will be rebuilt as a master bed/bath, thereby satisfying her wants as well as mine.
We have a few fun hobbies that the garage will assist with. First we do a lot of wakeboarding, and my poor boat sits outside (covered). I also race motorcycles in the CCS series, so I need a good workspace for my bikes / gear. Last, I like to "tinker", and was tired of pulling the bikes out the the garage to make room for projects.
Our idea was to have a four car garage with a shop. Due to property constraints I was forced to go two wide, two deep... which is fine because I will put the boat in the back space, as well as my bikes. The shape of the garage was also heavily dictated by property rules, so that's how we ended up with this configuration.
It will be all block construction, 12' walls. I have a 15' overall height restriction, so I am limited to a 2.5/12 pitch roof - but that almost matches our home (ranch style, early 60's, low pitch roof). I put the windows up high to get light into the shop, and avoid me putting tools / parts through them at working level. Dimensions of main garage are 25x45, shop is 20x20. Roof is gable ends - again to match our current architecture.
Here's a rough conceptual 3D rendering:
We have decided to go with a single 18' wide door instead, and have moved the man doors around a bit. As well there is no header spanning across the shop area (that was just a hangup on the drawing software). The plan is to build sliding doors between the shop / garage so I can do my work in the shop without coating everything in the garage with dust.
Here's the finished elevation plan and floorplan:
I am homeowner permitting this due to the outrageous markup I discovered when quoting from GCs. I have a good friend who is a GC, but specializes in metal buildings - so he has been very helpful in guiding me through the process! Hillsborough county was remarkably good to work with so far.
We are permitted and the footer was dug last night. Footer is a little bit overkill, but we have had sinkhole / settling problems in this part of Florida for decades - so we purposely overbuilt a bit. We went 24" wide, 14" deep.
Progress (finally):
Jackson the GSP says "not bad":
Enough for now I suppose... more to come obviously.
I have been lurking for a while: learning, grabbing ideas, and soaking it all in. So first, thanks for having a great site for me to leverage your collective knowledge / experiences.
The wife and I live in a suburban area of Tampa, but are lucky enough to have a half acre to work with. We have a small two car garage currently - which after the detached garage is completed, will be rebuilt as a master bed/bath, thereby satisfying her wants as well as mine.
We have a few fun hobbies that the garage will assist with. First we do a lot of wakeboarding, and my poor boat sits outside (covered). I also race motorcycles in the CCS series, so I need a good workspace for my bikes / gear. Last, I like to "tinker", and was tired of pulling the bikes out the the garage to make room for projects.
Our idea was to have a four car garage with a shop. Due to property constraints I was forced to go two wide, two deep... which is fine because I will put the boat in the back space, as well as my bikes. The shape of the garage was also heavily dictated by property rules, so that's how we ended up with this configuration.
It will be all block construction, 12' walls. I have a 15' overall height restriction, so I am limited to a 2.5/12 pitch roof - but that almost matches our home (ranch style, early 60's, low pitch roof). I put the windows up high to get light into the shop, and avoid me putting tools / parts through them at working level. Dimensions of main garage are 25x45, shop is 20x20. Roof is gable ends - again to match our current architecture.
Here's a rough conceptual 3D rendering:
We have decided to go with a single 18' wide door instead, and have moved the man doors around a bit. As well there is no header spanning across the shop area (that was just a hangup on the drawing software). The plan is to build sliding doors between the shop / garage so I can do my work in the shop without coating everything in the garage with dust.
Here's the finished elevation plan and floorplan:
I am homeowner permitting this due to the outrageous markup I discovered when quoting from GCs. I have a good friend who is a GC, but specializes in metal buildings - so he has been very helpful in guiding me through the process! Hillsborough county was remarkably good to work with so far.
We are permitted and the footer was dug last night. Footer is a little bit overkill, but we have had sinkhole / settling problems in this part of Florida for decades - so we purposely overbuilt a bit. We went 24" wide, 14" deep.
Progress (finally):
Jackson the GSP says "not bad":
Enough for now I suppose... more to come obviously.
